"Wilderness of mirrors" is a phrase used to describe a place where reality is not real, and everything is a reflection of a distant motive, nation, or ideology. It can also refer to a landscape where double agents and bad information are planted, and corruption is the base state.
It's a cool phrase and I think I first heard it while watching a British series featuring spooks from MI6 and the FSB on streaming television.
A roomful of mirrors would be very confusing or disorienting making it quite difficult to
distinguish between truth and illusion, between competing versions of
reality
James
Jesus Angleton, the CIA chief of counterintelligence from 1954 to 1975,
used the phrase to describe the Soviet bloc's use of disinformation to
confuse and split the West. Angleton may have taken the phrase from the
poem Gerontion by T.S. Eliot, with whom he corresponded while editing
the literary magazine Furioso at Yale.
The phrase has since become
common in spy novels and historical writing about espionage.
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