I think they are reading way too much into this, but hey, I wasn't around back then
Big Apes and Bad Biology
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_monsters_060302.html
A recent opinion piece in the New York Times suggested that "King Kong" was
motivated by Soviet experiments in the 1920s designed to produce a
human-chimpanzee hybrid (in an attempt to discredit religion, while
simultaneously offending chimp family values).
