Blob Studies Annotated Bibliography
Key Source Documents to Understand the Blob
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NSC 1/1: The Position of the United States with Respect to Italy (1947) - National Security Council
The first published report after the creation of the NSC, describes the pretext for the CIA rigging the 1948 Italian election.
The National Security Act of 1947 (1947) - The Congress
The legislation that created the NSC and CIA after WWII.
NSC 10/2: Directive on Office of Special Projects (1948) - National Security Council
The founding document of the blob and the plausible deniability doctrine.
The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare (1948) - George Kennan
The manifesto of the blob and political warfare in the post-WWII world order.
Italy Faces Choice of Dictatorship or Democracy (1948) - George Putnam
US propaganda film about the 1948 Italy election that the CIA rigged. Uses same phraseology as Gene Sharp.
The Central Intelligence Agency and National Organization for Intelligence (1949) - Allen Dulles
The Dulles-Jackson Report: a review of the first few years of the CIA, with reorganization recommendations that solidified the blob.
NSC 68: A Report to the NSC by the Executive Secretary (1950) - James Lay
The founding document of the Cold War.
Suggestions on Kinds of Projects we Would Like to See the Ford Foundation Support (1951) - Max Millikan
Official CIA memo exerting influence over the Ford Foundation.
A Study of Assassination (1953) - Central Intelligence Agency
The CIA’s secret assassination manual.
Operation Big Itch (1954) - US Army
Military operation to test using fleas as a vector for biological warfare.
Telegram From Operation PBSUCCESS Headquarters in Florida to the CIA Stations in Guatemala and [Redacted] (1954) - Central Intelligence Agency
CIA document encouraging the use of fake UFO stories to distract the population “If possible, fabricate big human interest story, like flying saucers, birth sextuplets in remote area to take play away.”
Summary of Major Events and Problems (1960) - US Army Chemical Corps
Documents revealing military operations to study the use of ticks, fleas, and mosquitos as vectors for biological warfare pathogens.
Memo to President CIA Reorganization (1961) - Arthur Schlesinger
Letter from OSS analyst Arthur Schlesinger Jr. to President JFK detailing his concerns about public perception of the CIA because of its many public scandals, proposing a reorganization.
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (1961) - The Congress
The legislation that created USAID.
Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba (1962) - Joint Chiefs of Staff
Operation Northwoods: Detailed list of false flag ideas to get Americans to support a war in Cuba. Includes remote controlled aircraft (like 9/11).
Minutes of Meeting of the Special Group on Operation MONGOOSE (1962) - Thomas Parrott
The military proposing the idea of introducing biological pathogens to induce crop failure in Cuba and making them appear to be of natural origin, as well as using chem/bio attacks as long as they can be covered up.
The Politics of Nonviolent Action (1973) - Gene Sharp
The intellectual foundation of mob violence riot tactics.
Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities (1976) - US Senate
Final reports of the Church Committee, investigations into intelligence agency scandals.
HR2915 State Department Authorization Act (1983) - Dante Fascell
The legislation that created the National Endowment for Democracy.
Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare (1985) - Central Intelligence Agency
CIA psyop guerrilla warfare manual.
From Dictatorship to Democracy (1993) - Gene Sharp
The mob violence riot manual that the military and CIA use.
Operation PBSUCCESS (1994) - Nicholas Cullather
A comprehensive review of the CIA’s operation to overthrow the government of Guatemala in the 1950s.
Building Civic Education for Democracy in Poland (1996) - Richard Remy
How academic institutions in Poland were infiltrated by the blob after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Dark Alliance (1998) - Gary Webb
The CIA’s involvement in selling drugs in the United States to fund Iran-Contra.
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale hypertextual Web Search Engine (1998) - Sergey Brin
The academic paper published by Larry Page and Sergey Brin introducing Google. Acknowledges that they received funding from DARPA.
Confessions of an Economic Hitman (2004) - John Perkins
Deep dive into how the blob uses economic hitmen to cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars.
Transitions from Postcommunism (2005) - Michael McFaul
7 step color revolution playbook.
The Snowden Archive (2013) - Edward Snowden
The complete repository of Edward Snowden’s revelations.
US Sent Latin Youth Undercover in Anti-Cuba Ploy (2014) - Desmond Butler
AP article detailing USAID using fake HIV clinics as a front to recruit political activists for overthrowing the government.
Local Systems: A Framework for Supporting Sustained Development (2014) - USAID
USAID 10-step manual on capacity building.
White House Letter On The Safety of Vaccination Workers (2014) - Lisa Monaco
A letter from Homeland Security Advisor Lisa Monaco admitting that the CIA used vaccination programs as a front for DNA collection.
