The program, originally All-In, being referred to here is excerpted in this short episode of ReasonTV:
The “Twitter Files” are only the latest conspiracy theory to be proven true in recent times.
With more and more evidence demonstrating - without doubt - that the United States Government has been behind the greatest atrocities and cover-ups in the history of civilization (no joke), the notion that all conspiracy theories may just be true seems more plausible than ever.
The Beginning
J.R.R. Tolkien said, “I believe that legends and myths are largely made of truth.”
He was right, of course. In every tale or conspiracy theory, there is a grain of truth.
A grain of truth (or more than a grain) that threatens someone or a group of someones.
No, the CIA did not invent the term conspiracy theory.
Interestingly, the first proof of use (ironically and also in its contemporary context) has been found in the New York Times from 1863:
It is with regard to the conspiracy theory that England was aligning with whichever side was weakest in the American Civil War in hopes that by doing so America would be destroyed.
In December of 2018, a blogger named Hapgood found a rebuttal to this theory essentially stating ‘look, you don’t need to invent this whole bizarre plot. England supported abolition when it was cheap for them to do so. Now it’s looking like it might get expensive if their cotton is cut off, so they are muddling through this. Their lack of intervention is not due to a desire to let the war do maximum damage or cause financial collapse, but based on the fact that they have other foreign entanglements that are much more consequential at the moment and can’t afford a new one.’
Hapgood goes on to write, ‘You’ll note here that conspiracy theory — almost ten years before the other examples historians often note — is used much how we would use it now. It’s a put-down, an assertion that the complexity someone else sees is a result of ignorance or worse.
You’ll note too something that is almost too delicious: the first use of conspiracy theory is about a conspiracy said to involve the press. The first reference to conspiracy theory we have on record is, in part, a “The press is so unfair because they’re in the bag for the elite cabal” conspiracy. Fake news, man.’
My point in including this is to note that the denigration of conspiracy theorists has always worked so well because it is human nature to disavow that which presents as distasteful or is a contravention of what we already believe and because Occam’s Razor essentially tells us that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one.
That our go-to assumption that the CIA PsyOp masters first coined the term is only natural as it is the contemporary context we relate to.
The term became part of the fabric of civilian discussion of politics after the murder of JFK - as the CIA that killed him needed to ensure that anyone theorizing too close to that truth was ridiculed and shut down in as permanent a way as possible.
Discounting the questioning of anything those in power want to remain secret or to continue by publicly calling the questioner crazy, a kook, a tin foil hat wearer, etc., worked perfectly as few in the 20th century wanted to risk being ridiculed by their family and friends or ostracized from society due to those labels. Some poor victims of this practice lost their jobs and found relationships destroyed because the other person didn’t want guilt by association to ruin their lives, as well.
The government really perfected the method during the Roswell incident in New Mexico in 1947.
Roswell & UFOs
If you look up the Roswell Incident in the Encyclopedia Brittanica, you’ll find it opens with this:
“Roswell incident, events surrounding the crash and recovery of a U.S. Army Air Forces high-altitude balloon in 1947 near Roswell, New Mexico, which became the centre of a conspiracy theory involving UFOs and extraterrestrials.”
Interestingly, shortly after this opening paragraph, you’ll find text that reads this:
“In 1994 it was finally revealed that the balloon was part of the top-secret Project Mogul, which sought to detect Soviet nuclear bomb tests. That revelation, however, did little to end the conspiracy theories.”
At this juncture in history, with the innumerable pieces of evidence from around the world and our own government being forced to admit they’ve spent over 22 million dollars tracking UFOs, I feel sorry for anyone still believing that we’re alone in this vast and ever-expanding universe.
I also recommend that you look up and watch everything done by Jaime Maussan in the last three decades - he is Mexico’s Walter Cronkite who didn’t want to do anything but serious journalism. The network made him report on a UFO story early in his career and he never looked back.
If you change the subtitles to auto-translate/English, you can watch the Spanish-language channel on YouTube. The volume of evidence he’s collected over the years is remarkable.
There is also a film that is of great importance with regard to this topic.
It will upset you, as it did me.
Infuriate you, as it did me.
It’s called Mirage Men and if you go to Tubi.tv and search for it, you can watch it for free.
It is the story of government operatives, told by them themselves, of the counter-intelligence operations they conducted tricking people into thinking the UFO phenomena was created by the government so they would no longer believe in or promote the fact that UFOs were real and that the government knew about it.
Operation Berkshire
Per Sourcewatch.org
This was a series of meetings held in the mid-1970's between the multinational cigarette companies of the U.S. and Europe where the companies agreed to create a campaign to derail the social and political trends that were reducing nicotine consumption.
Documents from these meetings showed that the major tobacco manufacturers conspired to defeat public health measures to reduce smoking and to encourage the further spread of nicotine addiction despite knowing that their products caused cancer, risks to pregnancy, and cardiovascular disease.
