Super Soldiers duped by Agent Smith’s powers

The puzzle had been that half his soldiers still insisted the tank was empty. He had a dozen of them look at the gauge and only five of them saw the needle above E. Even when they drove it in, some of them still said there was no gasoline. Nothing the captain did could convince them otherwise. A few of them couldn’t even start the engine.

Excerpt From Ex-Patriots, pg 412
Peter Clines
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