Russian Info, Cyber and Disinformation (Catch all till 2017)

[kaur]

Notorious Russian television host Dmitry Kiselyov, famous for his anti-Western rhetoric, has admitted to using a fake document during his weekly Vesti Nedeli news show.

During his show on the Rossia 1 television channel on April 24, Kiselyov displayed the ID of Ukrainian Roman Kolia, an officer in the Galician SS-Volunteer division. In a report on the modern-day relationship between Ukraine and the U.S., Kiselyov compared the U.S. to Nazi Germany, the Meduza news website reported.

In the following week's program, Kiselyov thanked the attentive audience for finding “inaccuracies” in the document and said it was fake.

“There are plenty of fakes now — from counterfeit paintings of brilliant artists to quotations falsely attributed to famous people. It is no wonder we fell for it,” he said.

Kiselyov did not apologize for misleading viewers, but used the situation to once again mention the fact that some Ukrainians fought alongside Nazi Germany and said he is thankful for “such artifacts, even if they are made in our time” for “reminding us about true history. “

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/n...ow/569657.html

This kind of behaviour is profitable.

Other leaks show that Kiselyov reportedly bought a $4.6-million home in central Moscow in 2014. Navalny has confirmed the purchase in a blog post, citing previously publicly available records, but added he did not know whether the other claims were real. Meanwhile, Shaltai-Boltai's website has been blocked in Russia.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/arts_n...rs/567948.html

[Bill Moore]

Beyond Propaganda: Soviet Active Measures in Putin’s Russia

https://connections-qj.org/article/b...-putins-russia

Note: you can open the entire article by selecting the pdf link below the title of the article.

Today, in Putin’s Russia, these active measures are once again in use, updated for digitally interconnected “global information space.” The paper begins with an introduction to active measures, then discusses their role in Soviet foreign policy and the attempts by the American “Active Measures Working Group” to counter them. The paper then describes how the Soviet active measures playbook has been updated for the modern era, using three case studies as examples. The paper concludes with a discussion on strategy, reproducing a number of recommendations from key publications.

It isn't too hard to discern how this information warfare tactic can be applied today to further fan the flames of hatred that are escalating on our streets.

Our KGB staff, using new typewriters and wearing gloves so as not to leave fingerprints, typed up hundreds of anonymous hate letters and sent them to dozens of African missions. The letters, purportedly from white supremacists as well as average Americans, were filled with virulent racist diatribes. The African diplomats publicized some of the letters as examples of the racism still rampant in America, and members of the American and foreign press corps quoted from them.

— Oleg Kalugin, 1994

Overall a very insightful article, and in my view it points to the need for a new interagency Active Measures Working Group (U.S.). The mission of the AMWG was to identify and expose Soviet disinformation.

We should also relook NSDD-75 (discussed in the article, and in the next post), as a means to more effectively compete with Russia and other states that threaten our interests.

[Bill Moore]

https://www.reaganlibrary.archives.g...DDS/NSDD75.pdf

U.S. RELATIONS WITH THE USSR

U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union will consist of three
elements: external resistance to Soviet-imperialism; internal
pressure on the USSR to weaken' the sources of Soviet imperialism;
and negotiations to eliminate, on the basis of strict reciprocity,
outstanding disagreements. Specifically, U.S. tasks are:

And the Washington Times article for context

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...ld-war-secret/

Crucial Cold War secret

It was 25 years ago, on Jan. 17, 1983, that the blueprint for American victory in the Cold War was quietly formalized by President Ronald Reagan. It came with the roar of winter, by the name of NSDD-75, probably the most important foreign-policy document by the Reagan administration, institutionalizing the president’s intention to undermine the Soviet communist empire.

Another NSC colleague, Tom Reed, called it “the blueprint for the endgame” and “a confidential declaration of economic and political war.” The Soviets, who somehow learned about the highly classified directive, were even more dramatic. An article on NSDD-75 in the Soviet press was titled: “New directive… threatens history.”

The new policy, said Bill Clark, would “turn the Soviet Union inside itself,” encouraging “anti-totalitarian changes within the U.S.S.R.” America, said Mr. Clark, would “seek to weaken Moscow’s hold on its empire.”

[OUTLAW 09]

This is what I pay attention to Dugin these days as Dugin ties into eastern Ukraine in a heavy way......while many view Dugin as a crazy right wing loony ideologue he has the ear of Putin and yes he is crazy but crazy as a fox on the hunt......

Russo-Turkish Rapprochement through Idea of Eurasia:
Alexander #Dugin’s Networks in #Turkey
http://www.jamestown.org/uploads/med...fRusso-Turkish …

AND he ties into the US in other ways that the US MSM and WH are not paying attention to.....

Growing ties between US hard-right extremists and Kremlin-linked organizations:
http://www.eurasianet.org/node/79686