Modern journalism is not what it once was. The investigative rigor and integrity that once defined news media have been systematically eroded, replaced by a hybrid model of engineered narratives, corporate influence, and intelligence-backed psychological operations. Today’s news is no longer about truth—it is about control.
Based on my experience in intelligence, I have observed that international media conglomerates, domestic government agencies, and foreign intelligence services often collaborate to shape public perception, manipulate democratic outcomes, and steer global events through a coordinated matrix of half-truths, propaganda, puffery, disinformation, and outright deceit.
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
This quote has been widely attributed to former CIA Director William Casey and has circulated for decades across independent journalism circles and digital forums. However, no verifiable documentation or official record of Casey making this statement exists. The attribution originates from Barbara Honegger, a former White House policy analyst during the Reagan administration, who later stated—after the publication of her 1989 book October Surprise—that she was told about what William Casey had said by someone who was present at that National Security Council meeting sometime in early February 1981. While the quote does not appear in October Surprise, Honegger’s book presents a controversial thesis that the Reagan-Bush campaign orchestrated a secret agreement with Iranian officials to delay the release of American hostages until after the 1980 election—a move she argues shaped the political outcome in Reagan’s favor.
Notably, George H. W. Bush—Reagan’s running mate—had previously served as Director of Central Intelligence, making him one of the few vice presidents in U.S. history with a direct command history over the intelligence apparatus. His long-standing relationship with William Casey, who would later become CIA Director under Reagan, placed two intelligence veterans in the highest circles of executive power during this period. The operational understanding and strategic alignment between Bush and Casey created a rare convergence of political authority and clandestine capability at the apex of the federal government.
Whether Casey said it or not, it might as well be etched into Langley’s cornerstone—perception control has been standard operating procedure since its inception. That strategy didn’t stay locked behind classified doors for long, however—it flowed directly into the pressrooms, newsrooms, and editorial boards that shaped what Americans saw, heard, believed, and repeated.
National news media, in this context, are not passive observers—they are active participants in a coordinated effort to shape public reality. Propaganda and puffery, fed to the public night after night, are the informational anesthetics that have easily ensured public compliance. Today, perception management has grown far more legally sophisticated and institutionalized than ever before.
The intelligence-media nexus is not a speculative theory—it is an observable pattern. Anderson Cooper, a longtime anchor at CNN, interned at the CIA during his time at Yale, an experience he later downplayed as brief and uneventful. Nonetheless, his position at the helm of one of the most influential corporate media outlets in the world raises eyebrows among researchers attuned to cross-institutional affiliations. CNN, long criticized as a top-down narrative control apparatus, has been alleged to have links to intelligence influence operations stretching back to the Cold War era.
Likewise, Tucker Carlson—one of the most widely followed media figures in the West—began his career at CNN, moved to MSNBC, then Fox News, and now hosts his show independently on X. His father, Richard Carlson, served as director of the U.S. Information Agency, a Cold War-era institution involved in psychological operations and strategic communications. The Carlson family’s ties to government information strategy deepen the complex interplay between media visibility and intelligence influence operations. Whether left-leaning or right-leaning, networks serve as delivery mechanisms for perception management.
Being connected to intelligence is not, in and of itself, a red flag—but trying to conceal that connection while presenting oneself as a truth-seeking journalist is a red flag because the issue isn’t the connection, but rather, it’s the misalliance between what’s presented and what’s concealed. The concealment suggests intent to manipulate trust in a clandestine effort to shape coverage of current events.
It is worth noting that both these men have addressed their ties to intelligence publicly: Anderson Cooper has acknowledged his CIA internship (and minimized its significance), while Tucker Carlson has discussed his father Richard Carlson’s ties to psychological operations (and his family’s proximity to national security). In both cases, these intelligence-adjacent connections appear to have been discussed primarily after they were raised publicly.
Were these men part of disinformation programs early in their careers? At this point, that remains an open question, and each should be judged by their fruits—were they subversive or patriotic?
