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Facebook Partnered with Paul Manafort’s #1 Partner in Social Media Influence Operations – To Restore The Integrity of Elections Worldwide.

The fake news media has somehow ignored the story of the century – I have not! Below I describe and document my work in pioneering social media psychological warfare for the U.S. Department of Defense, and how my employer, Obama’s National Security Adviser, Gen. James Jones, was Paul Manafort’s #1 preferred partner. Below is the full story.

In 2018 Facebook partnered with the Atlantic Council to restore the integrity of elections worldwide. Gen. Jones is the Chairman of the Atlantic Council, and I believe Mark Zuckerberg owns congress an explanation. Please make sure to share!

The ability to covertly alter elections, influence legislation for lobbyists or shape our foreign and domestic policy is not just a great idea for the next John Grisham novel. The ShadowNet was a commercially available product designed with the capability of doing all that, and much more.

It was developed at taxpayer expense as part of a Defense Department contract in support of the 4th Psychological Operations Group in Iraq. I worked for a small, 15-person company called Dynology in pioneering what was known as Interactive Internet Activities, or IIA in military nomenclature. Here is a copy of the memorandum from the chief of the IIA program I supported in Iraq from October, 2007 – September, 2008.

Dynology was owned by Gen. James Jones, whom has served as former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Obama’s National Security Adviser, and Chairman of the Atlantic Council. The ShadowNet, and its relational database, iPsy, were built at taxpayer expense under both Obama and Bush administration contracts – while Gen. Jones was serving as Obama’s National Security Adviser.

Dynology kept the intellectual property rights to the ShadowNet, then licensed it back to the Department of Defense on later contracts while serving as Obama’s National Security Adviser.

I, Patrick Bergy, worked for Gen. Jones’s company, Dynology, from 2007-2015. It was from 2007-2010 that I worked on the ShadowNet, which was the products commercial name, not a classified operational name. Below is a screenshot of the actual ShadowNet application and a flyer we made to promote publicly. Notice the 2009 Dynology Copyright on the bottom of the application.

Dynology ShadowNet Marketing Slick from 2008 when it was first made available to the public and private sector consumer.

Unbeknownst to me, at the same time Dynology was making this tactical social media psychological warfare capability available to the public commercially, Gen. Jones had partnered with his lifelong friend, John McCain, to provide IT services to his 2008 presidential primary campaign. Gen. Jones was also the #1 preferred partner of Paul Manafort and Rick Davis, whom owned 3EDC.

This is a screen-capture from Google’s “Way-Back” Machine showing a snapshot of 3EDC’s website in 2007.

This is a screen-capture from Google’s “Way-Back” Machine showing a snapshot of 3EDC’s website in 2007.

“3EDC was established to develop cutting edge web and data tools. These tools are designed to connect people and to affect results in the political, social and commercial worlds.”

3EDC’s website in 2007 owned by Paul Manafort and Rick Davis.

Although I originally saw the connection between Paul Manafort’s company, 3EDC, in a Vault 7 Wikileaks dump, it didn’t take long for me to make even more disturbing connections to McCain, Gen. Jones, Paul Manafort and Rick Davis. Below are quotes from a 2008 US News report. The report has been removed by US News, but I was able to dig it up using the Way-Back Machine.

I pulled the following articles together to help better understand Davis and Manafort’s relationship to Gen. James Jones and John McCain. Here is a quote from a TPM article titled, “McCain-Palin (Davis Manafort). I wonder what Mike Isikoff would say if he knew about the ShadowNet’s connection to McCain, Manafort and Davis? I’ve sent him an email asking him that very question along with a link to this post.


“In that Newsweek piece (noted below), which details Rick Davis’s continuing financial ties to mega-lobby firm Davis Manafort, Mike Isikoff reveals that in addition to paying Davis’s salary directly to Davis Manafort, the McCain campaign has paid almost a million dollars to 3eDC, a web development company, part owned by Davis.”

By Josh Marshall September 27, 2008 11:27 pm [https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/mccain-palin-davis-manafort]

“Now, digging around a little, I notice that 3eDC is pretty closely tied to Davis Manafort. Not only, as Newsweek notes, does the company share an address with Davis Manafort. Last year, US News got Davis to admit that the company has two owners — Rick Davis and Paul Manafort.

By Josh Marshall September 27, 2008 11:27 pm [https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/mccain-palin-davis-manafort]

” The questions surrounding Davis concern his part ownership of a company, 3eDC, and its ties to the McCain campaign. Like Weaver and Nelson, Davis, the campaign CEO, is paid $20,000 a month. Additionally, however, Davis’s 3eDC has a lucrative contract with the campaign. U.S. News could find no public record showing Davis’s ownership interest in 3EDC, but in an interview he acknowledged that he was one of its two owners. McCain’s spokesman, Brian Jones, confirmed that Davis “did not disclose his interest in 3eDC to Senator McCain.'”

