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This is True Spies.

The Podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions of all time.

Week by week, you'll hear the true stories behind the operations that have shaped the world we live in.

You'll meet the people who live life under cover.

What do they know? What are their skills? And what would you do in their position?

I'm Riana Neads and this is True Spies from Spies Scape Studios.

The ideology and the so-called motivations that you had before, which is building a socialist utopia or a socialist prison,

that ideology has been stripped away, and all you have is kind of the pulsating emotional core of the desire to humiliate.

I think we have to understand the magnitude of the challenge.

Disinformation Warfare Part 1, the Troll Farm. St. Petersburg, 450 miles northwest of Moscow, 2015. A concrete building sits unassumingly at a quiet intersection.

It looks like any other office, but its windows are blocked by heavy drapes.

There's no sign on the door and there's an unusual number of security cameras.

On the second floor, a journalist sits unnoticed at her desk.

She was one of the first journalists to really not just talk about this place because people had heard of it but actually would tell us how it worked.

There are plenty of rumors about what goes on inside this building.

Every floor is full of computers crammed into narrow rows,

which are manned around the clock.

The workers hours are closely monitored.

Smoking breaks are regulated. Those who work there call it the Internet Research Agency.

The journalist's name is lead Miller Sabchok.

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