The notion of a “disinformation program” is not merely historical—it is an ongoing operation. This reality was institutionalized through the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, passed as part of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act. Under the Obama-Biden administration, the amendment removed key restrictions on the domestic dissemination of government-produced content originally intended for foreign audiences. While the law does not explicitly authorize propaganda targeting U.S. citizens, it dismantles the legal firewall that once prohibited foreign-directed messaging from being recycled into the American information space.
In plain terms: content created by U.S. agencies to influence foreign populations can now legally re-enter the domestic arena. These narratives—crafted for strategic communication abroad—are now echoed stateside through establishment news outlets and social media platforms. The result is a sanitized pipeline of state-approved messaging entering American households under the guise of independent journalism. Critics who downplay the implications of the Smith-Mundt amendment either underestimate the implications or directly serve the interests of its architects. In today’s landscape, legal language has become camouflage for information warfare.
While the aim here is not to catalog and cite every instance of media deception—a task that would be both Herculean and redundant—it does establish the baseline from which all investigative efforts must begin. The goal is not passive outrage, but disciplined counteraction. The solution is methodological resistance. Citizen Intel provides the blueprint: a framework of investigation rooted in logic, ethics, and incorruptible precision. It is the tactical doctrine uncovering what is designed to remain hidden.
There is no denying that the mainstream legacy media has betrayed the public trust. It has chosen compliance over confrontation, access over accuracy, and narrative over truth. Citizen Intel is the necessary countermeasure.
At its core, Citizen Intel is grounded in the Eight Principles of Natural Law— immutable cosmic commandments that predate all ideology and outlast all corruption. When moral rot infects every institution, the remedy must come from something pre-institutional: Natural Law. It is the final fallback of civilization, the truth beyond policy, decree, or spin. It is Natural Law that reminds us that perception is upstream of reality—that manipulation of the mind precedes manipulation of the material world.
Citizen Intel Investigators must operate with discipline, adaptability, and incorruptible intent. This requires understanding the tactics used to distort public perception: narrative laundering, strategic ambiguity, and information suppression. Investigators must adopt an intelligence-based approach, employing structured analysis, unbiased sourcing, and cross-verification to reconstruct the truth from fragments buried beneath layers of distortion.
This doctrinal fieldguide provides the weapons necessary to wage information warfare on behalf of the People—for it is your inherited birthright and unassailable civic duty to ensure that the truth remains within reach of the free.
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The reality is that nearly all major media outlets in the United States—and by extension the Western world—are owned by just six conglomerates: Disney, Comcast, Warner Bros. Discovery, News Corp, Paramount, and Sony. These entities possess deep financial and political entanglements with both domestic and foreign powers, functionally rendering them de facto intelligence proxies rather than neutral observers. Within this network of cross-border international corporate alliances and state-aligned interests, the mainstream narrative is curated—not discovered.
Both domestic and foreign intelligence agencies actively shape which stories reach the public through these corporations by engineering which narratives are amplified and which vanish without a trace.
While adversarial states like China, Russia, and Iran are routinely accused of conducting cyber and psychological warfare against the West, America’s so-called “allies”—including Israel, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom—are also deeply engaged in intelligence operations inside the U.S.
Nihil sub sōle novum.
Israel, for example, has carried out covert military and intelligence operations that have, at times, run counter to American national interests. These include the attack on the USS Liberty, the King David Hotel bombing, the Jonathan Pollard espionage case, Project Pinto, the NUMEC Affair, the Lavon Affair, the Mega Affair, and other black operations involving Mossad-linked figures such as Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Jeffrey Epstein.
And if you’re thinking, “That was then, this is now—Israel is our greatest ally, just like the talking heads in the media keep telling me.” Then consider this: Israel’s modern influence operations have only become more sophisticated. Its public diplomacy and psychological operations doctrine—known as Hasbara—is not the work of a single agency, but a coordinated strategy executed across multiple fronts. This doctrine is primarily managed through the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, but its objectives are reinforced by military psychological units, intelligence-linked NGOs within the so-called diaspora, and covert operations conducted through Israel’s intelligence services. While Hasbara doctrinally focuses on overt narrative control, its methods frequently intersect with the darker arts of psychological warfare practiced by Israel’s intelligence apparatus.
