CHRIS ROPER: Flying a false flag
As the situation in the Ukraine heats up, the disinformation war is on. It doesn’t seem to matter how false the message is — someone, somewhere will believe it
24 February 2022 - 05:00
The world of espionage and counterintelligence is awash with acronyms, some threatening, some anodyne, and many absurd. Those in popular culture have tended towards the latter, associating an element of buffoonery with the business of being a spy.
An early entrant in the fictitious spy agency stakes was a 1960s TV series called The Man from U.N.C.L.E, which was a secret international counterespionage agency, and not a trafficking gang with a sense of humour, as you might now expect. Simpler times...
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