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Eight Traits of the Dis-Informationalist
DIR By: Colleen
Date: February 27, 2014, 8:24 pm
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Eight Traits of the Disinformationalist
1) Avoidance. They never actually discuss issues head-on or
provide constructive input, generally avoiding citation of
references or credentials. Rather, they merely imply this, that,
and the other. Virtually everything about their presentation
implies their authority and expert knowledge in the matter
without any further justification for credibility.
2) Selectivity. They tend to pick and choose opponents
carefully, either applying the hit-and-run approach against mere
commentators supportive of opponents, or focusing heavier
attacks on key opponents who are known to directly address
issues. Should a commentator become argumentative with any
success, the focus will shift to include the commentator as
well.
3) Coincidental. They tend to surface suddenly and somewhat
coincidentally with a new controversial topic with no clear
prior record of participation in general discussions in the
particular public arena involved. They likewise tend to vanish
once the topic is no longer of general concern. They were likely
directed or elected to be there for a reason, and vanish with
the reason.
4) Teamwork. They tend to operate in self-congratulatory and
complementary packs or teams. Of course, this can happen
naturally in any public forum, but there will likely be an
ongoing pattern of frequent exchanges of this sort where
professionals are involved. Sometimes one of the players will
infiltrate the opponent camp to become a source for straw man or
other tactics designed to dilute opponent presentation strength.
5) Anti-conspiratorial. They almost always have disdain for
'conspiracy theorists' and, usually, for those who in any way
believe JFK was not killed by LHO. Ask yourself why, if they
hold such disdain for conspiracy theorists, do they focus on
defending a single topic discussed in a NG focusing on
conspiracies? One might think they would either be trying to
make fools of everyone on every topic, or simply ignore the
group they hold in such disdain.Or, one might more rightly
conclude they have an ulterior motive for their actions in going
out of their way to focus as they do.
6) Artificial Emotions. An odd kind of 'artificial' emotionalism
and an unusually thick skin -- an ability to persevere and
persist even in the face of overwhelming criticism and
unacceptance. This likely stems from intelligence community
training that, no matter how condemning the evidence, deny
everything, and never become emotionally involved or reactive.
The net result for a disinfo artist is that emotions can seem
artificial.
Most people, if responding in anger, for instance, will express
their animosity throughout their rebuttal. But disinfo types
usually have trouble maintaining the 'image' and are hot and
cold with respect to pretended emotions and their usually more
calm or unemotional communications style. It's just a job, and
they often seem unable to 'act their role in character' as well
in a communications medium as they might be able in a real
face-to-face conversation/confrontation. You might have outright
rage and indignation one moment, ho-hum the next, and more anger
later -- an emotional yo-yo.
With respect to being thick-skinned, no amount of criticism will
deter them from doing their job, and they will generally
continue their old disinfo patterns without any adjustments to
criticisms of how obvious it is that they play that game --
where a more rational individual who truly cares what others
think might seek to improve their communications style,
substance, and so forth, or simply give up.
7) Inconsistent. There is also a tendency to make mistakes which
betray their true self/motives. This may stem from not really
knowing their topic, or it may be somewhat 'freudian', so to
speak, in that perhaps they really root for the side of truth
deep within.
I have noted that often, they will simply cite contradictory
information which neutralizes itself and the author. For
instance, one such player claimed to be a Navy pilot, but blamed
his poor communicating skills (spelling, grammar, incoherent
style) on having only a grade-school education. I'm not aware of
too many Navy pilots who don't have a college degree. Another
claimed no knowledge of a particular topic/situation but later
claimed first-hand knowledge of it.
