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Human behavior expert Chase Hughes in a recent podcast discussed how the CIA recruits social media influencers with bribes, coercion and blackmail to have them push or avoid certain talking points.
Hughes, a persuasion and body language expert who has appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience, joined podcast host Jack Neel in December, where he broke down how a Gen Z influencer might get approached and propositioned to assist the CIA, saying an operative in a public setting would likely present compromising intel from the potential recruit’s browser history and cellphone data, before offering them cash.
Psyop expert Chase Hughes explains how the CIA recruits influencers, describing a step by step process.
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He says it begins with overwhelming leverage, where someone is confronted with their browsing history and even private, compromising footage.
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Here’s a transcript from the discussion:
And the way that somebody like a Gen Z person might get recruited is, let’s just use you as an example. Somebody comes up and says, “Hey, man, I love your podcast…Yada Yada”… they’re in a restaurant, a bar or whatever. And they say, “I have a serious question for you, though. Are you a patriot? Would you consider yourself a patriot?”
Now I’ve got you locked into identity, right? And then I say, “Well, I have an offer for you… But before I show you anything, I just want you to say, yes or no, would you be willing to entertain the offer and look at what I have? And it might be uncomfortable. Would you be willing to look at it?”
[Sure.]
Yep. Stage one is, I show you all of your browsing history captures from your webcams on all of your phones and computers. So if you’re doing the most compromising shit you could ever possibly imagine, every bad thing you’ve ever done recorded in some way.
And I’d say, “I like your podcast. I think you’re doing a great job. And I want to protect you. And I want to keep all this from the public eye. But we also want to give you $20,000 a month.”
So now you feel like you chose all of this. So you walk away not feeling like I shoved this in your face. I told you it was going to be stressful and you agreed to it and you agreed that you’re a patriot and all the other agreements. And now you’re, if you say yes, the reason that you’re doing this on your podcast is for your country because you’re not going to call yourself compromised.
Watch the full podcast below:
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