Roni’s Reviews > Invisible Ink: Spycraft of the American Revolution > Status Update

Appendices (A-M) 245-282

Maps 283-288

Chapter Notes 289-354

Bibliography 355-370

chapter 15
European subterfuge (using bribes, buying off newspaper editors, book publishers, propaganda pamphlets, GW’s forged letters)

chapter 16
deceptive battle plans (GW kept real plans secret even from own army until absolutely necessary, ordered bricks to be collected and bread ovens built for French troops in wrong area)

conclusion: Modern adaptations of Amer Rev tech are being used in today’s world.

chapter 13
deceptions & smugglers (to convince the enemy that conditions were better than in reality, both sides practiced deception regularly & tried to outsmart each other)

chapter 14
going incognito (Nathan Hale, changing from uniform to civilian clothes, dressing in women’s clothes, donning an enemy uniform, etc to slip into enemy lines and deliver enticing messages
meant to promote desertion or deceptions)

chapters 6-10

dictionary codes and other book-based codes required that both parties have use of the same exact edition

diplomatic ciphers & keywords

dead drops

hidden compartments in ordinary objects (sewed into clothing, false heels in shoes, false handles on knives, false double bottoms on canteens, and even in the hollow of a quill pen)

flags of truce

chapters 1-5

early spycraft: codes, ciphers & stenography in ancient civilizations (Hebrews, Egyptian, Greek, Mayan);

secret communication (code names, aliases, smuggling information);

“black chambers”/cabinet noir for intercepting mail and resealing the wax seals;

using various kinds of invisible ink (A for acid, B for burn/heat, C for code/cipher, and F for fire);

ciphers & codes