ABSTRACT
As I pointed out in the Introduction, the one thing that is certain about history is that what we are told is by no means always true. This is clearly perceptible today when we try to discover what is happening around us. We are encompassed on every side by inadequate information, distortions, inventions, falsifications and plain lies. The first of these unhappy situations, as was suggested in the last Chapter, may be described as misinformation, whereas the rest vary between misinformation and disinformation, having the deliberate intention of misleading people. The adepts in this practice have been the dictator states of the present century, which have set out to present to their public a picture that is often entirely false. Other governments, too, are by no means free from blame.
