The CIA recommended media campaigns against unfavorable books.
Evidence
Some years later Wise filed a FOIA request for records relating to the publication of The Invisible Government, and he got back a document in which someone at CIA recommended a media campaign, employing Agency assets to plant unfavorable reviews and thereby “lessen the book’s impact.” — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 643
Categorization
- corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 643
- XREF: connects to: Pakistan’s writers were suppressed through CIA-backed cultural countermeasures