• Moe Factz with Adam Curry for September 5th 2022, Episode number 86 - "Pox Luck"

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  • Operation INFEKTION - Wikipedia
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    • Operation INFEKTION 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[2][3] as part of a biological weapons research project at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Historian Thomas Boghardt popularized the codename "INFEKTION" based on the claims of former East German Ministry for State Security (Stasi) officer G¼nter Bohnsack [de] , who claimed that the Stasi codename for the campaign was either "INFEKTION" or perhaps also "VORWRTS II" ("FORWARD II").[2] However, historians Christopher Nehring and Douglas Selvage found in the former Stasi and Bulgarian State Security archives materials that prove the actual Stasi codename for the AIDS disinformation campaign was Operation DENVER.[4][5] The operation involved "an extraordinary amount of effort '-- funding radio programs, courting journalists, distributing would-be scientific studies", according to journalist Joshua Yaffa, and even became the subject of a report by Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News.[6]
    • The Soviet Union used the campaign to undermine the United States' credibility, foster anti-Americanism, isolate America abroad, and create tensions between host countries and the U.S. over the presence of American military bases (which were often portrayed as the cause of AIDS outbreaks in local populations).[7] Another reason the Soviet Union "promoted the AIDS disinformation may have been its attempt to distract international attention away from its own offensive biological warfare program, which [was monitored] for decades".[2]
    • Story genesis and progression [ edit ] The groundwork appeared in the pro-Soviet Indian newspaper Patriot which, according to a KGB defector named Ilya Dzerkvelov, was set up by the KGB in 1962 for the sheer purpose of publishing disinformation.[7] An anonymous letter was sent to the editor in July 1983 from a "well-known American scientist and anthropologist" who claimed that AIDS was manufactured at Fort Detrick by genetic engineers. The "scientist" claimed that "that deadly mysterious disease was believed to be the results of the Pentagon's experiments to develop new and dangerous biological weapons", and implicated Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientists sent to Africa and Latin America to find dangerous viruses alien to Asia and Europe. These results were purportedly analyzed in Atlanta and Fort Detrick and thus the "most likely course of events" leading to the development of AIDS. The letter claimed that the Pentagon was continuing such experiments in neighboring Pakistan and as a result, the AIDS virus was threatening to spread to India. The title of the article, "AIDS may invade India", suggested that the immediate goal of the KGB's disinformation was to exacerbate relations between the U.S., India, and Pakistan.[7][8]
    • Two years later, the KGB apparently decided to make use of its earlier disinformation to launch an international campaign to discredit the U.S. They wrote in a telegram to their allied secret service in Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Committee for State Security (KDS) on September 7, 1985:
    • We are conducting a series of [active] measures in connection with the appearance in recent years in the USA of a new and dangerous disease, "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome '' AIDS"'..., and its subsequent, large-scale spread to other countries, including those in Western Europe. The goal of these measures is to create a favorable opinion for us abroad that this disease is the result of secret experiments with a new type of biological weapon by the secret services of the USA and the Pentagon that spun out of control.[4][9]
    • The telegram, which referred indirectly back to the Patriot article ("facts ... in the press of the developing countries, in particular India"), provided guidance to Bulgarian State Security regarding how to couch their AIDS disinformation:
    • Facts have already been cited in the press of the developing countries, in particular India, that testify to the involvement of the special services of the United States and the Pentagon in the appearance and rapid spread of the AIDS disease in the United States, as well as other countries. Judging by these reports, along with the interest shown by the U.S. military in the symptoms of AIDS and the rate and geography of its spread, the most likely assumption is that this most dangerous disease is the result of yet another Pentagon experiment with a new type of biological weapon. This is confirmed by the fact that the disease affected initially only certain groups of people: homosexuals, drug addicts, immigrants from Latin America.[9]
    • A month later, the Soviet newspaper Literaturnaya Gazeta, also a known outlet for KGB disinformation,[10] published an article from Valentin Zapevalov entitled, "Panic in the West, or what is hiding behind the sensation surrounding AIDS". It cited the (dis)information contained in the Patriot article,[11] but also gave further details regarding the alleged development of the AIDS virus. Employees of the CDC had allegedly assisted the Pentagon by traveling to Zaire, Nigeria and Latin America to collect samples of the "most pathogenic viruses" that could not be found in Europe or Asia. These samples were then combined to develop the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS. The disinformation campaign insisted the Pentagon then carried out isolated experiments in Haiti and within the U.S. itself on marginalized groups in U.S. society: drug addicts, homosexuals, and the homeless.[12] Zapevalov's article was subsequently reprinted in Kuwait, Bahrain, Finland, Sweden, Peru, and other countries.[13] It followed very closely the guidelines that the KGB had already sent to its Bulgarian "comrades" a month before.[9]
    • Stasi involvement in the disinformation campaign [ edit ] Determining the exact role of the Stasi in the AIDS disinformation campaign has been difficult, given that around 90% of the records of its foreign intelligence division, the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (HVA) were destroyed[14] or disappeared[15] in 1989''90. Based on materials in the Bulgarian secret police archives, the card files of the HVA, and documents from or relating to the HVA scattered among the records of other divisions of the Stasi, it has been possible to reconstruct some aspects of the Stasi's involvement in the disinformation campaign. At the beginning of September 1986, the tenth division of the HVA (HVA/X), responsible for organizing and coordinating the HVA's campaigns of active measures, wrote the following in a draft plan for cooperation with Bulgarian State Security:
    • Operation "DENVER". With the goal of exposing the dangers to mankind arising from the research, production, and use of biological weapons, and also in order to strengthen anti-American sentiments in the world and to spark domestic political controversies in the USA, the GDR [German Democratic Republic] side will deliver a scientific study and other materials that prove that AIDS originated in the USA, not in Africa, and that AIDS is a product of the USA's bioweapons research.[4][16]
    • The KGB confirmed that the East German HVA was playing a central role on various occasions, including in a telegram to the Bulgarians in 1987:
    • The AIDS issue
    • A complex of [active] measures regarding this issue has been carried out since 1985 in cooperation with the [East] German and to some extent the Czech colleagues. In the initial stage, the task was resolved of spreading in the mass media the version regarding the artificial origin of the AIDS virus and the Pentagon's involvement in by means of the military-biological laboratory at Fort Detrick.
    • As a result of our joint efforts, it was possible to widely disseminate this version.[4][17]
    • The Segal Report [ edit ] As noted above, the Stasi's HVA/X had written that it would send its Bulgarian "comrades" a "scientific study" allegedly "proving" that "AIDS is a product of the USA's bioweapons research".[4][16] From the context of the discussions between officers of the HVA/X and their Bulgarian counterparts in mid-September 1986, it was clear which study was meant: "AIDS: Its Nature and Origin" by Soviet-East German biologist Jakob Segal and his wife, Dr. Lilli Segal. The study had been distributed at the summit meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement in August''September 1986 in a brochure entitled, "AIDS: USA home-made evil, NOT out of AFRICA".[4] The report was quoted heavily by Soviet propagandists, and the Segals were often said to be French researchers to hide their connections to communism. Although both Segals, given the double danger to them as Jews and members of the Communist Party of Germany, had fled into exile in France in 1933, both had attained Soviet citizenship in 1940 on the basis of Jakob's birth in (then Soviet-annexed) Lithuania, and in 1953, they had returned to Germany'--specifically, to communist East Berlin.[18]
    • In his report, Segal postulated that the AIDS virus was synthesized by combining parts of two distantly related retroviruses: VISNA and HTLV-1.[7] An excerpt of the Segal Report reads as follows:
    • It is very easy using genetic technologies to unite two parts of completely independent viruses'... but who would be interested in doing this? The military, of course'... In 1977 a special top security lab'... was set up'...at the Pentagon's central biological laboratory. One year after that'... the first cases of AIDS occurred in the US, in New York City. How it occurred precisely at this moment and how the virus managed to get out of the secret, hush-hush laboratory is quite easy to understand. Everyone knows that prisoners are used for military experiments in the U.S. They are promised their freedom if they come out of the experiment alive.[7]
    • Elsewhere in the report, Segal said that his hypothesis was based purely on assumptions, extrapolations, and hearsay and not at all on direct scientific evidence.[7]
    • The exact relationship of both Segals to the KGB, Stasi, or both at this time'--to the extent that it existed'--remains unclear. Both publicly denied any involvement of the KGB or Stasi in their work. The Deputy Director of HVA/X, Wolfgang Mutz, hinted that the HVA had played a role in the publication'--or actually, the photocopying'--and distribution of the Harare brochure in talks with Bulgarian State Security in September 1986.[4] He also suggested that the "operational division" of the HVA with which HVA/X had been cooperating in the disinformation campaign had somehow "attracted" Segal to his research.
