anchoring

• Hi Barbara, Frank, Venetta, Ashli -
• Below is a random comment from an anonymous source, which I found several years ago in the comment section of an older blog written by Lynnae Williams, a young, promising DIA and CIA employee.  According to this Daily Beast article, "Lynnae Williams: The CIA Spy Who Tweets": 
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  "Williams’s main grievance with the agency revolves around her termination. Williams says that as a trainee in the agency’s national clandestine service, she was sent to Dominion Hospital, a public mental-health facility in northern Virginia."
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  After getting out of the hospital and then leaving the CIA, Lynnae began getting stalked by groups of men who looked like former college and NFL football players, whom Lynnae believed wereF.B.I. agents. (And I think she was right, as I saw many photos of them around her, all over the place, in her older blog.)  I didn't look too hard, but I couldn't find Lynnae's older blog.
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• This comment describes the theoretical underpinnings of our harassment protocol(s) and how FBI's InfraGard, DHS's Citizen Corps, and local neighborhood watches could be mobilized—with Multi-Jurisdictional Task Forces also helping to coordinate intelligence agencies, branches of the military, joint terrorism task forces (JTTFs), state and local law enforcement, private security/defense contractors, local private investigators, and private companies—with all of these 'entities' getting marching orders ultimately originating from the approximately 80 State Data Fusion Centers.  
• Information on Program from an Anonymous source 
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• “For folks who are interested in this subject, the strategy is actually kind of cool. Any successful implementation relies on three key factors. One linchpin, excuse the pun, is an old form of Japanese torture -- death by a thousand cuts. The second key component is plausible deniability. The third is an effect that is known by many names in the psychological literature -- grounding, stimulus /response, anchoring, where the idea is to associate an otherwise innocuous auditory or visual stimulus with stress. [NLP - Neuro-Linguistic Programming] 
  
• Stress triggers a release of a hormone called cortisol, which is associated with the fight or flight reaction. It is an evolutionary mechanism that kicks in as a sort of last resort. Studies on rats and mice indicate that chronic stress, however, is detrimental to higher level cognitive function. The response bypasses the neocortex, and the release of cortisol enhances the creation of memories of short term emotional events, raises blood pressure, and has some interesting anti-inflammatory effects. 
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• noun (plural neocortices | -ˈkôrtiˌsēz | ) Anatomy
• a part of the cerebral cortex concerned with sight and hearing in mammals, regarded as the most recently evolved part of the      
• cortex.
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  Long term exposure to cortisol, damages nerve cells in the hippocampus, the elongated ridges on the floor of each lateral ventricle of the brain, thought to be the center of emotion, memory, and the autonomic nervous system. resulting in impaired learning and memory retrieval of already stored information. The cumulative effect is to try to effect a psychological condition that is often referred to as PTSD. The short term goal is to try to make the subject paranoid both to discredit her in the eyes of the public and more importantly undermine personal sense of center. 
  
• As with enhanced interrogation, the tactics all rely on bombarding the subject with stimuli that he or she can't process, and at the same time, to limit normal stimuli and modes of activity. 
  
• Of course, knowing that stress can affect long term damage is not enough. From an implementation perspective in a relatively open democratic society with laws against most obvious types of harassment, it is much more difficult to pull this off than in, say Soviet Russia. This is where the 'death by a thousand cuts' strategy comes into play. The goal is to expose the subject to a constant barrage of small nuisances that individually are perfectly legal and bearable, but over longer periods of times amount to psychological intimidation. Each of these smaller nuisances can be as something trivial as tailgating the subject, shouting at the subject for no apparent reason -- and other various forms of street theater. 
  
• The beauty of this is: 
  
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  1. Most of these nuisances can be easily executed in a manner suitable to plausible deniability.
  2. If the subject actually tries to relate what is happening to her on an ongoing basis -- she will be deemed paranoid, delusional, schizophrenic, etc. 
  
• The logistics for such an information operation appear prohibitively expensive at first blush. One should think it pretty expensive to hire a group of goons who keep stalking the subject for a prolonged period of time. In practice, it is actually not that difficult. 
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• For one, the strategy is to rely on an army of useful idiots – each of whom is told a suitably nasty story about the subject – and is told to keep their eyes open. Second -- as with supply chain management the implementation can be outsourced and automatized through some pretty simple software solutions. Again, one balks at the logistics of tracking the subject. In practice, the subject has helped the information operator solve that problem by carrying a cellphone in her pocket. 
  
• The overall implementation will then look as follows. Using a variety of means -- gain access to cellphone/tower communication for the subject. Write a simple app that keeps track of a few dozen do-gooders who are either paid for this or provide their services for free, and the location of a subject. Every time that the subject comes within a radius of a mile or two of the operator, the server sends a message to the 'good Samaritan' with a picture of the subject and a choice of customized/personalized strategies for annoying the subject. Upon successful completion, the good Samaritan is able to submit feedback through his cellphone app back to the hq. Each couple of days/weeks a specialist back in hq sifts through the feedback and comes up with new personalized handling approaches which are put into the system. 
  
• Voila. 
  
• By virtue of crowd-sourcing, a bit of disinformation, and off-the-shelf cellphone tracking solutions you have yourself a pretty effective 'cocoa puff,' or 'psychic bunny' (an industry/IC term, actually) management solution that rivals the old school KGB, and that for a few hundred bucks tops maintenance per week. 
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  What is there not to like about the information revolution, folks? I am sure there are actually quite a few enterprising chaps in this game already. If anyone has any idea as to the ROI for such a business plan, I would really be interested in hearing from you. Also, if anyone is looking to hire developers to implement the game, please let yours truly know. Namaste.” [End of Comment]
  
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  Okay, that's it.  I did a little searching, but I couldn't find out what "cocoa puff," or "psychic bunny" meant, but I'd love to know.  I'll have to do some more serious digging.  Feel free to send this to whomever you think may like some of the insight.
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  I realize you all know a lot of the theory and the strategies already, but I like how the comment spells out the theory, strategies, and logistics:
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  Peace and 'V' (Victory) -
  
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  Patrick  C.
  ph: 336.763.5236
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  P.S.  My routine qualifier: I've proof-read this once after sending it to myself; so, while there may be a few grammar, spelling, punctuation mistakes, along with words added/omitted/changed, this email shouldn't contain many such errors, nor should large parts of the email be underlined, as my initial email sent to myself did not contain any of the text underlined, except for the links and a few key words I deliberately underlined.
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