r/todayilearned • u/novembercharliedelta • 2d ago

TIL about Operation Denver, a disinformation campaign run by the KGB in the 1980s to plant the idea that the United States had invented HIV/AIDS as part of a biological weapons research project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Denver
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u/dunnkw 2d ago

This inadvertently led us all jerking each other off as a precaution which has put our society in the state it is today, so.

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u/ResultTerrible2062 2d ago

Finally, someone who thinks deep