![]() He exposes the disturbing yet colorful history of professional, organized lying, revealing for the first time some of the century’s most significant operations-many of them nearly beyond belief. In Active Measures, Rid reveals startling intelligence and security secrets from materials written in more than ten languages across several nations, and from interviews with current and former operatives. The story of modern disinformation begins with the post-Russian Revolution clash between communism and capitalism, which would come to define the Cold War. But as crafty as such so-called active measures have become, they are not new. More than four months before the 2016 election, he warned that Russian military intelligence was “carefully planning and timing a high-stakes political campaign” to disrupt the democratic process. ![]() ![]() Thomas Rid, a renowned expert on technology and national security, was one of the first to sound the alarm. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in facts. ![]() We live in the age of disinformation-of organized deception. ![]()
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