JIMMY DORE: Jeff Bezos sits on a Pentagon board, has a $600 million deal with the CIA, and he runs the Washington Post." Yeah, but he's Mr. Start-Up guy

Probably not Mr. Start-Up guy.  But the Pentagon advisory board is real.  That's a fictional origins story that all of these guys run.  Ditto for Joe Rogan.  A $100 million dollar Spotify deal doesn't really scream "Indie." 

If You Or Anyone You Know Has An Amazon Alexa You Need To Hear This. Jeff Bezos Has A Deal With The CIA

“Jeff Bezos the richest guy in the world. He sits on a Pentagon board and he has a $600 million deal with The CIA”

Joe Rogan “Wait, wait, wait. $600 million deal with the… pic.twitter.com/BU816SOfzb

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) May 23, 2024

The CIA and Entrapment! Say it isn't so

I had no idea that intelligence officers were this candid.  But I guess they play both sides of the deception combined with candidness.

Doesn’t this seem like a “gay date” to you when you watch it?

Why was he having this conversation with the guy at multiple lunches?

Just like how J O’K does it.

FBI needs to go away. Many should be prosecuted under 18 USC 241 & 242 https://t.co/A8HExbxlfA

— John Beaudoin, Sr. aka, Coquin de Chien (@JohnBeaudoinSr) April 9, 2024

Many [FBI agents] should be prosecuted under 18 USC 241 & 242.  

Searching For Stanley - Gloria Steinem

You have to be interested in the subject to find these documentaries interesting, but this is a good one, produced by Johnny Vedmore.  

Only 582 views since December 25, 2023?  Kind of shocking.  This is an excellent treatment of a forgotten episode in American history, and Vedmore strings the pieces together elegantly. 

Vedmore's show notes: 

Meet Super Gloria, Stan Pottinger's long term partner while he was running guns with Jeffrey Epstein in Iran Contra. This episode of Searching For Stanley explores Gloria Steinem's long and intimate relationship with the CIA while she was in a relationship with a CIA super spy. This edition includes snippets from articles not available online, and introduce plenty of source material to make Gloria Steinem's links to the CIA a matter of fact. You decide. Searching For Stanley a series which takes you through some of the major events in US history and reveals how the CIA super spy Stanley Pottinger played a vital role in everything from Watergate to Iran Contra, from the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. to the standoff at Wounded Knee, and from Kent State to Jeffrey Epstein. This is an original series with the first part based on Johnny Vedmore's "The Pottinger Identity", which you can read here: https://newspaste.com/2023/06/23/the-... You can also explore the source material with @JohnnyVedmore and the boys from the Schism Podcast here: https://rumble.com/v2w0m1g-the-pottin... The other two articles in the series are: The Pottinger Supremacy - https://newspaste.com/2023/06/30/the-... The Poittinger Ultimatum - https://newspaste.com/2023/07/07/the-... Unless otherwise stated, the bulk of the soundtrack was written, produced and recorded by Johnny Vedmore. Come to NEWSPASTE.com or JohnnyVedmore.com for more

MIKE BENZ: The CIA has a legal obligation to lie about what it does

This is a great clip that cuts to the core of why The Blob is, in a sense, legally obligated to lie to you about what it’s really doing. https://t.co/D9Mliaeq4n

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) March 18, 2024

Benz cites the CIA's Plausible Deniability Doctine in the NSC 10-2.

The FBI was established in 1908, the CIA in '47, & the NSA in '52, which means the US existed for over 130 years without them. There's a reason these agencies weren't created by the Framers.

The FBI was established in 1908, the CIA in '47, & the NSA in '52, which means the US existed for over 130 years without them.

The notion they can’t be broken up w/o sacrificing national security is a lie.

There's a reason these agencies weren't created by the Framers. #CA20 https://t.co/vm4IPxjDWl

— David Giglio (@DavidGiglioCA) December 26, 2023

The CIA's deception about COVID-19's origins becomes clearer when you consider that USAID, a frequent CIA front, provided over $53 million to Dr. Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance, which funneled funds to the Wuhan lab.

