(Editors notes) My problem is that I believe everything is everything, and that, especially when you get into the psycho-sexual, minor facets are predictors of a broader pattern. I spent years trying to define this, partly for my own therapy, but also to help others develop an immune system.
Apparently, you can condition a civilization into thinking circumcision is normal; or, for generations, trick mothers into not breastfeeding to make Nestlé money. People may even get mad in defense of these things just because they don't want to admit that they've been exploited. I wonder, what other harmful practices you can condition people into doing through state/institution backed cultural propaganda?
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Wellington House - Britain's War Propaganda Bureau set up in 1914, tasked with coming up with propaganda methods against Germany at the turn of the century. Funded by the Rockerfellers, Rothschilds and UK Monarchy. Known for depicting Germans dismembering people and killing babies; they successfully spread a rumor that German soldiers were crucifying people. The bureau invited 25 leading British authors, including Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, and H.G. Wells, who coined the term, Hun to refer to Germans, and later coined the term new world order, in avocation of the concept.
Congress for Cultural Freedom - In 1950, the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) and its secret funder, the CIA, actively promoted Black creators globally to counter Soviet propaganda about US racism. The CIA was especially keen on sending black artists to Europe, including singers like Marion Anderson and Louis Armstrong. Contrary to popular belief, Jackson Pollock and modern art in general was also covertly supported by the CIA through this institution.
Entertainment Liaison Offices - During WWII, the US Office of War Information opened the Beurau of Motion Pictures to further their relationship with Hollywood. Between 1942 to 45, this bureau reviewed more that 14,000 scripts and revised or abandoned projects which portrayed the the US government in a bad light.
After WWII, the DoD developed the first Entertainment Liaison Offices to act as conduits for US government messaging to Hollywood studios. The CIA did not publicly establish a similar office until 1996.
Researcher Tom Secker uncovered a 1958 memo on “Films for Counterintelligence Training” involving screenings of The Man Who Never Was and Walk East on Beacon. The memo makes it clear that some of the Hollywood films were being used to train new recruits.
Researcher Tom Seckler discovered that in 1996, a CIA officer named Chase Brandon was hired to work directly with Hollywood studios to rehabilitate the agency's image; Chase Brandon is also the first cousin of actor Tommy Lee Jones. Some of Chase Brandon’s work involves well known films like the 2002 Tom Clancy political thriller, The Sum of All Fears starring Ben Affleck. The CIA gave Affleck and the film makers a personal tour of CIA headquarters and provided access to analysts; Chase Brandon visited the set to provide advice. He was also a regular on the set of TV show Alias, starring Affleck’s then-wife Jennifer Garner, who would go on to film a promotional video for the CIA.
In 2017, Tom Secker and Matthew Alford, professor at University of Bath, released their book, National Security Cinema providing conclusive evidence of the massive influence the US intelligence and military have exerted on Hollywood. The book is based on files obtained via open records requests which detail how the Department of Defense offered support to more than 800 films between 1911 and 2017, including: Transformers, Iron Man, Pirates of the Caribbean, Mission: Impossible, and The Terminator. The research of Alford and Secker shows that 7 of the top 10 highest-grossing film franchises of all time have benefited from Department of Defense and CIA support, including the Marvel Cinematic Universe, James Bond and The Fast and the Furious. When it comes to the Transformers franchise, the DOD paid the filmmakers to gain “very early influence over the scripts” by giving them the most military assistance in film making history, including “twelve types of Air Force aircraft and troops from four different bases.” National Security Cinema also details how more than 1,100 t productions received backing from the Pentagon. The vast majority of these took place after 9/11, including Flight 93, Ice Road Truckers, Army Wives, 24, Homeland, and The Agency. The CIA has helped with around 60 film and TV productions since 1947.
Famed CIA whistle-blower John Kiriakou made a living on the side by advising Hollywood, serving on a board made up of former CIA officers, diplomats, and FBI agents, who reviewed scripts about spies or terrorism to make them more realistic.
Luigi Luraschi was the head of censorship at Paramount Studios where he was in regular contact with an anonymous individual at the CIA. The purpose of the contact was to inform the CIA of the studios’ ability and desire to change movies to meet Us government expectations. For example, a 1955 film, Strategic Air Command, was changed so Americans did not appear as “a lot of trigger-happy warmongering people.” Films which received advice and/or support, as well as script changes: The Bourne Identity, The Sum of All Fears, The Recruit, Avatar, Charlie Wilson’s War, Contact, Hotel Rwanda, The Interview, The Kingdom, Lone Survivor, Rules of Engagement.
