This is Britain’s GCHQ how-to guide forOnline Covert Action which, according to Glenn Greenwald (see links below) has been shared with US agencies like the NSA. Upon review, it can only be described as government-sponsored subterfuge of domestic society.

According to these latest documents, there are paid government agent/contractor persons on social media posing as someone they are not, whilst on the payroll of the government. Their job is to befriend members of the alternative media, embed themselves in the ebb and flow of day-to-day communications, and then to engage in elaborate subterfuge by any means necessary. The training exercise below uses terms like befriend , infiltrate , mask/mimic , ruse , set-up , disrupt , create cognitive stress , use deception , ruin business relationships , and post negative information on appropriate forums all of which is not only illegal and morally bankrupt, but also runs completely contrary to the very fundamental values and indeed founding principles, of a modern free democratic society or constitutional republic.

Government targets in this malicious operation appear to be bloggers, activists, journalists, social event organisers and anyone else deemed to be a emerging leader or voice in the public sphere, or alternative media online.

This obviously extends way beyond the practice of employing paid trolls to pollute comment sections and redirect forum threads which still exists under both government and corporate umbrellas.

Thanks to Ed Snowden (photo, left), the public as well as moral individuals within government and the judiciary, might fully realise just how these sort of underhanded, and unlawful operations have sunk to the lowest possible levels.

It s not enough that the governments of both the UK and US are blanket spying on each other s populations and then swapping data, but now we see how they are aggressively targeting individuals in secret, undermining them and eventually setting out to destroy them and all the while employing organised deception (with the full backing of the state security apparatus) to achieve a series of said outcomes .