Denial and Deception

Denial and Deception, sometimes called Camouflage, Concealment and Deception, tends to address military deception, whereas disinformation, propaganda, misinformation , etc address political objectives.

Cover of 'The Serpentine Code' showing two figures under a large tree in a mystical setting.
01 Apr

Codes, Ciphers and Cryptanalysis

Denial and Deception
The Centerville Code Justin A. Day (pseudonym) with  Jan Weeks published The Centerville Code forty-two years too late for me.   It is a 10-13 year-old boy...
Two faces merging, one overlapping the other in a surreal style.
27 Oct

Misdirection

Denial and Deception / Principals of Deception
You don't have to fool all of the people all of the time; you just have to fool the right people some of the time. (folk wisdom) On June 18...
A t-shirt with a provocative political statement and Che Guevara's image.
04 Oct

Denial – hide the truth

Denial and Deception
I add two caveats before I go on. Though I address the principals of denial and deception––deception, denial, deceit and misdirection­­––successively, linearity in deception, deception analysis and counter-deception should be,...
Soviet-era illustration with a happy family reading Pravda and a worried yellow figure.
18 Sep

All deception is based on truth

Denial and Deception
A first rule of deception is truth. All deception works within the context of what is true. All deception works within the context of honesty. Deception is the deliberate attempt...
Two faces merging, one overlapping the other in a surreal style.
08 Sep

Pricipals of deception, or “Rules in a knife fight”

Active Measures / Denial and Deception
You are traversing a large and dark room.  Dim bulbs glow and extinguish, here and there, without illumination.  There is sound; now loud, now low, its source and direction uncertain,...

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