The Art of DeceptionIntelligence agencies, companies, and organizations of all kinds have developed strategies to infiltrate and manipulate groups online, combining an understanding of individual psychology and group dynamics to craft sophisticated techniques for deception. Anyone who is paying attention has seen these strategies in action over the years and the Covid “crisis” has provided an excellent case study. Media outlets and shill accounts do more than promote propaganda, there is an intentional effort to control our attention and emotional state as this is the best way to influence decision making.
In 2014, a presentation created by the Joint Research Intelligence Group (a secret British intelligence unit) was leaked online:
“The Art of Deception: Training For A New Generation of Online Covert Operations”. While it looks a bit schizo, it shows various elements involved in running a digital psyops. Notice the emphasis placed on people – identity, beliefs, perception – and not information. The goal is to wield our most base drives and desires against us. Information is a tool deployed against existing biases and blind spots.
In the alternative news/truth seeking/conspiracy world a lot of energy is directed towards collecting as many facts as possible and staying up to the minute with the latest news. Training programs like this one teach how to confuse, misdirect, and neutralize those seeking answers by exploiting our curiosity and willingness to accept information that conforms with our expectations and worldview. QAnon is the most obvious example of a prepackaged conspiracy designed to satisfy the psychological needs of a particular demographic of skeptics. But so much of what is out there serves the same purpose in a more subtle way (more on this topic in future posts). While we’re distracted, trying to put the puzzle pieces together, often arguing amongst ourselves, TPTB destroy economies and set up tyrannical systems that will be impossible to undo regardless of who is “elected” into office.
The presentation frequently references magicians - an apt analogy to this form of spycraft. Nearly everything we’re seeing is part of the show, every move scripted, even the mistakes and blunders are critical to pulling off the trick.
Check out the full document by clicking here.#psyops
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