Dorian Lynskey

Russia’s long history of smears, sabotage and barefaced lies

Mark Hollingsworth describes how the KGB became the world’s most industrious conspiracy-theory factory, with its agents of influence dedicated to sowing maximum confusion

The British Labour MP Bob Edwards, revealed to have been recruited by the KGB’s agents of influence. [Getty Images] 
issue 12 August 2023

Russian politicians often refer to something called the Dulles Plan. This document purports to capture the future CIA chief Allen Dulles explaining, in 1948, the US strategy to destroy the moral foundations of the USSR and bring about ‘the death of the most intractable people on Earth… the definitive, irreversible dying out of its self-consciousness’.

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