KGB Secrets Exposed: How the Soviet Union Built Global Influence Operations
An explosive breakdown of the memoirs of a former Soviet intelligence chief. How the KGB engineered some of the most influential disinformation campaigns of the 20th century: Operation “DRAGON” (framing the CIA for JFK’s assassination), the myth of “Hitler’s Pope” (Pius XII), the creation of the PLO under Yasser Arafat, and the spread of Liberation Theology. Why “Glasnost” was a PR operation (Ceaușescu, Andropov) — and how these same methods echo in Putin’s Russia and modern U.S. politics.
00:00:00 — Introduction: Disinformation memoirs
00:01:17 — Historical lineage (Oprichnina → Okhrana → KGB)
00:01:54 — “Glasnost” as PR (Ceaușescu, Andropov)
00:03:05 — The principle of “a grain of truth” (World Peace Council)
00:04:02 — Tactic 1: Discrediting (Stepinac, “Nazis”)
00:04:48 — Tactic 2: Scapegoating (Danube Canal)
00:05:11 — Tactic 3: Front organizations (WPC, WSCF)
00:06:12 — Tactic 4: Creating MYTHS (Pius XII, “Hitler’s Pope”)
00:06:36 — ...The play “The Deputy” and influence agents (I.F. Stone)
00:07:48 — ...Counter-facts: Pius XII saved Jews
00:08:35 — Tactic 5: Antisemitism (“Protocols,” Slánský Trial)
00:09:35 — ...Creation of the PLO (Arafat) and the “Jenin Massacre”
00:10:09 — Tactic 6: Creating ideologies (Liberation Theology)
00:11:02 — Tactic 7: “Political Necrophagy” (Stalin, Yeltsin)
00:12:01 — Parallel 1: JFK assassination (Oswald, Department 13)
00:13:02 — ...Operation “DRAGON”: Blame the CIA
00:14:06 — Parallel 2: Russia (Putin’s KGB revanche)
00:15:01 — Parallel 3: U.S. politics (Obama, Newsweek: “We Are All Socialists Now”)
00:17:41 — Conclusions: The 5 core methods of KGB disinformation
00:19:03 — ...Relevance today (ROC, Hezbollah)
00:19:47 — Final question: How vulnerable are we in the social-media era?
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