The voynich manuscript as a diabolic tool to lure people into mental health issues?

[Jorge_Stolfi]

I have the feeling that some people can get very obsessed with the manuscript and that it can have a negative impact on their lives. I can see that it tries to lure me into it and it is very difficult to not loose myself.

Considering the amount of time that people at NSA and Bletchley Park veterans wasted on it, at the height of the Cold War, one might think that it is a devilish invention of the Bolsheviks meant to neutralize Western intelligence agencies before the October revolution.  Which continued to to its job until well after WW2.  

One problem with this theory is the known history of the VMS.  The theory would be more credible if the Manuscript had surfaced in the West no earlier than, say, 1912 (when the Bolshevik party was founded), through the agency of, say, an immigrant who was a notorious Russian revolutionary, who may have told conflicting stories about its provenance and possibly failed to produce clear documentation of his purchase.  It would be even more credible if the provenance of the book had been supported only by circumstantial evidence, like, for example, a vague letter from the 1600s allegedly found still attached to the book, in spite of it allegedly having been moved many times in the next 400 years in an improbable international shell game; and if there was absolutely no record before 1912 that clearly identified this book.  But I gather that none of this is the case.  So we can safely ignore this possibility.

All the best, --stolfi