The CIA, Catholics in Action, aka, Central Intelligence Agency, are working consistently to subvert the health and well-being of Americans.  I recall what Healthbot said, "Your government isn't failing, it's trying to kill you."

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The CIA's deception about COVID-19's origins becomes clearer when you consider that USAID, a frequent CIA front, provided over $53 million to Dr. Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance, which funneled funds to the Wuhan lab.

Last year, Dr. Andrew Huff (@AGHuff), a former Vice… pic.twitter.com/SyEvFEUGKz

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) September 13, 2023

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MIKE BENZ: "why are they censoring video games? Why do the Pentagon, the State Dept, the DHS & the CIA care? The video game industry is bigger than the movie industry + the music industry combined"

“Benz, why are they censoring video games?”

“Why do the Pentagon, the State Dept, the DHS & the CIA care?”

The video game industry is bigger than the movie industry + the music industry combined. pic.twitter.com/SOH6yOt8wI

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) September 4,

Music industry worth in total:  $40 billion

Movie industry worth in total:  $100 billion

Video game industry worth in total:  $245 billion.

Dave Anthony.

2:47. Video games eclipsed the movie and music market during the Trump presidency.  It was the gamer populist pipeline that drew massive attention from the Dept. of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense in particular, which is where Dave Anthony and Call of Duty come in, as well as the Department of State, because you had all of these populous kids and influencers such as Twitch and YouTube types, like PewDiePie, and all the other video games streamers started to become the new celebrities.  The focus on cultural influence that used to be a big part of the National Security State soft power projection during the Cold War shifted to video games, especially because uncensored discord chats, and uncensored telegram channels, and uncensored in-game chatB, and real time chat was a meeting place for people who backed candidates like Trump or Marie Le Pen in France old or Bolsonaro in Brazil.  It was a place where they could have free and uncensored speech even on controversial topics.  And so the National Security State lept in and said "they are a pipeline incubator for political movements that we want to squash in the bud."  And so they brought in Dave Anthony and the COD guys, the Call of Duty guy, for advisory on AI censorship techniques to add toxicity scores and the like to the chat area . . . .

the CIA and NSA funded Google. That's a proven thing. There were research grants that they had for surveillance, and Google won those grants.

Who is actually watching us online? 

3 threat vectors: 1) scammers and hackers, 2) big tech, and 3) big brother.  The last 2 work together.  

Google has been shaping the whole NSA and how the NSA collects data.  

How much is Google in bed with the NSA, CIA, and all of that it seems like anybody who is inconvenient with the government gets deplatformed, or anyone who goes against the whole cathedral narrative.  Is there any way of knowing how much the government is dictating who gets canceled and who doesn't? 

The scientists and doctors were censored.  Dude, there were thousands of them that got censored.  So it wasn't just those big names. 

I don't know if we can really know or predict, but we can observe.  We know that the CIA and the NSA funded Google.  That's a proven thing.  There were research grants that they had for surveillance, and Google won those grants.

The other thing that I think of a lot is the Chinese social credit system, which is going on right now in China.  This is real.  It's going on right now.  It's technological slavery, and Google is right at the heart of it.  They have worked closely with the Chinese government.  They don't care about people or individuals.  And I don't consider Google any better than government and anyone who seeks power.  And they all work together, putting this network into place that we don't even have an idea how powerful this network is.

8:45  There's a pro-human and anti-human vibe, and if you're trying to suppress freedom, I consider that anti-human, because then you're just looking for slaves.  Then the liberty side of the spectrum, which is pro-human, we all believe that liberty is the way to reach human flourishing at the maximized potential.  So all of these big companies seem to be working together in a very anti-human way that is . . . totally disturbing.

More disturbing to me are the hordes of people who follow along, get told what to do, get told what to think, and these hordes do not question it.  They don't question the evidence in front of them.  They don't reassess their view. 

What are the risks from hackers and scammers?  

With @EmeraldRobinson, I discuss the curious case of CIA Renee, a Forrest Gump figure present at the creation of so many censorship industry machinations.

Full video here: https://t.co/bn4JhCc7rT pic.twitter.com/B3c2BMxNec

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) July 13, 2023

 

Foundation for Freedom Online, Mike Benz.

