But if instead Mr. Green had been ready to testify that he had been fed a false story by the police, it was the defense that had lost a key witness.
The film's story of a newspaper reporter (Sally Field) who is fed a false story by federal officials trying to squeeze information from a businessman (Paul Newman) was widely viewed as a corrective to the adulation of investigative reporters that followed Alan J. Pakula's hit movie "All the President's Men," with its portrayal of the Watergate scandal.
Today attitudes are becoming more entrenched: a whole generation has grown up being fed a one-sided, and sometimes even false, interpretation of history, without ever meeting people from the other side of the border.
All year round, the nation is fed a steady diet of false claims about dads.
Dr. Jack Kessler, an expert in stem cell research at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, told GlobalPost last year the practice has a long way to go to treat disorders like spinal cord injuries, strokes, Parkinson's disease or MS. He warned that medical tourists are being fed false hope [2], and even the placebo effect, rather than a proven cure.
There is no hint that German communications were being deciphered and read by the "Ultra" analysts at Bletchley Park or that the Abwehr in Spain was already being fed false information through the double agent Juan Pujol, "Agent Garbo".
I am convinced that several senior German officers knew very well that they were being fed false information, and chose to say nothing — some did so out of anti-Nazi convictions, but others played along because it was simply not in their personal interests to make waves.
Afghan officials said some of the local officials appeared to be victims of false information being fed to the Americans.
But the Afghans insist the Americans were fed false information from a local warlord hoping to help his side in a power struggle.
Local officials in Oruzgan, loyal followers of Hamid Karzai, the interim Afghan leader, believe the Americans were fed false information in a complex maneuver by the former governor, Mr. Yunas, to regain control of the town.
