TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rid, Thomas,
TI  - Active measures: the secret history of disinformation and political warfare 
SN  - 9781788160759
AV  - JF1525.I6 R54 2021
U1  - 327.14 23
PY  - 2021///.
CY  - London : 
PB  - Profile Books, 
KW  - Disinformation
KW  - History
KW  - Military intelligence
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Espionage, Russian
KW  - United States
KW  - Deception
KW  - Fake news
KW  - Propaganda
KW  - Social media
KW  - fast
N1  - Originally published: 2020; Includes bibliographical references (pages [437]-491) and index
N2  - We live in an age of subterfuge. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in facts. Thomas Rid, a renowned expert on technology and national security, was one of the first to sound the alarm. Even before the 2016 election, he warned that Russian military intelligence was 'carefully planning and timing a high-stakes political campaign' to disrupt the democratic process. But as crafty as such so-called active measures have become, they are not new. In this astonishing journey through a century of secret psychological war, Rid reveals for the first time some of history's most significant operations - many of them nearly beyond belief. A White Russian ploy backfires and brings down a New York police commissioner; a KGB-engineered, anti-Semitic hate campaign creeps back across the Berlin Wall; the CIA backs a fake publishing empire, run by a former Wehrmacht U-boat commander that produces Germany's best jazz magazine
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