What do you make of the Weaponization Committee Report on the actions of the FBI to censor Americans even globally?

The foreign policy establishment destroyed and censored the 1st Amendment rights of domestic U.S. citizens.  They targeted not just ordinary American citizens, they targeted American journalists.  Now, the same thing was done with respect to the Indian election in 2019.  That is you had the Atlantic Council DFR Lab [Digital Forensics Research Lab] working with the Dept of Homeland Security to censor voices around elections in India and Brazil.  My foundation, Foundation for Freedom Online, is how millions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money went to censoring the Brazilian elections.  Now we are censoring now just foreign discourse in Ukraine, but domestic discourse because that domestic discourse impacts the money flows.  If people stop supporting the Ukraine in their hearts and minds, they will stop supporting the Pentagon, the State Dept., the CIA, USAID, and the National Endowment for Democracy's money flows to support that war.  So it's important for them to rig the public debate so that people stay misinformed, and that appears to be exactly what the FBI is doing here.

I have been told by several producers and corporate media outlets that they had been told verbally but not in writing that they had been told to not question the conflict in Ukraine or the U.S. role in it or what the White House and the State Department.  In particular, don't question the motives of Vladimir Zelenskyy or his integrity.  Is that coming from the same people? 

Yeah, so this is also part of the consensus preservation apparatus, the censorship industry loves.  When there is something that requires the whole of society unified consensus to carry out, such as a pandemic response, or a response to a climate emergency, or a response to a war, there is this inter-agency consensus process between the DoD, the State Department, the Intelligence community and the global economic stakeholders around the Council on Foreign Relations, the Atlantic Council, and the corporations who donate to them and who draft off of the activities of the National Security State, so, yes, absolutely, this is coming from that same crowd.

Renee Diresta [and her work in The Atlantic] comes up over and over from people in different industries, from different disciplines, talking about how key she is in managing the narrative by a whistleblower nurse with regard to childhood vaccines.  She's been one of those people spending time on social media for years trying to downplay any questions about childhood vaccines.  And, of course, when the Covid pandemic came along and the jab there, the same thing.  Who is she exactly, Mike?

Well, it's kind of extraordinary because my foundation, Foundation for Freedom Online, actually busted the fact that she was formerly at the CIA.  We found the inaugural video of the place where she now works, the Standford Internet Observatory, where her boss, Alex Stamos, is bragging that they've recruited this CIA recruit.  Now, this blew my mind, for anyone who knows Renee DiResta knows that she is essentially a Forrest Gump figure in the censorship industry.  She is everywhere at every pivotal

She's formerly worked with NATO Stratcom

RFK blows the lid off of operation Mockingbird and how the CIA manipulates the American news media

 

Thanks to Charles Burris @ Lew Rockwell who writes,

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talks about Operation Mockingbird, the CIA’s covert propaganda program to manipulate the mainstream media and the American people through the use of numerous assets who. RFK Jr. brought it up during an interview with Lex Fridman who was completely clueless. Media analyst Mark Dice has the story. 

Operation Mockingbird

THE CIA AND THE MEDIA, by Carl Bernstein How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up

Part 1: CIA’s Extraordinary Role Influencing Liberal Media Outlets Daily Kos, The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone, by Dick Russell

Part 2: The Belly of The Daily Beast and Its Perceptible Ties to the CIA, by Dick Russell.

1:37. The CIA is the biggest funder of Journalism around the world.  The biggest funder is through USAID. 

2:52. The CIA currently maintains a network of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provide inteTandigence for the CIA and at times attempt to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda.  These individuals provide the CIA with direct access to a large number of newspapers and periodicals, scores of press services and news agencies, radio and television stations, commercial book publishers, and other foreign media Outlets. 

3:19. The United States funds journalism in almost every country in the world it owns newspapers it has journalists has thousands and thousands of journalists on its payroll they're not supposed to be doing that in the United States but in 2016 President Obama changed the the law to make it legal now for the CIA to propagandize Americans . . . 

through the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act 2012 Obama needed to modernize it so that it would be fully legal for the CIA to spread fake news in American Media.

