In the original 1967 publication of
The Report From Iron Mountain, written at the suggestion of
Victor Navasky, Lewin was credited only as the author of the introduction to a purported government report that concluded that if a lasting peace "could be achieved, it would almost certainly not be in the best interests of society to achieve it." Lewin successfully sued to establish his copyright over the work in a case brought when the
Report was published without the consent of Lewin or the original publisher,
Dial Press. The prospective publisher, the
Liberty Lobby, had argued that as an
authentic U.S. government document, the report was in the
public domain. The parties settled out of court with Liberty Lobby agreeing to pay Lewin an undisclosed sum and return over a thousand unsold copies. Lewin first claimed that the report was a hoax in 1972, writing that the
Pentagon Papers were "as outrageous, morally and intellectually" as his own satiric creation: "The charade is over. Some of the documents read like parodies of Iron Mountain, rather than the reverse." ==References==