Dollars to doughnuts they created it to smear the John Birch Society.
What happened to the JBS was classic Alinsky Rule #5.
The real irony is that everything the JBS was saying back in the ‘60s has come to pass.
To this day people who should know better scoff when you mention their name.
No doubt about that. Agree 100%
There are those who say that WFB and NR were a CIA front in the 1950s and 60s. It isn’t a “conspiracy theory”, but a logical extension of the fact that such magazines as Encounter were admitted CIA fronts.
COINTELPRO was an FBI program to infiltrate radical groups, with agents even acting as agents provocateur.
I have no doubt that the CIA/FBI continues to run COINTELPRO-like programs, probably targeting right-wing groups even more than left-wing groups.