3:52. There are certain press organs that have been linked to the agency to the people who run those organs like The Daily Beast, now Rolling Stones.  The editor of Rolling Stones Noah Shachtman has deep relations with the intelligence community.  Salon, the Daily Kos . . . .

5:38. I actually think that the field of Journalism has shamed itself in recent years because the principal newspapers in this country and the television stations the Legacy Media have abandoned their tradition which was . . . 

they have abandoned all sense of integrity and morality. 

7:07.  Sadly the only time that this is ever been mentioned on Fox News was 2 years ago on Tucker Carlson's show when Glenn Greenwald said this,

If you go and Google, and I hope your viewers do, Operation Mockingbird, what you will find is that during the Cold War these agencies used to plot about how to clandestinely manipulate the news media to disseminate propaganda to the American population.  They used to try to do it secretly.  They don't even do it secretly anymore. They don't need Operation Mockingbird.  They literally put John Brennan, who works for NBC, and James Clapper, who works for CNN,  and tons of FBI agents right on on the payroll of these news organizations.  They now shape the news openly to manipulate and deceive the American population.

8:00. I'll leave a link in the description below to my previous in-depth report it's rather lengthy about RF Kennedy Jr raising the alarm of about astrazine the herbicide that is found in drinking water across the country that has been found to convert testosterone into estrogen he and many others believe may be responsible for the gender dysphoria epidemic in society and just as I predicted he mentioned that on the Jordan Peterson's podcast which has since been censored from YouTube because he was talking about vaccines then the all-knowing fact checkers claimed is atrazine in the water supply contributing to sexual dysphoria in kids well they say of course not yes I'm sure that BPA by spinal a and phthalates which are synthetic estrogen found in Plastics which are often used in food packaging toys and even clothes has nothing to do with it either right oh wait what's this a 2005 article from New Scientist magazine title gender-bending chemicals found in to feminize boys

9:00. Gender-bending chemicals mimicking the female hormone estrogen can disrupt the development of baby boys suggest the first evidence linking certain chemicals in everyday Plastics to affects in humans. The chemicals implicated are phthalates which make Plastics more pliable in many Cosmetics toys baby feeding bottles and paints and can leak into water and food. 

9:28. Then three years later, other studies confirmed these same concerns.   

Chemicals commonly found in food wrapping makeup and baby powders are having a gender-bending effect feminizing male populations of Wildlife and humans a scientific report reveals.  "Chemicals Feminizing Males, Study Suggests," Toronto Star Diana Zlomislic, December 9, 2008. 

9:45. This from 2009, "Two-Year-Olds at Risk from Gender-Bending Chemicals, Report Says," Owen Bowcott, The Guardian, November 6, 2009. You're not supposed to say anything wrong about someone with gender dysphoria.  It's an orientation.  It's no different than someone being left-handed or right-handed.

STUNNING: Left-liberals are claiming the CIA interfered in Brazil's 2022 election NOT to influence the outcome—but as a selfless defense of Democracy™️ abroad, a perspective you can *only* have if you've never opened a history book.

The CIA - knowing it would be disclosed - is now boasting to corporate media about the extensive work they did in Brazil in 2022.

As always, CIA claims its actions were noble and motivated by a benevolent desire to safeguard democracy.

Many people now believe this about CIA: https://t.co/aVblNEtyQb

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 23, 2023

People think that it's about Trump. It's really about the power of the American people to control their own executive branch.

Jesus Angleton was running around blackmailing members of Congress when he was part of the CIA.  --Robert Barnes

The terrifying implications of the #TrumpIndictment for our Constitutional framework. https://t.co/mo7bO6wCj5

— Robert Barnes (@barnes_law) June 17, 2023

       

When you have an unelected bureaucracy that has administrative power over law enforcement and National Security it got termed a "Deep State" because of how deeply entrenched it is and because of how powerful that can be.  And we have that problem in the United States.  People like Jesus Angleton was running around blackmailing members of Congress when he was part of the CIA.  So it broadened their budgets and expanded their power.  So we're back to that all over again with we have aspects of the intelligence community that thinks they should run American foreign policy and the American people should not be bothered with it. The American people shouldn't get to determine that.  They're elected president shouldn't get to dictate that.  That they are the experts and they should run the show and the president should just be their spokesperson and if he ever challenges them he goes to prison.  That's the meaning of this indictment.

