QAnon & Fifth Column Ops
A Series on Misinformation, Disinformation and Subterfuge
Originally Published March 19, 2022
On July 1, 2019, I finally took the call.
My contact on the other side of the phone, a second generation Iranian-American working to train US military and police personnel in hand to hand combat, a Sifu martial arts grandmaster, whom I had known at first incidentally via a mutual friend for more than a year, was eager to talk.
I had been avoiding having this phone call since he first asked for in May, as John, whose name I have changed for the purpose of this story, had demonstrated extremist leanings, including probable connections to the Boogaloo movement. Then on that day, July 1, he said something that made having that call worth it. John claimed to be working in Iran during 1979.
Another poster who was also a Sifu (everyone in John’s circle was a grandmaster of one martial arts or another), disputed John’s claim, stating his name was not on the official list of evacuees. I posted something suggesting the possibility John was telling the truth, and that during the chaos of those last days, there could likely be an error. Within a minute I get four pictures via direct messaging, sent from inside John’s car of his passport.
The four complete images of his expired passport he sent, included his birthdate, US birthplace, passport photo, full name with an issue date of February 17, 1979 and expiration May 16, 1979. According to historical records the US embassy had been briefly overrun on February 14th with crowds dispersing that same day. I was convinced, that at least this part of his story being an eighteen year old working in Iran struggling to get to the embassy and leave was true.
I took the call.
Our conversation lasted only 26 minutes according to my logs. Regretfully, I didn’t record our call as I should have, as I was away on vacation and not in my office.
It was wild.
Most of what John had to say before, during and after our call was thick in conspiracy stuff sourced from all over the place, a trend I had noticed increasingly with other highly emotive QAnon adherents. We first spoke of his difficulty in reaching the embassy, his opinions on Iranian politics then veered off into UFOs for some reason. What he described regarding these UFOs wound up mostly matching details in the Pentagon reports released during the summer of 2021. Most. Then we got to Trump.
I asked John what would happen in 2020, after Trump had lost and exhausted all legal options. I asked this more to see if John could reasonably still use logic, not expecting to hear what he had to say next.
John described how patriots who love their country would rise up, that it would only take three percent of them, to save our country. They would take back our country without ever needing to fire a shot, first clearing out Antifa in Portland and Seattle, then patrolling/holding the streets. There would be no need for violence he reassured me repeatedly. Lastly, these patriots joined with the American people, would take over both state and federal government buildings holding them until they were reinforced by the Russians.
I was incredulous. Russia? Saving US Democracy?? This was the first indication I had that QAnon, an op started within the Trump campaign to deflect Donald’s Epstein problem to the Clintons, was now being used as a dependable vehicle pushing pro-Russian propaganda, most likely by Unregistered foreign agent and PsyOp mastermind Mike Flynn.
John, before the call ended, tendered an offer for me to join them saying he could direct me to speak to others. Nope. Not interested in joining a possible Russian supporting, anti-US government group that sounded very much to be the 3Percenters. Doing so could be as legally problematic as say being employed unknowingly by a foreign-backed troll farm thinking it was somehow legit, running afoul of FARA and other possible Federal Laws. So nope. I dropped him from my contact list, had a couple more conversations via DM including one recently where he denied everything I have just stated about what the “team” would do if Trump lost.
Should have recorded that phone call.
While it has been almost three years since that call with John, the QAnon conspiracies have gotten wilder in order to pull more people in. While this next quote is a bit out of context (it was his response to my published piece on Pizzagate), it aptly incorporates what was happening to the QAnon PsyOp.
“All conspiracies must believe in UFOs to and big foot and and the Lockness monster. Have a fun day,” John on August 29, 2019 2:55PM via DM.
Do you believe in Yetis? How about that one where the government tracks you with a microchip after a vaccine? Esptein? Then have I got a cult for you!
Creating larger-scaled militarized fifth column operations like January 6th, or Quebec’s Trucker shutdown, required reaching out to and pulling in as broad a coalition of people as possible. That is why QAnon marketing expanded, grabbing as many conspiracies from FOX, the GOP, and foreign sources, weaving them together, going mainstream with Flynn front and center, and just sell, sell, sell. Now even Xi and every deplorable are the good guys, seeking out bio-labs controlled by the bad guys, as seen in this off-the-wall yet seemingly normal interview by Walter Masterson.
BioLabs are a false flag conspiracy currently spreading to support military action against several democracies.
