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title: Red herring propaganda in the collection
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/technique/red-herring/
description: Browse all 2 items from objects tagged red herring in the FRAME collection, listed by date, each with its techniques, issuer, date and source.
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Technique

# Red herring propaganda in the collection

2 objects, listed by date.

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2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)
3. Technique: Red herring

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- [TASS statement on the 'unidentified intruder' (Korean Air Lines Flight 007), FBIS Daily Report, 6 September 1983](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tass-statement-unidentified-intruder-kal007-1983/) (Soviet Union · Sep 6, 1983 · Card stacking, Whataboutism, Red herring, Gaslighting). Content note: Soviet state-agency statement on a civilian airliner shot down with 269 people aboard; the text calls the flight a 'pre-planned act' and omits its destruction.
- [Radio Moscow World Service on the Chernobyl accident and U.S. reports, FBIS Daily Report, 1 May 1986](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/radio-moscow-chernobyl-us-reports-1986/) (Soviet Union · May 1, 1986 · Limited hangout, Whataboutism, Red herring, Gaslighting). Content note: Soviet radio commentary on the Chernobyl disaster that reports two deaths and attributes Western coverage to an 'order'; later assessments recorded far larger casualties.