For decades, an arm of the KGB known as “Service A” promoted “active measures” campaigns that spread dezinformatsiya, or disinformation, designed to exacerbate American political and racial divisions and discredit the United States around the world. In the 1960s, the Soviets funded the publication of books by Western authors that blamed the CIA and FBI for the assassination of John F. Kennedy. They sent letters to the editors of American newspapers alleging that J. Edgar Hoover was a gay transvestite trying to secretly create a “network of like-minded homosexuals.” After Martin Luther King Jr.
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