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Jakob Segal
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1918-1933 and 1945-1956 Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
1939-Today Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
1954-1991 KGB
1983-? Operation Infektion
2018 NYT - Operation Infektion - Russian Disinformation: From Cold War to Kanye
AIDS origin hypotheses
AIDS was created at Fort Detrick (AIDS origins theory)
CIA NAZI cancer research/biological weapons research links
Communist members of the French Resistance
East German scientists
Holocaust survivors
Humboldt University of Berlin faculty
informal collaborator (informeller Mitarbeiter)
Main-d'ceuvre immigree
National Center for Scientific Research (Havana, Cuba)
NAZI SS Bacterialogical and Viralogical Programs Masked as Cancer Research Programs
Operation Infektion and Stasi Links
People of the Stasi
Red Students' League (Roter Studentenbund)
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1986 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. L
1986 In his report, Jakob Segal postulated that the AIDS virus was synthesized by combining parts of two distantly related retroviruses: VISNA and HTLV-1. An excerpt of the Segal report reads as follows:
1986 The Segal Report (AKA AIDS: Its Nature and Origin or AIDS: USA home-made evil, NOT out of AFRICA)
2009 Operation INFEKTION - Soviet Bloc Intelligence and Its AIDS Disinformation Campaign (CIA Document)
After the fall of the Soviet Union, KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin and two former members of East Germany's secret police revealed that Segal was a Soviet disinformation agent who worked for the KGB.
All of his family, including his parents and brother, were killed in the Holocaust.
Although both Segals, given the double danger to them as Jews and members of the German Communist Party, 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)...
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.
Institute for Applied Bacteriology at Humboldt in East Berlin
Jakob Segal was one of the advocates of the conspiracy theory that HIV was created by the United States government at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
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 report was quoted heavily by Soviet propagandists, and the Segals were often said to be French researchers to hide their connections to communism.
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.
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.
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...
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