Editing Active measures (section)

==== Promotion of guerrilla and terrorist organizations worldwide ====
{{further|Propaganda in the Soviet Union}}
Soviet secret services have been described as "the primary instructors of guerrillas worldwide".<ref name="Lunev">{{cite book |last=Lunev |first=Stanislav |author-link=Stanislav Lunev |date=1998 |title=Through the Eyes of the Enemy: The Autobiography of Stanislav Lunev |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Regnery Publishing, Inc |isbn=0-89526-390-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=http://lib.ru/WSUWOROW/intelligence_engl.txt |last=Suvorov |first=Viktor |author-link=Viktor Suvorov |date=1984 |title=Inside Soviet Military Intelligence |location=New York City |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=0-02-615510-9 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050830232410/http://lib.ru/WSUWOROW/intelligence_engl.txt |archive-date=2005-08-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=http://lib.ru/WSUWOROW/specnaz_engl.txt |last=Suvorov |first=Viktor |date=1987 |title=Spetsnaz: The Inside Story of the Soviet Special Forces |location=London, UK |publisher=Hamish Hamilton Ltd |isbn=0-241-11961-8 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050910035911/http://lib.ru/WSUWOROW/specnaz_engl.txt |archive-date=2005-09-10}}</ref> According to [[Ion Mihai Pacepa]], KGB General [[Aleksandr Sakharovsky]] once said: "In today's world, when nuclear arms have made military force obsolete, terrorism should become our main weapon."<ref name="Pacep2Duplicate">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2006/08/russian-footprints-ion-mihai-pacepa/ |title=Russian Footprints |first=Ion Mihai |last=Pacepa |date=August 24, 2006 |magazine=[[National Review]] |access-date=24 February 2023 |archive-date=13 February 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070213222243/http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjUzMGU4NTMyOTdkOTdmNTA1MWJlYjYyZDliODZkOGM= |url-status=live }}</ref> He also claimed that "Airplane hijacking is my own invention". In 1969 alone, 82 planes were hijacked worldwide by the KGB-financed [[Palestine Liberation Organization|PLO]].<ref name="Pacep2Duplicate" />

Lt. General [[Ion Mihai Pacepa]] stated that operation "SIG" ("[[Zionism|Zionist]] Governments"), devised in 1972, intended to turn the whole Islamic world against [[Israel]] and the [[United States]]. KGB Chairman [[Yuri Andropov]] allegedly explained to Pacepa that

<blockquote>a billion adversaries could inflict far greater damage on America than could a few millions. We needed to instill a [[Nazism|Nazi]]-style hatred for the [[Jews]] throughout the Islamic world, and to turn this weapon of the emotions into a terrorist bloodbath against [[Israel]] and its main supporter, the United States<ref name="Pacep2Duplicate" /></blockquote>