In January 1998, CNN interviewed retired KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin, who described the role of “subversion” in Soviet intelligence: The heart and soul of the Soviet intelligence [was] not intelligence collection, but subversion: Active measures to weaken the West, to drive wedges in the Western community alliances of all sorts, particularly NATO, to sow discord among allies, to weaken the United States in the eyes of the people of Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and thus to prepare ground in case the war really occurs. To make America more vulnerable to the anger and distrust of other
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