    • This "operational division" was in fact an office in the Sector for Science and Technology (Sektor Wissenschaft und Technik, SWT) of the HVA, responsible for intelligence-gathering on AIDS and genetic engineering (HVA/SWT/XIII/5). This office had registered a "security dossier" (Sicherungsvorgang, SVG) "Wind" on September 6, 1985, regarding the protection of East German scientists in the areas of AIDS research, genetic engineering and biotechnology from outside "attacks" in the form of espionage or manipulation by foreign agents. This office in HVA/SWT apparently registered both Segals in this dossier as "contact persons" under the codename "Diagnosis"; whenever other divisions of the Stasi inquired about the Segals, they were directed to this office. HVA/SWT'--or "the security", as Jakob Segal called them'--gave him at least one piece of advice regarding his study before its printing and distribution. Whether Segal listened to this advice remains unclear. Still, given their official designation as "contact persons", they need not have known, at least officially, that they were dealing with the Stasi, although Jakob Segal likely knew or could have guessed, given his past dealings with both the Stasi and the KGB. It is quite possible that HVA/SWT was already coordinating with the KGB regarding Segal's research'--even without his knowledge'--in the second half of 1985, at the time that "Wind" was registered. Nevertheless, none of the Stasi officers involved with "Wind" or Operation "DENVER" ever claimed that the HVA had played a role in drafting Segal's study. It was clearly his own work, in cooperation with his wife Lilli, although he knew and expected that it would be used for "propaganda".
    • Whatever exact relationship the Segals may or may not have had to the Soviet or East German security services, the KGB praised Segal's work in its 1987 telegram to Bulgarian State Security. His articles and brochures, the KGB wrote, had attained "great renown". This was especially the case in African countries, where governments and researchers were rejecting as racist assertions by U.S. researchers that AIDS had originated naturally in Africa, where it had spread from monkeys to humans.[17] The KGB wrote the Bulgarians:
    • We are currently resolving the task of bringing the [active] measures down to a more practical level, and in particular, to attain specific political results by exploiting the "laboratory version" for AM [active measures] on other issues. So, efforts are being made to intensify anti-base sentiments in countries where American forces are deployed by using slogans suggesting that U.S. soldiers are the most dangerous carriers of the virus. By demonstrating the defeat of the "African version" [of AIDS' origins], we can whip up anti-American sentiments throughout the states of the continent.[17]
    • Dissemination methods [ edit ] The AIDS story exploded across the world, and was repeated by Soviet newspapers, magazines, wire services, radio broadcasts, and television. It appeared 40 times in Soviet media in 1987 alone. It received coverage in over 80 countries in more than 30 languages,[7] primarily in leftist and communist media publications, and was found in countries as widespread as Bolivia, Grenada, Pakistan, New Zealand, Nigeria, and Malta. A few versions made their way into non-communist press in Indonesia and the Philippines.[7]
    • Dissemination was usually along a recognized pattern: propaganda and disinformation would first appear in a country outside of the USSR and only then be picked up by a Soviet news agency, which attributed it to others' investigative journalism. That the story came from a foreign source (not widely known to be Soviet controlled or influenced) added credibility to the allegations, especially in impoverished and less educated countries which generally could not afford access to Western news satellite feeds. To aid in media placement, Soviet propaganda was provided free of charge, and many stories came with cash benefits.[7] This was particularly the case in India and Ghana, where the Soviet Union maintained a large propaganda and disinformation apparatus for covert media placement.[7]
    • Soviet narrative [ edit ] To explain how AIDS outbreaks in Africa occurred simultaneously, the Moscow World Service announced a discovery by Soviet correspondent Aleksandr Zhukov, who claimed that in the early 1970s, a Pentagon-controlled West German lab in Zaire "succeeded in modifying the non-lethal Green Monkey virus into the deadly AIDS virus". Radio Moscow also claimed that instead of testing a cholera vaccine, American scientists were actually infecting unwitting Zairians, thus spreading AIDS throughout the continent. These scientists were unaware of the long period before symptom onset, and resumed experimentation on convicts upon return to the U.S., where it then spread when the prisoners escaped.[7]
    • Claims that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had sent "AIDS-oiled condoms" to other countries sprang up independently in the African press, well after the disinformation operation started.[2] In 1987, a book (Once Again About the CIA) was published by the Novosti Press Agency, with the quote:
    • The CIA Directorate of Science and Technology is continuously modernizing its inventory of pathogenic preparations, bacteria and viruses and studying their effect on man in various parts of the world. To this end, the CIA uses American medical centers in foreign countries. A case in point was the Pakistani Medical Research Center in Lahore'... set up in 1962 allegedly for combating malaria.
    • The resulting public backlash eventually closed down the legitimate medical research centre. Soviet allegations declared the purpose of these research projects, to include that of AIDS, was to "enlarge the war arsenal".[7]
    • Worldwide response to AIDS allegations [ edit ] Deception, Disinformation, and Strategic Communications,
    • [23] cover illustrating propaganda from Operation INFEKTION
    • Ironically, many Soviet scientists were soliciting help from American researchers to help address the Soviet Union's burgeoning AIDS problem, while stressing the virus' natural origins. The U.S. refused to help as long as the disinformation campaign continued.[7] The Segal Report and the plenitude of press articles were dismissed by both Western and Soviet virologists as nonsense.[7]
    • Dr. Meinrad Koch, a West Berlin AIDS expert, stated in 1987 that the Segal Report was "utter nonsense" and called it an "evil pseudo-scientific political concoction". Other scientists also pointed out flaws and inaccuracies in the Segal Report, including Dr. Viktor Zhdanov of the D. I. Ivanovsky Institute of Virology [ru] in Moscow, who was the top Soviet AIDS expert at the time. The president of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences clearly stated that he believed the virus to be of natural origin. Other scientists and doctors from Paris, East and West Berlin, India, and Belgium called the AIDS rumors lies, scientifically unfounded, and otherwise impossible to seriously consider.[7] Although Segal himself never said "this is fact" and was very careful to maintain this line throughout his report, "such technical qualifiers do not diminish the impact of the charges, however, because when they are replayed, such qualifiers are typically either omitted or overlooked by readers or listeners".[7]
    • U.S. Embassy officials wrote dozens of letters to various newspaper editors and journalists, and held meetings and press conferences to clarify matters. Many of their efforts resulted in newspapers printing retractions and apologies.[7] Rebuttals appeared in reports to Congress and from the State Department saying that it was impossible at the time to build a virus as complex as AIDS; medical research had only gotten so far as to clone simple viruses. Antibodies were found decades earlier than the reported research started, and the main academic source used for the story (Segal Report) contained inaccuracies about even such basic things as American geography'--Segal said that outbreaks appeared in New York City because it was the closest big city to Fort Detrick. Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. are all closer, while New York is 200 miles (320 km) away.[7]
    • The Gorbachev administration also responded indignantly and launched a defensive denial campaign "aimed at limiting the damage done to its credibility by U.S. efforts to raise world consciousness concerning the scope of Soviet disinformation activities".[7] The Soviet Union interfered with general attempts by U.S. Embassy officials to address misconceptions and expose the Soviet disinformation campaign, including placing pressure on news agencies that recanted their position. For example, Literaturnaya Gazeta on December 3, 1986, castigated a Brazilian newspaper which earlier in the year had run a retraction following its publication of the AIDS disinformation story. In 1987, Moscow's Novosti news agency disseminated a report datelined Brazzaville (Congo), calling on the West to put an end to the "anti-African campaign", and reiterating "the charges that the virus was created in U.S. military laboratories" while in 1986 Literaturnaya Gazeta warned specifically against contact with Americans.[7]
    • In 1988, Sovetskaya Rossiya put out an article defending their right to report different views. The chief of Novosti stated that it drew upon foreign sources for much of the AIDS coverage, and that the press was free under glasnost.[7]
    • The Mitrokhin Archive reveals that:
    • Faced with American protests and the denunciation of the story by the international scientific community, however, Gorbachev and his advisers were clearly concerned that exposure of Soviet disinformation might damage the new Soviet image in the West. In August 1987 US officials were told in Moscow that the Aids story was officially disowned. Soviet press coverage of the story came to an almost complete halt.[24]
    • The campaign faded from most Soviet media outlets, but it occasionally resurfaced abroad in Third World countries as late as 1988, usually via press placement agents.[7]
    • Aftermath [ edit ] In 1992, 15% of Americans considered it definitely or probably true that "the AIDS virus was created deliberately in a government laboratory".[2] In 2005, a study by the RAND Corporation and Oregon State University revealed that nearly 50% of African Americans thought AIDS was man-made, over 25% believed AIDS was a product of a government laboratory, 12% believed it was created and spread by the CIA, and 15% believed that AIDS was a form of genocide against black people.[2] Other AIDS conspiracy theories have abounded, and have been discredited by the mainstream scientific community.
