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by injb 1962 days ago
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.
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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.

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
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.

I was talking about the document that's the subject of the post.
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.

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.
All pages are bound on the left?
glad to see someone else other than me reacted to this obvious bullshit.