Within Mossad itself, psychological operations are executed by Lohamah Psichologit (LAP), the division tasked with propaganda, perception management, and narrative deception. Mossad’s Special Operations Division (Metsada) is also responsible for black operations involving psychological manipulation, sabotage, and coercive influence—particularly where strategic leverage over foreign leadership is required. In parallel, the IDF’s elite Unit 8200, known for its cyber and signals intelligence capabilities, works in concert with Malat, a psychological warfare division under the Israeli Operations Directorate. These groups form the operational backbone through which Hasbara’s warfare doctrine is translated into tactical reality—where messaging, manipulation, and manufactured consent are treated as battlefield tools.
Israel’s psychological warfare agenda extends further into culturally corrosive territory. Historical reporting reveals that Israeli intelligence agencies, including Mossad and Aman, have weaponized pornography as a destabilization tool in occupied zones and adversarial states—particularly within Palestinian territories and southern Lebanon. During various military operations and occupations, explicitly hardcore adult content was reportedly broadcast into local populations via hijacked public television signals and cable networks.
The tactical logic was simple: erode morale, fracture cultural values, and incapacitate resistance through social demoralization and psychological saturation of the collective subconscious.
In parallel with these field operations, certain Israeli-adjacent civilian operatives within the so-called diaspora have maintained strategic footholds in the global pornography industry—enabling them to shape and distribute highly addictive, socially destructive pornographic content across the Western World, including inside Israel’s so-called “allied” nation-states within Europe, America, and Australia. Pornography has demolished much of the homogenous value system that once pervaded the United States of America with young American adults reporting high levels of addiction—both male and female.
To summarize the subversive intent behind pornographic brainwashing as a weapon of psychological demoralization and cultural destabilization, look no further than the infamous admission by pornography mogul Al Goldstein, who stated:
“The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. We don’t believe in authoritarianism. Pornography thus becomes a way of defiling Christian culture and, as it penetrates to the very heart of the American mainstream—and is no doubt consumed by those very same WASPs [White Anglo-Saxon Protestants]—its subversive character becomes more charged.”
Moreover, these corporate roles in the pornography industry align with the broader tradition of honey-trap sexual blackmail operations historically executed by intelligence-linked operatives such as Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Jeffrey Epstein.
The undeniable pattern is clear: through kompromat and content manipulation, targeted individuals are compromised, managed, and redirected toward advancing foreign policy objectives under the guise of “elite privilege” and “sociopolitical access.”
Crucially, these operations do not reflect the broader Israeli population—many of whom are unaware of such activities, and who may even actively oppose these unethical methods. Ethical investigations must distinguish culpable networks, ideologies, and state-linked operations from innocent individuals and communities. This distinction preserves investigative integrity, human dignity, and moral clarity while maintaining precision in identifying the structures and motives behind psychological subversion.
Nevertheless, Israel’s influence operations are extensive. These influence efforts operate in tandem with above-ground lobbying entities such as AIPAC, as well as with strategic media campaigns, talking-point coordination, and political financing. In their more covert dimensions, they have included sexual blackmail operations targeting American and European elites. The Epstein-Maxwell network appears to have served as one such apparatus: compromising decision-makers under the guise of elite social networking and securing their loyalty behind a veil of plausible deniability.
Now, here is where things get even darker.
Underpinning some of these operations is a rarely acknowledged but ideologically potent narrative found within ultra-Orthodox and religious Zionist segments of Judeo-Israeli society—particularly among factions aligned with or influencing the Likud Party.
