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Klaralven

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11. It would be the SVR or GRU
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 03:44 PM
Sep 2020

According to senior SVR officer Sergei Tretyakov, he often sent intelligence officers to branches of the New York Public Library where they gained access to the Internet without anyone knowing their identity. They placed propaganda and disinformation to educational websites and sent emails to US broadcasters.[20] The articles or studies were generated by Russian experts who worked for the SVR.[20] The purpose of these active measures was to whitewash Russian foreign policy, to create a good image of Russia, to promote Anti-American feelings and "to cause dissension and unrest inside the US".[20]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Service_(Russia)#Internet_disinformation

Possibly we should be shutting down the branches of the New York Public Library?

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