Operation POROK: Henry "Scoop" Jackson Gay?

The KGB loved to accuse American politicians of being Zionists, gay, or both. It did not matter if they were Republicans or Democrats. All that mattered was their anti-soviet stance. In the late 60s, after a failed attempt to subsidize Hubert Humphrey's presidential campaign to prevent Richard Nixon from being elected, the KGB moved on to Henry "Scoop" Jackson. Fearing Jackson's stance on the Soviet Union and believing he would be the Democratic nominee, the KGB launched active measures to discredit him as a Zionist and homosexual. First, Service A forged an FBI document claiming that Jackson was gay. Copies were sent to the Chicago Tribune, The L.A. Times, the Topeka Capital and Jimmy Carter's campaign HQs. Then, in April 1976, after Jackson stated on television that "homosexuality leads to the destruction of the family", The KGB sent said statement and forged documents alleging Jackson was a member of a gay sex club to various people and entities including: Senator Edward Kennedy, columnist Jack Anderson, and the Playboy and Penthouse magazines. The KGB continued POROK despite Jackson failed to obtain the Democratic nomination in 1977 one of POROK's goals was to have the gay press attack Jackson as a hypocritical, closet homosexual. A forged document was sent to a California magazine called "Gay Times." The entire operation, however, was largely a failure and had no clear effect on Jackson's career.

To read more, see The Sword and the shield by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, Political Warfare, pages: 239 -241.

Service A and Active Measures

Paraphrasing from Christopher Andrew's and Visili Mitrokhin's book The Sword And The Shield, Service A was the name given to the disinformation and covert action group, which fell under the jurisdiction of the FCD (First Chief Directorate; foreign intelligence) of the USSR state Security Committee aka the KGB (Комитет государственной безопасности СССР (КГБ). One of their main goals was to spread disinformation and propaganda around the world to exploit weak spots of the main adversary, a term of little endearment for the USA.
The book describes service A as basically half competent with the other half composed of rejects from other areas of the KGB. Being assigned to service A was not deemed highly by everyone due to the lack of foreign postings. Those who specialized in propaganda were responsible for quite a few successes, while the other half "relied on crude conspiracy theories about the capitalist and Zionist plotters who supposedly operated a secret 'command center' in the United States." Such conspiracy theories were the result of the KGB, writ large, not heeding the famous Chinese warrior Sun Tzu's advice: "Know your enemy"... for if "you know your enemy and know yourself you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." But, Sun Tzu also cautioned, "If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat."
Such propaganda, much of it made up by the service, were part of "active measure" campaigns. These measures are revealing, albeit not well-known as to the source, subjects of posts to come, which I hope shed light on some modern urban legends.