In the famous “deception was my job” interview of former KGB officer Yuri Bezmenov, he describes that the KGB spent most of it’s time and resources inserting messages into foreign presses.

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They do the same thing today. There is complete continuity between the KGB and present day FSB.

85% of KGB’s time is spent on controlling messaging: https://youtu.be/jbabq23UbGw?t=4100

0:00:00 Introduction
0:01:27 Part 1 – Life Under Soviet Collectivism
0:27:20 Part 2 – Propaganda and Mind Control
0:54:23 Part 3 – Cultural Subversion and Escape
1:07:29 Stages of Ideological Subversion
1:09:08 1) Demoralization
1:13:50 2) Destabilization
1:14:38 3) Crisis
1:14:49 4) Normalization
1:17:16 How To Save America From Ideological Subversion