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During the Cold War, the Soviet Union used propaganda and disinformation as "active measures...against the populations of Western nations".[11]: 51 During the administration of Boris Yeltsin, the first President of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, "disinformation" was discussed in the Russian media and by Russian politicians in relation to the disinformation of the Soviet era ...
Dezinformatsia: Active Measures in Soviet Strategy (and a later edition published as Dezinformatsia: The Strategy of Soviet Disinformation) is a non-fiction book about disinformation and information warfare used by the KGB during the Soviet Union period, as part of their active measures tactics.
The KGB and Soviet Disinformation received both a negative and a positive review in the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, with Phillips writing "Chez Espionage regulars consider" the book "an excellent study", referring to its author as "the top authority on disinformation in the U.S.". [7]
By 1990, both men had written books recounting their work on disinformation operations for the KGB. [17] Archival documentation revealed in the disorder of the fall of the Soviet Union later confirmed their testimonials. [16] An early example of successful Soviet disinformation was the 1961 pamphlet, A Study of a Master Spy (Allen Dulles).
The book includes a discussion on Rodrigo Duterte. [3] The book also argues that destroying the idea of objective truth is a goal of various internet propaganda campaigns, [1] as well as destroying the trust in democracy, [4] and information overload meant to persuade people to put trust into dictatorial figures. [5]
Cyberwarfare by Russia includes denial of service attacks, hacker attacks, dissemination of disinformation and propaganda, participation of state-sponsored teams in political blogs, internet surveillance using SORM technology, persecution of cyber-dissidents and other active measures. [1]
The Shorenstein Center at Harvard University defines disinformation research as an academic field that studies "the spread and impacts of misinformation, disinformation, and media manipulation," including "how it spreads through online and offline channels, and why people are susceptible to believing bad information, and successful strategies for mitigating its impact". [23]
The book was first published by WND Books in 2013. [32] The companion film in DVD release, Disinformation: The Secret Strategy to Destroy the West, was published the same year. [33] The book was published in Romanian and Polish in 2015, [34] [35] and Russian and Czech in 2016. [36] [37] An English-language audiobook was published by Audible ...