PECULIARITIES OF RUSSIAN INFORMATION OPERATIONS Uku Arold
PECULIARITIES OF RUSSIAN
INFORMATION OPERATIONS
Uku Arold
For an academic researcher it is not an easy task to define the information
influence activities of the current Putin regime in a parsimonious way. Some
of the obstacles are similar to the challenges that NATO and its nations face
in adapting foreign policy, the military, and intelligence organisations in
today’s era of globalised information. Other obstacles are uniquely Russian,
derived from aspects of a worldview and codes of conduct dating back to
Soviet Socialist and even to Czarist times, or spring from the peculiarities of
a regnant regime. In this introductory article overview of the phenomenon
of Russian information operations, the reasoning for a taxonomy referring
to NATO terminology is provided in order to help readers categorise the
findings of the following study papers in this volume. Methodological and
empirical considerations specific for research on this partly amorphous
subject area are discussed as well.
What are information operations?
Patrick D. Allen has highlighted the five most popular misconceptions of our
own information operations in Western understanding.1 In the light of these
insights I provide an overview of the activities that are carried out under the
umbrella term ’information operations’.
1. IO Is Not Just Slowing Down an Enemy’s “OODA Loop”
Allen explains: While slowing the enemy’s OODA loop is one way to use
IO, there are other ways to use IO that don’t delay the enemy’s OODA
loop, or that make the enemy’s OODA loop irrelevant to the friendly
objective. For example, if the friendly side has successfully convinced
the enemy that a friendly deception plan is the real plan, then the friendly
1 Allen, P. D. 2007. Information Operations Planning. Boston, London: Artech House, pp.
14–18. [Allen 2007]
Sõjateadlane (Estonian Journal of Military Studies), Volume 2, 2016, pp. 13–41 www.ksk.edu.ee/publikatsioonid
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The U.S. has repeatedly stated that Russia has mind control research, technology and weapons based on athermal effects of EMR. But contrary to logic, the U.S. position was that there are no provable athermal effects from EMR, according the U.S. scientists. (See DIA report and Project Pandora below).
Overall, the U.S. position is that there was no U.S. research, technology or weapons based on athermal EMR effects. Up to the 1990s, the U.S. government has stated that RF weapons are "too sensitive to discuss'(CNN1985) and that "Soviet mind control information" is classified, (1997 CIA/NSA foia letter). With the break up of the Soviet Union, the Pentagon unveiled the nonlethal weapons program, including weapons based on athermal EMR effects, (U.S. News, 1997).
The evidence of Russian mind control weapons is substantial in quality and quantity. Each independent source verifies almost every other source. Although there is a definite limit to the Russian mind control technology discussed and the articles all state basically the same thing, it is revealing. For example, only with the breakup of the Soviet Union, did Russia make the decision to share Smirnov's acoustic psychocorrection mind control computer programs with the FBI during consultations concerning Koresh, in order "to improve U.S/Russian relations", (Defense News, 1993).
The break up of the Soviet Union has been a unique opportunity to gather declassified evidence of a very large, very black Russian mind control program. The facts show that the U.S. was aware of the Russian program for decades. It is improbable that there will be another comparable opportunity to pierce the veil of secrecy.
U.S. victims can use this very powerful information as a group and approach Congress, human rights groups The Russian evidence validates the claims made by victims of U.S. government mind control experiments. U.S. and Russian victims can now combine their claims which date back to the 1950s and make a strong case.
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4136176
—This paper provides a brief overview of unconven-
tional research in the USSR and Russia from the end of 19th
to the beginning of 21st centuries in areas of weak biophysical
interactions, electromagnetic fields of biological organisms and
psycho-biophysical mechanisms of the brain. The review is based
on scientific and journalistic materials published in the open press.
Originality of instrumental research related to generation and de-
tection of biologically-active non-ionizing emissions is emphasized.
The history of its emergence from the USSR’s state programs on
new physical fields, biophysics and early quantum communication
is shown
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http://web.archive.org/web/20230417004027/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_harassment
Electronic harassment, electromagnetic torture, or psychotronic torture is a conspiracy of malicious actors (often government agents or crime rings) make use of electromagnetic radiation (such as the microwave auditory effect), radar, and surveillance techniques to transmit sounds and thoughts into people's heads, affect people's bodies, and harass people. Individuals who claim to experience this call themselves "targeted individuals" (TIs). Some claim they are victims of gang stalking and many have created or joined support and advocacy groups.
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http://web.archive.org/web/20230417003619/http://www.ipcs.org/comm_select.php?articleNo=322
Psychotronic Terrorism: Digital hacking of the human brain
Maj Gen. Yashwant Deva highlights sinister aspects of digital warfare
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Audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSO6RoKPozs
by
Lieutenant Colonel Timothy L. Thomas (LTC retired) is an analyst at the Foreign Military Studies Office at Fon Leavenworth, Kansas
for 27 years
He is currently an assistant editor at the journal European Security.
Recently he has written extensively on the Russian view of information operations and on current Russian military-political issues.
Served in the 82d Airborne Division,
Department Head of Soviet Military-Political Affairs at the US Army’s Russian Institute in Garmisch, Germany.
(Director of Soviet Studies at the United States Army Russian Institute (USARI))
Analyst for the MITRE Corporation
(It manages federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) supporting U.S. government agencies in the aviation, defense, healthcare, homeland security, and cybersecurity fields, among others)
(headquarter campuses in Bedford and McLean, MITRE has more than 60 other locations throughout the United States and around the world)
(2008, MITRE was presented with the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service for "significant contributions in communications, command and control decision-making, intelligence, cyberspace, and warfighter field support, as well as research and development".)
(Mitre Corp. runs some of the U.S. government's most hush-hush science and tech labs. The cloak-and-dagger R&D shop might just be the most important organization you've never heard of. https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/07/13/inside-americas-secretive-2-billion-research-hub-collecting-fingerprints-from-facebook-hacking-smartwatches-and-fighting-covid-19/?sh=72835c8c2052 )
Cyber Silhouettes: Shadows Over Information Operations
https://www.amazon.com/Cyber-Silhouettes-Shadows-Information-Operations/dp/B000IDBFXU