Matthew Alford has said the Marine Corps admitted there are 90 boxes of relevant material in its archive. “The government has seemed especially careful to avoid writing down details of actual changes made to scripts in the 21st century.”
In December 2019 former CIA officer turned Democrat Representative Elissa Slotkin said: “Some movies are just total craziness and don’t represent reality at all. Actually, the CIA has a whole office that will help Hollywood understand how to portray what really goes on.”
In 2016, professor Tricia Jenkins published leaked private memos as part of her book The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television. These memos and other memos show that, among others, the Osama bin Laden assassination movie Zero Dark Thirty and the film Argo, were heavily influenced by government officials to make the government look impressive or to downplay their mistakes.
Sometimes script changes requested by the government can be subtle, like when Tricia Jenkins says the US government requested the script for the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day be changed so that the protagonists worked for the military rather than as civilians.
The Green Beret's with John Wayne depicted the North Vietnamese committing atrocities actually committed by the US.
In 1986, Top Gun started the modern era of military and intelligence influence in Hollywood films. The film served as a successful promotional film for the US Navy with enlistment for naval aviators jumping 500 percent.
The most recent example of the US military seeking to influence the public’s perception via films came in early 2021 when it was revealed that the US Marine Corps played an integral role in the development of James Cameron’s Avatar. Nearly 1,700 pages of documents released by the Corps’ entertainment media liaison office show this relationship in action. An April 2009 report details how Hollywood liaison officers “met with director/writer James Cameron”. The documents reveal that the military viewed the film as a propaganda success, including having entertainment liaison officers invited to speak on a military panel at Comic Con in 2011. The military liked the film so much they arranged screenings on military bases and had actors and producers participate in a Navy Entertainment Program visit.
Operation SHAMROCK - The 1975, Chruch Committee exposed the existence of Operation SHAMROCK, in which the major telecommunications companies shared their traffic with the NSA from 1945 to the early 1970s.
The Church Committee’s final report, published in April 1976, also covered CIA ties with both foreign and domestic news media. The report mentions that agents had planted false stories about activists, including MLK. The report found that the CIA maintained a network of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provide intelligence for the CIA and at times attempted to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda. These individuals provide the CIA with direct access to many newspapers and periodicals, press services and news agencies, radio and television stations, commercial book publishers, and other foreign media outlets.
In the United States, the CIA estimated they had around 50 assets who are individual American journalists or employees of US media organizations. The Committee found that more than a dozen US news organizations and commercial publishing houses formerly provided cover for CIA agents abroad. A few of these organizations were unaware that they provided this cover.
At a House Intelligence Committee hearing in 1975, CIA Director William Colby was questioned about whether the agency had employees in TV networks and newspapers. Colby declined to answer and insisted on a “private executive session” to discuss the details of the arrangement.
'Operation Mockingbird' - The name "Operation Mockingbird" did not originate as an official, centralized title for a master CIA media-control program. Instead, the label evolved as a retrospective term popularized by writer Deborah Davis in her 1979 book Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and Her Washington Post, combining a real 1963 wiretapping code-name with broader Cold War media infiltration exposés.
Nevertheless, in 1973, NYT reported that the CIA had about three dozen American journalists working abroad on its payroll as undercover informants, some of them as full‐time agents. None of the names of the journalists were revealed to the public.
1976, article titled 'CIA Ties to Journalists' by the NYT: “A draft copy of a report by the House Select Committee on Intelligence last week said that 11 full‐time officers of the Central Intelligence Agency were posing as journalists overseas in connection with their intelligence work. The report said further that until 1978 live agents posed as full‐time correspondents with organizations that have “major general news impact.” Moreover, the report said, some 15 news organizations had cooperated with the CIA in providing “cover” for CIA operatives.”
The Times goes on to state that: “Press freedom here is protected from Government intrusion under the First Amendment to the Constitution and thus a reader, viewer or listener has the right to expect that the news will not be slanted to conform to a governmental position
An agent reporting from abroad to the United States would face an impossible task in sorting out his allegiance to his real employer, the CIA, from that to his news organization and its readers.”
The CIA formally refused to make public the names of which American news agencies cooperate with the CIA, which ones allowed themselves to be used as a cover and the names of the reporters who secretly worked for the CIA. The Times also noted that Sam Jaffe, a former TV reporter who admitted to working with the FBI, accused popular journalists like Walter Cronkite of CBS of being on the list of journalists paid by the CIA.
