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Czech daily citing Izvestiya, to vilify the CIA for criminal actions and violations of human rights.

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The Peace Corps is the target of renewed Soviet charges that it is a "hornet's nest of espionage, a center of financial and political intrigues, and a center for drug traffic." According to a 2 March 1986 TASS report, the Peace Corps' duty is to conduct subversion against (b)(3) governments not to the liking of the United States.

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US Responsibility for Catastrophic Events.

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story to imply US culpability in a human tragedy.

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In 1984 TASS and Moscow New Times reported that the United States conducted a de foliation operation in Brazil that resulted in the death of "whole tribes of Indians." This repo(b)(3jubsequently appeared throughout Africa and

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The notorious Soviet propagandist, Iona Andronov, writing in the Soviet magazine Literaturnaya Gazeta in 1984, proved "conclusively" that the CIA was responsible for a 1981 denna fever epidemic in Cuba that killed over 100 people.

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Citing a report by President Daniel Ortega, Moscow New Times in October 1985 suggested that an epidemic of dengue fever and cotton disease in Nicaragua could have been the weapons.

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Although the initial charge of US responsibility for causing the AIDS epidemic was attributed to an Indian newspaper, the real impetus for a recent worldwide antiUS AIDS campaign was an article in Literaturnaya Gazeta published in October 1985. Drawing on years-old stories of biological weapons tests, the story focused on the contemporary crisis and appeared in Kuwait Bahrain, Finland, Sweden, Peru, and elsewhere.

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TASS, on 26 December 1985, presumably citing a Japanese source, charged that the 248 US peace-keeping troops killed in a plane crash before Christmas were returning to the finited States from a secret "forward strike

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On 30 January 1986 TASS cited the shutt.le "Challenger" disaster as a warning of the danger of pursuing the Strategic Defense Initiative. (b)(3)

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