the WiN hoax had been a playback of a wholly different order: the creation of an entire make-believe guerrilla army, a colossal deception that the enemy had managed to maintain for over two years. Given the extraordinary complexity of that con—scores, if not hundreds, of people had to have played some role in perpetuating it—how to be sure that any of the CIA’s infiltration “successes” were actually that? The lone wireless operator in Ukraine who continued to send out his optimistic reports; the partisan team still running through the forests of Lithuania; even the Albanian commando coming
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