it doesn't seem to take much to get patriots stirred up i wonder how many of the current conspiracy theories going around are started by foreign disinformation campaigns like these: KGB operations revealed in the files Blackmailing Tom Driberg (code-named Lepage), British MP and a member of the Executive Committee of the Labour Party in the 1950s. Driberg had spied on the Communist Party for MI5 in the 1930s. In 1956, while visiting Moscow to interview his old friend Guy Burgess for a biography, he was blackmailed by the KGB into removing references to Burgess's alcoholism, due to their having photos of him in a homosexual encounter. Attempts to incite racial hatred in the U.S. by mailing forged hate letters to militant groups. Bugging MI6 stations in the Middle East. Bugging Henry Kissinger when he was serving as United States Secretary of State. Obtaining documents from defence contractors including Boeing, Fairchild, General Dynamics, IBM and Lockheed Corporation, providing the Soviets with detailed information about the Trident and Peacekeeper ballistic missiles and Tomahawk cruise missiles. Supporting the Sandinista movement. The leading role in this operation belonged to the General Intelligence Directorate of Communist Cuba. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitrokhin_Archive#Disinformation_campaign_against_the_United_States Disinformation campaign against the United States Andrew described the following active measures by the KGB against the United States: Promotion of false John F. Kennedy assassination theories, using writer Mark Lane. Lane denied this allegation and called it "an outright lie". Forged letter from Lee Harvey Oswald to E. Howard Hunt, attempting to incriminate Hunt in the Kennedy assassination. Discrediting the CIA using the ex-CIA case officer and defector Philip Agee. Spreading rumors that the FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was a homosexual. Attempts to discredit Martin Luther King, Jr. by placing publications portraying him as an "Uncle Tom" who was secretly receiving government subsidies. Stirring up racial tensions in the United States by mailing bogus letters from the Ku Klux Klan, by placing an explosive package in "the Negro section of New York" (operation PANDORA), and by spreading conspiracy theories that Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination had been planned by the US government. Fabrication of the story that the AIDS virus was manufactured by US scientists at the US Army research station at Fort Detrick. The story was spread by Russian-born biologist Jakob Segal.
