Intelligence assessment shows Russian support for left wing groups in the US

Power Line:

While failing utterly to provide evidence (let alone persuasive evidence) that Russia intruded into the DNC’s email system, today’s intelligence report is not without interest. The most notable sections of the report are those that tie Russia’s government to a series of left-wing propaganda campaigns in the U.S. No member of the Occupy movement, for instance, can read the report without squirming. If true, it vindicates what we conservatives have been saying for decades, going back to the unilateral disarmament and nuclear freeze movements of the 1950s through 1980s.

For example:

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union used intelligence officers, influence agents, forgeries, and press placements to disparage candidates perceived as hostile to the Kremlin, according to a former KGB archivist.

Like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. It would have been useful to have the information supporting this conclusion several decades ago, when Democrats ridiculed suggestions that the Kremlin was behind various left-wing movements in the Free World. It would be interesting to see what our intelligence agencies know about Soviet efforts to influence the elections of 1968, 1980 and 1984.

The Russians haven’t stopped trying since the presumed end of the Cold War:

Russia, like its Soviet predecessor, has a history of conducting covert influence campaigns focused on US presidential elections that have used intelligence officers and agents and press placements to disparage candidates perceived as hostile to the Kremlin.

Like, how about 2012, when Mitt Romney said that Russia was our number one geopolitical rival, and Barack Obama responded that the 1980s want their foreign policy back? ...
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Remember the anti-Diebold campaign from the Democrats in 2012? That propaganda effort may have been inspired, and was supported, if today’s report is credible, by Russia’s government.
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This is the kind of thing conservatives were disparaged for saying for several decades. Now let’s get specific. Occupy Wall Street was, evidently, a Russian front operation:

RT aired a documentary about the Occupy Wall Street movement on 1, 2, and
 4 November. RT framed the movement as a fight against “the ruling class” and described the current US political system as corrupt and dominated by corporations. RT advertising for the documentary featured Occupy movement calls to “take back” the government. The documentary claimed that the US system cannot be changed democratically, but only through “revolution.”

Putin’s government also took concrete steps to help advance the Occupy movement:

RT created a Facebook app to connect Occupy Wall Street protesters via social media. In addition, RT featured its own hosts in Occupy rallies.

Russia’s support for Occupy Wall Street was consistent with the left-wing tenor of its efforts to influence politics in the U.S....
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I do not expect to see this part of the report highlighted above the fold in the liberal media.  But it does give conservatives some ammunition the next liberal trolls start some bogus movement opposed to policies Russia will support.