Re:Federal judge sanctions Seattle officials for deleting texts
by testTED on Friday February 17, 2023 @01:36PM
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> the term was popularized by the CIA in order to discredit conspiratorial believers, particularly critics of the Warren Commission, by making them a target of ridicule.
Who popularized it is subjective.
What isn't subjective: the CIA indeed sent out a memo about this. It marked an increase in the use of the term in popular media publications. You can find it and read it.
Re:Federal judge sanctions Seattle officials for deleting texts
by ceejayoz on Friday February 17, 2023 @02:09PM
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I just love that you lopped off half a sentence to invert its meaning to support your conspiracy theory. That's just beautiful.
> the CIA indeed sent out a memo about this
Wow, the CIA noticed something and sent a memo?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory#Origin_and_U...
> The earliest known usage was by the American author Charles Astor Bristed, in a letter to the editor published in The New York Times on January 11, 1863.
> The term "conspiracy theory" is itself the subject of a conspiracy theory, which posits that the term was popularized by the CIA in order to discredit conspiratorial believers, particularly critics of the Warren Commission, by making them a target of ridicule.