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Nine documented cases that show how espionage was actually done, from the Cambridge Five to Gordievsky's escape. Built from court records and declassified files, with the famous version set beside what the evidence will really bear.
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About Rob Baard
Rob Baard — Instructor
Rob Baard came to espionage the way most people do: through films. Batman, then Bond, then Bourne. The same films sent him into ninjutsu, which he has trained in for over thirty years under Grandmaster Masaaki Hatsumi in Japan, and which turned out to read like an intelligence syllabus: gathering information, entering unseen, escaping, changing identity. He is a licensed private investigator who has run surveillance, and a filmmaker whose Ninja Saga series made him understand these methods properly rather than borrow the screen's version. This guide is that research, taken from the record up.
The Complete Manual
The free guide gives you nine cases. The book follows the whole lifecycle of an operation across 37 chapters: why people betray, cover and false identity, surveillance and the personal meeting, dead drops and cut-outs, secret writing and radio, the bug and the tapped cable, paying agents, the counter-intelligence mind, how operations fail, and what espionage actually achieves. Built only from court records, official inquiries and declassified files, with every source named. No myths. Just how it was actually done.