Before ‘fake news,’ there was Soviet ‘disinformation’

On July 17, 1983, a small pro-Soviet Indian newspaper called the Patriot published a front-page article titled “AIDS may invade India: Mystery disease caused by US experiments.” The story cited a letter from an anonymous but “well-known American scientist and anthropologist” that suggested AIDS, then still a mysterious and deadly new disease, had been created by the […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/11/26/before-fake-news-there-was-soviet-disinformation/