John A. Gentry

I've contributed a little bit.

A number of other people have done some good work here, too.

But learn more about the history.

Learn about the motives.

Learn about some of the techniques.

We've talked about disinformation.

We've talked about press.

press, intelligence people, connections.

We haven't talked too much about the fact that the formers lied on occasion about the proper role of intelligence.

If you learn more about what the intelligence business is about, you can better understand

Understand when you're being fed a bill of goods.

Be skeptical of alliances between the press and intelligence officers.

That should not be the case.

Should not be the case.

Is this easy?

No, it's not.

As we were talking earlier, the sophisticated methods here are really substantial.

So it's very hard to be fully confident that you're

you've got good defenses against disinformation of this sort.

But if you're aware that you're being attacked from an information standpoint and you're a little bit more skeptical, that can help.