U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower originally coined the term in his Farewell Address to the Nation on January 17, 1961- This alleged 1956 diary entry uses the term “military industrial complex”, which was coined by Eisenhower in 1961. There is no known use of the term prior to 1961, although there are some cases where authors discussed the concept using different words. Therefore this diary entry and the book is FAKE.