MARC details
| 000 -LEADER |
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| fixed length control field |
02154nam a22002297a 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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| control field |
BDCtgAUW |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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| control field |
20250430152630.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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250425b bg ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781250280244 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
BDCtgAUW |
| Transcribing agency |
BDCtgAUW |
| Modifying agency |
BDCtgAUW |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
D810.S7.L487 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Lisle, John |
| Relator term |
Author |
| 9 (RLIN) |
76833 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The Dirty Tricks Department: |
| Remainder of title |
Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First edition |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
St. Martin's Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2023. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
338 pages; |
| Dimensions |
25cm |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"John Lisle reveals the untold story of the OSS Research and Development Branch-The Dirty Tricks Department-and its role in World War II. In the summer of 1942, Stanley Lovell, a renowned industrial chemist, received a mysterious order to report to an unfamiliar building in Washington, D.C. When he arrived, he was led to a barren room where he waited to meet the man who had summoned him. After a disconcerting amount of time, William "Wild Bill" Donovan, the head of the OSS, walked in the door. "You know you're Sherlock Holmes, of course," Donovan said as an introduction. "Professor Moriarty is the man I want for my staff...I think you're it." Following this life-changing encounter, Lovell became the head of a secret group of scientists who developed dirty tricks for the OSS, the precursor to the CIA. Their inventions included bat bombs, suicide pills, fighting knives, silent pistols, and camouflaged explosives. Moreover, they forged documents for undercover agents, plotted the assassination of foreign leaders, and performed truth drug experiments on unsuspecting subjects. Based on extensive archival research and personal interviews, The Dirty Tricks Department tells the story of these scheming scientists, explores the moral dilemmas that they faced, and reveals their dark legacy of directly inspiring the most infamous program in CIA history: MKULTRA" |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Intelligence service |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| 9 (RLIN) |
76834 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Espionage, American |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
76835 |
| 887 ## - NON-MARC INFORMATION FIELD |
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| Source of data |
8 |
| Content of non-MARC field |
Papia Akter |
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8 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |
| Suppress in OPAC |
No |