8) Time Constant. Recently discovered, with respect to News
Groups, is the response time factor. There are three ways this
can be seen to work, especially when the government or other
empowered player is involved in a cover up operation:
a) ANY NG posting by a targeted proponent for truth can result
in an IMMEDIATE response. The government and other empowered
players can afford to pay people to sit there and watch for an
opportunity to do some damage. SINCE DISINFO IN A NG ONLY WORKS
IF THE READER SEES IT - FAST RESPONSE IS CALLED FOR, or the
visitor may be swayed towards truth.
b) When dealing in more direct ways with a disinformationalist,
such as email, DELAY IS CALLED FOR - there will usually be a
minimum of a 48-72 hour delay. This allows a sit-down team
discussion on response strategy for best effect, and even enough
time to 'get permission' or instruction from a formal chain of
command.
c) In the NG example 1) above, it will often ALSO be seen that
bigger guns are drawn and fired after the same 48-72 hours delay
- the team approach in play. This is especially true when the
targeted truth seeker or their comments are considered more
important with respect to potential to reveal truth. Thus, a
serious truth sayer will be attacked twice for the same sin.
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How to Spot a Spy (Cointelpro Agent)
One way to neutralize a potential activist is to get them to be
in a group that does all the wrong things. Why?
1) The message doesn't get out.
2) A lot of time is wasted
3) The activist is frustrated and discouraged
4) Nothing good is accomplished.
FBI and Police Informers and Infiltrators will infest any group
and they have phoney activist organizations established.
Their purpose is to prevent any real movement for justice or
eco-peace from developing in this country.
Agents come in small, medium or large. They can be of any ethnic
background. They can be male or female.
The actual size of the group or movement being infiltrated is
irrelevant. It is the potential the movement has for becoming
large which brings on the spies and saboteurs.
This booklet lists tactics agents use to slow things down, foul
things up, destroy the movement and keep tabs on activists.
It is the agent's job to keep the activist from quitting such a
group, thus keeping him/her under control.
In some situations, to get control, the agent will tell the
activist:
"You're dividing the movement."
[Here, I have added the psychological reasons as to WHY this
maneuver works to control people]
This invites guilty feelings. Many people can be controlled by
guilt. The agents begin relationships with activists behind a
well-developed mask of "dedication to the cause." Because of
their often declared dedication, (and actions designed to prove
this), when they criticize the activist, he or she - being truly
dedicated to the movement - becomes convinced that somehow, any
issues are THEIR fault. This is because a truly dedicated person
tends to believe that everyone has a conscience and that nobody
would dissimulate and lie like that "on purpose." It's amazing
how far agents can go in manipulating an activist because the
activist will constantly make excuses for the agent who
regularly declares their dedication to the cause. Even if they
do, occasionally, suspect the agent, they will pull the wool
over their own eyes by rationalizing: "they did that
unconsciously... they didn't really mean it... I can help them
by being forgiving and accepting " and so on and so forth.
The agent will tell the activist:
"You're a leader!"
This is designed to enhance the activist's self-esteem. His or
her narcissistic admiration of his/her own activist/altruistic
intentions increase as he or she identifies with and consciously
admires the altruistic declarations of the agent which are
deliberately set up to mirror those of the activist.
This is "malignant pseudoidentification." It is the process by
which the agent consciously imitates or simulates a certain
behavior to foster the activist's identification with him/her,
thus increasing the activist's vulnerability to exploitation.
The agent will simulate the more subtle self-concepts of the
activist.
Activists and those who have altruistic self-concepts are most
vulnerable to malignant pseudoidentification especially during
work with the agent when the interaction includes matter
relating to their competency, autonomy, or knowledge.
The goal of the agent is to increase the activist's general
empathy for the agent through pseudo-identification with the
activist's self-concepts.
The most common example of this is the agent who will compliment
the activist for his competency or knowledge or value to the
movement. On a more subtle level, the agent will simulate
affects and mannerisms of the activist which promotes
identification via mirroring and feelings of "twinship". It is
not unheard of for activists, enamored by the perceived
helpfulness and competence of a good agent, to find themselves
considering ethical violations and perhaps, even illegal
behavior, in the service of their agent/handler.
The activist's "felt quality of perfection" [self-concept] is
enhanced, and a strong empathic bond is developed with the agent
through his/her imitation and simulation of the victim's own
narcissistic investments. [self-concepts] That is, if the
activist knows, deep inside, their own dedication to the cause,
they will project that onto the agent who is "mirroring" them.
