Russian intelligence is operating a systematic program to launder proKremlin propaganda according to newly declassified US intelligence . US intelligence agencies believe that the Russian Federal Security Service FSB is attempting to influence public policy and public opinion in the West by directing Russian civilians to build relationships with influential US and Western individuals and then disseminate narratives that support Kremlin objectives obscuring the FSBs role . The campaigns have sometimes been effective at planting Russian narratives in the Western press according to the intelligence . In one instance a Russian media figure named Anton Tsvetkov organized protests outside of embassies in Moscow including the US Embassy . The protests pushed Russias narrative of the war in Ukraine promoting the Ukrainian Nazi narrative and blaming the U.S. and its allies for the deaths of children in the Donbass while hiding the Russian governments . The official declined to say whether Russia has used these same tactics to try to influence US elections. The FSB does use similar tactics to influence political opinion within Russia according to The intelligence. The official declines to offer specifics to back up the intelligence communitys assertions that the FSN is funding this kind of operation but noted that once officials were able establish FSB’s assertions it is easy to trace the narratives they are pushing in opensource materials. In fact the official said. It is not really difficult to offer specific specifics of the intelligence. It declined to give specifics to provide specifics to Back up the specifics that the intelligence in this type of operation. The U.N. has reached out for comment. The US official. was not to comment. to ask for comment . The American official declined. The American. official. has declined to provide. to back away from this kind to back down to back back away to Back Back Back
Newly declassified US intel claims Russia is laundering propaganda through unwitting Westerners . Newly declass
