Active Measures and Influence Operations

Creating Chaos for Opportunity

Last week Stars of David were spray painted on buildings in Paris to identify Jewish homes and businesses. Immediately comparisons were made to Nazi-era historical images preceding the Holocaust. This incident amidst anti-Israel protests and rising antisemitism further polarized French society, raising the temperature of civil unrest and adding to the chaos of the moment. In an under-reported story you likely missed, two Moldovan citizens were detained and interrogated which resulted in the confession they were in fact paid agents of the Russian intelligence services directed to deface buildings in France. This is a classic Russian active measure operation.