Cointelpro?

[Jontg]

What the rule eight is it? I've heard the word used to refer to people who disagree with CTs, CTs who make the other CTs look bad, and even to a certain adjective I occasionally apply to myself, but what, exactly, is it? I can guess from the context that it's some vague, evil organization that gets pulled out when the usual three-letter words can't be shoehorned in--but can anybody give me specifics, or direct me to some data on the etymology of the term?

[theprestige]

COunter INTELligence PROgram.

Realistically, it's a process devised by an intelligence agency to poison a foreign agency's intel with false and misleading information. "Leaking" fake intel to the enemy's moles instead of simply arresting them, counterfeiting documentation for this or that military activity that never actually happened, etc.

The Conspiracy Theory, of course, is that anybody so stupid that even other CTs can see how stupid he is, must obviously be a plant by The Conspiracy, to make them all look bad and distract them with bogus CTs.

[defaultdotxbe]

very interesting real-world cointelpro:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Cross_System

[Jontg]

That, default, is awesome.

[Childlike Empress]

Nothing vague about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cointelpro

[Jontg]

*facepalm* Can't believe I didn't think of that sooner. At least now it makes more sense--J. Edgar Hoover was enough to make anyone paranoid. And I suppose the fact that the outfit shut down doesn't mean much to people who think the Bavarian Illuminati are still active...

[eromitlab]

Well, programs that CTs believe can be (or already have been) mobilized against them never really shut down. When the History Channel did its show about 9/11 CTs, I learned that Hearst's yellow journalism program from the 1890s was still active and producing "hit pieces" like that show.

[Jontg]

Well, programs that CTs believe can be (or already have been) mobilized against them never really shut down. When the History Channel did its show about 9/11 CTs, I learned that Hearst's yellow journalism program from the 1890s was still active and producing "hit pieces" like that show.

Good gravy, did they actually use that phrase? They're even more out of it than I thought.

[Drudgewire]

What the rule eight is it?

What the :rule10 does posting a person's private information that is not otherwise publicly available have to do with counter-interlligence? Are you accusing us of something? :mad:





;)

[Jontg]

Eep, I just noticed that. ^^;