Production Weekly, an online entertainment industry magazine, falsely reported in October 2006 that Burn After Reading was a loose adaptation of Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence, a memoir by former U.S. Director of Central Intelligence Stansfield Turner.
Production Weekly, internetski časopis zabavne industrije, pogrešno je izvijestio u listopadu 2006. kako je Spaliti nakon čitanja djelomična adaptacija Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence, memoara bivšeg direktora američke obavještajne agencije Stansfielda Turnera.