Jakob Segal | |
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| Born | 17 April 1911 |
| Died | 30 September 1995 (aged 84) |
| Nationality | Soviet and German |
| Occupation | biology professor |
| Known for | Operation INFEKTION |
| Spouse | Lilli "Teddy" Schlesinger |
| Awards | Silver Patriotic Order of Merit (1961) |
Jakob Segal (17 April 1911 – 30 September 1995) was a Russian-born German biology professor at Humboldt University of Berlin in the former East Germany. He was one of the advocates of the conspiracy theory that HIV was created by the United States government at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin and two former members of East Germany's secret police accused Segal of being a Soviet disinformation agent who worked for the KGB.[1][2]
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boghardtwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Selvage, Douglas (1 October 2019). "Operation "Denver": The East German Ministry of State Security and the KGB's AIDS Disinformation Campaign, 1985–1986 (Part 1)". Journal of Cold War Studies. 21 (4): 71–123. doi:10.1162/jcws_a_00907. ISSN 1520-3972. S2CID 204771850.