Ku Klux Klan campaign against Olympic athletes from African and Asian countries to scare them from participating, ahead of the Soviets' 1984 Summer Olympics boycott. According to Yuri Bezmenov, a defector from the Soviet KGB, psychological warfare activities accounted for 85% of all KGB efforts (the other 15% being direct espionage and intelligence gathering). Bezmenov put the process into the four stages "destabilize, demoralize, crisis, normalization" where an enemy country would be undermined over several decades, and pointed out that once the Soviet Union took control of a country, such as Czechoslovakia, they disposed of actual revolution and radicalism. Spy ring discoveries Major spy discoveries occurred in the 1980s despite the looming end of the Cold War. The press dubbed 1985 the "Year of the Spy" due to the discovery of multiple spies and spy rings, many of them passing information to the Soviet Union, such as John Anthony Walker and Ronald Pelton. The New York Times reported in 1987 that the Walker spy ring was "described as the most damaging Soviet spy ring in history." During his time as a Soviet spy (1967-1985), Walker stole and sold codes that assisted the Soviets in deciphering encrypted Navy messages, which allowed them to monitor American naval assets. The Walker spy ring also compromised information about weapons, sensor data, and related naval tactics. Other 1980s spies included Aldrich Ames a KGB mole, investigation of Ames activities led to the 1995 CIA disinformation controversy revealing that false reports were fed to the United States through Soviet double agents. See also Amerasia Bella Dodd David Karr Farewell Dossier George Trofimoff Gouzenko Affair Hollow Nickel Case Lev Vasilevsky List of Americans in the Venona papers Nuclear espionage Russian espionage in the United States Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections Russia involvement in regime change Russian Soviet Government Bureau The Americans (2013 TV series) The Thing (listening device) References Further reading John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev, Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009) John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America--the Stalin Era (New York: Random House, 1999) External links Soviet Technospies from the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives For new evidence on Soviet espionage in the United States, see former