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The power of disinformation is that it’s so readily believed

15 August 2020

9:00 AM

15 August 2020

9:00 AM

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare Thomas Rid

Profile, pp.528, 25

On 27 November 1960 African and Indian diplomats visiting the UN in New York opened their mail to find a leaflet from the Ku Klux Clan:

A foul stench spreads out from the East River and hangs over New York like a pall — the greasy sweat of the Black Races and the Yellow Races of Asia which have invaded the United Nations.

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