Too Good.

Omg 😆 😎 pic.twitter.com/UmNtBaU0gZ

— Red Trumper 🗽🎺🎺🎺🗽 (@Redhead4645) April 28, 2026

On the other hand, a lot of Cuban spies and agents of influence, like Ana Belen Montes, were or are completely out of the closet and present easy pickings for US counterintelligence.

(Except when they're being protected, as John Clapper protected Montes when he ran DIA.)

— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) April 29, 2026

This is a nice hint at BIOLOGICAL heritage. America is the racial child of Europe. https://t.co/p8CU97iVh0

— Jared Taylor (@RealJarTaylor) April 29, 2026

Fluoride and aluminum work hand in hand. Do you think the promoters of fluoride didn't realize it makes the body absorb excess aluminum?

Here's a past substack I wrote on fluoride: https://t.co/dFfzeqkkFG

As you all know, I am a big proponent of daily detox with zeolite spray.… pic.twitter.com/ayBFxJdrkL

— Dr Sherri Tenpenny (@BusyDrT) April 28, 2026

Russian Active Measures are not just propaganda.

The model explained here is:
Map emotional vulnerabilities, exploit existing divisions, push through agents/proxies/influencers/cyber channels, then layer false flags and conflicting narratives to hide the hand.

The effect is… pic.twitter.com/W7GOMytUYx

— Restitutor (@Restitutor_) April 28, 2026

Paul Hollingsworth, PhD, President, AFIO, Former Senior CIA Officer in Analysis and Operations.

As I was reading the chapter on active measures I kept thinking while your book is about the United States, and you're writing for an American audience about operations being done against American interests, but the book is that particular chapter couldn't be talked about in Poland, Polish Parliamentary lectures of 2023 the upcoming elections in Hungary on April 12th in which the Russians are actively using the same Playbook we've seen to try to use all tools that they have to as you say support their foreign policy through tradecraft.  So those are very prescient chapters for things that are happening parallel to the United States today so well done the one thing actually reading the book I thought having spent two years at the NSC I thought the thing I had the hardest time explaining to policy makers was the concept you developed at length in your chapter on Maskirovka, that is the Russian use of denial and deception in operations. And foreign policy is an extension of that and most Americans want to take at face value the stuff that they see or the stuff that they hear from Russian allocutors.  And they play on that both tactically and strategically so I wonder if you would talk just a little bit about how Maskirovka  works, particularly for active measures.  I mean, how do they hide their hand?  It can be whether a strategic or can be tactical.  Pick a couple of examples either out of the book or something you thought about and just talk about Maskirovka, denial and deception, which Americans, you know, we don't practice offensively. Americans don't tend to know about it.  

Sean Wiswesser, Former Senior CIA Operations Officer and Chief of Station, author of Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin's Secret War, 2026.