The activist will be deluded into thinking that the agent shares
this feeling of identification and bonding. In an
activist/social movement setting, the adversarial roles that
activists naturally play vis a vis the establishment/government,
fosters ongoing processes of intrapsychic splitting so that
"twinship alliances" between activist and agent may render whole
sectors or reality testing unavailable to the activist. They
literally "lose touch with reality."
Activists who deny their own narcissistic investments [do not
have a good idea of their own self-concepts and that they ARE
concepts] and consciously perceive themselves (accurately, as it
were) to be "helpers" endowed with a special amount of altruism
are exceedingly vulnerable to the affective (emotional)
simulation of the accomplished agent.
Empathy is fostered in the activist through the expression of
quite visible affects. The presentation of tearfulness, sadness,
longing, fear, remorse, and guilt, may induce in the
helper-oriented activist a strong sense of compassion, while
unconsciously enhancing the activist's narcissistic investment
in self as the embodiment of goodness.
The agent's expresssion of such simulated affects may be quite
compelling to the observer and difficult to distinguish from
deep emotion.
It can usually be identified by two events, however:
First, the activist who has analyzed his/her own narcissistic
roots and is aware of his/her own potential for being
"emotionally hooked," will be able to remain cool and unaffected
by such emotional outpourings by the agent.
As a result of this unaffected, cool, attitude, the Second event
will occur: The agent will recompensate much too quickly
following such an affective expression leaving the activist with
the impression that "the play has ended, the curtain has
fallen," and the imposture, for the moment, has finished. The
agent will then move quickly to another activist/victim.
The fact is, the movement doesn't need leaders, it needs MOVERS.
"Follow the leader" is a waste of time.
A good agent will want to meet as often as possible. He or she
will talk a lot and say little. One can expect an onslaught of
long, unresolved discussions.
Some agents take on a pushy, arrogant, or defensive manner:
1) To disrupt the agenda
2) To side-track the discussion
3) To interrupt repeatedly
4) To feign ignorance
5) To make an unfounded accusation against a person.
Calling someone a racist, for example. This tactic is used to
discredit a person in the eyes of all other group members.
Saboteurs
Some saboteurs pretend to be activists. She or he will ....
1) Write encyclopedic flyers (in the present day, websites)
2) Print flyers in English only.
3) Have demonstrations in places where no one cares.
4) Solicit funding from rich people instead of grass roots
support
5) Display banners with too many words that are confusing.
6) Confuse issues.
7) Make the wrong demands.
Cool Compromise the goal.
9) Have endless discussions that waste everyone's time. The
agent may accompany the endless discussions with drinking, pot
smoking or other amusement to slow down the activist's work.
Provocateurs
1) Want to establish "leaders" to set them up for a fall in
order to stop the movement.
2) Suggest doing foolish, illegal things to get the activists in
trouble.
3) Encourage militancy.
4) Want to taunt the authorities.
5) Attempt to make the activist compromise their values.
6) Attempt to instigate violence. Activisim ought to always be
non-violent.
7) Attempt to provoke revolt among people who are ill-prepared
to deal with the reaction of the authorities to such violence.
Informants
1) Want everyone to sign up and sing in and sign everything.
2) Ask a lot of questions (gathering data).
3) Want to know what events the activist is planning to attend.
4) Attempt to make the activist defend him or herself to
identify his or her beliefs, goals, and level of committment.
Recruiting
Legitimate activists do not subject people to hours of
persuasive dialog. Their actions, beliefs, and goals speak for
themselves.
Groups that DO recruit are missionaries, military, and fake
political parties or movements set up by agents.
Surveillance
ALWAYS assume that you are under surveillance.
At this point, if you are NOT under surveillance, you are not a
very good activist!
Scare Tactics
They use them.
Such tactics include slander, defamation, threats, getting close
to disaffected or minimally committed fellow activists to
persuade them (via psychological tactics described above) to
turn against the movement and give false testimony against their
former compatriots. They will plant illegal substances on the
activist and set up an arrest; they will plant false information
and set up "exposure," they will send incriminating letters
[emails] in the name of the activist; and more; they will do
whatever society will allow.
