{"id":31840,"date":"2019-05-18T13:39:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T18:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=31840"},"modified":"2019-05-18T13:39:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T18:39:24","slug":"cia-secrets-and-bill-bryson-on-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/18\/cia-secrets-and-bill-bryson-on-english\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA Secrets and Bill Bryson on English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people like this book. I found it to be OK.  But it is cheap for Kindle, so knock yourself out (but if you live in Minnesota, pronounce the &#8216;k&#8217; in &#8216;knock.&#8217;): <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00T3DR56C\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00T3DR56C&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=a8231abb725aa76240e63b06419e0105\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=grlasbl0a-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00T3DR56C\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And, the book we have all been waiting to be declassified: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002SVQCXI\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B002SVQCXI&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=c3e6ae5107e48362806d37ea0a71f0e5\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=grlasbl0a-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B002SVQCXI\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>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. Part of the Company\u2019s infamous MK-ULTRA\u2014a secret mind-control and chemical interrogation research program\u2014this legendary document, the brainchild of John Mulholland, then America\u2019s most famous magician, was believed lost forever. But thanks to former CIA gadgeteer Bob Wallace and renowned spycraft historian H. Keith Melton, The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception is now available to everyone, spy and civilian alike.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people like this book. I found it to be OK. But it is cheap for Kindle, so knock yourself out (but if you live in Minnesota, pronounce the &#8216;k&#8217; in &#8216;knock.&#8217;): The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way And, the book we have all been waiting to be declassified: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/18\/cia-secrets-and-bill-bryson-on-english\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CIA Secrets and Bill Bryson on English<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5044],"tags":[5940,5938,5941,5939],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Spy-vs-spy-7x5.5.png?fit=2084%2C2084&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8hy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31842,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31840\/revisions\/31842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}