The Center for Countering Disinformation at the NSDC of Ukraine continues to talk about interesting historical analogies in the “Disinformation: cases” category.
russia, as a successor to the soviet union, inherited not only the mentality but also the methods of conducting disinformation campaigns, which it now uses to accuse the United States and Ukraine of creating biological laboratories and viruses.
Operation Infection was a disinformation campaign organized by the kgb in the 1980s, the main goal of which was to accuse the United States of creating the HIV virus by genetic engineers at Fort Detrick, with the subsequent dissemination of this “information” in left-of-center publications around the world.
As a result, thousands of people believed this lie, and the soviet union was free to develop its own biological weapons.
Even after the director of the russian foreign intelligence service, primakov, admitted that it was the ussr that was behind the dissemination of this disinformation, there are still those in the world who believe in the artificial origin of the HIV/AIDS virus.
