Secrets of the Cold War: Disinformation and Soviet Active Measures

Name: Secrets of the Cold War: Disinformation and Soviet Active Measures
Uploaded: 1984
Duration: 24 min

198424 minHD★ 7.9Conspiracy & Cover-Ups

Dr.Docs' Take

A 1984 look at Soviet active measures, the forgeries, bribes and disinformation used to quietly bend the West without firing a shot. I treasure this as a period piece that reads uncomfortably like a manual still in daily use. Watch it once and every modern influence operation suddenly looks a lot less new and a lot more rehearsed. The tactics did not retire, they just got faster and moved online.

This Documentary reviews the various measures, including disinformation, bribery, forgery, and overall dirty tricks employed abroad by the Soviet Union to further its aims against the Western world. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND / CONTEXT Active measures (Russian: Активные мероприятия) was a Soviet term for the actions of political warfare conducted by the Soviet security services (Cheka, OGPU, NKVD, KGB) to influence the course of world events, "in addition to collecting intelligence and producing poli...

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ConspiracyDisinformationSovietPropagandaCold WarActive Measures