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littlemissmartypants

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Sun Jul 5, 2026, 12:17 PM 6 hrs ago

Active Measures, Full film



Runtime: 01:50:41
Active Measures, 2018: Putin, Trump, Ukraine, Georgia

Active Measures is a 2018 documentary film by director Jack Bryan.[2] The documentary centered on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, and looks at the many suspicious links between Trump associates and Russian officials. Additional topics covered included the life of Vladimir Putin, social media manipulation broadly, and the Cambridge Analytica scandal.[3][4]

The film suggests that Vladimir Putin is behind a 30-year history of covert political warfare.[5] Soviet and Russian security services (Cheka, OGPU, NKVD, KGB, FSB) use the term "active measures" (Russian: активные мероприятия ) for the actions of political warfare to influence the course of world events, in addition to collecting intelligence and producing "politically correct" assessment of it.[6]

Director Jack Bryan is the son of Shelby Bryan. Born in New York City, he spent his early childhood at an Upper East Side, Park Avenue townhouse, but the majority of his childhood moving around the United States and Europe. Bryan attended Eugene Lang College within The New School as an undergraduate.[5] Bryan was hired as a columnist for Quest,[7] and became an Editor at Large. Bryan directed the documentary Life After Dark: The Story of Siberia Bar, released in 2009.[8] Jack and Shelby Bryan lived in the same social circles of real-estate, Palm Beach, and the Upper East Side as Donald Trump.[5][9]

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On August 6, 2018, on CNN, Bryan said that Trump had sold five Trump Tower condos to a Russian mobster named David Bogatin in 1984.[11][12] BBC Newsnight reported on Donald Trump's business links to the mob in March 2016.[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Measures_(film)

Active measures (Russian: активные мероприятия, romanized: aktivnye meropriyatiya, designated "executive action" by the U.S. Government[1]) is a term used to describe political warfare conducted by the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. The term, which dates back to the 1920s, includes operations such as espionage, propaganda, sabotage, assassination, and the collection of kompromat for blackmail purposes based on the foreign policy objectives of the Soviet and Russian governments.[2][3][4] Active measures have continued to be used by the administration of Vladimir Putin.[5][6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_measures



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Active Measures, Full film (Original Post) littlemissmartypants 6 hrs ago OP
Thanks for posting! Bookmarking for rainy day viewing. jmbar2 6 hrs ago #1
THANK YOU!!! I was thinking about it yesterday. Bookmarking. niyad 6 hrs ago #2
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