Business Insider's link to the handbook on the CIA site (!?) no longer works, alas. However I wonder what Bing/Sydney/ChatGPT would come up with if asked for an organizational sabotage manual as written by a passive aggressive. Something quite similar, I suspect, with a flourish or two of it own. It might even excel at such a project. Happy days.

As a follow-on to the mention of "accusation in a mirror," the Wikipedia entry contains reference to a report by CNN's Moscow bureau chief, obviously an objective and neutral party, who describes Russia's public statements about Ukraine as—"mirror-image propaganda." That is to say, it takes plausible, evidence-based Russian claims and labels them disinformation, hand-waving them away without the least effort to take them seriously. Instead, because Russian views contradict claims and characterizations from the West, inverting them, they become examples of a propaganda technique, since it is axiomatic that Western officialdom and media are accurate and fair. Thus an example used by Wikipedia to demonstrate mirror-image propaganda is itself arguably an instance of that same technique and the hall of mirrors, some from a funhouse, we live in.