The empty “Jewish World Conspiracy” myth: The fictional group that had no tricks
Classic conspiracy lore tells a story of a small group of jews and a system of jewish helpers which managed to acquire decisive power within...
Category : Intelligence
Aristocratic-Dynastic intelligence vs. bureaucratic intelligence
Image: Lorna Roberts / Shutterstock.com 1) The problem that historians (and many intelligence historians) keep stepping around Most readers can understand that rulers in every...
Operation TRUST-2: How the KGB may have fabricated a large-scale conservative rebellion in the USSR
The original operation TRUST was a massive success for early Soviet intelligence: Faking a vast network of anticommunist circles to entrap the real domestic opposition...
Forging the anticommunist illusion everyone desired: Operation TRUST
Introduction: A fake opposition that became the real battlefield Between roughly 1921 and 1927, the Soviet security service (Cheka → GPU/OGPU) ran one of the...
The Myth of the Leaky State: Why U.S. Government Secrecy Is Deeper, Longer, and Harder Than Most People Think
Introduction: “They couldn’t possibly keep that secret”… or could they? A popular civic folktale says the U.S. government is too big, too porous, and too...
Classic conspiracy mythology is a communist invention
We think of classic conspiracy mythology as inherently rightwing; mostly due to the German National Socialists and radical Islam. If you don’t believe in a...
Revenge of the King: How Britain stopped using guns against the American rebels and employed espionage instead
Overture: An Empire Counts Its Coins Empires do not live by muskets alone. They live by arithmetic—by the sober accounting of ships and shillings, allies...
The empire’s central task of allocating scarce resources gave birth to espionage and counterespionage
Prologue: Every Empire Is a Budget Strip away the costumes and the heraldry, and any empire is just a spreadsheet etched into geography. It has...
The USSR immediately spread the fake conspiracy mythology in the Muslim world
Decades before the KGB launched “Operation SIG” to intensify antisemitic conspiracy lore in the muslim world, the USSR had already built the groundwork via an...
EYES ONLY: The master spy file on Hitler and the NSDAP
Image: 360b/Shutterstock.com The son of a serial murderer Adolf Hitler’s father Alois Schicklgruber was a highly suspicious figure and it is still not 100% clear...