Carl Bernstein’s 1977 Rolling Stone article, The CIA and the Media, reported that the relationship between the intelligence community and the mainstream media was much more extensive than even the Church Committee revealed. Bernstein alleged that the committee actually helped cover up some of the worst aspects of the partnership because it would have revealed “embarrassing relationships in the 1950s and 1960s with some of the most powerful organizations and individuals in American journalism.”
Bernstein reported that from 1950 to 1966, about ten CIA employees were provided cover by the NY Times under arrangements approved by the newspaper’s late publisher, Arthur Hays Sulzberger. The cover arrangements were part of a general Times policy to “provide assistance to the CIA whenever possible.” In addition, Sulzberger was a close friend of CIA Director Allen Dulles.
Bernstein’s reporting also showed that during the 1950’s, the CIA conducted a “formal training program” to instruct its agents to function as newsmen. “These were the guys who went through the ranks and were told ‘You’re going to be a journalist,'' one CIA official told Bernstein. Bernstein also reported that the CIA’s former director Allen Dulles and close friend Henry Luce, the founder of Time and Life magazines, regularly allowed members of his staff to work for the CIA.
Several other revelations came out in 1977, including Sig Mickelson, former head of CBS, admitting he had often worked with the intelligence community in the 1950’s. Additionally, the Times reported that as part of a global propaganda network maintained by the agency. Perhaps even more damaging, William Colby admitted that some American networks had unwittingly repeated false stories planted by the CIA.
The CIA claimed the practice of using journalists to distribute stories had ended in 1973. However, in July 1996, the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence held a hearing regarding public policy on the CIA’s possible use of journalists, clergy, or Peace Corps. The Director of CIA at that time, John Deutch, wanted to change regulations prohibiting the use of journalists, clergy and missionaries, and the Peace Corps abroad to perform political intelligence operations.
Conspiracy Theories - One of the vague things you can get taken off of most social media for is promoting conspiracy theories. The phrase conspiracy theory comes from CIA Memorandum 1035-960, which outlined strategies to counter critics of the Warren Commission report on the JFK assassination, prescribing the phrase in reference to those suspicious of plotters other than Oswald. The memo also advised pointing out inconsistencies in conspiracy arguments, such as the difficulty of concealing large scale conspiracies in the US. It also encouraged media allies to emphasize the thoroughness of the Warren Commission report.
MPA - Jack Valenti was the CIA's man in Hollywood, responsible for the MPAA film rating system; he also probably helped kill JFK, and can be seen in the back of the picture of LBJ being inaugurated in Air Force One.
Before becoming president of the Motion Picture Association of America, Valenti had served as a Special Assistant to Lyndon Johnson.
Valenti was born in 1921 into two mob families, The De George, on his mothers side, and the Valenti family on his fathers. FBI files indicate that, Valenti had been investigated for crimes such as bank fraud and smuggling women into Mexico for illegal abortions. According to FBI informants, Valenti had associations with an unidentified hoodlum and book maker in Houston, likely Joseph Lucia, due to that families history with the Valentis.
According to an FBI document investigating his background, it is indicated that Valenti and Lucia carried on a homosexual relationship, and that Lucia covered his honeymoon expenses to Las Vagas.
Valenti applied to Harvard but was rejected because he was only a b/c student. After flying to Boston, however, he was somehow secured permission to enter their eighteen month business school. [FBI file Jack Valenti page 90, archive.org]
In the 50s Jack Valenti ran an ad business called Weekly and Valenti in Houston, servicing clients such as Continental Oil. Valenti started working for Humble Oil as a hall-boy, moving up the ranks to become manager of sales promotion and advertising.
Him and his company were hired to run LBJ's campaigns in Texas, then an ad contract for Kennedy's presidential run in 1960. A 1963 FBI memo reveals that Valenti's payroll was moved from that of a "federal agency" to that of the white house. (FBI File, Jack Valenti, Page 49, archive.org)
Valenti was employed as a consultant in the state department from 1966 to 1969, however it is recorded that during his employment he worked of total of zero days. 1966 was also the year Jack became head of the Motion picture association of America. If you can't tell by now, the CIA runs Hollywood.
granted clearance for top secret 6 days before leaving government service. This position was renewed in 1967 when he was granted a position on the board of foreign scholarship, which only terminates when the persons relationship with the DoS terminates. [FBI file Jack Valenti page 173, archive.org] In May of 66 Valenti was given most of Bill Moyors security functions and made to preside over the meetings of CIA officials such as Richard Helms, who reported to him. [Jack Anderson, The Washington post, byplay in the Valenti appointment, may 11, 1966] Jack Valenti quit as Johnson's aid to become head of the MPAA. (Motion picture association of America)
The Grateful Dead - While a college student at Stanford University, Ken Kesey, author of, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, volunteered for MKUltra LSD experiments. Kesey later went on to promote the drug by hosting acid tests in the form of LSD-fueled parties, which incorporated musical performances by The Grateful Dead. Robert Hunter, the band's lyricist, was also an MKUltra test subject at Stanford around 1961.
