How to Get Anything on Anybody, Vol. 1: State of the Art Investigative Surveillance Techniques from the World's Best Intelligence Organizations [Paperback]

Lee Lapin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1986 | ISBN-10: 0873645944 | ISBN-13: 978-0873645942

Get the goods on others with this encyclopedia of advanced investigative and surveillance techniques. Here are expert ways to secretly bug any target! Info on lock-pick technology, how polygraphs and voice lie detectors can be tricked and much more, including more than 100 sources for spy equipment.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Paladin Press (December 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873645944
• ISBN-13: 978-0873645942
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #710,448 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Publisher, Monitoring Times, March 13, 2004

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This review is from: How To Get Anything on Anybody Book 3 (Paperback)

"This giant, 600 page compendium contains more information than has ever been available to the public before, letting you know just how agencies can place your computer under surveillance, tracking your every keystroke; find you no matter what, including your assets, phone calls, court records, associates and marriages, driving license and records, and more.

Learn how anyone can access your credit records, break your password, acquire and use surveillance equipment, see through walls, bug your room, read your computer screen remotely, tap a phone without a warrant, hide a message that won't be found, successfully perform a covert entry, and dozens more.

Author Lapin leads us through this technological treatise in anecdotal, conversational style, along with examples from his own wealth of experience. It's an easy read, often humorous, with Lapin's particular brand of irony.

This isn't a book paranoids should read, nor is it intended as a how-to for illegal activities, but if you want to know how it's done, it's here. And it's expensive. But since its predecessors are used as training manuals by federal intelligence agencies, it certainly should be good enough for our readers."

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Keep looking..., October 14, 2011

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This review is from: How To Get Anything on Anybody Book 3 (Paperback)

This is more of an overview of different technologies. If you would like to see what's out there, this may be the book for you. It's not, at all, a "how to" at all. Misleading title. Selling my copy.

16 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How to get anything on anybody, April 4, 2001

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Steven M. Crist (Boise, Idaho) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Get Anything on Anybody, Vol. 1: State of the Art Investigative Surveillance Techniques from the World's Best Intelligence Organizations (Paperback)

I purchased this book back in 1987 when it was first published. It is a great source for information regarding electronic phone surveilance, gadgetry, tracing people through public and private records, etc. Although some of the information is still usable, I believe it may be outdated. There are numerous sources for spy equipment in the back of the book, but how many of those are still in business? Who knows.