It has not changed – Russian Maskirovka – Denial and Deception

I keep a vigil in a wilderness of mirrors
Where nothing here is ever what it seems

Yuri Nosenko

“Instead of being relieved to hear that the Soviets had not been involved in the assassination, James Jesus Angleton, the C.I.A.’s legendarily suspicious counterintelligence chief, and others in the spy trade thought Mr. Nosenko’s apparent defection was a trick.”

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“After all, the agency had suffered a series of setbacks, including the unmasking and execution of two Russian intelligence officials who had been spying for the C.I.A. inside the Soviet Union.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/us/28nosenko.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082603493

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