You didn't mention a source for your point that the CIA coined the phase 'conspiracy theory'. I found the original source, in the New York Times. [1] (Context:

You didn't mention a source for your point that the CIA coined the phase 'conspiracy theory'. I found the original source, in the New York Times. [1] (Context: combating suspicion of the CIA's involvement in the Kennedy assassination.) Relevant quotes: > But a C.I.A. document, recently declassified under the Freedom of Information Act, provides a detailed account of at least one instance in which the agency mustered its propaganda machinery to support an issue of far more concern to Americans, and to the C.I.A. itself, than to citizens of other countries. > “Conspiracy theories,” the cable went on, “have frequently thrown suspicion on our organization, for example by falsely alleging that Lee Harvey Oswald worked for us. The aim of this dispatch is to provide material for countering and discrediting the claims of the conspiracy theorists, so as to inhibit circulation of such claims in other countries.” > Among the arguments that the agency suggested were that the Warren Commission had conducted “as thorough an investigation as humanly possible, that the charges of the critics are without serious foundation, and that further speculative discussion only plays into the hands of the opposition.” > “Point out also,” the cable directed, “that parts of the conspiracy talk appear to be deliberately generated by Communist propagandists.” > These critics and others, the C.I.A. said, should be depicted as “wedded to theories adopted before the evidence was in,” politically or financially “interested” in disproving the commission's conclusion, “hasty or inaccurate in their research, or infatuated with their own theories.” [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20191121033812/https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/cable-sought-to-discredit-critics-of-warren-report.html https://web.archive.org/web/20191121033812/https://www.nytim...