    • In popular culture, the Kanye West song "Heard 'Em Say" tells listeners, "I know that the government administer AIDS". In South Africa, the former president, Thabo Mbeki cited the operation's theory of Fort Detrick in denying the science of HIV.[6][3]
    • In 1992, Director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Yevgeny Primakov admitted that the KGB was behind the newspaper articles claiming that AIDS was created by the U.S. government.[1] Segal's role was exposed by KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin in the Mitrokhin Archive. Jack Koehler's 1999 book, Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police, describes how the Stasi cooperated with the KGB to spread the story.[25][page needed ]
    • Insofar as the distrust in medical authorities created by the operation led to a distrust in the treatment for AIDS recommended by medical science (journalist Joshua Yaffa notes that "numerous studies ... have shown that those who disbelieve the science on the origins of H.I.V. are less likely to engage in safe sex or to regularly take recommended medication if infected"),[6] the operation may have cost many lives. Yaffa argues that the delay in "widespread implementation of antiretroviral therapies in South Africa" may have cost "as many" as 330,000 lives.[6][3]
    • See also [ edit ] Operation PANDORAOperation Cedar (KGB)References [ edit ] ^ a b Kello, Lucas (2017). The Virtual Weapon and International Order. Yale University Press. p. 215. ISBN 978-0-300-22629-4. ^ a b c d e f Boghardt, Thomas (December 2009). "Soviet Bloc Intelligence and Its AIDS Disinformation Campaign (Operation INFEKTION)" (PDF) . Studies in Intelligence. 53 (4). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 24, 2010. ^ a b c Kramer, Mark (May 26, 2020). "Lessons From Operation "Denver," the KGB's Massive AIDS Disinformation Campaign". The MIT Press Reader . Retrieved September 21, 2020 . ^ a b c d e f g Selvage, Douglas; Nehring, Christopher (July 22, 2019). "Operation "Denver": KGB and Stasi Disinformation regarding AIDS". Wilson Center . Retrieved July 23, 2019 . ^ Selvage, Douglas (Fall 2019). "Operation "Denver": The East German Ministry of State Security and the KGB's AIDS Disinformation Campaign, 1985''1986 (Part 1)". Journal of Cold War Studies. 21 (4): 71''123. doi:10.1162/jcws_a_00907 . ^ a b c d Yaffa, Joshua (September 7, 2020). "Is Russian Meddling as Dangerous as We Think?". The New Yorker . Retrieved September 21, 2020 . ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Soviet Influence Activities: A Report on Active Measures and Propaganda, 1986''87 (PDF) (Report). United States Department of State. August 1987 . Retrieved September 1, 2021 '' via GlobalSecurity.org. ^ "AIDS may invade India". Patriot. July 17, 1983 . Retrieved July 23, 2019 '' via nyt.com. ^ a b c "KGB, Information Nr. 2955 [to Bulgarian State Security]". Wilson Center Digital Archive. September 7, 1985 . Retrieved July 23, 2019 . ^ Kalugin, Oleg (2009). Spymaster: My Thirty-Two Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West. Philadelphia: Basic Books. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-465-01445-3. ^ Qiu, Linda (December 12, 2017). "Fingerprints of Russian Disinformation: From AIDS to Fake News". The New York Times . Retrieved July 23, 2019 . ^ Zapevalov, Valentin (October 30, 1985). Паника на ЗаÐаде, иÐ>>и что скÑывается за сенсацией вокÑуÐ" AIDS [Panic in the West, or what is hiding behind the sensation surrounding AIDS]. Literaturnaya Gazeta (in Russian). No. 5058. p. 14 . Retrieved September 1, 2021 '' via nyt.com. ^ Chief, Foreign Subversion and Instability Center, Office of Global Issues, Directorate of Intelligence (March 28, 1986). "Soviet Disinformation: Allegations of US Misdeeds" (PDF) . Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room. Central Intelligence Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 23, 2017. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) ^ Knabe, Hubertus (1999). West-Arbeit des MfS. Das Zusammenspiel von "Aufkl¤rung" und "Abwehr" (in German). Berlin: Ch. Links. p. 133. ISBN 978-3-86153-182-1. ^ Cenckiewicz, Sławomir (2009). Śladami bezpieki i partii: Studia '' Źr"dła '' Publicystyka (in Polish). Łomianki: LTW. pp. 589''600. ISBN 978-83-7565-060-0. ^ a b "Division X of the Hauptverwaltung Aufkl¤rung (HVA/X) of the Ministry of State Security (MfS), 'Plan for Common and Coordinated Active Measures of the Intelligence Organs of the MOI of the PR Bulgaria and the MfS of the GDR for 1987 and 1988' ". Wilson Center Digital Archive. September 3, 1986 . Retrieved July 23, 2019 . ^ a b c "KGB, Information Nr. 2742 [to Bulgarian State Security]". Wilson Center Digital Archive. 1987 . Retrieved July 23, 2019 . ^ H¶xtermann, Ekkehard (2010). "Segal, Jakob". Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 24. pp. 159''160 . Retrieved July 23, 2019 . ^ Schoen, Fletcher; Lamb, Christopher J. (June 2012). Deception, Disinformation, and Strategic Communications: How One Interagency Group Made a Major Difference (PDF) . Strategic Perspectives. Vol. 11. Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press . Retrieved September 1, 2021 . ^ Andrew, Christopher; Mitrokhin, Vasili (2006). "Chapter 18 '' The Special Relationship with India. Part 2: The Decline and Fall of Congress". The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World: Newly Revealed Secrets from the Mitrokhin Archive. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-00313-6. ^ Koehler, John O. (1999). Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police. Westview Press. ISBN 978-0-8133-3409-7. Further reading [ edit ] Selvage, Douglas; Nehring, Christopher (2014). Die AIDS-Verschw¶rung. Das Ministerium f¼r Staatssicherheit und die AIDS-Desinformationskampagne des KGB (PDF) . BF informiert (in German). Vol. 33. Berlin: BStU. ISBN 978-3-942130-76-9. Taylor, Adam (November 26, 2016). "Before 'fake news,' there was Soviet 'disinformation' ". The Washington Post. Grimes, David Robert (June 14, 2017). "Russian fake news is not new: Soviet Aids propaganda cost countless lives". The Guardian. Researching Soviet/Russian Intelligence in America: Bibliography. Federal Depository Library Program."BBC launches huge new international anti-disinformation initiative". BBC Media Centre. November 9, 2018. Lutteroth, Johanna (June 22, 2012). "Aids-Verschw¶rung: Das Propaganda-Virus des KGB". Der Spiegel (in German). Singer, P. W.; Brooking, Emerson T. (2018). LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-1-328-69575-8. Waddell, Kaveh (December 15, 2016). "Does Russia's Election Hacking Signal a New Era in Espionage?". The Atlantic. Mikkelson, David (June 25, 2013). "FACT CHECK: AIDS Created by the CIA?". Snopes. External links [ edit ] Media related to Operation INFEKTION at Wikimedia Commons
    • Operation InfeKtion: How Russia Perfected the Art of War. The New York Times.
