Information operations of Western Intelligence Services in Serbia in October 2000

Abstract

The so-called 'colour revolutions' or 'democratic national revolutions' represent the planned coups, which are, instead of the armed forces, executed for such purpose by mobilized and manipulated by information operations civilian population. Actually, in the background of 'colour revolutions' there are subversive actions of foreign intelligence services that instruct wide social layers to execute 'coups' with the assistance of many 'portable belts and mechanisms', that is some national media, political parties and non-governmental organizations, covertly, according to technology planned in a great detail and thus they perform 'dirty work' of ousting its regime for the needs and interests of foreign governments. This case study identifies the most striking characteristics of application of information operations of intelligence services by the example of the events in former Yugoslavia in 2000. During this period activities of Western intelligence services in Serbia were conducted by non-governmental organizations and influential agents using national and foreign media.

Keywords

• psychological warfare
• propaganda
• information operations
• colour revolutions
• media
• intelligence services