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Probably because that would send a very strong signal that there is something going on in their organization that they don't want leaked. If their objective is

Probably because that would send a very strong signal that there is something going on in their organization that they don't want leaked. If their objective is "Do not get investigated by journalists," then drowning those journalists in noise is probably a net negative. They could instead start blasting out rumors about everyone else in their industry, but then their competitors have incentive and cause to sue them for defamation.

closeparen 8y ago
On the other hand the Soviets, who could be safely assumed to have all sorts of conspiracies to hide, deployed this tactic successfully. The culture was supposedly so drowned in conspiracy theories that no one could be bothered to figure out which ones were true or worth caring about.