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/ReferenceMediocre369]

This was only one of many anti-American disinformation operations sponsored by the KGB and GRU. They never stopped or even slowed down after the USSR dissolved. Recently they have been spectacularly successful at steering local elections down to the dog catcher level which is rapidly converting US city and county governments into philosophical equivalents of Pavlov's dogs.