And when they're using the Espionage Act which has been a hangover from World War I, the language in the Espionage Act is very clear that it's about doing anything that goes against the interests of the United States of America.  So if these guys, the bureaucrats, the prosecutors, whomever, see Donald Trump being president as being against the interests of the United States of America, they will essentially stop at nothing what you're saying to stop him from being president again.

That's exactly what's going on.  I mean they're basically saying "because you challenged us, we're going to try to put you in prison for 400 years and we're going to try to make sure you're never president again," just like they handicapped his presidency with as we now know from the Durham report a bogus RussiaGate investigation and smear campaign that might have prevented . . .  if Trump had free reign, maybe we don't have this war with Ukraine.  Maybe he would have found a solution so this war doesn't exist.  So these are real world consequences to the perilous precedents.  People think that it's about Trump. It's really about the power of the American people to control their own executive branch.

When OWS turned over the organizational charts, they shocked everybody because the top organization that had managed OWS was not HHS, which is a public health agency. It wasn't CDC or NIH or FDA. It was the NSA, a spy agency.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. details how the NSA was in charge of Operation Warspeed's COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, the history of the United States bioweapons program, and why Anthony Fauci is the highest-paid government official in history:

"The weird thing about the pandemic was this… pic.twitter.com/zEHn5jlPXT

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) May 13, 2023

It was a pretense for clamp down totalitarian control.

The weird thing about the pandemic was this constant involvement by the CIA and the intelligence agencies, and by the military.  When Operation Warspeed made its presentation to FDA, to the committee they call the (VRBPAC) Committee, Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, (VRBPAC) asked for the organizational charts which were classified up to that time.  When OWS turned over the organizational charts, they shocked everybody because the top organization that had managed OWS was not HHS, which is a public health agency.  It wasn't CDC or NIH or FDA.  It was the NSA, a spy agency.  That was the top agency, the lead agency on Operation Warp Speed on the pandemic. And the second agency was the Pentagon.  The vaccines weren't developed by Pfizer or Moderna.  They were developed by NIH.  The patents were owned 50% by NIH.  Nor were they manufactured by Pfizer or Moderna.  They were manufactured by military contractors.  And basically, Pfizer and Moderna were paid to put their labels on the vaccines as if they came from the pharmaceutical industry.  This was a military project from the beginning.

And then you have 20 different simulations that I uncovered, virus and pandemic simulations, that started in 2001 right before the Anthrax attacks.  And the CIA was sponsoring them all.  The last one was Event 201 in October 2019.  And the participants in there are Avril Haines, the former Deputy Director of the CIA, who's been managing cover-ups her entire life.  She managed Guantánamo Bay, lying on the Senate.  She is now the Director of DNI, Director of National Intelligence, which makes her the highest-ranking officer at the NSA that managed the pandemic.  So you have a spy who is convening these pandemic simulations and each of these simulations going back 20 years, they're not simulating a public health response  They're not doing things like,

"How do we stockpile vitamin D?" 

"How do we get people outdoors, get them to lose weight, get them doing exercise?"  

"How do we develop an information grid with all of the 15 million doctors, frontline physicians, all over the world?" 

Who are going to be encountering their situation so that we can get what they're doing that works, what doesn't work, and put together a model, here are the repurposed drugs that worked, here are the treatments that worked.  None of that happened.  It was an incredible opportunity to manage a pandemic in a way that was intelligent and sensitive and devastating to the disease but we didn't do any of those things.  It was all about how you use the pandemic to clamp down on censorship.  How do you use it to force lockdowns?  

"Having blown the statutory deadline written into the JFK Records Act four times in six years, the CIA and other federal agencies are now seeking to eliminate the deadline altogether."

"Having blown the statutory deadline written into the JFK Records Act four times in six years, the CIA and other federal agencies are now seeking to eliminate the deadline altogether." — @BubblecarBuster  https://t.co/1uQDgv7WtY

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) April 5, 2023

ALEX BERENSON: has an odd career of covering the CIA then writing CIA style novels.