By Edward T. Pound Posted 5/20/07 [http://web.archive.org/web/20080411212503/http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070520/28mccain.b.htm]

In this next quote, I found it interesting how they noted Manafort’s company only really existed on paper, and that, “it had a series of other ‘partner firms’ that did the actual work.” The fact Manafort’s number one partner, Dynology, owned the ShadowNet, which uses the same fake online persona’s and influence operations we indicted the Russian’s for in 2018, should alarm EVERYONE – irrespective of their political affiliations.


“And there’s a bit more. According to a July 2007 article in the Wall Street Journal, 3eDC was a “start-up … with one customer — the [McCain] campaign.” The Journalfurther reported that within the campaign it was understood that 3eDC was essentially a pass-through, that it had a series of other ‘partner firms’ that did the actual work.”

By Josh Marshall September 27, 2008 11:27 pm [https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/mccain-palin-davis-manafort]

Now, take a look at the Michael Isakoff article where he shows 3EDC’s address is the same as Manafort’s. After, take a look at the address registered for Dynology, a company you will find nowhere shown as having been founded by Gen. James Jones. Then take a look at the address registered to Jones Group International, which is a private lobbying firm with ties to middle-east and Ukrainian energy markets. They do this because they know the optics of owning a defense contracting company when you are the NATO Supreme Allied Commander or Obama’s National Security Adviser looks really, really bad.


“Separately, another entity created and partly owned by Davis—an Internet firm called 3eDC, whose address was the same office building as Davis Manafort’s—received payments from the McCain campaign for Web services, collecting $971,860 through March 2008.”

BY MICHAEL ISIKOFF ON 9/26/08 AT 8:00 PM EDT [https://www.newsweek.com/freddie-mac-money-trail-catches-mccain-89243] FREDDIE MAC MONEY TRAIL CATCHES UP WITH MCCAIN

Below is the address for Jones Group International that is currently listed on their website.
http://www.jonesgroupinternational.com/

Here is the address listed for Dynology Corporation, owners of the ShadowNet. Dynology states on their website they were founded in 1999. Gen. James Jones was serving in uniform throughout that period, and while serving as Obama’s National Security Adviser. The address is the same for Dynology as it is for Jones Group International.

And, of course, the address for ClearForce, which is a massive database of social media profiles, criminal records, travel and other personally identifiable information used to create behavioral profiles designed to predicatively determine if an employee is likely to steal or leak classified information from their employer. ClearForce is the next generation of the ShadowNet, and should be something EVERYONE should be deeply concerned about.

Here are the board of directors for ClearForce. Members include but are not limited to: Gen. James Jones, Gen. Michael Hayden, Jim Jones (son of Gen. Jones) and the California Democrat Congresswoman Eileen Tauscher. These are the holders of the “Keys to the Kingdom,” which I describe in a video in an earlier posting.

Here is what McCain’s 2008 Presidential Campaign provided at payouts to both 3EDC and Dynology.

Here is the payout to Dynology, found on the same FEC website. This is direct and verifiable evidence of the relationship between both Gen. James Jones, the ShadowNet and 3EDC.


http://docquery.fec.gov/pres/2007/Q2/C00430470/B_PAYEE_C00430470.html

In this chart I have put together a list connecting those related to the Mueller indictments for social media influence operations during the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections, to the ShadowNet, Dynology and ClearForce. It is just what I was able to uncover myself, imagine if ANY of the journalists I have reached out to in the last 3 years had worked with me…

Updated to add Celeste Wallanger

Now, notice how once the Republican primary had ended and the RNC took over, McCain put $3 million into 3EDC through the RNC. You will find this payment listed by McCain’s campaign as “micro-targeted social media.” I believe it was at this time during Trumps 2016 presidential election, just after candidate Trump won the Republican primary, that John McCain, working with his powerful, lifelong friends with covert, influence operations infrastructure already in place, to insert Paul Manafort into Trumps campaign.

Why Manafort? Recent information being reported by the Ukrainian government shows members of DNC had asked them to find information on Paul Manafort that could be used to influence the election. Who would be more capable of orchestrating that than Paul Manafort’s former business partner and Obama’s National Security Adviser, Gen. James Jones? I’m open to any suggestions, but nobody has shown me anyone with the connections, experience and has a direct relationship with others like McCain that could have put this together. The fact McCain’s hands were literally in possession of the fabricated Russian dossier, and a senior McCain staff member was responsible for its dissemination to the fake news media. Do you think John McCain would do all of this himself, or call on a friend like Gen. James Jones to handle the operation?