  • Black Hammer Party - Wikipedia
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    • Political party
    • The Black Hammer Party (formerly the Black Hammer Organization) is an American black separatist political organization founded in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2019, that advertises itself as a "symbol of hope for the colonized working class." They rose to prominence in the early 2020s amidst the George Floyd protests and their attempted creation of a cult compound in the Rocky Mountains named "Hammer City." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution described the organization as mixing "Black nationalist rhetoric and a revolutionary message with hot-button issues like anti-vaccine myths and election conspiracies." Commentators, including former leaders and members, have referred to the organization as a cult.[1][2][3] The group reportedly recruits among the homeless and LGBT populations.[4][5]
    • History [ edit ] The group was founded as the Black Hammer Organization in 2019 in Atlanta by "a handful of activists with backgrounds in radical Black separatist pro-segregation organizing." By 2020, membership increased significantly following the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing protests across the United States, with the organization amassing "hundreds" of members and chapters across the country. The group called for a black and Native American-led revolution and a separate homeland, as well as reparations from white "colonizers."[1] The Daily Beast described the group's rhetoric as both anti-white and antisemitic.[6]
    • One of the founding members, Gazi Kodzo (born Augustus Cornelius Romain Jr.), eventually rose as the organization's leader, which according to a founding member who defected, caused the group to go "from a vehicle of liberation to one of abuse and toxicity." Other former members have accused Kodzo of "overworking members in sweatshop conditions" and "[manipulating] members into breaking up with life partners and spouses."[1] Later allegations stated that Kodzo had infiltrated the Black Hammer Party and engaged in forced labor against party members.[5]
    • Kodzo is known for his controversial social media presence. On January 24, 2021, he released a video wearing Joker makeup and calling Holocaust victim Anne Frank a "bleach demon," a "colonizer," a "parasite", and a "Karen," and claiming that he was going to burn copies of her diary for warmth.[7][8][9] According to The Forward, the group's membership began to decline around early August 2021 due to "Kevin Rashid Johnson of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party [accusing] the organization of being an undercover right-wing group trying to sow division within leftist movements."[9]
    • The organization under Kodzo's leadership has also opposed vaccination for COVID-19, and on September 15, 2021, led a protest outside the Atlanta headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in support of rapper Nicki Minaj, who at the time claimed to not have been vaccinated.[10][11] In December of the same year, Kodzo also claimed to have formed an alliance with far-right organization Proud Boys, and hosted a podcast alongside Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes, claiming to be forming a "coalition to defeat the disgusting pedo-loving, welfare economy demoncrats [sic] and their puppet master, Big Pharma."[12][13] Kodzo began to distance himself from Black Lives Matter. He stated that this was "because of my stance on pedophilia and the fact that I started reading the Bible more."[13] The group has since supported the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[3]
    • Hammer City [ edit ] On May 3, 2021, the group announced that they had "liberated" 200 acres of land somewhere in Colorado, '' later revealed to be Beaver Pines, San Miguel County '' after raising over US$60,000 in donations (eventually reaching $112,000). Named the "Hammer City," they claimed through Facebook that the soil was "rich" and that "colonized people need their own land, their own space, their own modes of production [...]." However, on May 14, the group missed a deadline to sign the documents for acquiring the land, and on May 17, following reports of group members still squatting on the land while carrying firearms and wearing military gear, and after a brief armed standoff with a local man, the group was escorted out of the property by deputies of the San Miguel County police in the evening. The San Miguel County Sheriff later inspected the property, finding an unfinished footbridge over a drainage ditch, a real estate sign riddled with bullet holes, and 4-inch screws scattered on the road.[1][2]
    • Fayetteville police raid [ edit ] On July 19, 2022, police in Fayetteville, Georgia received an anonymous call from someone claiming to be held against their will in a home rented by the Black Hammer Party. A SWAT team was sent to search the home, where there were ten people inside. Nine walked out willingly, while an 18-year-old man identified as Amonte T. Ammons was killed by an apparent self-inflicted gunshot to the head.[14][15] The duration of the standoff was several hours, and the surrounding neighborhood received a shelter-in-place order.[16] Gazi Kodzo was arrested and charged with aggravated sodomy, conspiracy, false imprisonment, kidnapping, aggravated assault, and street gang activity. Another man, an associate of Kodzo named Xavier H. Rushin, was also arrested and charged with kidnapping, assault, and false imprisonment.[17][6] The group is under joint investigation by the FBI and local authorities. According to a local street gang investigator, the group had been under surveillance by police for months prior to the incident.[4][18][19]
    • Russian influence operation [ edit ] On July 29, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice made public information about alleged Russian influence operations involving collaboration with American political organizations. It did not name the groups directly. However, based on the released information, the Black Hammer Party (allegedly "U.S. Political Group 2" in the released document) was among the groups implicated in these activities, according to multiple media reports.[20][21][4] According to these reports, the Black Hammer Party had received funding from Russian citizen Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov, an individual with connections to the Russian government. This would have been used to fund the group's protest at the headquarters of Meta Platforms, Facebook's parent company, due to the latter's censorship of posts supporting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[20][21][19]
    • According to the released information, the implicated groups would have also received "direction or control over them on behalf of the FSB", through Ionov.[22][23] The Colorado Times Recorder (CTR) indicated that the Black Hammer Party was also linked to another group under investigation, the African People's Socialist Party, by way of Gazi Kodzo (referred to by the CTR as "August Romaine Jr.") who had been a key member in both organizations.[24]
    • ^ a b c d Joyner, Chris (April 15, 2022). "The radical rise and cultish fall of the Black Hammers". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. ISSN 1539-7459. Archived from the original on April 15, 2022 . Retrieved July 22, 2022 . ^ a b Stringer, Grant (February 8, 2022). "A Black separatist group's utopian dream for land near Telluride withered after an armed standoff". The Colorado Sun . Retrieved July 21, 2022 . ^ a b Thomas, WF (July 29, 2022). "Ex-Black Hammer members detail Gazi Kodzo's abusive 'cult,' which culminated in arrests for kidnapping and sexual assault". The Daily Dot . Retrieved July 30, 2022 . ^ a b c "Investigation with Florida ties focuses on separatist group Black Hammer". The Associated Press. The Tampa Bay Times. August 17, 2022 . Retrieved August 18, 2022 . ^ a b DiRienzo, Rob (July 22, 2022). " 'I could have been next': ex-members of extremist group on deadly hostage standoff in Fayetteville". WAGA-TV . Retrieved August 18, 2022 . ^ a b Sommer, Will (July 20, 2022). "Infamous 'Cult' Leader Arrested After Dead Body Found in Home". The Daily Beast . Retrieved July 22, 2022 . ^ Wu, Crystal (January 28, 2021). "Tweets calling Anne Frank, holocaust victims 'colonisers' spark disgust from NZ Jewish representative". Newshub . Retrieved July 22, 2022 . ^ Keene, Houston (May 5, 2021). "Communist group touts plans to burn Anne Frank's diary, calls her 'bleach demon' ". Fox News . Retrieved July 22, 2022 . ^ a b Fox, Mira (September 13, 2021). "How could anyone ever hate Anne Frank '-- why a fringe group declared war on the Holocaust's most famous victim". The Forward . Retrieved July 30, 2022 . ^ Fung, Katherine (September 15, 2021). "Fueled by Nicki Minaj's vaccine tweet, Atlanta protesters gather outside of CDC headquarters". Newsweek . Retrieved July 21, 2022 . ^ Asarch, Steven (September 16, 2021). "A viral Nicki-Minaj-themed anti-vaccine protest outside the CDC was led by a fringe political group called Black Hammer". Insider . Retrieved July 21, 2022 . ^ Goforth, Claire (December 14, 2021). "Black-led group claims it's formed a coalition with the Proud Boys'--that doesn't seem likely". The Daily Dot . Retrieved July 21, 2022 . ^ a b Fox, Mira (December 15, 2021). "Did the Proud Boys just embrace an antisemitic, anti-white group?". The Forward . Retrieved July 30, 2022 . ^ "Suspect arrested in Fayetteville SWAT standoff identified as leader of controversial 'cult' ". FOX5 Atlanta. July 21, 2022 . Retrieved July 21, 2022 . ^ Nunez, Gabriella (July 20, 2022). "2 men face kidnapping, aggravated assault charges following Fayetteville subdivision SWAT scene". 11 Alive . Retrieved July 22, 2022 . ^ Chheda, Manthan (July 26, 2022). "Who is Gadi Kodzo? Anti-White Cult Leader Arrested After Cops Find Dead Body at His Home". The International Business Times . Retrieved August 1, 2022 . ^ Burns, Asia Simone; Joyner, Chris; Prince, Chelsea; Hollis, Henri. "Atlanta fringe group linked to Fayetteville home at center of deadly shooting". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. ISSN 1539-7459. Archived from the original on July 20, 2022 . Retrieved July 22, 2022 . ^ Joyner, Chris (August 16, 2022). "Feds investigating Black Hammer Party in wide-ranging criminal probe". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution . Retrieved August 18, 2022 . ^ a b Montgomery, Ben (August 22, 2022). "The rise and fall of Gazi Kodzo, the leader of a liberation group linked to Russia". Axios . Retrieved August 23, 2022 . ^ a b Joyner, Chris (July 29, 2022). "Atlanta group implicated in Russian influence scheme". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution . Retrieved July 30, 2022 . ^ a b Kan, Michael (July 29, 2022). "Russian Agent Paid US Group To Protest Facebook's Parent Meta". PCMag . Retrieved July 30, 2022 . ^ Strozewski, Zoe (July 29, 2022). "FBI Raids Florida Office Allegedly Used by Russia for Election Interference". Newsweek . Retrieved July 30, 2022 . ^ "Russian National Charged with Conspiring to Have U.S. Citizens Act as Illegal Agents of the Russian Government". Office of Public Affairs. U.S. Department of Justice. July 29, 2022 . Retrieved July 30, 2022 . ^ Beedle, Heidi (August 19, 2022). "Russian Influence Operation Targeted Black Separatist Group With Colorado Ties". The Colorado Times Recorder . Retrieved August 21, 2022 .
  • VIDEO - Video: Suspect with flamethrower torches flag at Uhuru House in St. Petersburg
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    • Arsonist with flamethrower burns hole in African flag at Uhuru HouseSurveillance video provided by the Uhuru House in St. Petersburg shows a man use a flamethrower to burn the African flag raised in front of the community center.
    • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Just before 10 a.m. Saturday, a white Honda sedan pulled into a parking spot at the suspect pulls into a parking spot outside the Uhuru House Black community center in St. Petersburg. The driver stayed in the car for about five minutes before popping the trunk and retrieving something from inside.
    • Surveillance cameras at the Uhuru House recorded as the person walked across the parking area, carrying the roughly 4-foot long object. Then they hold it up and a massive stream of fire shoots from the end.
    • It was a flamethrower and the suspect was apparently there to torch the red, black, and green flag raised in front of the center.
    • The arsonist sprays the nearly 8-foot flame, on and off for about 30 seconds, before pacing back to the car, putting the flamethrower into the truck, and driving off.
    • African flag outside St. Pete Uhuru House was burned by an arson suspect who had a flamethrower (Uhuru House)
    • A photo of the flag shared by a volunteer at the house shows a black-singed hole in the flag of Africa.
    • Officials in St. Petersburg now hope someone recognizes the car or the suspect and will turn them in.
    • Photo provided by Uhuru House volunteers shows the vehicle they say was driven by the arson suspect who used a flamethrower to burn the African flag (Uhuru House)
    • The St. Petersburg Fire Department was called to make sure no remnants of fire posed any dangers. Crews said nearby palm trees were also damaged by the flames.
