| Part of their job was to interrogate defectors and refugees from the Soviet regime on life behind the Iron Curtain. |
| In the middle phase, cooperators form traveling waves that are eroded on one side by new defectors and built up on the other by converted loners. |
| If he can then coax some defectors from the opposition, he may reach a majority. |
| They told bald-faced lies or provided to Western intelligence defectors who told bald-faced lies. |
| The reporter should not be touting uncritically the myths of the defectors. |
| Equally, some of the stories will have been fabricated to please the intelligence agents handling the defectors. |
