Operation Toucan (KGB) Operation Toucan (KGB) Operation TOUCAN was a KGB/DGI public relations and disinformation campaign directed at the military government of Chile led by Augusto Pinochet. According to former KGB officer Vasili Mitrokhin, the plot was originally conceived by Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov. The plot's twofold task was to organize sympathetic human rights activists to pressure the United Nations and generate negative press for the Pinochet regime. In 1976, the start of TOUCAN, the New York Times published 66 articles on Chile’s human rights record and four on Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge and only 3 such articles on the human rights situation in Cuba.
The Who Tour 1967 The Who Tour 1967 The Who Tour 1967 was a series of performances and tours by The Who, supporting releases such as "A Quick One", "Pictures of Lily", and "The Who Sell Out". 1967 was the first year the group performed in North America. The group continued to perform in the United Kingdom and Europe in the early part of the year, promoting "A Quick One" and "Happy Jack", both released in late 1966; one performance at the Saville Theatre in London saw the group share the bill with The Jimi Hendrix Experience, who had been performing in England since