the abbreviated reign of “neon” leon spinks

DUBIOUS NOTIONS 125
ACTUALLY, THE PRESIDENT SAID,
“I BURIED PAUL”
In October 1990, a U.S. Senate aide wrote to then secretary of defense
Richard Cheney to warn him of a possible breach of national security.
A researcher in reversed-speech therapy—that is, the notion that the
subconscious mind slips backward words into a person’s speech—had obtained
tapes of speeches by then president George H. W. Bush, Secretary
of State James Baker III, and Cheney. When the tapes were played in reverse,
the researcher reported, the word “Simone” was audible in all
three. “I mention this in case it is a code word that should not be in the
national interest to be known,” the aide wrote. A Pentagon spokesman
later told the Associated Press that Cheney knew of no such code word.