David Frum

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David Frum @davidfrum

I think of Burchett when I see writers in the West today reporting Russian propaganda about alleged Ukrainian germ warfare plots. It's a familiar lie, brought only very slightly up to date. The authors of the lie are looking for their own Wilfred Burchetts to support them. 8/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 11, 2022

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To prove their case of US germ warfare, the Chinese tortured captured US pilots into confessing that they had air-dropped germ bombs. Burchett contorted himself to ignore the torture and believe the lies. He even wrote a book based on the testimony of tortured US pilots. 7/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 11, 2022

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It remains murky to this day whether Burchett was a literal foreign agent. In 1969, a KGB defector named Burchett as a spy that defector had run. Burchett lost a subsequent libel case. But the defector had credibility problems of his own, so who knows. 9/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 11, 2022