Your evidence is still a couple years behind. It was created in 1998 and leaked in early 1999. 2000 would thus be the perfect time to start writing a damage control book and stating there was no hidden agenda. If you are associated with the DI or know those who are or are sympathetic you may have seen something like this through the community. But it was not meant for the eyes of the heathen.
I was aware of this strategy as early as MID 1990’s. Why ? Why because it was proclaimed OPENLY.
In fact, Wedge Movement was openly presented in the early 1990’s.
The movement we now call the wedge made its public debut at a conference of scientists and philosophers held at Southern Methodist University in March 1992, following the publication of Philip Johnson’s book Darwin on Trial.
What became the book entitled the WEDGE OF TRUTH was NOT damage control. It was simply the fruits of a movement that was already WELL KNOWN many years before.