Conspiracy believers justify their knowledge through claims of leaked authentic documents

Evidence

The problem that remains for believers is to explain why they themselves have not succumbed to the deceptions, why they have detected a truth invisible to others. This they do through several stratagems. They may claim to have access to authentic pieces of evidence that have somehow slipped from the conspirators’ control and thus provide an inside view. Such documents have ranged from The Protocols to UFO documents that purport to be drawn from highly classifi ed government fi les. — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy, 97

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the reader’s engagement with The Protocols in earlier colonial-antisemitism sources and to Manufactured consent themes. — connects to: Proving a conspiracy document a forgery only strengthens its propaganda value — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2636

Broader Connections

• Proving a conspiracy document a forgery only strengthens its propaganda value #expands (0.92) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2636