Active Measures The Secret History of Disinformation & Political Warfare

Active Measures The Secret History of Disinformation & Political Warfare

A Guardian Politics Book of the Year, this work explores our age of subterfuge, where spy agencies invest heavily in hacking, leaking, and forging data to erode trust in facts. Thomas Rid, a leading expert on technology and national security, was among the first to raise the alarm. Even before the 2016 election, he warned that Russian military intelligence was \u201Ccarefully planning and timing a high-stakes political campaign\u201D to disrupt democracy. As sophisticated as these so-called active measures are today, they\u2019re far from new. In this gripping journey through a century of secret psychological warfare, Rid uncovers some of history\u2019s most remarkable operations\u2014many almost unbelievable. A White Russian plot backfires and topples a New York police commissioner; a KGB-driven anti-Semitic hate campaign seeps back over the Berlin Wall; the CIA bankrolls a fake publishing empire, run by a former Wehrmacht U-boat commander, that produces Germany\u2019s top jazz maga.

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