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Former spy chief reveals secret strategies for undermining freedom. More than 150 cases of prokremlin disinformation on covid19 have been recorded in the euvsdisinfo database since january 22. Disorder during the fall of the soviet union revealed archival and other documentary information to confirm what the defectors had revealed. Disinformation book wikimili, the best wikipedia reader. Pacepa recalls that the soviet manuals said origins of disinformation. Among specialists who follow russian disinformation, rid is. Full text of the kgb and soviet disinformation ladislav. There are many wonderful parts of this book which benefits greatly from bittmans academic training as well as intelligence experience.

Far more kgb energy went into disinformation than traditional espionage. For decades russia and previously the soviet union has used disinformation as a. Finally, five days before the press conference, a russian envoy arrived at stb headquarters with several sacks full of nazi documentsnearly 30,000 pages in total. The fbi team investigating president donald trumps 2016 campaign allegedly received evidence that information contained in the infamous antitrump dossier, created by exbritish spy christopher steele, contained russian disinformation that was part of a campaign launched by russias intelligence service. The fake news and disinformation tactics russia perfected before social. Pacepa pays special attention to the kgb, and how big of an instrument they were in.

Rid provides the best narrative ive read anywhere of how the russian disinformation campaign in 2016 was run. The secret history of disinformation and political warfare. But the deeper value of rids book is that it takes us to the beginnings of. Soviet and russian disinformation regarding aids and other pathogens. Joseph stalin coined the term, giving it a frenchsounding name to claim it had a western. Disinformation is a book that needs to be on every english speaking library shelf, and needs to be read by every englishspeaking history teacher. Former spy chief reveals secret strategies for undermining freedom, attacking religion, and promoting terrorism is a nonfiction book about disinformation tactics and history rooted in information warfare. For much of the book he relies on his extensive and highlevel contacts with the kgb and the soviet government. The kgb and soviet disinformation ladislav bittman. Disinformation explains of post wwii history from the perspective of one who was on the inside. A quartercentury ago, the highestranking soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the west, lt. This is a subset of misinformation, which may also be unintentional the english word disinformation is a loan translation of the russian dezinformatsiya, derived from the title of a kgb black propaganda department. How the west fought against it an analytic history, with lessons for the present. Ion mihai pacepas story defames a legendary vatican diplomat and undermines positive catholic.

Operation infektion soviet bloc intelligence and its aids. In the 80s the russians planted a story in an indian newspaper that the u. Over the next years, the european and the north american media repeatedly reported on soviet bloc intelligence sponsorship of the aids conspiracy theory. In january 1959, aleksandr shelepin, who had recently taken over as head of the kgb, established a new organization, department d, to create and coordinate disinformation programs. Kgb foreign intelligence role russia soviet intelligence. Disinformation wikimili, the best wikipedia reader. Active measures in soviet strategy is a nonfiction book about disinformation and information warfare used by the kgb during the soviet union.

Required reading on the russian disinformation front. It was written by former intelligence officer specializing in disinformation for the czech intelligence service and retired professor of disinformation at boston university, ladislav bittman later known as lawrence martin. In his book disinformation, pacepa wrote that the soviet manuals he read as a young intelligence officer described disinformation as a tactic used by moscow with roots in russian history. The approaching 50th anniversary of the assassination of john f. Today, we see the russian government using the socalled russian orthodox church following the same plan. Russian disinformation helps support rampant violations of osce norms by the putin regime, ranging from internal human rights abuses to military intervention in neighboring states to interference in elections in several countries. A russian police officer during a rally in support of vladimir v. Many ideas, misconceptions and flatout lies taking hold since world war ii were secretly generated by the. Disinformation efforts laid out in crisp detail in new book. The kgb and soviet disinformation is also organized better than the deception game, and includes topics especially in the later chapters not broached by the earlier book. An insiders view is a nonfiction book about disinformation and information warfare used by the kgb during the soviet union period. Patriarch kirill, an agent of kgb tradition in action.

