Dear Elizabeth, what I’m referring to is the vigorous re-application of Sun Tzu’s strategies and tactics to Soviet counterintelligence operations that occurred in 1959 when the Kremlin, realizing that the USSR and the Warsaw Pact couldn’t defeat the U.S. and NATO militarily, decided to get us to defeat ourselves by setting up top-secret Department D in the First Chief Directorate (today’s SVR) and Department 14 in the Second Chief Directorate (today’s FSB) to carry out disinformation, “active measures,” and “Inside man / Outside man” strategic deception counterintelligence operations against the CIA, the FBI, and the intelligence services of our NATO allies. — Tom
It gives me a vision of a band wearing boots doing "stomp" dance moves.
"House of mirrors."
Longer than 60 years.
Dear Elizabeth, what I’m referring to is the vigorous re-application of Sun Tzu’s strategies and tactics to Soviet counterintelligence operations that occurred in 1959 when the Kremlin, realizing that the USSR and the Warsaw Pact couldn’t defeat the U.S. and NATO militarily, decided to get us to defeat ourselves by setting up top-secret Department D in the First Chief Directorate (today’s SVR) and Department 14 in the Second Chief Directorate (today’s FSB) to carry out disinformation, “active measures,” and “Inside man / Outside man” strategic deception counterintelligence operations against the CIA, the FBI, and the intelligence services of our NATO allies. — Tom