The documents can be read here.
The tobacco companies used nearly the same techniques as those used on UFO experiencers, only worse.
As we’re seeing with the monetization incentive for doctors to inject innocent and unsuspecting people with the poison COVID vax, tobacco companies paid a panel of six doctors to testify against dying cancer patients when lawsuits were brought over smoking having caused their cancer.
This article in the Journal of Medicine tells a heartbreaking story that also tells the truth about the reality of the corporation-run world we live in.
When the COVID crimes are revealed in full, maybe people will be ready to understand that just about everything they think they know is a lie.
There is little that is not either a flat-out manipulation by a powerful entity engineering social ideas and norms (even if that means breaking the healthy norms to replace them with destructive norms - ie. the nuclear family for feminism and single parenting), or a constructed narrative to cover up actions or crimes that even the most liberal in society would refrain from supporting.
Nothing has been more frightening than the realization that those we rely on for our sustenance (food production and safety) and for our health (the medical establishment) are just as corrupt and apathetic to our harm as the ruling elite.
There is a complex hierarchy that we have not been privy to in this country. One that lives the medieval European model of Lords and serfs while wearing a façade of Americana. It must be revealed and understood by all, if not ideally believed as whole-heartedly as I and others who can see it.
COINTELPRO
What we’re discovering about the FBI violating the Constitutional and civil rights of American citizens isn’t new.
The following is excerpted from AllThatsInteresting.com and an article written by Abby Norman in 2015.
This letter was sent to MLK by the FBI trolling NPCs of yesteryear.
J. Edgar Hoover hated him.
He is quoted as having called MLK “the most dangerous negro of the future of this nation.”
The Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) at the FBI was basically Hoover’s personal troll squad from the years of 1957 to 1971, and really only came to a close after a group of vigilantes broke into a Pennsylvania field office, stole some dossiers and revealed their contents to the public.
Its initial public purpose was simple: expose, disrupt, misdirect, or otherwise neutralize groups that the FBI believed to be subversive. Field agents working for COINTELPRO were essentially tasked with stirring up trouble among these groups in order to encourage them to disband, or, in the case of individuals, soil their image. It was, in many ways, an exercise in psychological torture: the aim was to make groups, or individuals, so miserable that they would either stop protesting, disband their groups, be assassinated or murdered; or, take their own lives.
Some think this strategy–creating violent rifts among activist circles–is what led to Malcolm X’s 1965 assassination by members of the Nation of Islam.
They would infiltrate the very groups they sought to discredit in order to gain information and find weak spots which could be used to basically start a smear campaign.
How do you spell January 6th insurrection?
Other agents worked outside the groups planting fake news stories, sending letters, making creepy phone calls and generally abusing their government employee privileges to bend the law in their favor. And if bending the law didn’t work, they weren’t opposed to breaking it. COINTELPRO agents frequently used force to illegally break into homes and weren’t above using physical and psychological torture to get the information they wanted.
While COINTELPRO was technically closed in April of 1971 after the American public learned about all the hardcore trolling they were doing, the FBI has stated several times in subsequent decades that COINTELPRO investigations do continue to occur on a “case-by-case” basis.
No Such Agency
MK Ultra
From History.com
ON APRIL 10, 1953, ALLEN DULLES, THE NEWLY APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF THE CIA, delivered a speech to a gathering of Princeton alumni. Though the event was mundane, global tensions were running high. The Korean War was coming to an end, and earlier that week, The New York Times had published a startling story asserting that American POWs returning from the country may have been “converted” by “Communist brain-washers.”
Some GI’s were confessing to war crimes, like carrying out germ warfare against the Communists–a charge the U.S. categorically denied. Others were reportedly so brainwashed that they had refused to return to the United States at all. As if that weren’t enough, the U.S. was weeks away from secretly sponsoring the overthrow of a democratically elected leader in Iran.
Dulles had just become the first civilian director of an agency growing more powerful by the day, and the speech provided an early glimpse into his priorities for the CIA. “In the past few years we have become accustomed to hearing much about the battle for men’s minds–the war of ideologies,” he told the attendees. “I wonder, however, whether we clearly perceive the magnitude of the problem, whether we realize how sinister the battle for men’s minds has become in Soviet hands,” he continued. “We might call it, in its new form, ‘brain warfare.’”
Dulles proceeded to describe the “Soviet brain perversion techniques” as effective, but “abhorrent” and “nefarious.” He gestured to the American POWs returning from Korea, shells of the men they once were, parroting the Communist propaganda they had heard cycled for weeks on end. He expressed fears and uncertainty–were they using chemical agents? Hypnosis? Something else entirely? “We in the West,” the CIA Director conceded, “are somewhat handicapped in brain warfare.” This sort of non-consensual experiment, even on one’s enemies, was antithetical to American values, Dulles insisted, as well as antithetical to what should be human values.
