History of the KGB

The KGB worked to undermine U.S. authority and policy in foreign lands. For example, it gave money to groups protesting the deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons in Western Europe during the 1980s, and tried to discredit President Jimmy Carter's Middle East peace talks in the late 1970s by leaking phony U.S. State Department dispatches, including one with plans to overthrow Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. The KGB also took advantage to build Soviet authority and discredit the United States in its own backyard: Latin America. The KGB also began developing ties with the Nicaraguan Marxist group the Sandinistas almost two decades before they took power in 1979. KGB efforts to discredit the United States in the region included the "baby parts" rumor, which stated that supposedly rich Americans were buying Latin Amrican children, then killing them and using their organs for transplants. The KGB was known for their lies and deception.