“The Trust” was an “M” type of deception because it was a carefully planned, ambitious plan to mislead the West by the Russians into believing that there were anti-communists who had organised themselves to the extent of penetrating into all government organisations. The trust was in the task from 1921 to 1928 and was also referred to as the Monarchist Union of Central Russia[1]. As discussed by Roca, “The Trust” was part of the secret police, which controlled all the actions of the organisation with the aim of manipulating the real anti-communist organisation into misleading the West. One of the notable actions of “The Trust” was the trade of secrets, where they sold “secrets” to the Western intelligence services. Also, they help make documents to smuggle the families of those in exile, as well as supplies for them. However, “The Trust” was not an anti-Soviet organisation but rather an allusion that was created by the Soviets themselves to deceive the West, creating deception.
This scheme to deceive the Western intelligence services, together with the exiles that ran anti-communism, was organised by the Soviet secret police. Therefore, the reality is that the Russian secret architected this whole scheme. The Secret Service used two tools at its disposal to deceive and manipulate the anti-communists that would, in turn, mislead the West. These two tools include the secrets sold to the exiles that the secret police allowed it to pass knowingly and fabricate documents that are either made, factually correct or both possibly combined. These two tools ensured that the West was led not wrong by using the information provided by the Soviets. Ultimately, the Soviet secret police achieved its sole objective of neutralising most of the anti-communist exile group. Also, the soviet service police selling this secret managed to acquire enough money to run the organisation successfully.
The whole “The Trust” organisation was false on its own. Its primary objective was to deceive the anti-communism affiliations into believing that there were imminent changes in the government system of the Soviet Union due to its weakness. They used Aleksandrovich Yaushev, who is one of the Soviet officials, as bait to join the anti-Communists. He claimed that there was no way that communism would work and was a sham, in turn gaining the trust of the anti-communist groups. The organisation further used falsified information to mislead the West. The entire organisation was created by the Soviet Union to provide intelligence to the Soviets along with other benefits.
In order to make “The Trust” an existent and believable organisation, the soviet union made up false realities such as documents that were falsified, staging car chases as well as gunfights; the initial intention was the organisation and the other false realities were to give “The Trust” story credibility. What’s more, the whole thing was an extraordinary innovation, and each progression had a remarkable influence in making it a reality.
Various decoys were employed in this invention. The primary lure in this whole scheme is the organisation itself, which has mini-decoys within itself. The false documents were a decoy to change the opinion of the group that had defied the Soviet Union. Also, the fake passports that were used to smuggle people and supplies were a decoy to make the anti-communists feel that they were in alliance. There were also staged car chases and gun fights as a decoy to ensure that Western intelligence did not doubt the validity. Besides, Aleksandrovich Yaushev was used as a dangle and chosen to run the organisation to deceive the members of the group.
Bibliography
Epstein, Edward Jay. Raymond Rocca: The Trust Breaker. February 6, 1976. http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/diary/rocca.htm (accessed April 9, 2018).
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