these guys lived in a haunted castle, the setting of a robert louis stephenseegeson stephenson stories. doing spooky special things. developing secret weapons. james bond-style ways of assassinating people and one of the most important things they came up with was something that mount battin himself was keen on. called it sonic deception subpoena used in a rudimentary way in the desert in north africa when rommel was slugging it out with the british 8th army, and montgomery finally came on the scene later. field marshal montgomery. because he had the services of jasper, a magician by training, and several other officers who were so inclined, he himself had been experimenting with things like this. so in england as well as on the front, people were doing this, sonic deception basically was playing sound effects at the enemy to make them think something was happening that in fact was not the case. in north africa it was very rudimentary, in fact primitive. they would put a vick terror la victrola on the back of a jeep and slow it along the dune line supposed to trick the germans into thi