Speculative claim of CIA involvement in disinformation around satanic ritual abuse narratives

Although | believe that 7rance Formation of America is an elaborate hoax and Michael Aquino thinks it’ s in the lunatic fringe, conspiracy researcher Robert Sterling perceives a more devious motivation. In Apocalypse Culture //, edited by Adam Parfrey, Sterling writes: “Effective disinformation is never an absolute lie. The purpose of disinformation is to confuse truth and validity, and to do so, boldfaced les are rarely convincing. Effective disinformation mixes truth and deception to obfuscate the two. The closer the disinformation approaches truth, the more damning it becomes. Then all the disinformation, even the legitimate parts, discredits targeted research and ideas. “At the time of the release of 7rance Formation, there was a growing awareness in the conspiracy subculture of intelligence agency involvement in satanic ritual abuse. Literature on the subject was reaching a critical mass where it could not be ignored. Would intelligence agencies devote resources to counteract such information? Not only is it possible, it almost certainly has occurred. “The CIA, even with an officially acknowledged history of abusing people through mind-control experiments (the most famous being MK- Ultra), certainly has a vested interest in denying such operations exist, especially when the operations are as insidious as sexually abusing HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015240