Analyzing Denial and Deception in Intelligence Studies

Analyzing Denial and Deception in Intelligence Studies
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1-Was "The Trust" an "A" or "M" type deception? Explain.
 This was a "misleading" or "M-type" type deception where the Trust (Monarchist Union of Central Russia) was formed to mislead the west and anti-communists. In the M-type deception, there is an elaborate deception plan to mislead enemies and the Soviets were successful in misleading the west that the Trust was an anti-Bolshevik and anti-soviet organization intent to bringing changes in the Soviet society. Felix Dzerzhinsky led the first Soviet secret police organization and established the "Trust," a supposedly anti-Bolshevik organization to deceive. Some in the west wrongly believed that the fall of the Soviet Union was imminent and there was a vast network of anti-communist collaborating in and outside Russia to achieve this. The police controlled the organization's activities, and it took years for western intelligence to realize the Russians had duped them. The organization purported to be in contact with other real anti-communist sympathizers and created fake documents to make the organization seem legitimate. These fabricated documents were passé don to exiles, and some of the western intelligence organizations relied on faulty information from what they believed were anti-Soviet sympathizers.  
2-What was "the real" they were hiding? Explain using the elements cited above.
"The real" was that the organization was created and marinated by the soviet intelligence service and secret police and was not an anti-communist organizations as originally thought. Operation Trust was a counterintelligence operation to keep the enemy away from gathering information on the communist Soviet Union. The soviets also wanted to identify the monarchists and anti-Bolsheviks who collaborated with the supposed ant-Bolshevik organization. Dzerzhinsky knew there were people conspiring against the Bolshevik government in and outside the Soviet Union and one way to deal with the conspirators was to identify them and give them false intelligence reports. The Trust advanced Soviet foreign policy objectives using both covert and overt tactics, including disinformation, deception, and provocation (Simpkins and Dyer 1989).The Trust penetrated the emigrant anti- Bolshevik organization activities and operations and deceived the anti- Bolshevik supporters that the Trust was their all, and they worked together. 
3-What was "the false" they were showing? Explain using the elements cited above.
The intelligence and state police provide false information to the anti Bolshevik sympathizers, including foreign governments and soviet ém...