Does releasing the report under a pseudonym make the report's claims false? yes or no. Do you dispute the contents of the report?
"I authored small parts of the report and was involved in report preparation and review. As a researcher, and due to the understandable worry about foreign disinformation, it was paramount that the report do ent activity from acknowledged and public sources," Balding said. "Great care was taken to do ent, cite, and retain information so that acknowledged facts could be placed in the public domain."
Balding said Aspen is "an entirely fictional individual created solely for the purpose of releasing this report." Balding did not name the do ent's main author, saying "the primary author of the report, due to personal and professional risks, requires anonymity."