Black Propaganda

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

I have been reading a history of OSS just recently and noted that the
Morale Operations group (concerned with undermining enemy morale, that
is) used the term Black Propaganda for the false information they
distributed. Perhaps Pynchon took this term at face value and decided
to parody their operations with his own notion of `Black' propaganda,
the Schwarzkommando.


Andrew Dinn
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How do you know but ev'ry bird that cuts the airy way
Is an immense world of pleasure clos'd by your senses five