1981 CIA Report on Deception
Recently declassified: Deception Maxims: Fact and Folklore, Office of Research and Development, Central Intelligence Agency, June 1981. Research on deception and con games has advanced in the past 35 years, but this is still interesting to read.
KCNA • January 5, 2016 1:26 PM
on p. 23:
A final remark relative to the frailties of human information processing; a reading of the literature suggests the hypothesis that ‘actors tend to dismiss unlikely events as impossible events’. Such a concept favors bold and imaginative strategies such as Hannibal crossing the Alps or the landing at Inchon.