The Safe House [Paperback]

Jefferson Mack (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0873649893 | ISBN-13: 978-0873649896 | Publication Date: September 1, 1998

The Safe House reveals all the professional tricks of the trade to setting up and running your own sanctuary. Included are detailed instructions for running a false flag, maintaining security, developing escape routes, using countersurveillance techniques and clandestine commu7nications systems, duping unsuspecting people into helping you and everything else you might need.

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About the Author

While working in Latin America and Southeast Asia for 20 years with one of the many different intelligence agencies of the United States, Jefferson Mack learned that governments are often the cause of humanity's problems but never the solution. He and the lady love of his life now live in their own safe house somewhere in the Northwest where they hunt, fish and live off the land while enjoying a world of computers, satellite TV, old pickups, chain saws and weapons ranging from bows and arrows and muzzle loaders to high-powered rifles with scopes designed for sniping.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Paladin Press (September 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873649893
• ISBN-13: 978-0873649896
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #345,450 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars BUILD A SECRET SANCTUARY, December 31, 2011

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This review is from: The Safe House (Paperback)

In the jargon of law enforcement and intelligence agencies, a safe house is a secure location, suitable for hiding witnesses, agents or other persons perceived as being in danger. The term is not strictly limited to houses, although many intelligence services use rural houses for extended functions such as debriefing defectors. In a city, a safe house may be an apartment or house that is not known to be associated with an intelligence service.

This book covers the history briefly from biblical era to modern times, and the operational significance of safe houses. It provides details on how to keep it secret and compartmented from all but a limited number of people, for the safety of those hidden within them. The text also provides details, with information on how to select a location, finding support and outfitting the site location.

Safe houses are integral feature of evasion and escape networks, as used in WW II undergrounds to move isolated service members back to allied controlled areas. Additionally they were an integral part of the Underground Railroad, the network of safe house locations that were used to assist slaves in escaping to the primarily northern free states in the 19th century United States. You can read about more of this in the authors other book "Underground Railroad: Practical Advice For Finding Passengers Getting Them To Safety, And Staying One Step Ahead Of The Tyrants".

This book is by no means a complete "how-to" manual, but a very light and entertaining read covering the serious subject of intelligence tradecraft.