the Sheraton Commander decoy op
had had to wear identical red leather coats and auburn wigs and spike heels and go and hang around the lobby of Harvard Square’s Sheraton Commander Hotel with six mannish-looking women in the same wigs and coats
Context
Operational disguise at its most literal, and it passes the 133 test cleanly. For the Front-Contre-O.N.A.N.isme's waste-throwing hit on the Canadian trade minister, Poor Tony's crew and six "mannish-looking" Québecoises are dressed identically — red leather coats, auburn wigs, spike heels — so that when the Québecer insurgent flees, "the security guys'd see identical epicene figures high-heeling it away in different directions and get fuddled about who to chase." The disguise here hides no single person; it multiplies one into twelve interchangeable decoys, concealment by mass-produced ambiguity. It is also the operational origin of the auburn wig Poor Tony is still clutching in 144.