In the mid-1980s, a story spread across the globe claiming the United States government had invented HIV as a biological weapon. This film traces that claim back to a KGB disinformation campaign called Operation Infektion, launched from a small pro-Soviet newspaper in India and amplified through East German scientists, Soviet media, and eventually Western outlets that never checked the source. Interviews with former KGB operatives, journalists, and disinformation researchers lay out exactly how a fabricated story gets seeded, laundered through supposedly independent voices, and repeated until it looks like consensus. The film draws a direct line from that Cold War operation to the mechanics of modern fake news, showing how the same playbook of forged documents, sympathetic academics, and patient repetition still works decades later. Produced by The New York Times, it treats the AIDS conspiracy less as a historical curiosity than as a case study, an operation whose methods outlived the Soviet Union that invented them and now run largely on their own.