Book: Genius of Deception

BOOK: A GENIUS FOR DECEPTION

One of the few unclassified discussions of official U.S. policy on the use of "cover stories" to conceal classified activities and operations advised that "Cover stories must be believable" (1992 draft SAP Supplement, at p. 3-1-5):

BOOK: A GENIUS FOR DECEPTION One of the few unclassified discussions of official U.S. policy on the use of "cover stories" to conceal classified activities and operations advised that "Cover stories must be believable" (1992 draft SAP Supplement, at p. 3-1-5): But such pedestrian guidance would not have been needed by British military and intelligence officials during the past century because they had an almost instinctive gift for concealment and misdirection, writes Nicholas Rankin in "A Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars" (Oxford University Press, 2009). http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/nispom/sapsup-draft92.pdf


But such pedestrian guidance would not have been needed by British military and intelligence officials during the past century because they had an almost instinctive gift for concealment and misdirection, writes Nicholas Rankin in "A Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars" (Oxford University Press, 2009).