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US Diplomatic Meddling. Soviet disinformation campaigns often allege us interference in the internal affairs of Third world countries and often blame the United States for_positical developments that are inimical to Soviet interests.

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An August 1985 TASS article, citing Izvestiya, charged the 'Department of Dirty Tricks' of the CIA with giving the Prime Minister of Liberia, Samuel Doe, $250,000 to make him discontinue diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. The report accused the United States of exploiting Liberia's domestic problems and blaming the Soviet Union for them. This article appeared in a Finnish Communist newspaper shortly after the break in SovietLiberian diplomatic relations.

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For years the Soviets have accused South Africa of developing a biological "ethnic" weapon that would kill only blacks. A recent Novosti Press Agency article, citing a Senegalese source, reported that the United States was also involved in "ethnic" weapons research with the South Africans.

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Last November, in a brief Radio Moscow report (in Greek), a Soviet observer reported that the partitioning of Cyprus was caused by the United States and other Western imperialists.

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to seize Cyprus increased noticeably in recent weeks.

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Citing unnamed sources, Pravda inferred on 24 February that the anti-Marcos coun

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In mid-December 1985, articles alleging US-Israeli intentions to attack PLO bases appeared in Middle Eastern and European newspapers.

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