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PS 522 Week 6 Disinformation During the Cold War

Review essay: Active measures and information wars. by Leonardson, J.E.
Studies in Intelligence (Vol. 64, No. 1, March 2020).
Covert propaganda in the Cold War by Ritchie, J.
InquiriesJournal.com (1996/1997 No. 2).
Crafting of Natalie Grant’s book, Disinformation: Soviet political warfare by Dziak, J.
Institute of World Politics (March, 2021).
Cold war disinformation: New revelations about operation NEPTUNE from Czech Archives. by Walter, C.
WilsonCenter.org (September, 2021).
A fake-news warning from a former propagandist by Flam, F.
Bloomberg.com (February, 2017).
Larry Bittman Interview 2009. by Bittman, L.
Video Only.
The lie that linked CIA to the Kennedy Assassination: The power of disinformation. by Holland, M.
Studies in Intelligence, (2001, Vol. 45, No. 5).
Cold War fake news: Why Russia lied over AIDS and JFK. by Corera, G.
BBC.co.uk (April, 2017).
Fingerprints of Russian disinformation: From AIDS to fake news. by Qiu, L.
The New York Times (December, 2017).
Soviet deception in the Cuban missile crisis. by Hansen, J.
Studies in Intelligence (2002).
Soviet deception in the Czechoslovak crisis. by Grabo, C.
CIA.gov (September,1993).
The swallow and Caspian Sea monster vs. the princess and the camel: The Cold War contest for a nuclear-powered aircraft. by Garthoff, R.
Studies in Intelligence (2016, Vol. 60(2).
The vilnius telegram: KGB’s active measures to stop the independence of Lithuania.
WilsonCenter.org (December, 2021).

Week 6: American Disinformation during the Cold War

Madman theory.
Wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
Operation Giant Lance
Wikipedia.org (includes “madman theory).
Nixon’s nuclear ploy: The Vietnam negotiations and the Joint Chiefs of Staff readiness test, October 1969.
National Security Archive (December, 2002). (includes “madman theory”)
And justice for all, 1954-1971” (includes COINTELPRO).
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Crime and corruption across America, 1972-1988” (includes COINTELPRO).
Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Week 6: U.S. Responses to Soviet Disinformation

Declassified 1949 CIA manual gives warning to disinformation on social media. by Chiara, A.
The Hill.com (November, 2018).
Soviet subversion, disinformation and propaganda: How the west fought against it: An analytic history, with lessons for the present. by Cull, N.
LSE Consulting (October 2017).

Week 6: Chinese Disinformation during the Cold War

The historical roots of Chinese communist propaganda. by McCarty, M.
The Pulse 1: Undergraduate Journal of Baylor University (n.d.)
China’s false allegations of the use of biological weapons by the United States during the Korean War. by Leitenberg, M.
WilsonCenter.org (March 2016).

Week 6: British Disinformation during the Cold War

The Musketeer’s cloak: Strategic deception during the Suez Crisis of 1956. by Calhoun, R.D.
Studies in Intelligence (Vol. 51, No. 2, 2007).
Slaughter in Indonesia: Britain’s secret propaganda war. by Lashmar, P. Gilby, N. & Oliver, J.
TheGuardian.com (October, 2021).