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Collateral Magic: How the CIA Conjured Democracy from the Cold War to the Forever Wars Huw Lemmey Alkadhi’s motherAGITPOP! Press, 2025, softcover, 64 pages, 21 x 14 cm In 1953, at the height of the Red Scare, early television magician John Mulholland pulled off his greatest disappearing act when he announced his retirement. In fact, Mulholland did not retire: he went to work for the Central Intelligence Agency where he wrote The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception, a guide for marrying Cold War spycraft to a magicians legerdemain. Mulhollands manual was