Comment by hansjorg
3 years ago
That the provenance proudly includes "read into the Congressional Record" (Wikipedia also mentions this) is almost all you need to know about this.
The rest can be gleaned from the Wikipedia page on the author:
> W. Cleon Skousen ... was an American conservative author with the John Birch Society and a faith-based conspiracy theorist
Was this then a Conspiracy to discredit another Conspiracy?
The predictive power of the Birchers suggests they were onto something.