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Chapter One scholarship. Dolan studied U.S. Cold War strategy, Soviet history and culture, and international diplomacy. As an expert, his opinion of “conspiracy theory” is that from a historical point of view, the only reality is that of conspiracy.’ Secrecy, wealth and independence add up to power. ...Deception is the key element of warfare, (the tool of power elites), and when winning is all that matters, the conventional morality held by ordinary people becomes an impediment. Secrecy stems from a pervasive and fundamental element of life in our world, that those who are at the top of the heap will always take whatever steps are necessary to maintain the status quo. And maintaining the “status quo” in science has to be one of the main objectives of the Power Elite. Official culture, understood this way, from the perspective of elite groups wishing to maintain the status quo of their power, means only one thing: COINTELPRO. Here I do not mean the specific FBI program that was created to counter the anti-war movement of the 60s and 70s, but the concept of the program, and the likelihood that this has been the mode of controlling human beings for possibly millennia. Certainly, Machiavelli outlined the principles a very long time ago and little has changed since. The fact is, I like to call it “Cosmic COINTELPRO” to suggest that it is almost a mechanical system that operates based on the psychological nature of human beings, most of whom ike to live in denial. After all, “if ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise”. This is most especially true when we consider the survival instinct of the ego. If the official culture says that there is no Third Man in the room, and if it works through the inculcated belief systems, there is little possibility that the “subject” will be able to see the source of the phenomena in our world. It will Using the model of the 70s COINTELPRO as a guide to what may be going on in our world, let us consider the fact that the FBI has been shown to have concentrated on creating bogus organizations and promoting bogus ideas as a form of control. cult”. 2002. 166 And how do they do that? By “official culture”. always be an “invisible Third Man." “There exists in our world today a powerful and dangerous secret ?° Richard Dolan, UFOs and the National Security State, Hampton Roads, second edition,