Dan Brown (popular blockbuster American author) (2013): “Whether trying to prop up a stock market, justify a war, win an election, or lure a terrorist out of hiding, the world’s power brokers relied on massive disinformation schemes to help shape public perception. It had always been this way. In the sixties, the Russians built an entire fake spy network that dead-dropped bad intel that the British intercepted for years. In 1947, the U.S. Air Force manufactured an elaborate UFO hoax to divert attention from a classified air crash in Roswell, New Mexico. And more recently, the world had been led to believe that weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq” (Dan Brown, “Inferno”, Corgi Books, London, 2014, chapter 86.; first published 2013).