Reminder: @AlexBerenson also smeared Robert Malone, Pierre Kory, several frontline doctors, and anyone else he didn't want people to listen to. He has an odd career of covering the CIA then writing CIA style novels. Malone called him "controlled opposition" for a good reason. https://t.co/v4dSqhsIvn

— Robert Barnes (@barnes_law) November 7, 2022

Putin, so far, hasn't given them the casus belli they need to create a complementary coming together of the West's populations. There is still no appetite for war in the West.

Blowback is very real. So, with Neocons like Bolton, German Greens, Poles, Brits believing Russia is weak, will push until he has no other options.

But, again, who greenlit these psychopaths in the first place? Who put them in power in the US Nat. Sec. Hierarchy?
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— Tom Luongo (Powell's a Baller) (@TFL1728) October 9, 2022

The weak governments in both the US and UK have invited this expansion of insanity.

Putin, so far, hasn't given them the casus belli they need to create a complementary coming together of the West's populations.

There is still no appetite for war in the West.
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— Tom Luongo (Powell's a Baller) (@TFL1728) October 9, 2022

And if you've got any critical thinking cajones left, check this out by Jacob Dreizin.  

"let's give a bunch of LSD to criminals just to see what happens"

Murder, Mayhem & CIA Acid Parties (let's give a bunch of LSD to criminals just to see what happens)  https://t.co/1mt3BVrgDj

— Martyr Made 🦉🪓 (@martyrmade) July 27, 2022

1953, the CIA purchased massive quantities of LSD from Sandoz Laboratories in Switzerland, and immediately began testing its effects on subjects. The drug was administered, without consent, to mental patients, prisoners, military service members, prostitutes and johns - “people who could not fight back,” as one agency officer put it. A mental patient in Kentucky was dosed with LSD every day for 174 days. Some test subjects went insane, others believed they had gone insane and committed suicide. The evidence suggests that the CIA was the first major importer of LSD into the United States. Although it was intended for experimental purposes, there are records of CIA employees taking it recreationally, and of CIA acid parties in the early days. According to one academic study: “Researchers were growing lax in controlling the drug. They began to share LSD in their homes with friends.” From there, the drug leaked into elite society, and then to the student population through students who volunteered for CIA-sponsored experiments. Novelist Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, was a participant in one of these early experiments while a student at Stanford in 1959. He enjoyed LSD so much that he took a job at the VA hospital where the experiments were being conducted so that he could gain access to the stash. After becoming rich and famous for writing his book, he threw wild parties for writers, poets, musicians and other cultural tastemakers, where he gave acid away like candy. In 1964, he and a bunch of his fellow heads took a psychedelic bus trip across the United States preaching the gospel of LSD. Soon, acid was everywhere, and the counterculture was on.

In the book, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties. [great book] author Tom O’Neil exposes gaping holes in the official story of the Manson Family murders. O’Neil himself is reluctant to put forward an alternative explanation, but he demolishes the mainstream Helter Skelter account, and provides strong circumstantial evidence that Charles Manson was the subject of a government-sponsored study of how various drugs and psychological techniques affected behavior, especially aggression, of individuals and groups. Manson’s parole officer, Roger Smith, was a postgraduate student studying criminology at UC Berkeley. It was Smith who advised Manson to move to Haight Ashbury in the summer of 1967, and it was then that Manson, previously a low-rent criminal on parole for forging checks, was first introduced to LSD. Smith was not a regular parole officer, and Manson was not a normal parolee. Manson was assigned to Smith under an experimental program called The San Francisco Project, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a federal agency compelled by a judge in 1977 to admit that it had allowed itself to be used as a front for CIA operations. As the program required, Smith became much closer to Manson than was typical for a parole officer. Even within the project, Smith’s work with Manson was unique: The other six parole officers on The San Francisco Project were each assigned between 20-100 parolees each, but Smith only managed one: Charles Manson.  

