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Read the CIA’s Manual of Trickery and Deception, Written by a Professional Stage Magician

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Read the CIA’s Manual of Trickery and Deception, Written by a Professional Stage Magician
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The idea of a youngster vacillating between whether to become a magician or join the Central Intelligence Agency may sound implausible, but those two working environments have deeper commonalities than it would seem. So, in any case, believes John McLaughlin, whose more than 30 years at the CIA included periods as its deputy director and acting director. He also describes himself as a lifelong amateur magician, an avocation that owes much to his boyhood discovery of Quicker Than the Eye, a magic

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