(Another lyricist, John Barlow, was a childhood friend of Dick Cheney. Just putting it out there.) These parties influenced the early development of hippie culture and sparked the psychedelic drug scene in the 1960s. Allen Ginsburg, one of the most prominent voices of the psychedelic movement, was also an MKUltra test subject.
Council on Foreign Relations - A NY Times article from February 1996 notes that Deutch was questioned about reports that the CIA had secretly waived 1977 regulations in “extraordinarily rare” occasions, and used journalistic or media cover for intelligence activities overseas. CIA officials declined to acknowledge whether members of church leadership have been used as CIA assets as well. Interestingly, the Times articles notes that the controversy over the CIA’s use of “non-diplomatic covers” came after recommendations by a “a task force sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations.” The task force called for ending “legal and policy restraints” that limited the CIA’s use of such nondiplomatic covers as journalists and members of clergy.
Only 3 years earlier, in 1993, Richard Harwood, journalist and former editor of The Washington Post, wrote an article titled, Ruling Class Journalists, in which he outlines how the American corporate mainstream media serves the agenda of the ruling class. Harwood doesn’t focus his column on the US intelligence agencies which are using the media to spread various types of propaganda. Instead, Harwood discusses the connection between the American media and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Harwood writes: “In its 70-year history, the quarterly journal Foreign Affairs has had but five editors. The fifth, recently appointed, is James Hoge, former publisher of the New York Daily News and before that editor of the Chicago Sun-Times. The quarterly is published by the Council on Foreign Relations, whose members are the nearest thing we have to a ruling establishment in the United States. The president is a member. So is his secretary of state, the deputy secretary of state, all five of the undersecretaries, several of the assistant secretaries and the department’s legal adviser. The president’s national security adviser and his deputy are members. The director of Central Intelligence (like all previous directors) and the chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board are members.''
Harwood goes on to note that many leading figures of American political life were members, including “Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Cyrus Vance, McGeorge Bundy, Gov. Mario Cuomo and so on.”
GCHQ - According to one of the documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the British government maintains software for “Online Persona Management”. The British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) operates an elite unit known as the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG). The documents outline tactics employed by the agency, including ways to manipulate public opinion, understand human thinking and behavior, and encourage conformity. One of the reports from 2011 outlines JTRIG’s tactics, including uploading YouTube videos containing “persuasive communications,” starting Facebook groups and Twitter accounts, and creating fake online personalities and supporters “to discredit, promote distrust, dissuade, deter, delay or disrupt.” The unit used social media campaigns to encourage and foster “obedience” and “conformity”.
Palantir - Palantir Technologies is an American software company founded in 2003 by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp, among others. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, it builds big data integration and artificial intelligence analytics platforms like Gotham, Foundry, and AIP for defense, intelligence, and commercial enterprises. They also operate high-profile data initiatives in the UK, including the NHS Federated Data Platform, alongside ongoing discussions regarding police and defense tech contracts.
Peter Theil bankrupted news website, Gawker for exposing him as a gay man. He is suspected of having had his ex-boyfriend thrown from a balcony to his death. He is known to have coached numerous dissident right figures who support the American regime and Israel, and personally groomed VP JD Vance, who had his own movie made about his adolescence.
Bellingcat - Bellingcat is an independent, international collective of researchers, investigators, and citizen journalists who specialize in open-source intelligence (OSINT) and digital fact-checking. Founded in July 2014 by British blogger Eliot Higgins, the group uses completely public information on the internet to solve major international crimes, track human rights abuses, and uncover secret military actions.
Tim Pool - Tim Pool is a luke-warm conservative podcaster. Despite being labelled a Russian agent, Pool met with Benjamin Netanyahu in 2025 during a private roundtable briefing at Blair House in Washington DC. The purpose of the meeting, which included other prominent right-wing podcasters and media figures like Dave Rubin and Sean Spicer, was for Netanyahu to directly address and counter rising anti-Israel trends and antisemitism within conservative media.
'Boy kibble' - In an attempt to co-opt the popularity of the phrase goyslop, the NYT made an article trying to socially engineer ''boy kibble,'' alleging it to be a viral social media food trend comparing modern food to dog food, despite the phrase having no digital footprint whatsoever.
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