    • Thankfully, no major damage or injuries were reported, but the incident is upsetting for those who see the Uhuru House as a place of peace and community.
    • The Uhuru organization's goal is to unite and uplift African people across the globe for the shared purposes of social justice and economic development.
    • The suspect's motive for burning the African flag outside the Uhuru House was unclear.
    • Anyone with information about the incident or the suspect is asked to call the St. Petersburg Police Dept. at 727-893-7780 or text SPPD plus the information to TIP411.
  • Alexander Viktorovich Ionov - Wikipedia
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    • Alexander Viktorovich Ionov (Russian: АÐ>>ÐµÐºÑÐ°Ð½Ð´Ñ Ð'иктоÑович Ðонов ; born December 12, 1989) is a Russian businessman and political figure living in Moscow. He is the head of the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia (AGMR), which promotes secession movements in countries other than Russia.[1][2][3] In July 2022, the United States Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions on Ionov and on three groups he is said to lead, including the AGMR.[4]
    • Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia (AGMR) [ edit ] Alexander Ionov, who began his political career in 2009 in Russia's Communist Party youth organization, became president of the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia (AGMR) in 2011. In 2012, according to the Robert Lansing Institute, Ionov "got the diploma of technical service manager-economist at Moscow State Agro-Engineering University... He obtained his master's degree in 2014, in vocational education."[2]
    • In 2014, the AGMR hosted a small conference of secessionist groups whose speakers included Michael Hill head of "Southern secession" group the League of the South.[5] Ionov organized a larger conference in 2015, which became the first of several "Dialogue of Nations" events hosted by AGMR that brought representatives of many separatist groups to Moscow.[5] In addition to US and EU secessionist groups, the 2015 event in Moscow's President hotel included Russian-backed separatists from eastern Ukraine.[6] The 2015 event, billing itself as the International Russian Conservative Forum, was held in St. Petersburg on 22 March 2015.[7]
    • BBC News described AGMR's 2016 event as "a conference of Western secession movements," with representatives from secession-promoting groups based in California, Texas, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Northern Ireland.[8] Ionov told reporters that the Russian government supported the 2016 conference, contributing 30% of its cost, but denied that Russian government money was paid directly to any Americans.[3]
    • The AGMR also provided "Yes California" founder Louis J. Marinelli with office space in Moscow for what The New York Times described as "an 'embassy' of California in Russia."[9]
    • References [ edit ] ^ "La conexi"n moscovita del 'proc(C)s' con los hackers rusos". El Mundo (in Spanish). 4 October 2017 . Retrieved 31 July 2022 . Encuentro en el barrio ms caro de Moscº con el abogado defensor de dos c(C)lebres 'piratas' rusos detenidos en Barcelona. Recibe dinero de Putin para promover movimientos de secesi"n occidentales y estos d­as quiso viajar a Catalu±a, donde, dice, el Gobierno de Espa±a "no deja que se hable ni se estudie en cataln" (Meeting in the most expensive neighborhood in Moscow with the defense attorney of two famous Russian 'pirates' arrested in Barcelona. He [Alexander Ionov] receives money from Putin to promote Western secession movements and these days he wanted to travel to Catalonia, where, he says, the Government of Spain "does not allow people to speak or study in Catalan") ^ a b "Who is managing online trolls in EU, Africa and Latin America?". Lansing Institute. 2 December 2019 . Retrieved 31 July 2022 . Since 2011 '' he [Ionov] is the President of Russia's Anti-Globalist Movement (AGMR), also known as the regional public organization to counter world globalization. 'The reverse processes are beginning now '' the return to international solidarity, the Comintern,' '' Ionov is convinced, '' 'We are going to hold serious activities and support national liberation movements in different countries', he said. ^ a b "He's the founder of a Californian independence movement '' just don't ask him why he lives in Russia". Albuquerque Journal. 20 February 2017 . Retrieved 31 July 2022 . Ionov is the founder of the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia, a group that supports various secessionist movements around the world. Last September, he put on a Kremlin-sponsored event in Moscow for Western secessionists that Martinelli and other representatives of Yes California attended. Reached via email, Ionov said that about 30 percent of the funding for the event came from the Russian government. ^ "Alexander Ionov case: US charges Russian with interfering in US politics". BBC. 30 July 2022 . Retrieved 31 July 2022 . The US Treasury Department also announced sanctions against Mr Ionov, the AGMR and two other organisations allegedly controlled by him: the STOP-Imperialism website and Ionov Transcontinental, a company "which has a footprint in Iran, Venezuela and Lebanon". ^ a b Michel, Casey (12 August 2021). "The Kremlin's Malign Influence Inside the U.S." Free Russia Foundation. Archived from the original on 22 December 2021 . Retrieved 31 July 2022 . As the head of the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia (AGMR)'--the same group that hosted Michael Hill's neo-Confederate talk in 2014'--Ionov has served as one of the primary linchpins in Moscow's cultivation of American secessionists. In 2015, a few months after Smith's visit, Ionov organized his first 'Dialogue of Nations' conference. Ionov's AGMR hoped to build a group of Western secessionists capable of emulating the state fracture already underway in Ukraine. ^ "Russia funds Moscow conference for US, EU and Ukraine separatists". The Guardian. 20 September 2015 . Retrieved 31 July 2022 . Among international participants were representatives of Sinn F(C)in, the Catalan Solidarity for Independence party .. as well as separatist groups from Hawaii and Puerto Rico and the US-based radical black power Uhuru Movement. Several representatives also spoke on behalf of the Russia-backed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics in eastern Ukraine, where the conflict between the pro-Russian rebels and the Kiev government has killed more than 6,500 people since April 2014. ^ "What's Behind Russian Support for World's Separatist Movements?". NBC News. 23 July 2016 . Retrieved 1 August 2022 . Alexander Ionov, head of the Anti-Globalist Movement of Russia, which is organizing the event...said that the Russian government's modest grant of $53,000 to accommodate dozens of guests will be supplemented by private donations from ''Texas and other countries'' that openly or clandestinely support the secessionist cause. ^ " 'Russian trolls' promoted California independence". BBC. 4 November 2017 . Retrieved 31 July 2022 . Marinelli attended a conference of Western secession movements in 2016, along with representatives from similar groups from Texas, Puerto Rico and Northern Ireland. The conference was organised by the Anti-Globalisation Movement ^ "California Secession Advocate Faces Scrutiny Over Where He's Based: Russia". New York Times. 21 February 2017 . Retrieved 31 July 2022 . A Russian group, known as the Anti-Globalization Movement, which like Mr. Marinelli advocates the breakup of the United States, also offered him office space in Moscow to open an 'embassy' of California in Russia, and Mr. Marinelli accepted.
  • 10 Things To Know About St. Petersburg Activist Eritha Akil(C) Cainion
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    • Via Eritha's campaign page on FacebookHaven't heard of Eritha Akil(C) Cainion? Well, if she continues on her path of activism all will know her name. Right now, she's running for a seat on Florida's District 7 City Council. And she's just 22.
    • Born and raised in Southside St. Petersburg, Florida, she is running on the bold campaign slogan of ''Make the Southside Black Again.'' Her platform is one of empowerment and restoring economic life to the Black community. The election is August 27th.
    • Here are 10 things you should know about Eritha Akil(C) Cainion.
    • Her BeginningsCainion was October 22, 1996, just two days before a major happening in St. Petersburg. October 24, 1996, was the date of the historic Black community rebellions that happened in defense of TyRon Lewis, an 18-year-old Black man who was shot and killed by the St. Petersburg police.
    • While Cainion was still in the hospital, ''her father Bruce Cainion, traditionally known as Ntambwe Bhekizitha, was on the front lines of those rebellions, putting out fires that the city of St. Petersburg attempted to start in the Black community after dumping every ounce of tear gas they had in the city into this area,'' according to Cainion's campaign Facebook page.
    • ChildhoodCainion was primarily raised by her father and he instilled in her a fighting spirit and desire for justice. She was introduced at an early age to the Uhuru Movement and was educated early on about the struggle for justice for the Black community.
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    • Fighter For People Early On Even in school she fought for change. At St. Petersburg Collegiate High School she was elected student government secretary during her junior year and president in her senior year.
    • Cainion was in the National Honor Society and was accepted into an International Relations program that allowed her to travel and study in Rome, Italy. At the same time she maintained a job on college campus.
    • She graduated in 2015, receiving both her high school diploma and an Associates in Arts degree at just 18 years old.
    • Her PurposeWhile she excelled in school, Cainion felt there was a bigger purpose for her.''She was on target to attend her dream college in New York, but felt greater purpose in serving her community right here in St. Petersburg, Florida. At 20 years old, Akil(C) took on the international campaign for justice for three Black teenage girls drowned by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Department, that traveled the country on a speaking tour and raised thousands of dollars towards legal fees,'' according to her campaign Facebook page.
