>I know the value of propaganda but the idea that a mlitary trains to produce patently false propaganda targeted at its own civilian in the guise of the civilian government without its knowledge is disturbing.
You ought to look up Operation Mockingbird, the Nariyah testimony, there are other examples. The activities you describe are widespread in the US. There was also someone did a study of some cable news network that found 92% of guests were current or former government officials, retired generals etc (AKA likely on CIA or military intelligence payroll)
I always wonder if the US is an outlier in stuff like this with Mockingbird, MKUltra etc. or if they are the ones that get caught and publicised the most in relation to other countries.
I'm guessing US is one of the very few countries that have enough money flowing to the military and intelligence that they can afford such projects. Most other countries probably prioritize their limited budgets on less... exploratory endeavors.
This made me remember the story that early Nazi Party was full of government spies tasked in destroying Nazi Party, Hitler being one of them.
They were supposed to act like true Nazi and infiltrate them heavily until they had enough information to dismantle it... but the spies quickly overran real members (seemly when Hitler and others were sent, the party had 15 members or so... and for a while the party had more spies in it than real members), the spies, that weren't "real Nazi", while trying to blend in introduced more and more ludicrous ideas and ended convincing people for real, seemly including themselves...
You ought to look up Operation Mockingbird, the Nariyah testimony, there are other examples. The activities you describe are widespread in the US. There was also someone did a study of some cable news network that found 92% of guests were current or former government officials, retired generals etc (AKA likely on CIA or military intelligence payroll)