Sometimes you find yourself wondering if your world-view is a little askew. And then you read something like this:

Washington DC, May 21, 2003 - The Central Intelligence Agency classified and withheld from a Freedom of Information Act release a 25-year-old joke item in a weekly terrorism report about the terrorist threat to Santa Claus and the North Pole, among many other examples of "dubious secrets" published today on the Web by the National Security Archive at George Washington University.

The joke item was:

Target: GONP Courier Flight Place: Unspecified Date:24-25 December 1974

A new organization of uncertain make-up, using the name "Group of the Martyr Ebenezer Scrooge," plans to sabotage the annual courier flight of the Government of the North Pole. Prime Minister and Chief Courier S. Claus has been notified and security precautions are being coordinated worldwide by the CCCT working Group. (CONFIDENTIAL)

You can access the pdf file here (see page 5), details of its FOI history here. [Found via: PRWatch's Spin of the Day for May 21 2003.]

Oh - ...and realise it isn't.