HTST 489 Lecture Notes - Operation Mincemeat, Standard Operating Procedure, Black Propaganda
11 Feb 2014
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Easy to feed disinfo to another human intel agency, not impossible to significantly control its sources. Records of human intel as far back as we can go (1500s) also shows it in use. Counterintel and its specialists sound a bit cracked as you"re professionally driven to paranoia examining reports in minute details, checking against other sources. Easy to end up mistrusting good sources i. e. in 1930s, soviets profited from ideological sympathy for communism vs fascism. A number of people do willingly change their sympathies, above all in us but elsewhere too. In british intelligence, gang of 5 provides intel to soviets from 1930s onward. Senior levels of intelligence in ussr and stalin mistrusted these sources because there was such a wealth of info and all of it so valuable it had to be misinformation. As far as human intelligence work goes, counterintel is a common, constant, successful element, and wil continue to be so.
