This book is a declassified practical guide for spies, written by the legendary illusionist John Mulholland, commissioned by the CIA. For many decades, CIA employees used the lessons of a professional sorcerer, hiding from surveillance, obtaining secret information, planting toxic substances, etc. The documents were subject to destruction, but miraculously survived, and now the reader has the opportunity to get acquainted with the principles of acting, performing tricks and the art of introduction misleading in secret work, which, despite all the latest technologies and means, essentially remain unchanged.