Soviet Interference in the 1964 US Presidential Election - KGB Files

Support our channel: Potential Russian #interference in the #US #presidential #election has been a top media topic several times in recent years. The archival document that we are going to read today tells us about the #Soviet experience in such a case. This note is dated September 1964 - shortly before the elections in the United States, when #Democrat Lyndon Johnson and #Republican, ardent anti-Communist and Conservative Barry Goldwater were running for president. The document was signed by the head of the KGB and the deputy head of the #USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was intended for the country’s top leaders. Written by Eduard Andryushchenko. Host: Pavlo Morkovkin. Video editor: Slava Chizhenok. Language editing and translation by Yana Badoeva. Design by Alyona Troyan. The document in Georgy Filatov’s Telegram channel: I’m Eduard Andryushchenko, a Ukrainian historian and journalist