US Cranking Up the Information War with Russia

VOA gets new funding to pierce Putin’s electronic curtain

In the late spring of 1953, a CIA officer aptly named Coffin learned that four agents he’d dispatched into Russia had been caught by security forces that seemed to know they were coming. In fact, the CIA man and his Berlin-based colleagues had lost virtually all the agents parachuted or otherwise slipped into the Soviet Union or its satellites to organi…