The groups focused their efforts on increasing everyone's understanding of the risks associated with the organization's information and the related policies and controls in place to mitigate those risks.
The groups wanted to make the risks more widely known and promote ways of combating them.
This passage could easily belong to a piece of nonfiction--to one of the witty old Letters from Europe that used to run in The New Yorker . And in fact, in the best of these character studies, a vivid picture of Cold War Europe--infected with mediocre rhetoric, imprisoned by fake boundaries, inhabited by numb and ambivalent people--begins to take shape.