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"Lying is a deliberate attempt not only to conceal, but to conceal well. There is such a thing as a bad, stupid lie, but its outside the scope of this article.
Good lies are crafted, they have to be negotiated with a specific audience, and they have to be made to sticka lie, a cover story, not only camouflages but explains.
Many theories of performance claim no one would take such care with the truth. Im not so surea good story is a good story, but only false stories are crafted with the anxious goal to make them sound true, or if not true, reasonable.
Historians often express surprise that in the history of diplomacy, every shred of evidence contradicts every other, or that every confession can be explained by common sense. These historians protest too much, however. Isnt the point of intelligence and counterintelligence, of information and disinformation, that no single story can be made to stick, that there is no one version of events that can stand without contest or contradiction? Isnt the whole point of cover stories that they are told, that they tell a lot?
Cover stories contain information and the analysis of that information. They just dont tell a truth" - Luis White on 'Telling More: Lies, Secrets, and History'
Good lies are crafted, they have to be negotiated with a specific audience, and they have to be made to sticka lie, a cover story, not only camouflages but explains.
Many theories of performance claim no one would take such care with the truth. Im not so surea good story is a good story, but only false stories are crafted with the anxious goal to make them sound true, or if not true, reasonable.
Historians often express surprise that in the history of diplomacy, every shred of evidence contradicts every other, or that every confession can be explained by common sense. These historians protest too much, however. Isnt the point of intelligence and counterintelligence, of information and disinformation, that no single story can be made to stick, that there is no one version of events that can stand without contest or contradiction? Isnt the whole point of cover stories that they are told, that they tell a lot?
Cover stories contain information and the analysis of that information. They just dont tell a truth" - Luis White on 'Telling More: Lies, Secrets, and History'