As espoused by the likes of Rabbi David Touitou amongst other adjacent rabbis, Western Civilization is spiritually identified as “Edom”—a biblical enemy viewed in some Yahwist interpretations as destined for total annihilation. Along this line of thinking, Rabbi Touitou referred to the mass migration of Muslims into the West as Islam fulfilling its role as the “broom of Israel” to sweep away the West, stating that Yahweh “sends Ishmael [Islam] to solve the problem,” thereby equating the West with Edom and declaring its total annihilation necessary for the Jewish Messiah’s arrival. This radical eschatological belief is drawn from passages in the Hebrew Bible, where the descendants of Esau (Edom) are condemned to be “blotted out” entirely—men, women, and children—without mercy or remembrance. While not representative of the entire Judeo-Israeli population, this interpretation is held by certain ideological elites whose worldview informs policymaking, military strategy, and long-term psychological operations.
Investigators must understand this framework not as a fringe theological view, but as a theopolitical doctrine that subtly informs narratives of existential hostility toward the West—particularly when paired with geostrategic ambitions masked behind religious rhetoric.
It is of paramount consequence to quickly dismantle the false claim that Westernkind equates to Edom—a notion categorically contradicted by a forthright reading of the Bible.
Westernkind is identified with Japheth in biblical genealogy, particularly Genesis 10, the “Table of Nations,” where his descendants are historically and traditionally associated with Indo-European peoples, including the Greeks, Medes, and early European tribes. Edom, by contrast, is explicitly the nation descending from Jacob’s twin brother Esau—located in southern Jordan—and is Semitic in origin (a descendant of Shem).
Conflating the West with Edom is not prophecy—it’s a misreading of the very Scripture that Rabbi Touitou claims authority over, and his teachings serve only to mask deep-seated hostility found within some rabbinic traditions—especially in Chabad and Kabbalistic sources—which symbolically equate Edom with ancient Rome, Christian Europe, and all of Westernkind.
This worldview—casting the West as Edom—has also intersected with policies and covert strategies designed to accelerate cultural destabilization within Western nations.
Investigators should take note of the growing documentation that Israeli-linked NGOs and diaspora-aligned activist networks have played visible roles in funding, facilitating, and defending mass migration into the U.S. and Europe—particularly from non-Western and non-Christian countries. Framed under humanitarian or liberal values, this wave of strategic mass migration often aligns with theological narratives similarly echoed by Islamist ideologues: that the West must be diluted, divided, and ultimately broken. Through mass migration, multicultural frictions, and ethnic fragmentation, the ancestral continuity of Western identity—rooted in heritage, ancestry, and tradition—is methodically eroded. Whether through legal activism, media influence, or asylum logistics, the effect remains the same: internal weakening of the West through a long-term strategy of socially engineered pluralism and narrative suppression.
Nevertheless, while Israel’s actions represent one of the most glaring examples of betrayal by a so-called ally, it is by no means alone. Every nation’s intelligence apparatus engages in covert influence operations to advance its strategic objectives—often at the expense of its allies. In this arena, loyalty is transactional, and perception is a weapon. You must understand: when nation-states and intelligence services are involved, there are no true “allies”—and certainly not any “biblical allies,” as certain televangelist mouthpieces would have you believe.
To pierce the fog of this global intelligence war, an Investigator must develop a framework for filtering out noise, rejecting narrative bait, and triangulating toward truth. This is not just about information collection and regurgitation—it is about informational clarity. To operate within the modern information war, the Investigator must adopt the mindset of a counterintelligence operative behind enemy lines. Assume the battlefield is compromised. Assume your government is hijacked from within. Assume media narratives are weaponized. Assume you’re being watched—your every move predicated—and move accordingly.
The investigative strategies outlined in this doctrinal fieldguide are not theoretical—they are tactical. They are designed to place you in the operational mindset needed to unravel media disinformation, map out influence campaigns, and reverse-engineer deception. With each tool and method introduced, you will sharpen your capacity to detect falsehood and broadcast truth with precision.
I’ll say it again, loud and clear: your mission is not comfort—your mission is incorruptible precision!
Your duty is to ensure the honest truth remains within reach of We the People.
This is Citizen Intel.