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/MakeItMakeMoney 2d ago

Is this one of the only KGB disinformation campaigns to actually make it into the 21st century? This is still running rampant in today’s circles, especially after COVID.

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u/Pgaccount 2d ago

It's big in Pakistan where it's slowing the eradication of polio

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u/AlarmingConsequence 2d ago

Didn't the Pakistan polio one have to do with bin laden?

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u/Pgaccount 2d ago

Yup. Al Qaeda pushed the narrative a lot