The Soviets’ Fort Detrick-HIV/AIDS propaganda campaign ran from 1983 until 1989, according to the Journal of Cold War Studies.
Army’s Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, according to the Wilson Center. During the 1980s, the Soviet Union spread rumors that HIV/AIDS was genetically engineered or created during biological weapons research at the U.S. and Europe before China, according to FireEye.įort Detrick has long been a target of foreign adversaries’ propaganda. Posts in Spanish also identified Fort Detrick and linked to articles claiming that the virus appeared in the U.S. The disinformation campaign used Russian-language posts to claim that Fort Detrick was the source of the virus. The pro- China influence campaign also sought to shift blame for COVID-19’s origin from China to the U.S., specifically to the national bio-defense lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Yan gained attention last year by telling Fox News’ Tucker Carlson that the virus was created by China and intentionally spread to cause damage. Some posts urged Asian Americans to participate in an April 24 protest in New York City to push back against Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon, exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui and Li-Meng Yan, a Chinese virologist who says COVID-19 was made in a Chinese government lab. FireEye observed thousands of posts in April that called for Asian Americans to protest perceived racial injustices.
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