• The primary goal of foreign intelligence services in most of the world is to collect information to help heads of state conduct foreign affairs. In Russia, the goal of foreign intelligence service is to manipulate the future, not just learn about the past. Specifically, to fabricate a new past for enemy targets in order to change how the world perceives them. The Kremlin has come to view powerful Western religions as dangerously hostile threats, and valid targets of dezinformatsiya.
• Disinformation and its undercover international apparatus are still very much alive and well today!
• Mao Zedong was famous for saying that a lie repeated a hundred times becomes the truth.
