By Dan Boylan and Guy Taylor, The Washington Times: “Debate rages in Washington over the true scale and impact of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, but intelligence sources say Moscow’s hacking, fake news and social media manipulation ignited a global trend that now threatens some of the world’s most fragile democracies.”
The KGB Playbook for Infiltrating the Middle East
By Michael Weiss, The Daily Beast: “ ... the KGB’s own self-criticism after its failings in the Middle East—a situation that Putin, in recent years, has set out to rectify with a vengeance.”