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{{short description|Technique employed to create verisimilitude in a work of fiction}}
A '''false document''' is a technique, employed to create [[verisimilitude]] in a work of fiction, where an author tries to create a sense of authenticity beyond the normal and expected suspension of disbelief for a [[work of art]] by inventing and inserting or mentioning documents that appear to be factual.<ref>{{cite webbook |last1=Baker |first1=Timothy C. |title=Contemporary Scottish Gothic |chapter=Authentic Inauthenticity: The Found Manuscript |year=2014 |pages=54–88 |chapter-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304986715_Authentic_Inauthenticity_The_Found_Manuscript |publisher=ResearchGate |doi=10.1057/9781137457202_3|isbn=978-1-349-49861-1 }}</ref> The goal of a false document is to convince an audience that what is being presented is factual.

==In politics==
A [[Forgery|forged]] document, the [[Zinoviev Letter]], helped bring the downfall of the first [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Government]] in Britain. Conspiracies within secret intelligence services have occurred more recently, leading [[Harold Wilson]]  to put in place rules to prevent in the 1960s [[phone tapping]] of [[members of Parliament]], for example.

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* [[Curtis Peebles]] (1994). ''Watch the Skies: A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth'', [[Smithsonian Institution]], {{ISBN|1-56098-343-4}}

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