The Cold War Pocket Manual presents a meticulously compiled selection of recently unclassified documents, field-manuals, briefing directives and intelligence primers that uncover the training and techniques required to function as a spy in the darkest periods of modern history. Material has been researched from the CIA, MI5 and MI6, the KGB, the STASI as well as from the Middle East security services and on into China and the East.

Introduction--Chapter 1. Operational Training and Techniques--Chapter 2. Organization--Chapter 3. Spy Operations-The Atom Spies and Penkovsky--Chapter 4. Active Measures and Subversion--Chapter 5. Flashpoint Berlin--Chapter 6. Suspect Agents and Defectors--Code and Ciper-Breaking Challenge--Sources