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"With eavesdroppers, letter-openers, decipherers, telephone tappers, spies, an intercept department, a forgery department, a criminal investigation department, a propaganda department, an intelligence department, a censorship department, a ministry of information, a Press bureau, etc., the various Governments were well equipped to “instruct” their peoples."

-- Lord Alfred Ponsonby, from his book "Falsehood in War-Time", published in 1928.

There is nothing new under the sun.

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