Translated primary-source documents & field manuals

Strategy & Field Manuals

Original manuals on influence, persuasion, strategy, and the physical realities of special operations.

Weaponized Psychology

Weaponized Psychology

Cameron Vale · Sinister House Training Manual 003

The 398-page operational manual on influence in the digital domain — moving from technical execution to the orchestration of perception and behavior. Covers the deception framework, psychological exploitation gambits, online HUMINT, strategic influence, and operational security.

398 pages · 5.5×8.5 · Black & white paperback

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Manual of Stasi Operational Techniques

Manual of Stasi Operational Techniques

Sinister House Training Manual 004

A structured analysis of the Stasi's methods — informant (IM) management, surveillance, “Romeo” espionage, Zersetzung disruption, and disinformation — each mapped onto its modern digital counterpart.

58 pages · 6×9 · Black & white paperback

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Cyber Influence Operations

Cyber Influence Operations

Applied Human Science for Online Covert Action · Sinister House Training Manual 005

Applied human science for online covert action: the systematic use of validated psychology, sociology, and behavioral research for strategic influence in the digital domain.

208 pages · 8.5×11 · Black & white paperback

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Influence Architecture

Influence Architecture

Sinister House Training Manual 006

A framework for constructing and steering perception at scale: concealing intent, dissimulation, vulnerability mapping, cognitive-bias exploitation, and consensus engineering.

193 pages · 6×9 · Black & white paperback

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The Gray Spectrum

The Gray Spectrum

Cameron Vale

A manual of non-conventional strategy — operating across the gray zone between war and peace, where influence, pressure, and concealment do the work of open conflict.

Paperback

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Breaking the Box

Breaking the Box

Harry Wells

The modern playbook for defeating surveillance — counter-surveillance tradecraft for the digital age.

Paperback

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We Didn't Start the Fire

We Didn't Start the Fire

Roger Ferris

The quiet logic of asymmetric takeover — strategy for reshaping institutions and systems from within.

Paperback

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Architects of Chaos

Architects of Chaos

John Preston

A strategic playbook for inducing conflict and reshaping nations — the deliberate engineering of instability.

Paperback

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