Three days after his speech decrying Soviet tactics, Dulles approved the beginning of MK-Ultra, a top-secret CIA program for “covert use of biological and chemical materials.” “American values” made for good rhetoric, but Dulles had far grander plans for the agency’s Cold War agenda.
MK-Ultra’s “mind control” experiments generally centered around behavior modification via electro-shock therapy, hypnosis, polygraphs, radiation, and a variety of drugs, toxins, and chemicals. These experiments relied on a range of test subjects: some who freely volunteered, some who volunteered under coercion, and some who had absolutely no idea they were involved in a sweeping defense research program. From mentally-impaired boys at a state school, to American soldiers, to “sexual psychopaths” at a state hospital, MK-Ultra’s programs often preyed on the most vulnerable members of society. The CIA considered prisoners especially good subjects, as they were willing to give consent in exchange for extra recreation time or commuted sentences.
The CIA remained keenly aware of how the public would react to any discovery of MK-Ultra; even if they believed these programs to be essential to national security, they must remain a tightly guarded secret. How would the CIA possibly explain dosing unassuming Americans with LSD? “Precautions must be taken not only to protect operations from exposure to enemy forces but also to conceal these activities from the American public in general,” wrote the CIA’s Inspector General in 1957. “The knowledge that the Agency is engaging in unethical and illicit activities would have serious repercussions in political and diplomatic circles and would be detrimental to the accomplishment of its mission.”
In 1977, Senator Edward Kennedy oversaw congressional hearings investigating the effects of MK-Ultra. Congress brought in a roster of ex-CIA employees for questioning, interrogating them about who oversaw these programs, how participants were identified, and if any of these programs had been continued. The Hearings turned over a number of disturbing details, particularly about the 1953 suicide of Dr. Frank Olson, an Army scientist who jumped out of a hotel window several days after unwittingly consuming a drink spiked with LSD. Amid growing criminalization of drug users, and just a few years after President Nixon declared drug abuse as “public enemy number one,” the ironies of the U.S.’s troubling experimentation with drugs appeared in sharp relief.
But throughout the hearings, Congress kept hitting roadblocks: CIA staffers claimed they “couldn’t remember” details about many of the human experimentation projects, or even the number of people involved. The obvious next step would be to consult the records, but that presented a small problem: in 1973, amid mounting inquiries, the director of MK-Ultra told workers “it would be a good idea if [the MK-Ultra] files were destroyed.” Citing vague concerns about the privacy and “embarrassment” of participants, the men who crafted MK-Ultra effectively eradicated the paper record for one of the United States’ most obviously illegal undertakings. A program born in secrecy would hold onto many of its secrets forever.
Too Many To List
There are so many topics shrouded in the mists of “conspiracy” that I would have to do a series to even touch on them all.
I’m happy to do a series of substacks and shows on them. While these are the prevailing theories that are closest to what we are enmeshed in today, I would love to delve more into topics labeled truly bonkers like weather control, chemtrails, cryptids, etc.
If there’s any interest, please let me know in the comments and I’ll make a separate section here just for that.
In closing, we are on a breakneck course of collision with the truth.
The illusion has been shattered by the enlistment of the People in this fight against the deceivers we’re supposed to rely on.
It is as simple as “where there were once bad apples to spoil the fresh-barreled bushel, now the barrel is rotten and the good apples are forced to the bottom by the noxious gases of decay”.
We must all find a way to make decisions and to live in a way that will keep us steadfast in the face of the constant, crushing pressure to conform.
Knowing how much deliberate deception there is in this world and with all sides utilizing propaganda to influence each of us, only absolute truth will suffice in the future.
Transparency and truth must be the goal.
In the meantime, the truths we’re discovering will be disconcerting and hard to bear when others won’t accept what we know in our guts to be true.
I try to live a directive I wrote for myself many years ago (in the midst of more personal truths that were painfully learned) but which has served to keep me on the right path in a world of constant duplicity and inevitable betrayal: Strive not to be the one who trusts but to be the one who’s trusted.
kate~
A complete picture, from start to finish, of the use of the words "Conspiracy Theory." Thanks for putting this together, ZDK.
These words, which simply mean "one has a theory that there may be a conspiracy," (seemingly innocuous and often true) has been twisted to be a disparaging label; it has been levied against me many times but I always come with the backup, whereas the other side often is bereft of evidence.
It was great to see the first usage, of which I was unaware! And then, to learn of the involvement of the three-letter agencies stirring up trouble within various organizations that truly meant to do good, is shocking but not surprising.
I will be writing about the US involvement in South American elections this week, as I feel it is highly relevant to the "insurrection" in Brazil - how coincidental that US meddles and the people riot... Where have we seen that domestically???
In my opinion, the question is not HOW we can defeat these "deep state" operatives, but IF. At times, I fear it is too late to course-correct, and the fall of the Western World will happen before The People are able to thwart those acting to control the population.