something i learned ages ago was that the makers of streetmaps deliberately insert innocuous flaws in their maps.
well, of course, this was before the days of satellite nav systems....
they can't really mess with the names of roads or intersections, but maybe somewhere there's a stretch of road that curves to the left, they'll make it curve to the right instead. or bend roads a little to make some stretch of road much shorter or longer than it is in reality.
that way, if the map is ever copied, they can easily win a copyright lawsuit because if the other party really made their own map legitimately, there's no way they would have ever made the exact same specific "errors" you did. the only way the could have made the exact same "errors" is if they copied your work.
similarly, the intelligence community could do something similar. the trick is to plant *innocuous* errors, not really meaningful ones. they can't really lie to the president about our exact nuclear missile count, for example. but they could lie to him about some historical date or location, get that slightly wrong. if that exact error later shows up in russian communications, then they know....
personally, though, i don't know why they'd bother.
they already know donnie's a russian asset, this would only confirm what they already know.
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