Active measures

Attempts to discredit the , using writer Philip Agee (codenamed PONT), who exposed the identities of many CIA personnel. Mitrokhin alleges that Agee's bulletin CovertAction received assistance from the Soviet KGB and Cuban DGI^[41]

Stirring up racial tensions in the United States by mailing bogus letters from the , placing an explosive package in "the Negro section of New York" (Operation PANDORA)^[42]

Planting claims that both and Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated by the CIA^{[43][44][45][46]}

In the Middle East in 1975, the KGB claimed to identify 45 statesmen from around the world who had been the victims of successful or unsuccessful CIA assassination attempts over the past decade

Make US military aid to the government (increased more than fivefold by the Reagan administration between 1981 and 1984) so unpopular within the United States that public opinion would demand that it be halted. About 150 committees were created in the United States which spoke out against US interference in El Salvador, and contacts were made with US Senators^[45]

Starting rumors that fluoridated drinking water was in fact a plot by the US government to maintain population control

Fabrication of the story that the was manufactured by US scientists at Fort Detrick; the story was spread by Russian-born biologist Jakob Segal.^[47] In a secondary role to the KGB during the operation, former East German spymaster Markus Wolf admitted, during a visit to Italy in 1998, the role of the HVA in spreading AIDS conspiracy theories^[48]

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