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Human Rights Counteroffensive. Long sensitive to Western criticism of its human rights record, Moscow has recently intensified its efforts to denigrate the performance of the West on this issue.

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The Soviets this year issued a series of charges --based on a book published by Novosti--claiming that the CIA instigated the 1978 Jones town massacre in order to prevent cult members from emigrating to the Soviet Union. Since the allegation was first publicized in the 30 January edition of Izvestia, it has been replayed in the proSoviet Indian press and in the Communist press of Uruguay and East Germany. Moreover, the Novosti book has been reviewed in the Finnish and Danish press, thereby adding credibility to the story.

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The publicity given in Soviet Bloc media and in Soviet disinformation outlets over seas, leads us to believe that Moscow is behind a recent campaign alleging US trafficking in Central American children for the purpose of using them in organ transplant operations. This campaign appears to have considerable momentum: Since the beginning of the year, these charges have appeared not only in Soviet, Cuban, Nicaraguan and Yugoslav media, but also in the press of the Dominican Republic, France, Guatemala, Honduras and India.

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In an effort to exploit the apartheid issue, the USSR is continuing to push allegations--begun in the early 1980s -- that the United States and South Africa are conducting research on a so-called ethnic weapon--a biological weapon designed to kill people selectively on the basis of

Radio Moscow again charged in February, for example, that the ethnic bornould kill blacks but "leave out the white race."

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Targeting the US Military. The Soviets also have an aggressive disinformation program targeting the US military presence overseas.

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In our view, a central element of this effort is Moscow's worldwide campaign, begun in October 1985, charging that AIDS is the result of US biological warfare experiments. During the past several months the USSR has repeatedly used the AIDS story as a means of heightening opposition to US military bases, troops, and port access rights around the globe:

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