    • Her CampaignsIn 2017, she ran for city council alongside her running mate Jesse Nevel for mayor. They were the first candidates in the world to run on a platform of reparations to the Black community. Their campaign made national news, and was featured in Ebony Magazine, the Washington Post, and on the popular radio show ''The Breakfast Club.'' During the campaign, Cainion led a march of over 200 people through the streets of downtown St. Petersburg demanding a city united through reparations.
    • Since her run, she was appointed as the Director of Agitation and Propaganda of the African People's Socialist Party (APSP), making her the youngest member to sit on the APSP's National Central Committee.
    • Beyond CampaigningCainion is currently the Editor-in-Chief of The Burning Spear newspaper and heads many other media institutions under this department.
    • She Had Other PlansInitially, Cainion had planned to move to New York and become an artist but decided on staying in her hometown and becoming a community leader.
    • Prison Reform''Her desire to fight against inequality and injustice started in middle school. When her uncle was sent to prison for 26 years, she decided to turn her attention to the marginalized,'' according to her campaign Facebook page. ''Anai watched the pain her young cousins were enduring without their dad being in their lives. His eldest was only in elementary school.''
    • ''It pained me to see this man get locked up for 26 years. I saw my family flooding in tears. I couldn't articulate it at the moment. I knew I needed to be sad,'' Anai remembered.
    • Force For ChangeCainion believes African-American neighborhoods in St. Pete face the same issues that she saw while growing up. ''Anai has witnessed her community decrease while areas on the other side of Central Avenue flourished. Gentrification has forced a number of black people out of their community and into an uncertain future,'' according to her campaign's Facebook page.
    • ''There's no economic development for this community. It's a horrible reality for Black people here in the city,'' Cainion said.
    • Economic EmpowermentThrough her campaign, Cainion is demanding economic development. She wants to see the16th Street District filled with Black commerce.
    • ''Public safety and community control of the police also tops her list. She feels that the Black community should have a say over who comes into their neighborhoods. Anai wants the community to have the power to hire, fire, train and discipline the police who function in Black neighborhoods,'' according to her campaign Facebook page.
    • ''They [white police] can't go along doing business as usual,'' she said.
    • The ArrestOn Dec. 20, 2017, Cainion was ''brutalized and arrested outside her home for defending a Black woman who was being harassed by a corner store petty merchant,'' The Weekly Challenger reported. Cainion was ''booked on petty charges such as disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence.''
    • ''We cannot live like this anymore,'' Cainion declared.
  • FBI investigating Russian interference possibly linked to St. Petersburg Uhuru Movement
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    • Federal law enforcement officials appear to be investigating members of the Uhuru Movement in St. Petersburg for alleged connections to a Russian government official who prosecutors say directed U.S. political groups in a campaign to sow division, spread pro-Russian propaganda and interfere in U.S. elections.
    • Federal agents executed search warrants Friday morning at multiple locations, including the Uhuru House at 1245 18th Ave. S.
    • The searches appear to be related to an indictment that was unsealed Friday against a Russian national who is accused of working with the Russian government and intelligence services in efforts to interfere in U.S. politics.
    • The FBI and St. Petersburg Police Department investigate the Uhuru House Friday in St. Petersburg. [ ANGELICA EDWARDS | Times ]Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov, who lives in Moscow, orchestrated on behalf of the Russian government a yearslong ''foreign malign influence campaign against the U.S.,'' the Department of Justice said in a news release Friday. He worked with American political groups to inflame political discord and spread disinformation, prosecutors said.
    • The indictment refers to a group in St. Petersburg as ''U.S. Political Group 1,'' though it does not name the Uhurus specifically. At a news conference Friday, authorities declined to name the group or say where they had served three federal warrants this morning. However, St. Petersburg police confirmed Friday morning that federal agents served a warrant at the Uhuru House.
    • Later, Uhuru leaders held their own news conference.
    • ''We can have relationships with whoever we want to make this revolution possible,'' said Eritha ''Akile'' Cainion, later adding, ''We are in support of Russia.''
    • Omali Yeshitela, a longtime leader of the St. Petersburg Uhuru Movement, said he and his wife were handcuffed and taken out of a home in St. Louis by agents showing guns Friday morning.
    • Yeshitela, who still owns property in St. Petersburg, denied taking money from the Russians, though he acknowledged he had visited Russia. The Uhuru Movement falls under the African People's Socialist Party, which Yeshitela formed.
    • ''They have accused us of taking money from Russia,'' he said at a news conference Friday afternoon. ''We've never taken (money) from the Russian government. But I'm not saying that because I'm morally opposed from taking money from Russians or anyone else who wants to support the struggles for Black people.''
    • He said the U.S. government was using his group as a ''pawn'' in its propaganda war against Russia.
    • ''Don't tell us that we can't have friends that you don't like,'' he said.
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    • Explore all your optionsTargeting U.S. political groupsIonov is the founder of the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia, an organization funded by the Russian government.
    • He used the organization to target political groups in the U.S. and other countries, including Ukraine, Spain, the U.K. and Ireland. The organization reached out to group leaders and paid for them to attend conferences in Russia, the indictment states.
    • ''The purpose of the conferences was to encourage the participating groups to advocate for separating from their home countries,'' the indictment states.
    • Ionov established ''partnerships'' with some U.S. separatist groups, according to the indictment. He exercised control of the groups, providing financial support through Russia's national security service, and directed them to publish pro-Russian propaganda and information designed to foment political dissension and ''promote secessionist ideologies.''
    • The indictment refers to four of the St. Petersburg group's leaders as unindicted co-conspirators. Although they are not named, they include the group's founder and chairperson, another leader who lives in both St. Petersburg and St. Louis, and two others who ran for local political offices in 2017 and 2019.
    • The indictment also describes a fifth person who served as the group's secretary general until 2018. That year, the person left and formed a second group in Atlanta, which also engaged in activities to further Russian interests.
    • In May 2015, Ionov paid for the leader of the St. Petersburg group to travel to Russia to discuss future political cooperation, according to the indictment. For the next seven years, Ionov ''exercised direction and control over senior members'' of the St. Petersburg group. He used their leaders to foster discord in the U.S., spreading pro-Russia sentiments ''under the guise of a domestic political organization,'' prosecutors said.
    • In September 2015, the indictment alleges, Ionov again paid for the St. Petersburg group's leader to attend a ''Dialogue of Nations'' conference in Moscow. When he returned to Florida, the leader made clear to group members that Ionov's organization was an instrument of the Russian government and that they ''did not disturb us.''
    • A week later, in an email discussion, the St. Petersburg group's leaders wrote that it was ''more than likely'' that the Russian government was using Ionov's organization to sow division within the U.S.
    • The FBI and St. Petersburg Police Department investigate the Uhuru House Friday in St. Petersburg. [ DIRK SHADD | Times ]Ionov and ''others acting at his direction'' engaged in ''agitprop'' or ''agitation and propaganda,'' the indictment states. They would write and send articles featuring pro-Russia material to the St. Petersburg group, instructing them to publish them in their media outlets.
    • He had members of the group provide him detailed information about their activities. He then compiled the information the groups gave him into reports that he then gave to Russian Federal Security Service officers and other Russian government officials, the indictment states.
    • In 2016, Ionov funded a ''four-city protest tour.'' The tour supported a ''Petition on Crime of Genocide Against African People in the United States,'' which Ionov directed the group to submit to the United Nations, prosecutors said.
    • Interference in local electionsHe also interfered in local elections. In 2017 and 2019, Ionov ''monitored and supported'' two of the St. Petersburg group's members in political campaigns, the government said.
    • Before the 2019 primary election, Ionov wrote to a Russian government official that he'd been ''consulting every week'' on a St. Petersburg candidate's campaign, according to the indictment. When the candidate advanced to the general election, a Russian Federal Security Service officer wrote to Ionov that ''our campaign is kind of unique,'' and ''are we the first in history?''
    • Ionov later sent additional details about the election to the officer, referring to the candidate ''whom we supervise.''
    • Uhuru-affiliated candidates ran for local office four times in 2017 and 2019.
    • Two of those candidacies belonged to Cainion, who spoke at Friday's Uhuru news conference.
    • A reporter asked Cainion if she was the person referred to in the indictment as ''unindicted co-conspirator 4.'' The indictment describes this person as the group's director of agitation and propaganda.
    • Cainion confirmed these details matched her. She would not say if she took money from Russia during her campaign.
    • ''Russia is not in your community causing you to starve. Russia is not in your community pushing you out. Russia is not the St. Pete police department that killed TyRon Lewis in 1996,'' she said, referring to an 18-year-old shot and killed by police. ''It was not Russia, it was the U.S. government that did that.''
    • Cainion first ran for St. Petersburg City Council's District 6 seat in 2017. In a crowded primary field, she came in sixth, with about 7 percent of the vote. That primary was distinguished by a two-vote margin between current council member Gina Driscoll, who came in second and would eventually win the general election, and Robert Blackmon, who came in third and was eliminated from the race. Blackmon went on to win a city council seat in 2019. He lost last year's mayoral race to Ken Welch.
    • Cainion again ran for a council seat in 2019, this time for the neighboring District 7 seat. She advanced to the general election, where she was defeated by council member Lisa Wheeler-Bowman, who took more than 80 percent of the vote.
