The Interfax dispatch of November 5 2009 on the visit to Washington by Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski ascribed to the Minister comments which, in fact, he never made: "We would desire to secure American troops, deployed in our country as a shield against Russian aggression". This appears to be an intentional manipulation. The passage at issue is in the form of a quotation, so there can be no question of it being distorted through an inaccurate interpretation or a lack of journalistic diligence. It would have been easy to check if the quoted statement had ever been made by examining a recording of the conference.