How prevalent were American disinformation campaigns during the Cold War?
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Disinformation was (and still is) done day to day in political discourses and posturing. Consider two examples, courtesy of Chomsky:
Democracy has a dictionary meaning, that revolves around the people running the place. In practice, it's actually about businesses running the place.
Peace process similarly has a dictionary meaning, which is about anything that leads towards peace. In practice, it's whatever the US happens to be advocating at a particular moment. You won't find, in western media, any instance of the US being opposed to the peace process.
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As far as I know, solid evidence of programs dedicated specifically to dissemination of false information in Soviet Union and Soviet-aligned countries is rare. As an example, there's this piece by Reuters regarding CIA false news campaigns.
But there is quite a bit of evidence on COINTELPRO operations conducted by FBI against targets (not only communist activists and organisations, but also many other groups and persons deemed subversive, for example, the New Left movement and Ku-Klux-Klan) within the USA, which, amongst other methods, employed forgery and leaking fake accounts to the media. These operations were brought to light during the Church Committee investigation (the committee's final report). The FBI claims that it no longer undertakes COINTELPRO or COINTELPRO-like operations, although apparently that claim was challenged several times since (no information on any evidence presented, though).
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