From the Vaults 2017 - Larry Martin Bittman Remembered

Kremlin-financed media outlet RT (formerly Russia Today) is little more than a propaganda machine controlled by Russian intelligence agencies. yet...Anyone shocked by the Kremlin-funded news station RT in all of this probably never heard of Voice of America, a U.S. government-funded news service that broadcast the American response to Soviet propaganda during the Cold War. 

The Ruse seem quite able actors in this field - The US seems a ready audience.

This stuff is taking me back to college days. I took a class on World Press at BU led by Larry Martin - actually Lawrence Martin-Bittman, a former Czech Intelligence Agent - who had a unique view on "News".

Martin-Bittman later wrote a memoir The KGB and Soviet Disinformation. There he wrote "Deception is a relatively easy game, particularly against anyone willing to be deceived."

One of Martin-Bittman's acts as part of Czech intelligence was to forge a letter from Cardinal Spellman to a W,German Anti-Communist leader, then disclosing it was a forgery, I guess doing no more than sowing doubt. 

His 1964 operation planted forged incriminating papers in a trunk which was then sunk Bohemia's Black Lake - then cued Czech TV to find while filming a documentary. The papers had some W German pol as a WW II Nazi, but not truely.

What Larry taught me was the newspapers of the rest of the world explicitly reflected partisan political camps. They were voices for Left or Right parties. That they critiqued US media as veiled propaganda played into the analysis that I and my friends had been developing.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/dni-putin-led-cyberattack-propaganda-effort-to-elect-trump-denigrate-clinton/