When I was a really little kid Jack Anderson, who was kind of a thing in the '70s, gave a fireside at my hick Manassas LDS ward explaining how Mesoamerican antiquities somehow "proved" the authenticity of the Book of Mormon. It was the sort of well-intentioned but profoundly amateurish and inherently racism misinterpretation of indigenous American culture that Alicia Puglionesi masterfully explores in her recent book.
On the other hand, a few years earlier Anderson had properly exposed the massive government waste that was the CIA's Glomar Explorer boondoggle. DCI William Colby asked him to spike the story because of supposed national security interests, but Anderson said, "Navy experts have told us that the sunken sub contains no real secrets and that the project, therefore, is a waste of the taxpayers' money."
Of course, Anderson's analysis was completely corroborated by Blind Man's Bluff, the definitive work on submarine espionage during the Cold War.
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