ruses

He’d devised elaborate ruses to gather evidence of militias’ ties to high-ranking law enforcement officials.

And while he called the debate over interrogation methods a “complex question,” he said he remains convinced “that there’s a point in time to use ruses in interrogation techniques.”

In his final mission, Mr. Bluestein said, the ruses devised by the roughly 360 soldiers of his battalion forced German commanders to spread their defenses thin in eastern France.

Nearly 80 years after World War Two, members of secretive US units are being honoured for the clever ruses they used to save tens of thousands of lives.

It was a military intervention unacknowledged by Moscow, shrouded in a fog of ruses and denials so improbable that few were deceived.