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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ODaferio on 2024-09-28 22:05:51+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Operation Denver was an active measure disinformation campaign run by the KGB in the 1980s to plant the idea that the United States had invented HIV/AIDS as part of a biological weapons research project at Fort Detrick, Maryland.