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Active measures includes the establishment and support of international front organizations (e.g., the World Peace Council); foreign communist, socialist and opposition parties; wars of national liberation in the Third World.
What Were Soviet Active Measures? The term “Active Measures’ came into use in the USSR in the 1950s to describe overt and covert techniques for influencing events and behaviour in foreign countries. Disinformation – the intentional dissemination of false information – is just one of many elements that made up active measures operations.
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Active Measures is a 2018 documentary film by director Jack Bryan. The documentary centered on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, and looks at the many suspicious links between Trump associates and Russian officials and spies.
Thomas Rid looks deep into neglected East European State Security archives, tracks down Cold War-era active measures officers, and examines fresh digital forensics in order to tell the true history of what we now know as disinformation.
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Active measures can be traced back to the 1920s and grew out of what was called “political warfare,” to include leaked documents and planted disinformation. Rid explains the four waves of disinformation, and the technology and information environment of each particular period.
Aug 18, 2020 · As disinformation thrives, knowing who, and what, to believe has never felt so difficult. Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare, by Thomas Rid, Profile...