One hundred years ago today, on January 11, 1923, Cheka Deputy Chairman Joseph Stanislavovich Unschlicht proposed the creation of a special disinformation bureau to carry out active foreign intelligence. Later, with the approval of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, this special body was formed.
The Disinformation Agency first carried out a central mission by publishing in Pravda and Izvestia that Poland was preparing to attack Germany. After the news was issued, it backfired, and it was false and true, so that the Soviet Union finally believed this fake news and affected its own propaganda work.
Later, the focus of the Disinformation Bureau shifted to foreign media. The most successful case of the Disinformation Agency is creating a "germ warfare." During the Korean War, the Disinformation Agency claimed that Americans had infected North Korean soldiers on a large scale with insects carrying the virus, which led to an outcry in Western public opinion, and Western leftist media criticized the US military. Make the US imperialism burnt out. Tired of coping.
In 1961, for some reason, the Special Directorate for Disinformation ceased to work.
