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C00036554 possible should be used in parallel. It may, therefore, be better in some circumstances to develop two or three independent means of detection, instead of putting the same total effort into the development of one alone.

Maxim 5: A Choice Among TyPes of Deception
Where possible the objective of the deception planner should be to reduce the ambiguity in the mind of the victim1 to force him to seize upon a notional world view as being correct — not making him less certain of the truth, but more certain of a particular falsehood. However, increasing the range of alternatives and/or the evidence to support any of many incorrect alternatives — in the jargon "increasing the noise" — may have particular use when the victim already has several elements of truth in his possession.

At the risk of burdening the world with further nomenclature, it is convenient (as suggested by Daniel, et.al. (36)) to classify deception into two types: A (for ambiguity) deception and M (for misdirection) deception. A-deception increases the ambiguity in the victim's mind and lowers the probability of a correct perception by "dilution" or multiplication of