Randall Garrett: What The Left Hand Was Doing: There is no lie so totally convincing as something the other fellow already knows-for-sure is the truth. And no cover-story so convincing…

The Society For Mystical and Metaphysical Research, Inc. ..... It is possible that no more nearly perfect cover, no more misleading front for a secret organization ever existed in the history of man. It possessed two qualities which most other cover-up titles do not have. One, it was so obviously crackpot that no one paid any attention to it except crackpots, and, two, it was perfectly, literally true. -