Rumble Notes:
An essential 40 min lecture on the origin story of The Blob. Thanks to Hillsdale for a beautiful event.
Timestamps:
01:19 ~ The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare
11:20 ~ NSC 10/2 and the Plausible Deniability Doctrine
15:08 ~ Diplomacy Thru Duplicity
16:04 ~ Smith-Mundt Act, The CIA Media Empire
19:40 ~ The Department of Dirty Tricks
20:36 ~ The CIA As Servant Of The State Department
23:02 ~1789-1948 pre-history
29:54 ~ 1948-1983
37:31 ~ I learn there’s 2 mins left on the clock & need to summarize the post-1983 structural changes and post-2016 operational changes in like 3 mins 😂
I only made it a third of the way thru the lecture! 😩
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By way of background…
Mike Benz is active on social media, sharing red pills on the daily. He served in a cybersecurity for the U.S. State Department during the first Trump administration, and he’s the executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online (FFO), a nonprofit focused on promoting free speech and countering online censorship (a most worthy cause).

