General Information

Author/Creator

Rid, Thomas, 1975- author.

Language

English.

Published

London : Profile Books, 2020.

Physical Description

513 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

"This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary internet troll farms"--

Subjects

Subject

Disinformation > History.

Information warfare > Political aspects.

Deception (Military science) > History.

Leaks (Disclosure of information) > Political aspects.

Intelligence service > History.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Thomas Rid.

Content

What is disinformation? -- 1921-1945: Deceive. 1. The trust -- 2. Japan's Main Kampf -- 3. The Whalen forgeries -- 1945-1960: Forge -- 4. American disinformation -- 5. The Kampfgruppe -- 6. LC-Cassock, Inc. -- 7. Faking back -- 8. Kampfverband -- 9. Red swastikas -- 10. Racial engineering -- 1961-1975: Compete. 11. Dezinformatsiya rising -- 12. The book war -- 13. Operations plan 10-1 -- 14. The X -- 15. The fifth estate -- 1975-1989: Escalate. 16. Field manual 30-31B -- 17. Service A -- 18. The neutron bomb -- 19. Peacewar -- 20. Nuclear freeze -- 21. Nuclear winter -- 22. AIDS made in the USA -- 23. The philosophy of "AM" -- 1990-2014: Hack. 24. Digital measures -- 25. First digital leaks -- 26. Anonymous -- 27. Sofacy -- 2015-2017: Leak. 28. Election leaks -- 29. Guccifer two -- 30. Trolled -- 31. The shadow brokers -- A century of disinformation.

ISBN

9781788160742

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	327.12 RID		Reference	-

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