Atomic Express

The ideological academic debate and popular cultural distortions over the role of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Cold War interfere severely with young scholars or other interested parties’ attempts to move towards any level of unbiased understanding. This is no real surprise given the state of academia today in the West. As for pop culture, it is easy to dismiss such distortions as crass attempts to make money from entertainment. As Ralph Peters pointed out in one of his books, however, pop culture can have unintended effects: he cites a trip he took after the collapse of the Soviet Union: One of the ‘Stans’ airlines used American slasher movies as their in-flight entertainment. The first contact with ‘America’ for the Uzbeks and Turkmens on that flight was “Friday the 13th Part XXV.”

But I digress. One of the serious after effects of Cold War-era disinformation is that it may have seriously compromised our attempts to understand legitimate phenomena: UFOs and AIDS/HIV are two examples where things of socio-cultural impart have been interfered with. In one case, CIA did not discourage 1950′s UFO reporting and analysis knowing full well that some of the “sightings” were “objects” like the U-2 aircraft. The Soviets, on the other hand, deliberately manipulated public debate in the West over things as diverse as the Kennedy Assassination and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. We now have a generation of young people that seriously believes that an agency of the US Government killed its own President, that NASA never went to the Moon, and that AIDS was concocted in a US Army lab as a biological weapon. Hordes of  ”theorists” (I won’t even call them ‘conspiracy theorists’ because they wouldn’t know what a real conspiracy was even if it rendered them to GITMO) with unlimited access to the internet continue to promulgate the insane products of a long-dead malignant department of the KGB. Consider other areas that might have been infected…..

Note that none of the “theorists” ever address Soviet disinformation as a possible source of their particular “theory.” Why is that, exactly? Hmmmm….

I have attached a document you may find interesting. Of course you may wish to discredit it because of where it comes from, but for those of you interested in taking a fresh look at things, it will be thought provoking. I promise.

The article is by Thomas Boghart. It is entitled “Operation INFEKTION”. Its source: CIA’s “Studies in Intelligence” journal.

For further amusement, here is the 1992 USIA report on  Soviet Disinfo. And here is another interesting study of disinfo ops against Ukranians…and the manufacturing of Nazi war criminals to keep the West distracted while East Germany used THEIR Nazi war criminals against West Germany.

Enjoy.

Then there are the KGB’s UFOs….