![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/im-an-ex-kgb-sleeper-agent-i-know-the-most-dangerous-weapon-in-putins-spy-arsenal-it-could-cause-chaos-for-the-west/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/newspress-collage-23679403-1693231060103.jpg&description=spy hard I'm an ex-KGB sleeper agent… I know the most dangerous weapon in Putin's spy arsenal & it could cause chaos for the West THE "most dangerous" weapon in Vladimir Putin's arsenal could cause chaos for the West, a former KGB spy has warned. Jack Barsky, an infamous sleeper agent who spied on the US for ten years during the Cold War, explained how spreading misinformation and propaganda can be the strongest asset of Russian spycraft. 4 A sleeper agent explained how deepfakes can be Putin's 'most dangerous' weapon Credit: Alamy 4 Former KGB spy Jack Barsky said Russians are very good at posting fake news online Credit: Alamy Barsky told The Sun that Putin has the upper hand in the information war when it comes to fabricating "deepfakes" . These are sophisticated hoaxes in which artificial intelligence is used for generating fake images or videos. "What the Russians are really very good at is placing falsehoods on the internet, often via the use of deepfakes, but this is not sexy enough to write about," Barsky said. The technique has been used as early as three weeks after Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. At a time where the world feared Kyiv would fall soon, a video of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky surfaced online, where he was seen addressing his soldiers from behind a podium with the Ukrainian state emblem. Wearing his signature green attire, Zelensky would ask his fighters to lay down their weapons and go back to their families, saying: "There is no need to die in this war. I advise you to live." The one-minute clip was massively circulated on social media and briefly ran on Ukrainian television, suggesting that not only had the country's leader fled from Kyiv but the war was coming to an end. The deepfake was later debunked and removed from social media, with Zelensky dismissing the "desperate" move as a "childish provocation", WION News reported. A separate misinformation incident featured the story of a Russian church being set on){kind=link}
THE “most dangerous” weapon in Vladimir Putin’s arsenal could cause chaos for the West, a former KGB spy has warned.
Jack Barsky, an infamous sleeper agent who spied on the US for ten years during the Cold War, explained how spreading misinformation and propaganda can be the strongest asset of Russian spycraft.
Barsky told The Sun that Putin has the upper hand in the information war when it comes to fabricating “deepfakes” .
These are sophisticated hoaxes in which artificial intelligence is used for generating fake images or videos.
“What the Russians are really very good at is placing falsehoods on the internet, often via the use of deepfakes, but this is not sexy enough to write about,” Barsky said.