Is Russia trying to trump the Clinton campaign?

There is a long history of ‘disinformation’ between Russia and the US. This presidential campaign, heavily affected by WikiLeaks, is laden down with it, writes David Wise

DURING the Cold War, the Soviet KGB coined the term “desinformatsiya”, or disinformation, which the CIA defined as “false, incomplete, or misleading information” fed to various targets. Both the Soviet Union and US engaged in the same game, though the Russians played it far more vigorously.

In the digital age, the players might not have to go to the trouble of altering information, or mixing true information with false. Simply hacking into sensitive emails or other data, even when the information is true, can have the same impact as disinformation.