The Sisson Documents and their ‘distinguished place’ in the history of disinformation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21502189 |
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| Authors | John Maxwell Hamilton (Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author), Christina Georgacopoulos |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 881-897 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-19 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Intelligence & National Security (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-4527 • E-ISSN: 1743-9019 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02684527.2021.1946953 |
| OpenAlex | W3180570234 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Russian interference in American politics appears today in sophisticated forms thanks to technology, but disinformation is not a new phenomenon. The influence of foreign disinformation on domestic policy has antecedents in the First World War, when the American government distributed fabricated documents supplied by anti-Communist revolutionaries to make false claims about a German-Bolshevik conspiracy. The so-called Sisson Documents strengthened a narrative the Wilson administration created that the Bolsheviks were German stooges who, with German support and direction, took Russia out of the war and promoted unrest in the United States. The Wilson administration sold the German-Bolshevik conspiracy through a pro-war, patriotic American press, whose pages were laced with talk of pervasive German conspiracies
Art · Communism · Disinformation · German · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Social media · Sociology · History · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
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