The Twitter Files.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

It sounds like an 'earnest voice' trying to be heard in the light!!

YES, which reminds me of something else more recent, but I'll have to dig that bit up later. Anyways, on that note...

The psyop shenagians with CENTCOM using fake accounts was verified already by WaPo earlier this year, regards to a conspiracy theory that Iran was harvesting the organs of Afghan refugees...

Pentagon opens sweeping review of clandestine psychological operations

Which makes that Newsweek story on the Pentagon's 60,000 clandestine army way more interesting now. 


The WaPo article framed examples like the CENTCOM organ-harvesting account as "oversights" but The Intercept has reported on eerily similar programs where the purpose was to spread disinformation to discredit adversaries, the goal of the CENTCOM account.


The “Cuban Twitter” Scam Is a Drop in the Internet Propaganda Bucket


DARPA also funded research into influence campaigns on Twitter so not much of a shock, although good to know. Here's a Guardian 2014 article on DARPA-funded influence studies coordinated under its Social Media in Strategic Communication initiative (itself first launched in 2011). Research in the DARPA studies was outsourced to universities.



This recalls suggestions put forth by people like Cass Sunstein, who argued for "cognitive infiltration" of conspiracy communities in a 2008 paper. Sunstein went as far as to recommend the use of "fake identities" by "government agents."

Conspiracy Theories by Cass Sunstein.

Obviously, the spreading of unusual, bizarre ideas as disinformation is not a new concept. In the early 1950s as part of a psychological warfare campaign in the Philippines, intelligence officer Edward Lansdale exploited folk beliefs in the asuang, or vampire, in one village.

Killing Hope-US Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII-William Blum (page 41)

A few years later as part of Operation KUGOWN, the CIA's psywar campaign in Guatemala, the Agency asked its JMWAVE station in Miami to consider fabricating tabloid stories about "flying saucers" or "sextuplets" to dominant local news cycles.

89. Telegram From Operation PBSUCCESS Headquarters in Florida to the CIA Stations in Guatemala and [place not declassified]


Much later, the USAF, possibly (probably) working with intelligence agencies, spread disinformation in the UFO community. One of the sadder examples of this was a decade-long harassment campaign of a defense contractor named Paul Bennewitz.


The Guardian MIB

The Art of Deception is worth checking out if you never seen it. Bear in mind this is all from 2014.


If nothing else, consider that DARPA has a program devoted to exploring how to best exploit social media. Now place that in the context of American intelligence using spooky stories and conspiracy beliefs to wage psychological warfare. Havana Syndrome? UAPs? And on & on...Operation Obfuscation, a combined-effort task force exists only because there has to be a sub rosa factional initiative inside the "U.S. Military-Corporate-Intelligence-Complex."




These stories are largely online phenomena, driven by engagement on sites like Facebook and Twitter. Polling suggests that the vast majority of Americans have never even heard of Havana Syndrome. 

Source: YouGov (PDF)

When considering the spooky ideas that have seemingly manifested out of thin air within the last 5-6 years, remember that American intelligence agencies and the military have used these kinds of stories against people in other countries for decades. Why wouldn't they do it here?



The company running these Twitter ops on behalf of Centcom, is COLSA, in Huntsville, Alabama; a close partner with another prominent military contractor, Elon Musk's SpaceX. Among COLSA's clients are NASA, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Missile Defense Agency.



North Alabama

The Arsenal is a garrison for various tenants across the Department of Defense, Department of Justice, and NASA.
...Redstone houses the Tactical UAV Project Office, Redstone Test Center (RTC), the Missile Defense Agency, the Missile and Space Intelligence Center, and other operations.

On 13 January 2021, it was announced that Redstone Arsenal is the preferred location for the headquarters of the United States Space Command.

I'd say Redstone Arsenal is an interesting target.


Here's the full Intercept write-up by the guy who posted TWITTER FILES Part 8:

Twitter Aided the Pentagon in Its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign

Internal documents show Twitter whitelisted CENTCOM accounts that were then used to run its online influence campaign abroad.