A New Baby Parts Scandal Analysis

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“A New Baby Parts Scandal” is a classic example of life imitating art, reminding the reader of the disinformation campaigns of the old Soviet Union. At the height of the cold war, the KGB [U.S.S.R Intelligence Service] had an entire department dedicated to providing its citizens, as well as the rest of the world, with propaganda advancing the cause of the Communist Party and disinformation demonizing the American capitalists. One of their favored campaigns involved convincing the world that the United States would purchase, kidnap or murder small children, often from poor Central American countries, so that their body parts could be harvested and transplanted into wealthy Americans. The stories were reprinted in mainstream media outlets all