This booklet in no way covers all the ways agents use to
sabotage the lives of sincere an dedicated activists.
If an agent is "exposed," he or she will be transferred or
replaced.
COINTELPRO is still in operation today under a different code
name. It is no longer placed on paper where it can be discovered
through the freedom of information act.
The FBI counterintelligence program's stated purpose: To expose,
disrupt, misdirect, discredit, and otherwise neutralize
individuals who the FBI categorize as opposed to the National
Interests. "National Security" means the FBI's security from the
people ever finding out the vicious things it does in violation
of people's civil liberties.
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Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression
Strong, credible allegations of high-level criminal activity can
bring down a government. When the government lacks an effective,
fact-based defense, other techniques must be employed. The
success of these techniques depends heavily upon a cooperative,
compliant press and a mere token opposition party.
1. Dummy up. If it's not reported, if it's not news, it didn't
happen.
2. Wax indignant. This is also known as the "How dare you?"
gambit.
3. Characterize the charges as "rumors" or, better yet, "wild
rumors." If, in spite of the news blackout, the public is still
able to learn about the suspicious facts, it can only be through
"rumors." (If they tend to believe the "rumors" it must be
because they are simply "paranoid" or "hysterical.")
4. Knock down straw men. Deal only with the weakest aspects of
the weakest charges. Even better, create your own straw men.
Make up wild rumors (or plant false stories) and give them lead
play when you appear to debunk all the charges, real and
fanciful alike.
5. Call the skeptics names like "conspiracy theorist,"
"nutcase," "ranter," "kook," "crackpot," and, of course, "rumor
monger." Be sure, too, to use heavily loaded verbs and
adjectives when characterizing their charges and defending the
"more reasonable" government and its defenders. You must then
carefully avoid fair and open debate with any of the people you
have thus maligned. For insurance, set up your own "skeptics" to
shoot down.
6. Impugn motives. Attempt to marginalize the critics by
suggesting strongly that they are not really interested in the
truth but are simply pursuing a partisan political agenda or are
out to make money (compared to over-compensated adherents to the
government line who, presumably, are not).
7. Invoke authority. Here the controlled press and the sham
opposition can be very useful.
8. Dismiss the charges as "old news."
9. Come half-clean. This is also known as "confession and
avoidance" or "taking the limited hangout route." This way, you
create the impression of candor and honesty while you admit only
to relatively harmless, less-than-criminal "mistakes." This
stratagem often requires the embrace of a fall-back position
quite different from the one originally taken. With effective
damage control, the fall-back position need only be peddled by
stooge skeptics to carefully limited markets.
10. Characterize the crimes as impossibly complex and the truth
as ultimately unknowable.
11. Reason backward, using the deductive method with a
vengeance. With thoroughly rigorous deduction, troublesome
evidence is irrelevant. E.g. We have a completely free press. If
evidence exists that the Vince Foster "suicide" note was forged,
they would have reported it. They haven't reported it so there
is no such evidence. Another variation on this theme involves
the likelihood of a conspiracy leaker and a press who would
report the leak.
12. Require the skeptics to solve the crime completely. E.g. If
Foster was murdered, who did it and why?
13. Change the subject. This technique includes creating and/or
publicizing distractions.
14. Lightly report incriminating facts, and then make nothing of
them. This is sometimes referred to as "bump and run" reporting.
15. Baldly and brazenly lie. A favorite way of doing this is to
attribute the "facts" furnished the public to a
plausible-sounding, but anonymous, source.
16. Expanding further on numbers 4 and 5, have your own stooges
"expose" scandals and champion popular causes. Their job is to
pre-empt real opponents and to play 99-yard football. A
variation is to pay rich people for the job who will pretend to
spend their own money.
17. Flood the Internet with agents. This is the answer to the
question, "What could possibly motivate a person to spend hour
upon hour on Internet news groups defending the government
and/or the press and harassing genuine critics?" Don t the
authorities have defenders enough in all the newspapers,
magazines, radio, and television? One would think refusing to
print critical letters and screening out serious callers or
dumping them from radio talk shows would be control enough, but,
obviously, it is not.
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