There has been much debate in recent years about the role of the East German Ministry for State Security (Stasi) in the disinformation campaign launched in the early 1980s by the Soviet State Security Committee (KGB) regarding the origin and nature of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The KGB's operation, codenamed “Denver” by the Stasi (not “Infektion,” as many online sources now erroneously assert), claimed that AIDS was deliberately devised by U.S. biological warfare specialists for the U.S. government to spread in minority communities in the United States. Based on the available evidence, the Stasi's role in the AIDS disinformation campaign was limited in 1985–1986 to (1) keeping watch over Soviet-East German scientist Jakob Segal, who propagated a variant of the KGB's thesis; (2) helping to arrange for the publication and distribution of a brochure with Segal's thesis at the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Harare in 1986; and (3) facilitating Segal's interviews with certain journalists. Just as important for the ongoing formulation and spread of the KGB's AIDS disinformation was a cycle of misinformation and disinformation that arose between U.S.-based conspiracy theorists—especially Lyndon LaRouche and his followers—and authors and publications espousing Moscow's preferred theses regarding AIDS.

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“丹佛”行动：东德国家安全部和克格勃的艾滋病虚假宣传运动，1985-1986（第 1 部分）

近年来，关于东德国家安全部 (Stasi) 在苏联国家安全委员会 (KGB) 于 1980 年代初期发起的关于获得性免疫缺陷综合症的起源和性质的虚假宣传运动中的作用引起了很多争论。 （艾滋病）。克格勃的行动由斯塔西代号为“丹佛”（而不是“感染”，正如许多在线消息来源现在错误断言的那样），声称艾滋病是美国生物战专家故意设计的，目的是让美国政府在美国的少数民族社区中传播. 根据现有证据，斯塔西在 1985 年至 1986 年间在艾滋病虚假宣传活动中的作用仅限于（1）监视苏联东德科学家雅各布·西格尔（Jakob Segal），他传播了克格勃论文的变体；(2) 在 1986 年在哈拉雷举行的不结盟运动首脑会议上帮助安排出版和分发载有西格尔论文的小册子；(3) 为西格尔对某些记者的采访提供便利。对于克格勃的艾滋病虚假信息的持续制定和传播同样重要的是美国的阴谋理论家——尤其是林登·拉鲁什及其追随者——与支持莫斯科关于艾滋病的首选论文的作者和出版物之间出现的错误信息和虚假信息循环。