I really hadn’t thought much about the contents of that phone call with John until 2020 when menacing images of Tropical-shirt wearing, gun toting white guys began showing up nationwide to test out state capitol security responses across the US. When I saw that, I was none too happy. Here were the very people that would amass later on January 6th at the US Capitol, along with an angry mob numbering in the thousands, and minimal to no pushback. These test runs went on for awhile growing in size until pandemic shutdowns. Later in the summer, Bill Barr’s use of unidentifiable policing units that may or may not be Federal agents, had the effect of adding legitimacy to the previous Boogaloo groups while increasing confrontation and violence directed on otherwise peaceful protestors.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/05/protests-washington-dc-federal-agents-law-enforcement-302551
I saw those images of unidentifiable militants mainstreamed as an ominous harbinger of what could happen when Trump lost and the clock on his court challenges had run out. They were normalized, while of course BLM, was marginalized, beaten, shot at along with the media, and gassed. It was all part of a larger plan.
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/01/27/who-are-boogaloos-who-were-visible-capitol-and-later-rallies
The Boogaloo Bois, 3Percenters, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys and other right wing extremist groups, are mostly distinct and different from one another, yet all have similarly aligned anti-US government objectives. Pull in a large coalition of people from QAnon, along with Ginny Thomas’s bus people, GOP operatives like Ted Cruz, Trump and other speakers, and the much more explosive armed militant groups, all aligned with a singular purpose that day, and we have a fifth column.
Fifth Column
“a group within a country at war who are sympathetic to or working for its enemies.”
That leads us back to our group of paid and free firestarting trolls.
I have been asked by members of the KassandraSeven operation why do I care about what they are doing when there is an actual war going on. Here was one of those times, on March 13:
While there is no evidence yet that this particular troll farm is being directly funded by the Kremlin, the evidence that they are part of a smaller operation that indirectly benefits Russia via disinformation generation, and is therefore part of a much broader fifth column, is abundantly clear in their defamation of Jim Stewartson and others. They simply do not want people to know Russia, via Mike Flynn, is engaging in all sorts of PsyOps, including QAnon, Trucker Convoys, and likely a slew of other ops.
It is kind of like this. One of my contacts, who has been in North Korea, while working in US intelligence, told me a fun story about how both sides learned to mask radar signatures of passing aircrafts. Each side began one-upping the other to the point of absurdity with flying battleships. When an errant North Korean military plane flew over Seoul unnoticed, something that was a big no no for either side, the game was no longer a game. The same is true of this weaponized troll outfit. If we allow them to stay under the radar, the threat they pose metastatsizes, even to the undermining of confidence in democratic institutions like the CIA, FBI, or individually worse, suggesting people Epstein themselves like Jan implies here directed at Jim and I.
I went into my own operation to independently uncover/confirm these bad actors knowing just one piece of information, Kassandra Seven was the Op, and Jim Stewartson’s group was the target. That was it.
K7s account, after reading much of her replies over the past month started, I could see her disdain she had for other people not in on her op. I also could see whom was part of her circle supporting her. One of those accounts interconnected to K7s group, belongs to an incredibly large fish in the disinformation content generation world, Fredrick Brennan, 8Chan’s creator. I blocked him reluctantly, knowing he was the type of guy who could easily throw up flying battleships on the screen, making my mission to pull out the biggest targets. There were a load of other likely interesting recycler accounts like Spiral Dee or Constrictor, whom I passed over intentionally to limit the chaos. Still, bigger targets. I wanted to see for myself who the big accounts that were engaged in this coordinated harassment campaign were.
After blundered Canines sent to and generated likely by FIVERR contractors, failed to impress, Sue, who is most definitely the first name of the individual operating KassandraSeven and likely Octopus, showed me to not just one, but FOUR verified accounts! Two of those, Mike Rothschild and Lousie Mensch, I still need to take a deeper dive on their work before addressing how they have been engaged in subterfuge. I will though point out that both Sue and Louise, being writers beforehand, and Mike also being a writer, made them obvious assets to be recruited. Just saying.
While the more prominent disinformation mules, those able to launder big conspiracies into the mainstream are the most important ones here, that isn’t to say exposed large follower accounts like Chad Loder and KassandraSeven aren’t dangerous too, if left operational. Both those accounts came after me, as they did to Jim Stewartson, and if left unbanned can be used later on additional attacks.
Next up, Blowing up Rabbit Holes
Excellent piece
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