SARS-Like Cluster of Circulating Bat Coronavirus Pose Threat for Human Emergence (2015) - Menachery, et. al.
Gain-of-function research of bat SARS-CoV determined to be a threat to humans at UNC Chapel Hill.
Building Partner Capacity (2015) - Harry Yarger
JSOU Press article about capacity building.
USAID’s Public-Private Partnerships (2016) - George Ingram
A comprehensive deep dive of USAID’s global influence network.
NATO Military Policy on Strategic Communications (2017) - Mark Laity
One of the instrumental documents of the Censorship Industrial Complex and the tanks to tweets shift.
SARS-Like Coronavirus WIV1-CoV Does Not Replicate in Egyptian Fruit Bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) (2018) - Doremalen, et. al.
Gain-of-function research to replicate Wuhan Institute of Virology Sars-like Coronavirus in bats. Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana.
Project DEFUSE: Defusing the Threat of Bat-borne Coronaviruses (2018) - Peter Daszak
The DARPA project that created SARS-CoV-2.
I am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Admin (2018) - Miles Taylor
Anonymous article from DHS Chief of Staff.
The Back Channel (2019) - William Burns
A memoir by former US Ambassador to Russia, CIA Director, and Secretary of State Bill Burns about back-channel diplomacy.
The Democracy Playbook (2019) - Norm Eisen
Norm Eisen’s color revolution playbook centered around preventing democratic backsliding.
Event 201 (2019) - Johns Hopkins University
Norm Eisen’s color revolution playbook centered around preventing democratic backsliding.
Joint Statement by Civil Society Representatives on the First Political Steps of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky (2019) - Ukraine Crisis Media Center
Red lines memo authored by the Ukraine Crisis Media Center and the blob NGO swarm sent to Zelensky as soon as he took office, threatening political instability.
Resistance Operating Concept (2020) - Otto Fiala
JSOU Press article about nonviolent resistance building on Gene Sharp.
Preventing a Disrupted Presidential Election and Transition (2020) - TIP
The blob color revolution plan to overthrow Trump in 2020.
Texas v. Pennsylvania (2020) - Ken Paxton
SCOTUS petition by Texas to challenge the election fraud in 2020, denied cert.
Trump v. Raffensperger (2020) - Ray Smith III
Official election challenge by Trump in 2020 in Georgia, never heard on the merits.
A Vision for 2021 and Beyond (2021) - 1st Special Forces Command
Army Special Forces scenario to create color revolutions in Africa on pp. 16-17, Competition Vignette.
Special Warfare Journal, Volume 34 Issue 2, April-June 2021 (2021) - Janice Burton
The official professional journal of US special operations forces, multiple articles about Russia hacking the election, George Floyd, and COVID-19.
Disinformation Primer (2021) - Joshua Machleder
USAID comprehensive manual on censorship.
The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign that Saved the 2020 Election (2021) - Molly Ball
A confession of how the blob overthrew Trump in 2020.
Five Strategies to Support US Democracy (2022) - Rachel Kleinfeld
The blob’s five-step plan to join neocons and neoliberals against Trumpism.
The United States of America and the Release of ‘Bug-Borne’ Bioweapons During the Cold War (2022) - Planetary Association for Clean Energy
List of sources presented to the UN Human Rights Council about US military bug-borne bioweapons.
The Censorship Industrial Complex: U.S. Government Support For Domestic Censorship And Disinformation Campaigns (2023) - Michael Shellenberger
Testimony by Michael Shellenberger to The House Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on government censorship, with significant influence from Mike Benz.
A Framework for Federal Scientific Integrity Policy and Practice (2023) - Biden White House
The Biden Administration’s whole-of-society censorship project.
NIH Could Take Additional Actions to Manage Risks Involving Foreign Subrecipients (2023) - US Government Accountability Office
GAO report on US funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The Taliban’s Successful Opium Ban is Bad for Afghans and the World (2023) - US Institute of Peace
Article from USIP that was later scrubbed from their website.
Election Interference: How the FBI Prebunked a True Story About the Biden Family’s Corruption in Advance of the 2020 Presidential Election (2024) - House Judiciary Committee
HJC report on the censorship of the Biden laptop story to rig the 2020 election.
NATO’s Approach to Counter Information Threats (2024) - NATO
NATO censorship public summary.
Biosensing Surveillance Technologies (2025) - Anna Gielas
JSOU Press article about biometric surveillance.
Leveraging Contingent Capital as a Non-Traditional Discipline of Economic Warfare (2025) - Matthew Flug
JSOU Press article about economic warfare.
Resilience and Resistance (2025) - Robert Burrell
JSOU Press article about irregular warfare.
Understanding Hybrid Warfare (2025) - Tony Balasevicius
JSOU Press article about hybrid warfare.
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