Excellent thread on the Cold War origins of the Russian conspiracist/psywar method of political subversion. We have seen this played out in real time over the past ten years.

Quotes are from a 1959 hearing to establish a US organization to understand and train against Russian etc political warfare subversion. Never happened ultimately because Sen Fulbright didn’t accept that Ru was a threat. https://t.co/IysCdUAWfs

— Matt Armstrong (@mountainrunner) July 19, 2018