The Mitrokhin archive : the KGB and the world : Andrew, Christopher M : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 2 v. : 25 cm

If you want to understand today’s info war, study the Cold War.

We’re not in a new fight.
We’re still living in the ruins of the old one — just with faster tools.

All threads tagged: #DisinfoArchaeology

Series source: archive.org/details/...

Done digging. For now.

This series traced 6 disinformation ops — each one designed to manipulate, divide, or discredit.

Each case shows how Cold War tactics still echo in today’s media landscape.

Here’s what we dug up:

#DisinfoArchaeology

Here’s what we uncovered in the Mitrokhin Files — and why it still matters.👇

#DisinfoArchaeology

The Mitrokhin archive : the KGB and the world : Andrew, Christopher M : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 2 v. : 25 cm

Next:
🧵 Final Recap Thread — All 6 Case Studies, Tag Index, and What We’ve Learned

#KGBPlaybook #DisinfoArchaeology

📖 Mitrokhin Archive archive.org/details/...

Here’s how the KGB built the largest disinfo operation in Cold War history.

#KGBPlaybook #DisinfoArchaeology

Next up:
🧵 Thread 6 – Department A: Inside the KGB’s Global Disinformation Machine

#TargetedHarassment #DisinfoArchaeology

This is how they tried to break them.

#TargetedHarassment #DisinfoArchaeology

Next up:
🧵 Thread 5 – Discredit and Destroy: How the KGB Targeted Dissidents With Smears and Psy-Ops

#OperationKULBIT #DisinfoArchaeology

Here’s how it worked.

#OperationKULBIT #DisinfoArchaeology

Next up:
🧵 Thread 4 – Operation KULBIT: How a Forged CIA Leaflet Expelled U.S. Diplomats from Africa

#ReaganDisinfoOps #DisinfoArchaeology

Here’s what happened👇

#ReaganDisinfoOps #DisinfoArchaeology

Next up:
🧵 Thread 3 – Reagan Means War: The KGB's Failed Plan to Swing a U.S. Election

#ChildHarvestHoax #DisinfoArchaeology

And it worked.👇

#ChildHarvestHoax #DisinfoArchaeology

Next up:
🧵 Thread 2 – The Child Harvest Hoax: How the KGB Planted a Global Moral Panic

#OperationINFEKTION #DisinfoArchaeology

This is how that lie went global👇

#OperationINFEKTION #DisinfoArchaeology

#DisinfoArchaeology
#ActiveMeasures

🧵👇

We’ll use this hashtag throughout:
🔖 #DisinfoArchaeology

Each thread will tell the full story of one KGB operation — what they did, how they did it, and what still echoes today.

Thread 1 drops next:
🧬 The AIDS-as-a-bioweapon hoax
#DisinfoArchaeology

🧵 They told the world AIDS was made by the CIA.

They claimed Western doctors were harvesting children’s organs.
They tried to convince Africa the U.S. was plotting coups.

All lies — from one source: the KGB.

Let’s dig up what they buried👇

#DisinfoArchaeology