Targeted Crushed Star

The principle is also employed in less torturous circumstances but with the same purpose of getting an individual to act naturally in a role because, in fact, he does not know that he is playing a false one. For example, tale the design of the “Man Who Never Was” operation during World War II – wherein a high-level courier carrying secret papers containing misdirections regarding the Mediterranean invasion was to be washed up on the coast of Spain. – THE SECRETS OF DDAY, GILLES PERRAULT, 1965

These brief instructions admit of infinitely varied interpretations, according to the circumstances and it requires intelligence, insight and reflection to make the best of each case.

Targeted Victim

• The choice is critical 
  • It is the setup of the seduction that determines everything that follows 
  • Seducers do not waste pursuing and seducing the wrong people 
• The right victim – Who stirs in a way that cannot be explained in words  
  • His effect has nothing to do with the superficial
  • Often has a quality that lacks and secretly envy

After the “Major” was dropped in Spanish waters, the British attache in Spain was “confidentially” told that papers of great importance had been lost and that he should discreetly determine whether the courier; ‘s briefcase had been recovered. The attache was thus able to act out his part in the fake-out in a very convincing manner by virtue of the fact that for him it wasn’t an act. – THE SECRETS OF DDAY, GILLES PERRAULT, 1965

Fog. It makes the shape and colour of objects impossible to know. Learn to create enough of it and you free yourself of the enemy’s intrusive gaze; you have room to manoeuvre. You know where you are headed, while the enemy goes astray, deeper and deeper into the fog. Authority: One who is good at combating the enemy fools it with inscrutable moves, confuses it with false intelligence, makes it relax by concealing one’s strength,,, deafens its ears by jumping one’s orders and signals, blinds its eyes by converting one’s banners and insignias, confounds its battle plan by providing distorted facts. – TOU BI FU TAN, (16TH CENTURY A.D.)

The Crushed Star

• Identification – By certain unguarded moments – they suddenly receive some attention in a social gathering and they glow
  • At one point in their lives, they did find themselves the centre of attention – Beautiful/charming/athletic 
    • These days are gone
• Seduction – Simple 
  • Get them to talk particularly about themselves 
  • Make them the centre of attention
  • Mute your own colours and let them look funny and radiant

Betrayer’s masterpiece – To express to a fellow conspirator the grievous suspicion that one is going to be betrayed by him, and to do so at precisely the moment one is oneself engaged in betrayal, is a masterpiece of malice, because it keeps the other occupied with himself and compels him for a time to behave very openly and unsuspiciously, thus giving the actual betrayer full freedom of action. – HUMAN, ALL TOO HUMAN, NIETZCHE 1878