# Concealed Causation **Domain:** Cognitive Security / Attribution / Covert Action **Doc Type:** Corpus Concept Node **Maturity:** Developing ## Definition **Concealed causation** is the deliberate separation of an effect from an identifiable actor or mechanism so that the target experiences disruption without being able to establish who caused it, how it was produced or whether apparently separate events are connected. ## Strategic Context Attribution fog increases cognitive cost. The target must act under uncertainty while explanations remain individually deniable and difficult to assemble into a coherent causal account. ## Corpus Context [[articles/Cognitive-Cyber Warfare Measures and Countermeasures|Cognitive-Cyber Warfare: Measures and Countermeasures]] connects concealed causation to [[wiki/Zersetzung|Zersetzung]] and modern cognitive-cyber operations. ## See Also [[wiki/Cyber Attribution|Cyber Attribution]], [[wiki/Epistemological Attack|Epistemological Attack]], [[wiki/Narrative Authority|Narrative Authority]]