This study of the CIA's Directorate of S&T introduces us to key personalities who helped share the directorate: Edwin Land of Polaroid, Albert Wheelon, Carl Duckett, & others who operated secretly within the directorate such as Antonion Mendez, whose technical serviceÓ skills helped 6 Americans escape Iran after the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in 1979. Presents intriguing details -- many never before published -- of the directorate's programs & activities. For example, it employed technical intelligence analysts & photographic interpreters to unravel the secrets of foreign missile & space programs & monitor developments, including Chernobyl & the Gulf War. Sheds a piercing lamp on many of the CIA's least understood activities.Ó.