The CIA Promotes its Own Phoney Set of "Moscow Rules"

The CIA Promotes its own Phoney Set of “Moscow Rules”
Several decades ago, certain defectors to the USA correctly identified the Soviet Union's Spy Tradecraft Rule Book as Rules of Konspiriata. Within a few years, British MI-6 began calling those rules, Moscow Rules. The USSR's formidable tradecraft lexicon has only surfaced in fragmentary spurts during the past 70 years. No coherent compilation of those tradecraft rules and guidance exists in North America, South America or Western Europe. The internet publisher www.quikmaneuvers.com, claims that a large fragment of Soviet Moscow Rules was published under another title and they sale that book as Moscow Rules, but they consider it only as a major fragment of the complete compilation.Cunning analysts within the CIA realized a few years ago that a vacuum still existed regarding Moscow Rules so the CIA decided to take advantage of that knowledge vacuum and proclaim that they, the bumblers and journalists at CIA, invented Moscow Rules.I have read what the CIA claims is Moscow Rules. In fact it is a list of 40 plus phrases taken from US motivational books, with a twist to scam them off as spy maxims. Many people refuted the CIA's fraud when it first emerged, but just as America did not bother to verify the real birth certificate of Hussein Obama, the fuss about the CIA lies died down,and the CIA began anew. Now it is "common knowledge" on the internet that the CIA invented Moscow Rules. Here is an example taken from one of a dozen forums which all say the same thing:"What are the 40 full "Moscow Rules"? An abridged version of the Moscow Rules has been posted several times. There were apparently 40 original Moscow Rules, a set of guidelines created by the CIA to benefit them in their operations in Russia. Where can I find the full 40 rules?"Thus another CIA propaganda campaign has worked. The only thing that will refute their outlandish fraud is the imminent emergence of the actual Moscow Rules as created in Moscow.

Wikpedia claims that: "CIA agent Tony Mendez wrote "Although no one had written them down, they were the precepts we all understood ... By the time they got to Moscow, everyone knew these rules. They were dead simple and full of common sense...".An abbreviated list of the probably-fictional Moscow Rules has circulated around the Internet and in fiction:Assume nothing. Murphy is right. Never go against your gut; it is your operational antenna. Don't look back; you are never completely alone. Everyone is potentially under opposition control. Go with the flow, blend in. Vary your pattern and stay within your cover. Any operation can be aborted. If it feels wrong, it is wrong. Maintain a natural pace. Lull them into a sense of complacency. Build in opportunity, but use it sparingly. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. (borrowed from Muhammad Ali, aka Cassius Clay.) Don't harass the opposition. There is no limit to a human being's ability to rationalize the truth. Technology will always let you down. Pick the time and place for action. Keep your options open. Once is an accident. Twice is coincidence. Three times is an enemy action. (taken from Ian Fleming's novel Goldfinger) The CIA fraud was predated by the espionage expert and author John Lecarre. He correctly identified the typology and origin of Moscow Rules and he undoubtedly laughs about the CIA's false claim. "Referred to in the works of John le Carré e.g. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People. In these works, the rules are not general precepts, but methods of tradecraft, such as using chalk marks and thumbtacks as signals, the use of dead drops, and the ways to signal the need for a (rare) face-to-face meeting. Moscow Rules are important at the beginning of Smiley's People, where the General invokes the rules to request a meeting with Smiley, but is killed by KGB assassins before it can happen."In the CIA's International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., the Moscow Rules are fraudulently pimped as:Assume nothing. Never go against your gut. Everyone is potentially under opposition control. Don't look back; you are never completely alone. Go with the flow, blend in. Vary your pattern and stay within your cover. Lull them into a sense of complacency. Don't harass the opposition. Pick the time and place for action. Keep your options openIt is all a total fraud and what the CIA lists is a sophmoric list of po culture bu**sh**.