It's pretty much been confirmed as false. The story originally came from the Weekly World News, a publication usually given to announcing stories about aliens walking among us and human-bat hybrid freaks. The other sites reporting the story seem to pretty much copy the report verbatim from the WWN. The urban legends site Snopes claims it is a false legend
http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/insider.htm. The WWN, interestingly enough, follows up their original story
http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/news/index.cfm?instanceid=576 59
Believe what you want, conspiracy hounds...