“Perhaps not surprisingly, in June, the Post’s Matthew Mosk reported that shortly after McCain took over the Republican National Committee in his role as de facto nominee, 3eDC resurfaced with its second client to date — the Republican National Committee — with a contract potentially worth as much as $3 million.”

By Josh Marshall September 27, 2008 11:27 pm [https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/mccain-palin-davis-manafort]

So, get this. John McCain paid for “micro-targeted social media” in his 2008 presidential bid to the small, privately owned company I was working for pioneering “micro-targeted” social media psychological warfare capabilities – which was also his lifelong best friend. However, in 2018 John McCain sponsors legislation banning it, “as a response to reports of Russian meddling in the 2016 elections” . Notice how his ban is focused on foreign countries, and not domestic threat-actors.


A bill was also introduced in late October by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Mark Warner D-Va. The “Honest Ads Act,” whose sponsors have described it as a response to reports of Russian meddling in the 2016 elections, would require online advertisers to meet many of the same disclaimer requirements as sponsors of broadcast messages.

Margaret Sessa-Hawkins | January 08, 2018 “FEC’s New Facebook Ruling Requires Ad Sharing Info Yet Gives Reformers Little to Like” [https://maplight.org/story/fecs-new-facebook-ruling-requires-ad-sharing-info-yet-gives-reformers-little-to-like/ ]

Irrespective of any involvement by Obama’s National Security Adviser, Gen. James Jones, in the fabricated Russian dossier, which is exactly the type of product or service a company like Dynology would provide, Gen. Jones’s personal involvement in social media psychological warfare is not in questions.

Additionally, Gen. Jones served in uniform as a 4 star general, NATO Supreme Allied Commander and other senior government positions while profiting personally from department of defense contracts. I would argue someone with a moral compass that broken wouldn’t hesitate to use illegal or covert means to alter the outcome of an American election if it provided him greater power and profit.

So now Facebook has been called before congress to explain their involvement in the 2016 presidential election influence operations, and has promised congress they were going to clean up their act. Facebook recently reported the potential of a $5 billion fine for violations related to privacy issues.

So you can imagine my surprise when Facebook decided to partner with the Atlantic Council in an effort to, “combat election-related propaganda and misinformation from proliferating on its service.” while Gen. James Jones is the Chairman of the Atlantic Council. Yes, Facebook literally partnered with Paul Manafort’s #1 preferred partner to cleanup the integrity of the election process using social media.

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BREAKING NEWS! Facebook Partnered with Founder of The ShadowNet to Combat Social Media Fake News!

Facebook has chosen to cleanup its image with fake news and election influence operations by partnering with the company that was chaired by the founder and owner of the ShadowNet.

Yes, in an attempt to fix their reputation following revelations that Russia had used Facebook in an attempt to influence the outcome of the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections, Facebook decided to partner with the DC Lobbying wing for NATO, Ukrainian and middle eastern energy markets.

You can watch my video broadcast discussing this post here:

But here is where it gets interesting, and irrespective of your political affiliation, you’re not going to like this. The below screenshot is from the official Facebook release of the Atlantic Council’s partnership with Facebook. Notice the name of the Facebook representative that did the press release, and see if you can guess her political affiliation and whom she and her colleagues have all worked for. I bet you can’t 🙂 Please allow me to introduce you to Katie Harbath, Global Politics and Outreach Director for Facebook. Based on all the BS Trump supporters have gone thru in the last two-years, I bet you thought she was a Democrat, didn’t you?

After seeing this partnership with Atlantic Council while my former employer, NATO Supreme Allied Commander and Obama National Security Adviser had been involved with any organization to fix social media fake news, my “Spidey sense” went into overdrive. I mean, seriously?

General James Jones was the founder of Dynology, and was small, military contracting company ran by his children and their families, mostly. From 2007-2010, I worked for Dynology on DoD contracts pioneering social media psychological warfare tools. Dynology retained the intellectual property rights to this taxpayer appropriated weapon, and made it commercially available. Using this to alter the outcome of U.S. elections was discussed by myself, Jim Jones and others. Below is a copy of the actual marketing slicks Dynology made for the ShadowNet.

Marketing Slick #2 – Are those examples of Middle Eastern and SOUTH AMERICAN Social Media Sites in the Examples on this Slick?
Dynology ShadowNet Marketing Slick from 2008 when it was first made available to the public and private sector consumer.

And this is a screenshot of the actual ShadowNet! It allows you to make and manage fake social media persona’s, fake news and perform influence operations using the data analytics from the profiles. Dynology used components of this to build the next generation of the ShadowNet; ClearForce.

I would be remiss in not mentioning that Paul Manafort (see screen capture of Manafort’s company, 3EDC below) was our partner at the time, and that we were John McCain’s IT company.

