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From this point on, there was increasing reference to ‘disinformation’, the practice of government supplying false information to its citizens. When the Doug and Dave story broke, there was much opinion that their activities, if to be believed at all, were explicable in terms of government propaganda, intended to portray the circles as an obvious hoax, thereby defusing a growing belief system. Jurgen Kronig and George Wingfield gave voice to this strand of thought. They both wrote, and spoke to the author, of these ideas in 1991. Kronig elaborated on the rationale for possible government action, also citing the Cabinet-level discussion that was said to have taken place in September 1990. He compared the crop circle believers with the kind of dissidents that governments have often monitored and conspired against. Prior to the break up of the communist bloc, it was radical or revolutionary left wing groups that attracted this attention. In the 1990s, New Age beliefs could be seen as a subversive element. Wingfield tried to take apart the mechanics of the newspaper story, starting with the copyright tag "MBF Services’, which had appeared at the end of the story. No news agency of this name could be traced. Checks at Companies House, where details of all British companies are registered, showed a few MBF titles, one of which was a farm not far from Wingfield's own house in Somerset. Suspicion increased when it was discovered that the owner of the house and business did classified scientific Pursuing enquiries as to how the government might propagate disinformation, Wingfield discovered that the creation of a phoney news agency identity was a classic method for feeding material to the press. Today was a newspaper with falling circulation (it later folded) and he believed that it had been specifically targeted for this reason, as a paper keen to secure an exclusive. It was against this background that the 1992 season began, with the consequence that elements of suspicion, occasionally amounting to paranoia percolated through the circles. There was an increased reluctance for any of the prominent investigators to identify any particular event as genuine, for fear of being 'set up' in the way that Delgado, Meaden and others had been the previous season. It had become abundantly clear that there were indeed, well organized circle-making operations taking place and this situation was given another twist when it emerged that circlemakers had ‘infiltrated’ various The circles group at Beckhampton, near Avebury, disbanded when it became known that a prominent member had 'previous form' as a UFO hoaxer. Rumours abounded as to the identity of various circlemakers and the Schnabel and Macnish books make it clear that some people in the circles scene later shot some film of an unidentified light. Their position seemed ambiguous: they were said to be off duty, yet dressed in uniform. Disinformation research and 'consultancy work' for the government. research groups. were leading a ‘double life’. The crop circle world had come to resemble the UFO scene, with accusations and counter accusations flowing and conspiracy theories explaining and incorporating each new development into their frame