Web of Slime: The CIA Public-Private Partnership as Covert Political, Social Action.

 

In 2007, the CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence put forth a document titled “Managing Covert Political Action” (now deep sixed) that was a stark admission of the government’s use of stagecraft and black ops since the Cold War. Truth is only used when convenient, with fabrication being the norm.

The strategy is stated as: “systems psychodynamics,” focusing on “tension centered” strategies to create “organizational paradoxes” by targeting people’s basic assumptions about the world around them to create division and provide distraction.

https://www.winterwatch.net/2026/06/web-of-slime-the-cia-as-a-political-action-group/