    • Blackmon said the news prompted shock and disbelief in his political circles, and that it underscored the need for legislative focus on election integrity. It also made him ponder his 2017 campaign for city council, he said.
    • ''It certainly makes you wonder what if, and also to what extent the influence was exerted,'' he said. ''The good news is Gina Driscoll is a good person, and she's been a fine elected official.''
    • People in the local political community were surprised when the Uhuru movement didn't field a mayoral candidate for last year's election, Blackmon added.
    • Jesse Nevel ran for mayor in 2017 with the Uhuru movement's endorsement. In an election that was largely a battle between then-incumbent Rick Kriseman and former mayor Rick Baker, Nevel placed third in the primary with less than 2 percent of the vote. But he was at the center of national attention when he became the subject of a racist tirade by another candidate, Paul Congemi, who told Nevel, who is white, to ''go back to Africa.''
    • And in 2019, the Uhuru-backed activist Anne Hirsch ran for city council's District 5 seat. She came in last among five candidates in the primary. Deborah Figgs-Sanders ultimately won that seat in a close race against Trenia Cox.
    • Former Mayor Rick Kriseman said Friday's news had him reflecting on the 2017 election cycle, in which he said Nevel and his Uhuru backers struck an unusually contentious tone.
    • ''There were a couple of debates, in fact one in particular where security actually escorted me and my family out,'' he recalled. ''It was certainly ratcheted up from anything I'd ever seen'' from the movement.
    • He was outraged by the allegations that elections had been tampered with in the city he led for eight years, he said. But he was unsurprised that they apparently failed, at least in getting Uhuru candidates elected.
    • ''I think maybe Russia miscalculated in choosing St. Petersburg,'' he said.
    • Ionov maintained a relationship with the St. Petersburg group until March of this year, according to the indictment.
    • After Russian invasion of UkraineAfter Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the group repeatedly hosted Ionov by videoconference to discuss the war. During the meetings, Ionov falsely stated that anyone who supports Ukraine also supported Nazism and white supremacy, prosecutors said.
    • United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg addresses the media during a news conference Friday in St. Petersburg. [ MARTHA ASENCIO-RHINE | Times ]In a report to the Russian Federal Security Service, Ionov wrote that he had enlisted the St. Petersburg group to support Russia in the ''information war unleashed'' by the West, prosecutors said.
    • The indictment also alleges Ionov similarly controlled two other American political groups, one in California and the other in Atlanta.
    • He is charged with conspiring to have U.S. citizens act as illegal agents of the Russian government. He is not in American custody.
    • ''The facts and circumstances surrounding this indictment are some of the most egregious and blatant violations we've seen by the Russian government in order to destabilize and undermine trust in American democracy,'' David Walker, special agent in charge of the FBI's Tampa field office, said during the noon news conference.
    • Located at 1245 18th Ave. S in St. Petersburg, the Uhuru House is the local headquarters for the International Uhuru Movement. The group is part of a ''worldwide organization, under the leadership of African People's Socialist Party, uniting African people as one people for liberation, social justice, self-reliance and economic development,'' according to its website.
    • Eritha ''Akile'' Cainion alongside other members of the Uhuru Movement, led by African People's Socialist Party, speaks with the media outside the St. Petersburg Police Department headquarters Friday in St. Petersburg. [ MARTHA ASENCIO-RHINE | Times ]The Uhurus have a history of being critical of city leaders and the police department.
    • On Friday morning, 12th Avenue S and 18th Avenue S were closed off by multiple St. Petersburg police cars and multiple rows of caution tape. The Pan-African flag at the Uhuru house was blowing in the wind.
    • St. Petersburg police chief Anthony Holloway held a meeting before the news conference with local clergy to alert them to the coming announcement, said Rev. Kenny Irby, who works as a director of community intervention for the department.
    • ''The chief was very clear that this was not an investigation done by the St. Petersburg Police Department,'' Irby said.
    • Bishop Manuel Sykes of Bethel Community Baptist Church was one of several people invited to the meeting with police, federal officials and community members.
    • ''They wanted to demonstrate that they were working with the community, and it's not the FBI taking potshots at the Black community,'' Sykes said.
    • The idea of political candidates working for the Russian government was ''shocking,'' he said, but he was not surprised by the idea that Russians would target a disgruntled community.
    • ''It shows you how close to home things actually are,'' Sykes said.
    • Times Staff writers Jack Evans, Zachary T. Sampson, Lawrence Mower and Michaela Mulligan contributed to this report.
  • Uhuru Movement Raided by FBI Amid Accusations of Russian Collusion | Video
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    • *Last month, several members of the African People's Socialist Party and Uhuru Movement were handcuffed and searched during an FBI raid in St. Petersburg, Florida, and Missouri.
    • The incident reportedly occurred amid allegations that the movement colluded with a Russian national to interfere in the 2016 elections.
    • The Department of Justice accused Aleksandr Ionov of using the Uhuru Movement to spread pro-Russian propaganda in the U.S. Per Moguldom , ''in an unsealed indictment , the U.S. Department of Justice accused APSP Founder and Chairman Omali Yeshitela, his wife Ona Zen(C) Yeshitela and other members of the Uhuru Movement of working with Ionov,'' the outlet writes.
    • According to DOJ head of national security Matthew Olsen, Ionov ''allegedly orchestrated a brazen influence campaign, turning U.S. political groups and U.S. citizens into instruments of the Russian government.''
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    • The FBI murdered Fred Hampton. It infiltrated the Black Panthers and Civil Rights movement. It smeared Malcolm X and told MLK to kill himself. It backed CIA cocaine trafficking into Black communities. It just raided the Uhuru Movement. Jimmy Dore is not your enemy. The FBI is. https://t.co/5sfhjVDbvu
    • '-- The People's Party (@PeoplesParty_US) August 10, 2022
    • Leaders of the Uhuru Movement have clapped back at the accusations, Fox 2 reports.
    • ''They have accused us of taking money from Russia,'' Omali said at a press conference in St. Louis on Friday, July 29. ''We've never taken a penny from the Russian government. '... The U.S. government is attempting to use us, the African People Socialist Party and Uhuru Movement, as pawns.''
    • Per the African People's Socialist Party's website , the organization aims to unite ''African people as one people for liberation, social justice, self-reliance and economic development.''
    • ''We are being attacked because of our relationship with forces internationally who support the anti-colonial struggle,'' Uhuru member Akile Anai said , according to the Washington Post. ''What they are saying about Alex and this relationship with the Russian government '-- this is all the U.S. government's attempt to use us as pawns in a propaganda war against Russia.''
    • Ionov allegedly colluded with members of the Uhuru Movement and other groups in Georgia and California, according to Special Agent in Charge David Walker.
    • ''The facts and circumstances surrounding this indictment are some of the most egregious and blatant violations that we've seen by the Russian government in order to destabilize and undermine trust in American democracy,'' Walker said.
    • Omali said at a press conference that they were ''forcibly detained by FBI agents '... without any meaningful explanation of what was going on.''
    • In a press release, the Uhuru Movement described the FBI raids as ''a series of violent military FBI orchestrated pre-dawn attacks at the offices and homes of leaders'' of the party.
    • FBI allegedly raided seven properties belonging to the Uhuru movement.
  • Uhuru Movement - Wikipedia
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    • Socialist and African internationalist movement
    • The Uhuru Movement (Pronounced is the Swahili word for "freedom")[1] is an American-based socialist and African internationalist movement founded in 1972 and led by the African People's Socialist Party (APSP),[2] whose chairman is Omali Yeshitela. It is centered on the theory of African internationalism, which it says provides a historical materialist explanation for the social and economic conditions of African people worldwide.
