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Re:KGB Manual: Training the Operative for Psychological Infl... by injb on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:16AM (#26037187)
Look again at the document. Notice how it looks like a scanned document from decades ago, but the lines are all dead straight? Try searching for text..it's actually a font! The apparent imperfections in the letters is fake.
Re:KGB Manual: Training the Operative for Psychological Infl... by dogma1138 on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:22AM (#26037261)
No, it’s a translation of the actual manual here it is in Russian

https://www.4freerussia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/...

Yes you can select the letters but that’s only because of the OCR that is built into your pdf reader.

Re:KGB Manual: Training the Operative for Psychological Infl... by injb on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:27AM (#26037325)
I don't think it's OCR. The imperfections in each letter are identical in every single instance. It's very clear if you zoom in
Re:KGB Manual: Training the Operative for Psychological Infl... by dogma1138 on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:50AM (#26037571)
It is OCR inspect the pdf yourself the defects are also not identical at all...

https://imgur.com/a/QnfBRas

It’s a relatively clean scan and good quality print.

It can ofc be fake but you are going down some rabbit hole for the wrong reasons.

Re:KGB Manual: Training the Operative for Psychological Infl... by injb on Friday February 05, 2021 @11:45AM (#26038236)
I was talking about the document that's the subject of the post.
Re:KGB Manual: Training the Operative for Psychological Infl... by dogma1138 on Friday February 05, 2021 @02:03PM (#26039944)
That’s a translation of the Russian document, the KGB aren’t going to write their documents in English.

It’s literally says translated by....

This is the translator https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_A._Fitzpatrick

She used to run Radio Free Europe.

Re:KGB Manual: Training the Operative for Psychological Infl... by injb on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:10PM (#26040617)
I'm not sure what your point is. We all know it's a translation. I merely pointed out that it has been artificially made to look like it was scanned or photocopied, when in fact that is a special font that fakes the appearance of imperfections. You contradicted that, so I just responded to prove it.
Re:KGB Manual: Training the Operative for Psychological Infl... by dogma1138 on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:26PM (#26040762)
That doesn’t makes it fake... it’s just a typewriter font.
Re:KGB Manual: Training the Operative for Psychological Infl... by yorwba on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:42AM (#26037507)
All pages are bound on the left?
Re:KGB Manual: Training the Operative for Psychological Infl... by mr_woozy on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:58PM (#26039191)
glad to see someone else other than me reacted to this obvious bullshit.