Professor Rory Cormac: Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line

8,000 newly declassified files reveal the extraordinary true story of Britain’s Cold War forgery unit, a clandestine team of refugees, journalists, and maverick creatives who shaped global events from the shadows.

Professor Rory Cormac, author of Fakers, unpacks how the unit engineered audacious plots using fake documents, phantom organisations, and invented personas. Their schemes were at times comically absurd, while others were dangerously controversial, offering a timely insight into how propaganda and disinformation work.