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MEMORANDUM

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Soviet Disinformation:

Allegations of US Misdeeds

1. Over the past two years we have witnessed continual Soviet charges about the international behavior of the United States that the Soviets know or have substantial reason to believe are patently false. These charges, which range from allegations of US involvement in assassinations of foreign political leaders to charges that the United States is responsible for major international outbreaks of disease, emerge through a variety of channels. Some are the direct product of their own media and are therefore easily identifiable as Soviet initiatives. The Soviets, however, also use clandestine means-for example, forgeries, rumor, and placement of disinformation in the foreign press--that are more difficult to trace conclusively to Moscow. Some examples of Soviet efforts to discredit the United States are described below in several major themes.

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US Involvement in Assassinations. Moscow often attempts to implicaten he United States when an international figure dies violently. (b)(3)

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Immediately after Olof Palme was assassinated in February, TASS reported that Palme had been under surveillance by the CIA for many years. This implication of US complicity in the murder was followed by a similar report in Izvestiya and in Georgiy Arbatov's eulogy to Palme. By suggesting that the pattern of Palme's murder was similar to that of Indira Gandhi, the Soviet reports resurfaced old charges of US complicity in the assassination of Indira Gandhi and other political leaders. US embassies in Spain, India, and Uruguay, as

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In the initial report of Palme's death on 1 March, the TASS analyst also referred to the death last year of Samantha Smith. Another TASS article on the same day described an alleged FBI assessment that Smith was a menace to national security. (b)(3)

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GI M 86-20081 28 March 1986

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