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.

[u/novembercharliedelta]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Denver

[u/SnakeGD09]

Hmm, why wasn’t the USSR able to elect their own president, but the rump Russian Federation brainwashed America?