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After 15 installments of Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files,” it’s pretty clear that our federal agencies have been colluding with social media tributaries for years to control the flow of information in our country. The truly chilling reality, however, is that while social media’s ugly bent toward censorship and totalitarianism has been exposed, it’s nothing new.
For how many years have we been misled and lied to by our trusted government agencies or our esteemed news sources?
Has integrity been lost over a period of time…or has it ever been there to begin with?
Has the FBI always been so terribly manipulative? Or is this simply a new trend – a symptom of a tumor that has quietly metastasized while we were busy watching reality television or grabbing Happy Meals on the way home from work for our kids?
How about the CIA? The Justice Department? The yearly treks that countless U.S. politicians take to attend the World Economic Forum, spearheaded by the salivating genocidal maniac, Klaus Schwab?
Should we really be shocked about these developments? Should we be angry?
What should we do?
See above: Sen. Manchin attends the WEF in Davos and rails on free speech. What a great guy!
A government established by and for the people must have some say in this disaster. Right? As the swamp overflows and the swamp creatures hiss and hide from the bleaching truth of broad daylight, Americans are left with their mouths hanging open and their sense of reality mortally wounded.
I like to call it, “Information Shell Shock.”
Whether it’s revelations about the political weaponization of the Justice Department or the ugly truth about the Biden family’s criminal business dealings at home and abroad, one thing is clear: the truth is hard to handle.
It hurts. It’s messy. It’s painful. And, sometimes, it destroys your idea of what the world should be, replacing that imaginary façade with a decaying picture of what the world actually is.
The world isn’t perfect, that’s true. But sadly, the world is a lot more corrupt than most people want to admit. For the Christian, this should not be surprising. Jeremiah 17:9 says that the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Further, the nature of Man is scarred with a Sin sickness, one that disfigures their souls and tarnishes humanity’s legacy on a daily basis.
We tend to blindly trust our government and our federal agencies because we have a God-shaped hole in our hearts – we want to know that someone is looking out for our best interests. That someone is being honest with us. That someone is protecting us.
Sadly, if we expect the best from our government, we will always be disappointed.
This is why our Founding Fathers formulated the structure of self-governance that they did. Our constitutional republic is wholly predicated on the mechanism of culture and society being morally superior on some level. Without a moral society, we cannot check the corruption of our own government. And this, of course, is why we see the absolute filthy rot of our government agencies.
We as Americans have outsourced our responsibility to safeguard our liberties to so many committees, boards, and three-letter agencies that there can be little surprise that when we checked out, corruption checked in.
We have no one to blame but ourselves for being deceived.
Say bye-bye to the FBI
There is a picture of the FBI and the CIA that is presented in every movie and TV show out there: the best of the best. The elites. The people in the dark suits and Matrix-style sunglasses who you call when the trail of any crime has gone cold. These are the superheroes of the bureau that swoop in and save the day.
Or are they?
I’m certain that there are countless very good, salt of the earth people who work at the FBI and CIA, but in the context of this conversation, I’m talking about the leadership of these agencies. The people pulling the strings, making the secret requests to Twitter, and launching FBI raids on the home of a President of the United States at the behest of a hostile administration.
The FBI was officially “birthed” in 1908 when the Justice Department decided that it needed an organized force to gather evidence on STUFF and THINGS.
I would argue that while there have been good things about the FBI’s investigative powers, it has largely been utilized as an information-gathering operation on the American people, and their record isn’t exactly rosy.
Let’s take an example from the life of Martin Luther King Jr. According to a report from the BBC (and there are many reports on this!), the FBI heavily monitored the Civil Rights activist back in the day, with their surveillance intensifying after he began criticizing the federal government for their failure to enforce civil rights in the American South.
They wiretapped him, bugged his home and hotel rooms, and discovered a string of extramarital affairs that the Rev. King was involved in (sad but true). Their knowledge of his affairs was used to blackmail King.
Per their report, then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called King the “most notorious liar in the country” and a deputy to Hoover in the bureau sent a letter to the activist encouraging him to kill himself.
The letter read: “King, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is.”
Psychological warfare at its finest. An intelligence operation.
This is what they do. It’s what they’re good at.
And, I might add, that this is just one of many examples of the FBI utilizing their power to insert themselves into the fabric of American society with the intent of controlling the narrative.
One could even argue that the FBI is really nothing more than a tool to leverage information and power against the American people – particularly Americans who rise up and buck against the corruption of the system.
The CIA
The CIA sprung forth in the wake of the National Security Act of 1947. Per their own website, the CIA’s foreign intelligence operation network was coordinated on a federal level after the close of WWII but was preceded by the establishment of the earlier Office of the Coordinator of Information in 1941. This intelligence gathering and undercover operations branch was created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Four more offices were later created: The Office of Strategic Services (1942), the Strategic Services Unit (1945), the Central Intelligence Group (1946), and finally, the Central Intelligence Agency (1947).
