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![The journalist and the stolen CIA documents](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2017/12/22/typecov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
The journalist and the stolen CIA documents
A series of declassified Central Intelligence Agency memos describe part of the Agency’s investigation into Jack Anderson (of whom the CIA was never a fan), and his sources and methods (which included unethical practices such as homophobic surveillance, blackmail and lying about his sources) - specifically his apparent use of hundreds of stolen Agency documents. The memos even call for a Congressional investigation into Anderson and whether or not he was part of “a deliberate disinformation campaign.”
![Conspiracy Weary: FBI’s real-life "X-Files" document one of the Bureau’s laziest investigations](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2017/06/05/DuesEx.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Conspiracy Weary: FBI’s real-life “X-Files” document one of the Bureau’s laziest investigations
The FBI file on Majestic-12 may be the Bureau’s most X-Filesy file of all - full of hoaxes, planted documents, and allegations of aliens. The Bureau, however, was essentially disinterested in the case, did no actual investigating, and barely pursued the very real crime that had been committed by forging government documents, only adding fuel to the suspicion that the papers were government sponsored, or at least tolerated, disinformation.