There is a dispassionate account of the corruption and manipulation of 'information' during the Cold War in a forthcoming volume in my Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics series.  The left wing Guardian newspaper plus a number of economists (including Terence Hutchison and Friedrich Hayek) were "taken for a ride" by someone who devoted his 'professional' life to 'faction' or less politely, fraud, and Cold War fraud in particular.

Robert Leeson