Active Measures Author:David Drake, Janet Morris Publisher's Note — In 1999, the Soviets have made one of their own agents president of the U.S.A. and only one man and one woman can save the nation, and readers can win 10,000 dollars by providing correct answers to seven key questions. — Active Measures were a form of political warfare conducted by the Soviet security services (Cheka, OGPU, NKVD... more », KGB, and SVR) to influence the course of world events, "in addition to collecting intelligence and producing politically correct assessment of it".[1] Active measures ranged "from media manipulations to special actions involving various degree of violence". They were used both abroad and domestically. They included disinformation, propaganda, counterfeiting official documents, assassinations, and political repression, such as penetration of churches, and persecution of political dissidents« less