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Deception, Disinformation, and Strategic Communications: How One Interagency Group Made a Major Difference (Strategic Perspectives, no. 11).
ADA577586
Publication Date
2012
Personal Author
Schoen, F.; Lamb, C. J.
Page Count
169
Abstract
This study explains how one part-time interagency committee established in the 1980s to counter Soviet disinformation effectively accomplished its mission. Interagency committees are commonly criticized as ineffective, but the Active Measures Working Group is a notable exception. The group successfully established and executed U.S. policy on responding to Soviet disinformation. It exposed some Soviet covert operations and raised the political cost of others by sensitizing foreign and domestic audiences to how they were being duped. The group s work encouraged allies and made the Soviet Union pay a price for disinformation that reverberated all the way to the top of the Soviet political apparatus. It became the U.S. Government s body of expertise on disinformation and was highly regarded in both Congress and the executive branch.
Keywords
Political science
Covert operations
Deception
Strategic communications
Disinformation
Source Agency
Non Paid ADAS
NTIS Subject Category
92 - Behavior & Society
Corporate Authors
National Defense Univ., Washington, DC. Inst. for National Strategic Studies.
Document Type
Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number
201320
Deception, Disinformation, and Strategic Communications: How One Interagency Group Made a Major Difference (Strategic Perspectives, no. 11).
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Deception, Disinformation, and Strategic Communications: How One Interagency Group Made a Major Difference (Strategic Perspectives, no. 11).
ADA577586
Publication Date
2012
Personal Author
Schoen, F.; Lamb, C. J.
Page Count
169
Abstract
This study explains how one part-time interagency committee established in the 1980s to counter Soviet disinformation effectively accomplished its mission. Interagency committees are commonly criticized as ineffective, but the Active Measures Working Group is a notable exception. The group successfully established and executed U.S. policy on responding to Soviet disinformation. It exposed some Soviet covert operations and raised the political cost of others by sensitizing foreign and domestic audiences to how they were being duped. The group s work encouraged allies and made the Soviet Union pay a price for disinformation that reverberated all the way to the top of the Soviet political apparatus. It became the U.S. Government s body of expertise on disinformation and was highly regarded in both Congress and the executive branch.
Keywords
Political science
Covert operations
Deception
Strategic communications
Disinformation
Source Agency
Non Paid ADAS
NTIS Subject Category
92 - Behavior & Society
Corporate Authors
National Defense Univ., Washington, DC. Inst. for National Strategic Studies.
Document Type
Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number
201320