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>Want read more on the history of politics of Europe.
Bittman's work "The Deception Game" gives some insight into political operations carried out by Soviets, much of which happened in places like West Germany (their #2 target). It's related to geopolitics and ideology after WW2. It might not be entirely centered on Europe only, but events there are one of the main focuses. It also helps show how pro-Soviet, communist satellite state intellegence services were sent to do operations around the world. Apparently, this activity usually involved forging documents to make America and West Germany look bad, blackmailing people, and arming rebel groups in random countries, and sometimes acts of sabotage like poisoning or assassinating people. The sad part is it's nonfiction.

One of the highlights of the book is that the author had been involved in a fake documents operation where fake Nazi-era papers were "discovered." The book has pictures of the author in scuba gear, ready to discover the "evidence" that he had secretly planted at the bottom of a lake the previous night. He described the fallout of how this "press bombshell" played out and how his USSR handlers ultimately assessed the success of this and other operations.

Another stereotypically villanous plot that happened later on in the 1980s was the plot to blame the CIA for creating HIV/AIDS in a lab. A German called Jakob Segal was completely co-opted by Soviets to push the theory in the media, while they used media outlets in Africa and elsewhere to try to undermine US influence whereever they could by pushing the story. Many people still believe that one – especially blacks, including famous black people in the United States, and many people in third world countries – even though documents released in the 1990s uncover the fact that it was entirely fabricated and was just another disinformation op. The disinformation op even outlived the USSR itself.