Just re-read this, in Joe Barnhart's _The Southern Baptist Holy War_ (1986) of all places, and, well, you've probably already heard about it, but if not, doesn't it sound familiar anyway?:

"Leonard Arrington, official historian for the Latter-day Saints for a number of years, was appointed by the church hierarchy to employ a crew of professionally trained researchers to work on the original foundational documents of the church. When eventually the hierarchy learned that the results of the project seemed to reflect unfavorably on Mormon orthodoxy, it took three steps to interfere with the project: it moved the historical department away from the main source of manuscripts at church headquarters in Salt Lake City, it unceremoniously relieved Arrington of his responsibilities, and it blatantly suppressed the sixteen-volume sesquicentennial history.

Today, the historical department sits on the second floor of the Latter-day Saints Church Office Building. On one wall of that second floor hang portraits of church historians, beginning with the first and ending with the current, G. Homer Durham. Dr. Arrington's portrait is conspicuously absent."

Reminds one in a way of _The Pentagon Papers_, too.

And _1984_.

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