FBI Used Fake Underground Newspapers to Neutralize Anti-War Sentiments in ’60s, ’70s
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI produced fake newspapers in the 1960s and ’70s to combat anti-war sentiment, the Austin Chronicle reports. The newspapers, which were recently discovered in a cache of declassified documents, included a campus newspaper at Indiana University Bloomington, called the Rational Observer. “[They are] one of the ‘smoking guns’ that activists who…