Successfully fighting disinformation and influence operations of authoritarian adversaries requires understanding how these efforts have been developed by—and are run out of—the intelligence services.
As Putin-allied parties join governing coalitions in Italy and Austria, their interior ministries could give Russia a backdoor to meddle in Europe—and undermine Western security co-operation.
Cultivating corrupt political proxies in order to sow chaos in the West is a game as old as the Comintern itself. But a set of technological, social, political, and above all financial innovations have made the old playbook much more effective.
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