STENGEL: As coronavirus cases multiply, so does government disinformation
By Richard Stengel, Los Angeles Times (TNS) In July 1983, an anonymous letter appeared in an obscure newspaper in New Delhi claiming that the AIDS virus had been invented at Fort Detrick, in Maryland. The author identified himself as an American scientist and said that the virus was intended to be a biological weapon for the U.S. military. The allegation was picked up and published in a well-known