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The greatest strength of disinformation is also its greatest weakness. That it can reach so many means it cannot reach every- one. Since its audience has limited intelligence and attention a wood 144 . ote 1 om span, the message must be dumbed down to meet its mark. That makes it conspicuous to anyone with a more discerning eye. Fora message to be so clever as to deceive even the most discerning, it would necessarily be so subtle and complex as to fly right over the heads of its intended audience. Disinformation packaged for a popular alternative radio show, for example, would capture the minds of a good majority of the audience, but it would be so sim- plistic that listeners in the discerning minority would roll their eyes. Good disinformation must be sufficiently sophisticated to minimize into irrelevance the discerning minority, while keeping it simple enough to appeal to the required majority. Disinformation originates with intent to advance an agenda, so it can be reverse-engineered to reveal that agenda. By analyzing enough alien disinformation one can logically deduce the alien agenda. Alternatively, one can hypothesize what the agenda might be and then check whether different sources bearing the traits of wee o re: rt rT a disinformation are consistent with that hypothesis. In my fifteen years studying the subject, what emerged was a distinct pattern of disinformation woven throughout numerous sources ranging from the academic to mystical publications. For convenience I will call this pattern the “Core Deception.” It con- 43 DISCERNING ALIEN DISINFORMATION: PART IV Deciphering the Core Deception