PRIZE-WINNING RUMORS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000200890001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 14, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE WALL ST_E,T JOUTAL
14 Ju1,j 1981
STAT
Prize- Winn ntg , Rumors , r{ ',, . breakthroughs .,for'` the~'Yspace 'pro
41 .. ,'-_Omni,''a giossyscience fiction:rnag-b? gram.) Of jae;~thousands': of entries;
r azine; recently announced the winners-,:.,our favorite is the runner-up from Dan
(.,of its contest for the obest?unconfirmed"; J Kicks` of Orlando ;; Florida . -
r. Rules were that the canards N~r 'The`U.S `government secretly' ''
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had to be outrageous; widespread andL is'=trying,.-;to "Ancrease,:inflation
totally immune-toproofor;~rebuttal.K'r, Eighteen, percent inflation~ could
:(Someitems-.from, this :genre.. the - double -your -'income'every --four, ,
spired major :motion- pictures; such as bracket,-- without .:increasing your
.-the - tale ` that'=the CIA retrieved. a 'real income. at all."*,-
'- crashed UFO from northern Mexico in As Omni notes, one of the elements
1948. thus obtaining the technological of a truly classic rumor is plausibility.
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