John Lisle

He was in the OSS.

And he had used the quote because he was quoting he was talking about when he was in Europe at the end of the war.

He told someone he was in the OSS and they said, oh, the OSS guys are the kind of guys who blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And I thought, OK, well, he's recalling this from memory.

So this must be the origin of the quote.

Then what are all these other books quoting?

So finally, that interlibrary loan comes in and I get it.

And it basically says the quote, but it's a little bit different, and it's referring to Donovan, again, and not just OSS guys in general, and it doesn't cite a source.

So I thought, okay, what happened is the guy who wrote that book, he had read Sterling Hayden's book, he had taken the quote, and he liked it, but he wanted to apply it to Donovan, so he switched the subject and he changed the quote a little bit, and everyone after that, dozens of different books, have cited that as their original source, and it was about the wrong person and not even the right quote.

And that's for one quote in my book.

That's the amount of work you have to do.

If anyone is interested in that, though, in my book, I cite the original book, obviously, because that's what... But next to what I said, also see Joseph Persico, blah, blah, blah, the original book.

So that's the book that I originally found the quote in.

So if they want to go down the rabbit hole, they can follow his book to that book to that book to that book.

So it's a lot of rabbit holes going down, even just to find the origins of things.

Oh, oh, yeah.

And one thing I especially noticed in doing this, too, is the ability for humans to rationalize.

Anything to agree with what they already think is true is almost limitless.

I give an example in this book of a psychologist named Leon Festinger.

He wrote this book called When Prophecy Fails.