Kennedy is sufficient reason alone to buy and read the new book, disinformation. A quarter century ago, in his international bestseller red horizons, pacepa exposed the massive crimes and corruption of his former boss, romanian president nicolae ceausescu, giving the dictator a nervous breakdown and inspiring him to send assassination squads to the u. How the russians practice disinformation accuracy in media. Even after the collapse of communism and the russian intelligence services revelation of the kgbs role in the disinformation campaign in 1992, the kgbs false theses regarding aids have continued to spread, especially on the internet. Active measures provides a comprehensive look at the disinformation game, from the 1920s through the digital revolution. There are many wonderful parts of this book which benefits greatly from. In 1978, soviet officials working through a major kgb front organization called the world peace council organized a symposium with an official u. Russian disinformation is a grave transnational threat, facilitating unacceptable aggression by russia both at home and across the 57nation osce region. Remember, putin himself was a kgb case officer, and so when people try to understand his psychology. It was written by former intelligence officer specializing in disinformation for the czech intelligence service and retired professor of disinformation at boston university. His disinformation book focuses on the lies used to manipulate public perception since world war ii. Then, in 2016, as the presidential election unfolded, stengel watched as donald trump used disinformation himself. They document a disinformation campaign led by the kgb whose goal was to. An insiders view is a nonfiction book about the kgb s use of disinformation and information warfare during the soviet union period.

The kgb and soviet disinformation military wiki fandom. Episode 1 meet the kgb spies who invented fake news. During the final three years of the obama administration, richard stengel, the former editor of time magazine and an under secretary of state, was the single person in government tasked with unpacking, disproving, and combating both isiss messaging and russian disinformation. Ion mihai pacepa, provides an insiders front row seat and analysis of the powerful sovietborn. Russian statecontrolled media outlets have shifted their focus to highlight russia s preparedness to tackle the outbreak. Opinion for putin, disinformation is power the new. Thomas rid gives the reader an insiders view of how highprofile influence campaigns are designed and executed, thus providing historical perspective that. Department a was responsible for clandestine initiatives and campaigns to influence foreign governments and publics. The term was first used in the great soviet encyclopaedia in 1952, where it was presented as classic disinformation. It was written by former intelligence officer specializing in disinformation for the czech intelligence service and retired professor of disinformation at boston university, ladislav bittman now known as lawrence martinbittman. Long before facebook, the kgb spread fake news about aids in the 1980s, the soviet union and allies participated in a widespread disinformation campaign. Disinformation is the word of the year and a sign of. Going well beyond the authors personal experiencehe left czechoslovakia in 1968the book ranges over the entire field forgeries, black propaganda, front organizations, recruitment of agents, penetration of western institutions, terrorism, assassinations, aid to. The russians define disinformation as the dissemination of false and provocative information.

Theres been much written about the kgb since the soviet unions fall opened many of its files. The kgb always preferred to place disinformation in nonsoviet media. Out of these principles of leninism the contemporary soviet concept of dezinformatsiya, or disinformation, has evolved. It was written by former threestar general in the securitate, the secret poli. But the deeper value of rids book is that it takes us to the beginnings of modern manipulation. According to the book, disinformation constitutes false news distributed in the media with the intention of misleading the public. Disinformationdisinformaziahad long been a staple of soviet intelligence, but the kgb had begun throwing more resources into their efforts.

Theres a phrase in russian working with people which is really all kgb case officers. The kgb agents would chide him for his love of modernist authors who, instead of writing in the impersonal, officious language of soviet. The military university of the ministry of defense in moscow. The kgb wasted no time propagating the jfk assassination disinformation hoax. This kgb book detailed and exposed all the kgb officers posted across the world then known to the western security services. How the kgb took back russia and then took on the west. Disinformation is false or misleading information that is spread deliberately to deceive. An insiders view is a nonfiction book about the kgbs use of disinformation and information warfare during the soviet union period. Rids achievement in this book is that he places our crazy, upsidedown politics in a coherent historical context. Both are excellent, but this one is certainly more comprehensive. The extent of soviet disinformation covert operation campaigns, came to light through the defections of kgb officers and officers of allied soviet bloc services from the late 1960s through the 1980s. The main building of the russian federal security service, former kgb headquarters, in lubyanka square in moscow, russia, on jan. Learn how to be a spy from previously unpublished kgb. We reveal how one of the biggest fake news stories ever concocted the 1984 aidsisa.

The kbg counted with a disinformation campaign slandering barron that he was a fake, and his book a fabricated zionist conspiracy. The entry added that such tactics were used by the west against the soviet union. Full text of the kgb and soviet disinformation ladislav bittman see other formats. The highestranking soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the west, lt. Inside neptun, a daring cold war disinformation operation. Pacepas book disinformation gives remarkable data about how the kremlin, since the time of stalin, manipulated religions.