The C I a and Cold War Influence Operations

Russian officials have tended to explain an astonishing array of historical events with elaborate c i a conspiracies. In the 19 eighties, the k g b ran a disinformation campaign in which they tried to plant the idea that the aids of iris had been invented by the c i a. After the malasian airlines flight m h eventeen crashed in 20 14, killing 298 people, russian officials claimed the c ia shot it down. Earlier this year, not long after the corona virus broke out, a troll army of thousands of russia bots suddenly initiated a coordinated campaign to suggest Russia created the virus as a way to wage war on china.