Fake Facebook Whistleblower, Frances Haugen, Accuses Facebook for Betraying Democracy While Calling for More Censorship of Conservative Views

Facebook is very much part of the system, or establishment if you prefer.  Facebook was born of the CIA's program, LifeLog.  Talk about your total surveillance software that people rush to daily.  Brother, and I am not referring to Big Brother with that exclamation.  Wikipedia explains, 

LifeLog aimed to compile a massive electronic database of every activity and relationship a person engages in. This was to include credit card purchases, websites visited, the content of telephone calls and e-mails sent and received, scans of faxes and postal mail sent and received, instant messages sent and received, books and magazines read, television and radio selections, physical location recorded via wearable GPS sensors, biomedical data captured through wearable sensors. The high-level goal of this data logging was to identify "preferences, plans, goals, and other markers of intentionality".[2] 

One can't help but notice that the concept for Facebook developed shortly after 9/11 [09/11/2001] and the PATRIOT Act that allowed for unwarranted surveillance of Americans.  It is the brainchild of DARPA, like all things connected to the internet.  UnlimitedHangout's article, whose title "DARPA's Data Mining for 'National Security' and to 'Humanize AI," reminds us how the intelligence community tries to humanize their surveillance of us:

In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, DARPA, in close collaboration with the US intelligence community (specifically the CIA), began developing a “precrime” approach to combatting terrorism known as Total Information Awareness or TIA. The purpose of TIA was to develop an “all-seeing” military-surveillance apparatus. The official logic behind TIA was that invasive surveillance of the entire US population was necessary to prevent terrorist attacks, bioterrorism events, and even naturally occurring disease outbreaks. 

There was actually an office established in 2002, less than a year after 9/11, that oversaw an invasive national surveillance program called, "Total Information Awareness."  The office overseeing that program was called Information Awareness Office.  Its name sounded too sweeping to critics, so the office changed the program's name from "Total" to "Terrorism Information Awareness" to make the American public think it exclusively targeted terrorists.  Ha!  It's still about total surveillance.

Well, 2002, you say,' was such a long time ago.  I say define "a long time ago."  This program is still around, and, in fact, changes its purpose and name like any intelligence community chameleon: 

The TIA projects were not actually closed down, however, with most moved to the classified portfolios of the Pentagon and US intelligence community. Some became intelligence funded and guided private-sector endeavors, such as Peter Thiel’s Palantir, while others resurfaced years later under the guise of combatting the COVID-19 crisis. 

Surveillance is ongoing.  Facebook is a tracking system. 

Facebook is a sweeping surveillance system tool, its Wikipedia page claims that it is a cute and innocuous "student directory featuring photos and basic information."  Hardly.  The opening buzz surrounding Facebook was the quality of one's photo or self-portrait, better known playfully as a selfie as a way to humanize or disarm the true nature of intelligence community programs: government surveillance.  Americans love to indict the Soviet Union's surveillance as an appalling assault on its citizens.  But put a cutesie face on a program, called it Facebook or WeChat or Smiley Face, and you've got millions of Americans signing up and paying for every surveillance tool in the government's toolbox.  

And like too many origin stories, Facebook's origin starts with a goofy, pasty-looking college kid who spent too much time in his dorm.  "Zuckerberg told the Crimson that . . . ," "Zuckerberg intended to create a website that . . . ," "Upon finishing the site, Zuckerberg told a couple of friends that . . . ," always involving some miraculous achievement, "Within twenty-four hours, we had somewhere between 1,215 registrants . . . ," and "By December 2005, Facebook had 6 million users . . . ."  I did not know that Peter Thiel was Facebook's first Angel Investor.

In the summer of 2004, venture capitalist Peter Thiel made a $500,001 angel investment in the social network Facebook for 10.2% of the company and joined Facebook's board. This was the first outside investment in Facebook. 

But it's hard to even trust these stories about any of these high-profile techie founders since the entire industry is one big CIA, NSA, etc. network.  And with the site originally created as a network for Harvard students, called Harvard Connections.com, what average-intelligence American could resist being part of a Harvard network for free?

Facebook serves this national security surveillance purpose happily, where people post what they've recently eaten for breakfast, new romances, the latest divorces, where they just returned to, and destinations for which they're making plans. 

Thank you to Greg Reese @ The Reese Report.

Books from James Bamford, whom the New Yorker called "The NSA's Chief Chronicler."