Introduction : a career under cover -- Philosophical and historical arguments -- Bible -- Aristotle -- Cicero -- St. Thomas Aquinas -- Machiavelli -- Kant -- Realpolitik -- Utilitarianism -- Veritatis Splendor -- U.S. attitudes toward spying -- Scenarios -- Homosexual blackmail -- Trojan horse -- False flag -- Hit team -- Torture -- Kidnapping and torture by surrogates -- Truth serum -- Journalism cover -- Operational use of journalists -- Human rights violators -- Torture training -- Humanitarian aid worker cover -- Missionary cover -- Operational use of academics -- P-sources -- Prostitute for terrorist -- Child prostitute -- Terrorist act for bona fides -- Election tampering -- Seduction and compromise -- Romeo operations -- Coercive pitch -- Feeding a drug habit -- Kidnapping or killing a defector -- Fabricating evidence -- L-devices -- Insertion operations -- Fake diagnosis -- Drugging a foreign diplomat -- Press placements -- Fabricating academic credentials -- Plagiarizing a Ph.D. dissertation -- Exposing unwitting person to risk -- Kamikaze dolphins -- Spying on Americans overseas -- Spying on friends -- Spying on the United Nations -- Industrial espionage -- Bribing a foreign government -- Tampering with U.S. mail -- Protection of code breaking -- Breaking a promise to an agent -- Unauthorized cover -- Bogus Websites and chatrooms -- Back doors -- Biological attack -- Forging documents from friendly countries -- Collateral damage -- Foreign officer visitors -- Interrogation -- Afterword -- Notes: Spying 101 -- The essential intelligence library -- Commentators.