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Russian Spies And The Media

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The DNC hack. It was a tale of espionage and intrigue. But behind closed doors, Russian intelligence knew just how to play the media in a liberal democracy. And that is a tale as old as time.


Thomas Rid, a world renowned academic on national security and intelligence, wrote a new book called Active Measures tracing secret history psychological warfare over a century. On this week’s episode we have him on the show. 


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0:00.0

It's got the code it's going to launch.

0:10.8

It's a unit system.

0:13.2

I know this.

0:15.2

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.3

It tells her everything.

0:19.1

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.6

The eagle one.

0:22.6

The package is being delivered.

0:24.6

It was a tale of espionage and intrigue.

0:26.6

It's pure obfuscation on the part of the Clinton campaign.

0:30.6

Trump campaign manager, Paul Manafort, denied accusations Sunday that Donald Trump is being aided by an old Cold War rival. It's absurd, and there's no basis to it.

0:41.3

But behind closed doors, Russian intelligence knew just how to play the media in a liberal democracy.

0:47.3

And that is a tale as old as time.

0:50.3

Thomas Ridd, a world-renowned academic on national security and intelligence,

1:00.6

wrote a new book called Active Measures, tracing the secret history of psychological warfare over a century.

1:04.0

On this week's episode, we have him on the show.

1:14.7

I'm Ben Maku, and you're listening to cyber. Thomas, thanks so much for coming on the pod.

1:17.7

Pleasure.

1:18.4

I interviewed you a few years ago for Cyber War.

1:21.7

I don't if remember, in Berlin.

1:23.9

Or was it in London?

1:24.8

It was in London.

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