Radio War Nerd, EP #51—"The Spike" & Reagan's "Russian Disinformation" Panic (Patreon)

"Red Scare!", Russian Disinformation Panic & "The Spike"

First — Chelsea pressure cooker bombing + suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami (show recorded Sept 19 morning) . . . US-backed Syrian FSA rebels chase US Special Forces out of Al-Rai . . . US-UK bombs Syrian Army, helping Islamic State . . . Michael Weiss' atrocious writing, paranoid Abbas conspiracy theory . . . 

At 1:02:30 — The US Russia panic, "Red Scare" according to CNN, reminds of early Reagan era Cold War panic about Russian plot to use disinformation to paralyze and dominate the West . . . The history of Robert Moss, a CIA propagandist who wrote The Spike and popularized the same "Russian disinformation war" conspiracy that's back in vogue today . . .  

Total time: 2:57:08

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