The CIA is the outfit that invented the phrase ‘conspiracy theorist’ so beloved of Freepers.
Technically the term “conspiracy theory” goes back centuries.
The CIA weaponized it.
That CIA thing about inventing the term conspiracy theory is wrong (a conspiracy??).
My daughter told me that and it didn’t sound correct. So I did a search. Most internet searches come up with an article from 1863 using the first recorded use of the term with regards to British elites supporting the South during the Civil War.
I would have thought it would have been even earlier - from say Roman times and Nero, etc.