Two years after the creation of the agency, President Truman signed the Central Intelligence Agency Act, which “allowed the CIA to secretly fund operations and develop personnel and procedures outside standard U.S. government practices.”
Perhaps it’s the cynic in me, but the creation of a top-secret intelligence spy network was the beginning of a long, downhill slope for America. Their policy has often been shaped by the mantra of, “It’s better to ask for forgiveness than for permission.” Who can forget the famous Church Committee in the Senate that uncovered two horrifying CIA programs: Operation Shamrock and Operation MKUltra.
Shamrock was a CIA-fueled government interception program that “intercepted” American telegrams during WWII (and beyond) with the aim of gathering domestic intelligence on American citizens. Absolutely NOTHING to see here, folks.
Operation MKUltra was an experimental CIA program centered on the behavioral modification of subjects using hypnosis, electroshock therapy, drugs (LSD), and worse. MKUltra was tied closely to Operation Paperclip, which centered on bringing 1,600 Nazi/German scientists into the U.S. to “work” on America’s behalf during the Cold War, per History.com. Many of those scientists had previously worked for the Third Reich.
I’m sure the CIA had completely honorable intentions when it came to harnessing the knowledge of Nazi experimentation.
In 1952, Project Artichoke, at the behest of the CIA, took the concept of behavioral modification to the next level. A memorandum for the record from 1975 revealed that this CIA project was heavily researching what they called “special” interrogation methods. The memo cites the use of “drugs and chemicals, hypnosis, and ‘total isolation’ a form of psychological harassment.” LSD is frequently cited in that memorandum as a mechanism for these experiments.
Even more chilling, the 1952 memorandum on Operation Artichoke states the following:
“The mission of the project can be stated briefly in four parts:
1. The evaluation of development of any method by which we can get information from a person against his will and without his knowledge,
2. How can we counter the above measures if they are used against us?
3. Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against such fundamental laws of nature such as self-preservation?
4. How could we counter such measures if they were used against us?”
When did America become hellbent on becoming a Central Intelligence gathering machine rather than a bastion of transparency, freedom, and honesty? Perhaps our descent into a politically-fueled hellscape began when we sold the processes of our safety and security out to unelected bureaucratic agencies who were given authority to operate debase missions totally and completely without the oversight of “We the people.”
And hey, let’s not even talk about all the evidence that has come out lately linking the CIA to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. In fact, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. firmly believes that the CIA was directly involved in the killings, and newly-released redacted files from the CIA have certainly seemed to support that, at the very least, the CIA was hiding a tremendous amount of information about the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.
Investigator Jefferson Morley makes that claim that, via the CIA’s own internal documents, Lee Harvey Oswald was involved in an intelligence operation with the CIA three months before he assassinated President Kennedy. Conveniently, Oswald was shot in front of the Dallas Police Headquarters by a nightclub owner named Jack Ruby, via the Daily Wire.
Oswald was never tried for Kennedy’s murder.
Perhaps more suspiciously than the disturbing evidence surrounding the case is the fact that, just two years before Kennedy’s assassination, he gave a riotous speech that railed on the secret intelligence operations in the U.S., calling them a “monolithic and ruthless conspiracy.” The speech was delivered on April 27, 1961:
“For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system that has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.
Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, and no secret is revealed.”
It is remarkable indeed that a president who was so openly hostile to the covert operations of the inner workings of organizations like the CIA was assassinated in 1963.
It is almost too incredible to believe, isn’t it?
Where we are now
There is no question that our federal agencies are playing information games with us now – and have been for a very long time. The newest revelations in the Twitter Files only further confirms the role that the FBI alone has taken in subverting the flow of information and truth to the American public. As reported by RSBN, The FBI was sending reports regarding “problematic tweets” to Twitter executives with the intent on imposing censorship and suppression. The Department of Homeland Security was also named in those communications.
Much of the FBI’s aim in Internet content has been to control the narrative surrounding election fraud and Covid vaccines/treatments.
And so, the problem arises: can we trust any of our agencies anymore?
To answer this question, I will refer readers to the question I posed at the beginning of this article: could we ever trust our agencies in the first place?
I posit that we never could. With the façade removed and these agencies laid bare for the world to see, American have no excuse to trust the overarching narratives espoused from these organizations. They are trained in deception, strengthened in the shadows, and excellent at gathering intelligence.
The only problem is…we the people seem to be the target of their machinations, rather than the far-off despots of tyrannical foreign powers.
“Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.
James Wilson, 1790
Resources:
JFK’s full 1961 speech at the Waldorf, Astoria in New York City. Some call this the “Secret Societies Speech,” but in my opinion, JFK is clearly talking about the shadowed corruption within our own government in its various forms. In that vein, I suppose the name fits.
FOIA Research on Project Artichoke. FOIA stands for “Freedom of Information Act” request. There’s some good background here.
Project Bluebird. This could be the subject of another article entirely. This op was closely linked to Op MkUltra.