Title: The Primer on Russia's "Active Measures," Its Information Warfare Strategy - Big Think
Headings: The Primer on Russia's "Active Measures," Its Information Warfare Strategy
The Primer on Russia's "Active Measures," Its Information Warfare Strategy
KGB-era "active measures" are still being used by Russian intelligence agencies today, according to experts.
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Content: Foment and exacerbate divisive political fractures
3. Erode trust between citizens and elected officials and democratic institutions
4. Popularize Russian policy agendas within foreign populations
5. Create general distrust or confusion over information sources by blurring the lines between fact and fiction
President Vladimir Putin while working as a KGB officer ca. 1990
Another line of investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee concerns the reported use of an army of internet trolls working from a Russian facility to send targeted fake news to specific regions of America. Senator Mark Warner (D) said that their committee was investigating the information that the trolls were taking over computers called “ botnets ” which had the ability to generate regional news. “It’s been reported to me, and we’ve got to find this out, whether they were able to affect specific areas in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, where you would not have been receiving off of whoever your vendor might have been, Trump versus Clinton, during the waning days of the election, but instead, ‘Clinton is sick’, or ‘Clinton is taking money from whoever for some source’ … fake news,” stated Warner. What is the payoff Russia may be looking for by taking active measures during the 2016 U.S. election? Eugene Rumer thinks the operation was a “major” and “unqualified” success for the Kremlin, causing unprecedented chaos within the U.S. and worsening its position worldwide. "The payoff includes, but is not limited to a major political disruption in the United States, which has been distracted from many strategic pursuits;