Translated to Arabic, 'Official CIA manual of trickery and deception' by H. Keith Milton with contribution of Robert Wallace. Translated by Sa'id Muhammad al-Hasaniyah. Magic or spycraft? Once a top-secret training manual for CIA field agents in the early Cold War Era of the 1950s, The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception is now available to the general public. An amazing historical artifact, this eye-opening handbook offered step-by-step instructions to covert intelligence operatives in all manner of sleight of hand and trickery designed to thwart the Communist enemy.