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Other euphemisms for lying that were used included excessive statements, outright misrepresentation, dissembled, prudent to change those chronologies , and radically different from the facts . The concept of “plausible deniability” is a variation on the theme of avoiding the recognition or the admission of lying.
Now, if only the Times had said "lied" instead of "dissembled".
The NYT is admirably clear about the context producing such skepticism: "The tobacco industry has dissembled so often in the past--about whether cigarettes cause diseases, about whether nicotine is addictive, about whether they market their product to children--that people are never sure what to make of the companies' pronouncements."
It is certainly possible that he has dissembled about some aspects of his story, perhaps to counter suspicion.