    • Political views and history [ edit ] The Uhuru Movement's political theory is African internationalism, which states that capitalism was born parasitic through the attack on Africa and its people.[3] African Internationalism holds that capitalism is imperialism developed to its highest stage,[4] not the other way around, as theorized by Vladimir Lenin.[5]
    • This belief derives from Karl Marx's 1867 book Capital, in which Marx wrote of the condition essential to the emergence of capitalism which he called the "primitive accumulation" of capital.[4] African Internationalism is not a static theory that only refers to past conditions, it refers also to the conditions that African people are faced with today. It refers to African people who live inside what it views as imperialist centers, such as the United States and Europe, as an "internal (or domestic) colony".[3] The Movement has called for the release of all African prisoners in U.S. prisons, described as "concentration camps", and has described U.S. police forces as an "illegitimate standing army". They have called for the withdrawal of police forces from exploited and oppressed African American communities.[6]
    • In the 1990s, tensions between the police in St. Petersburg, Florida, and the Uhuru Movement were high. Members of the Uhuru Movement frequently protested against the police's treatment of African Americans, usually after the murders of African Americans by police. On October 25, 1996, violence erupted after a white police officer shot and killed a young black man driving a stolen car.[7] Cars and buildings were torched, protestors shouted, and rocks, along with other items, were tossed at the police officers at the scene of the shooting. At least 20 protestors were arrested. The next day, a large group of Uhuru members went back to the scene and called for the release of the arrested protestors. Sobukwe Bambaata, one of the Uhuru members, stated that the rioting would have never occurred "if the police did not come into our community and treat us like dogs."[8]
    • Although violence broke out in 1996, most of the protests organized by the movement remained peaceful.[9][10]
    • Areas of work [ edit ] The Uhuru Movement is a collective of organizations and institutions that were formed by the African People's Socialist Party. Each organization was created to deal with specific issues related to the conditions faced by African people under colonialism:[citation needed ]
    • Political organizations [ edit ] The African People's Socialist Party is an African-only political party. Its leading body is the National Central Committee (NCC) which makes up the leadership of the Uhuru Movement.[citation needed ]The African Socialist International is the international manifestation of the African People's Socialist Party. Its job is to build Party organizations around the world and network with other revolutionary African organizations who unite with the principles of the party. Party members and institutions have been created in several European countries, the Caribbean and South America.[citation needed ]International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) works to fight the struggle for "Bread, Peace and Black Power". Located on three continents around the world, INPDUM seeks reparations, state power and self-government for African people worldwide.[11]African National Women's Organization (ANWO) is for African women who struggle against the colonial conditions that remove them from political life.[citation needed ] [ edit ] All African People's Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) is an international organization establishing development projects in African communities worldwide. Its main work is in the areas of agriculture, education and healthcare. It recently completed a project to help Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone.[citation needed ]African People's Education and Defense Fund (APEDF) strives to develop and institutionalize programs to defend the human and civil rights of the African community, and to address the grave disparities in education, health, healthcare, and economic development faced by the African community.[citation needed ]Solidarity non-African political organizations [ edit ] African People Solidarity Committee (APSC) was founded in 1976 by the African People's Socialist Party (APSP) as a way for Euro-American and European (white) people to join the African liberation struggle, working directly under the leadership of the APSP.[citation needed ]Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM) is an organization of white people created by and working directly under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party.[citation needed ]Economic institutions [ edit ] The Black Power Blueprint in St. Louis, Missouri, is a Black Community Economic Development project led by and for the Black working class in St. Louis and Ferguson. It is a project of APEDF. It will result in a new Uhuru House African cultural center, One Africa, One Nation Marketplace, a community garden, and Uhuru Jiko Community Commercial Kitchen & Bakery Cafe and home of the Africans Independence Workforce Program.[citation needed ]Uhuru Furniture Philadelphia represents people in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who donate, shop and/or volunteer at the Uhuru Movement's second-hand furniture store in that city.[citation needed ]Uhuru Furniture Oakland represents people in Oakland who donate, shop and/or volunteer at the Uhuru Movement's second-hand furniture store in that city.[citation needed ]Uhuru Foods and Pies produces and sells the freshest foods to build self-sustaining economic development, designed for the prosperity and self-determination of present and future generations of African people worldwide.[citation needed ]Akwaaba Hall in Oakland, St. Louis, and St. Petersburg are located event rental spaces offered at a low cost to the community.[citation needed ]Media [ edit ] The Burning Spear Newspaper is the Uhuru Movement's newspaper. They call it "the voice of the international African Revolution".Burning Spear PublicationsUhuruNews.comBlack Power 96.3 St. PetersburgControversy and criticism [ edit ] In 2004, Uhuru Movement's leader Omali Yeshitela tore down a Halloween display in St. Petersburg, Florida, which depicted "a stuffed figure hung by the neck on a homemade gallows". Subsequent opinions[12] and letters[13] to the St. Petersburg Times regarding the incident were critical of both the Uhuru Movement and Yeshitela's conduct.[13]
    • The Uhuru Movement came to national attention during the 2008 Presidential campaign season when they interrupted Barack Obama at a town hall meeting in St. Petersburg and asked the candidate "What about the black community?",[14] alleging that he was not speaking out for Africans on issues such as police brutality, high unemployment, predatory lending, and Hurricane Katrina.[15]
    • The group was criticized by the Anti-Defamation League for engaging in demonstrations on January 3, 2009, in St. Petersburg which the ADL claims encouraged anti-Israel and anti-Zionist rallies.[16]
    • In 2009, the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement organized a march in support of Lovelle Mixon and against the Oakland Police Department. Mixon, an Oakland, California, resident, had been accused of killing four Oakland police officers and died during a shootout after a traffic stop, coincidentally just blocks away from the local Uhuru headquarters.[17][18]
    • At the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, the General Students' Committee (AStA) broke apart in April 2015 as a consequence of internal dispute over purported antisemitism after having organized an information event about the Uhuru Movement on JGU campus in January.[19] The AStA distanced itself both from the Uhuru Movement, African People's Socialist Party and its leader Omali Yeshitela stating that "the struggle against racism and the consequences of colonialism should not blind us to other reactionary ideologies" and regretted providing a platform for this movement.[20]
    • The Uhuru Movement has been accused by state prosecutors of collaborating with alleged Russian foreign agent Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov to sow social divisions in the United States.[21] Members of the group have traveled to Saint Petersburg, Russia, to attend an anti-globalization conference, and the group has also acknowledged that it supports Russia in its ongoing war with Ukraine.[22][23] On July 29, 2022, the Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, Florida, was raided by the FBI due to an indictment by a grand jury alleging a conspiracy between Ionov and the Uhuru movement to spread Russian disinformation under the guise of domestic political movements. An FBI Tampa Special agent said that "The facts and circumstances surrounding this indictment are some of the most egregious and blatant violations we've seen by the Russian government in order to destabilize and undermine trust in American Democracy."[24][25]
    • See also [ edit ] African nationalismAfrican socialismBlack PowerDead PrezUjamaaExternal links [ edit ] International People's Democratic Uhuru MovementUhuru MovementAfrican People's Socialist PartyAfrican Socialist InternationalReferences [ edit ] ^ Standard Swahili-English Dictionary, Frederick Johnson. Oxford University Press (1951), pp. 138, 491. ^ "African People's Socialist Party-USA - History". Asiuhuru.org . Retrieved 2013-01-05 . ^ a b "African People's Socialist Party-USA Constitution". uhurunews.com . Retrieved 2015-11-30 . ^ a b "War abounds! Break the Silence! Join the Black is Back march on Washington Nov 3rd". uhurunews.com . Retrieved 2015-11-30 . ^ "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism". SocialistWorker.org . Retrieved 2018-11-15 . ^ "Platform '' The African People's Socialist Party". apspuhuru.org . Retrieved 2018-11-15 . ^ ROCHEMONICA DAVEYAMY WIMMER, TIM (October 25, 1996). "Violence, fires erupt after police kill driver". St. Petersburg Times . Retrieved November 25, 2018 . ^ Landry, Sue (October 26, 1996). "Uhurus protest police treatment of blacks". St. Petersburg Times . Retrieved November 25, 2018 . ^ Jackson, Mike (October 13, 1991). "Group protests handling of man's death at jail". St. Petersburg Times . Retrieved November 25, 2018 . ^ Tubbs, Sharon (November 17, 1996). "Marchers attempt to heal the rifts". Tampa Bay Times . Retrieved November 25, 2018 . ^ "About Us". inpdum.org . Retrieved 2015-11-30 . ^ "Uhurus vs. Halloween display". St. Petersburg Times. October 23, 2004. ^ a b "Uhurus went too far in destroying holiday display". St. Petersburg Times. October 23, 2004. ^ "Protestor Tells Why He Heckled Obama". NPR. 2008-08-04 . Retrieved 2013-01-05 . ^ Miller, Sunlen. "Protesters: "What About The Black Community, Obama?" ". ABC News. ^ "Israel's Action in Gaza Spurs Anti-Israel Rallies". adl.org. Anti-Defamation League. ^ "Dozens march for Mixon, against police", San Francisco Chronicle, March 26, 2009. ^ "Calling him a 'true hero', mourners hold vigil for suspected Oakland cop killer Lovelle Mixon", New York Daily News; accessed June 13, 2016. ^ Schmidt, Carina (April 30, 2015). "Jusos und CampusGr¼n: Knatsch im AStA, Zusammenarbeit geplatzt/Streit um Referentin eskaliert". Allgemeine Zeitung. Archived from the original on September 17, 2015 . Retrieved September 17, 2015 . ^ "AStA distanziert sich von der Uhuru-Bewegung". General Students' Committee at the University of Mainz. Archived from the original on September 17, 2015. ^ "Russian charged with using US groups to spread propaganda". AP NEWS. 2022-07-29 . Retrieved 2022-07-30 . ^ Mazzei, Patricia (2022-07-29). "Russian National Charged With Spreading Propaganda Through U.S. Groups". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-07-30 . ^ "FBI investigating Russian interference possibly linked to St. Petersburg Uhuru Movement". Tampa Bay Times . Retrieved 2022-07-30 . ^ "DOJ alleges Russian national used St. Pete-based Uhuru Movement to spread propaganda". 29 July 2022. ^ "Florida political group defends its ties with Russia after FBI alleges they teamed up with Kremlin agents in a 'brazen' attempt to interfere with US elections".

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