So I decided to ask our little, innocent looking Katie if she had any idea she chose the owner of the ShadowNet to partner with in fixing her companies image, and I was blown away with what I found next. Never would have expected this, but it helps make all the BS we’ve (Trump/Tea-Party) folks have been put through for years.

I wonder if Paul Manafort worked with Facebook’s Katie Harbath, shown below?

So, our little Katie was a “digital strategist” for the South Carolina Republican Party. In the Military PSYOP community, the nomenclature for social media psychological warfare is IIA, (Interactive Internet Activities.) In IIA, a “digital strategist” is simply known as an analyst, but it’s the same thing.

She then worked at DCI Group, LLC. Well, that sounds like an interesting company, I wonder what they do? Well, I couldn’t tell you from just their Facebook page, which seems odd for a Facebook employee.

Another thing that seemed interesting was the date the companies page was created; September 5, 2013. You know what else happened around that same time? The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act went into affect.

A BILL

To amend the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to authorize the domestic dissemination of information and material about the United States intended primarily for foreign audiences, and for other purposes.


Sec. 501. (a) The Secretary and the Broadcasting Board of Governors are authorized to use funds appropriated or otherwise made available for public diplomacy information programs to provide for the preparation, dissemination, and use of information intended for foreign audiences abroad about the United States, its people, and its policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pictures, the Internet, and other information media, including social media, and through information centers, instructors, and other direct or indirect means of communication.

H.R.5736 – Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012

So DCI Group, LLC is an interesting company for a Facebook employee to come from. It literally has no information as to what it is, and I don’t have the energy to further research something that, even if I found something, I couldn’t trust it.

I also find it interesting that Facebook algorithms matched pages related to DCI Group, LLC, to the State Department. The State Department was specifically a focus of the Smith-Mundt Modernization act.

Now check out the 1 single, solitary like this site has since its inception in 2013.

So, this partner at DCI Group, LLC was the former Chief of Staff at GOP. Are you starting to get a little confused how Republicans are seemingly in charge of the political speech at Facebook, don’t be. These are establishment, anti-Trump/Tea-Party Republican’s like John McCain, George Bush, Karl Rove and Dick Cheney. Are you starting to get the picture.

Did I tell you this was going to surprise you? At first I was surprised, but then, not. It all makes complete sense. We are all being played – BY OUR GOVERNMENT! Exactly how long is this going to be tolerated? Republican or Democrat, you cannot be ok with this. Remember how happy everyone was when the Stuxnet virus destroyed the Iranian critical infrastructure? You might want to know that same technology was reversed engineered and used against Saudi Arabia’s, Aramco Oil to the tune of burning American flag on 50,000 computers just before they literally burn up internally.

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The American Awakening Begins Live YouTube Broadcast.

We have been working for a while on putting together weekday American Awakening broadcast, and on Tuesday, we did our first “soft-opening” on YouTube.

We ran into pretty significant audio issues that have been resolved, and they make pretty much everything after the first 11 minutes unwatchable. Nonetheless, I’ve decided to keep it online. We’re not trying to make something perfect, we’re trying to make something honest, and honesty is not always perfect. Our new format will allow myself and J’Bird to display what we’re talking about, while we’re talking about it and at the same time allow our followers to ask questions as well.

From 2007-2010, I personally built out broadcast facilities (rack-mount video servers, motion suits, high-end editing…) with budgets that would make fake-news CNN, MSNBC and FOX (yeah, I called FOX News fake news, because they all are.)

Patrick Bergy, April 2019

The American Awakening broadcast doesn’t have quite the same budget, in fact, we have pretty much no budget but we’re working on that with personal contributions and help from friends. We’ve had an Indiegogo campaign going on now for about a month, with only a few weeks left, and have raised about $150.00 to help with some equipment purchases when the campaign ends, but haven’t had much time to spend promoting it. Here is a link if you can help!

Click here for link to our Indiegogo campaign.

This broadcast format will run 20 minutes every night, M-F beginning at 10pm, and we have a link to it on the sidebar of this page. Speaking engagements I have and other events might require us to shift the broadcast a few hours and we’ll just do those events live. We’ll be hijacking The Kevin Holly Show tonight at 10pm, which I co-host every Wednesday with our live stream.

It’s like this, if the guy that actually pioneered social media influence operations for Obama’s National Security Adviser is watching something and say’s, “you know, that is almost certainly an IIA influence operation,” perhaps you should listen to him? That’s the value of subscribing to The American Awakening.

Please click “SUBSCRIBE” in the video link at the top of this post, share it and follow us on Facebook!

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Lindsey Graham is LYING about DNC Emails being Hacked by Russia

Just before the 2018 mid-term elections, I met Lindsey Graham at an event in Orlando, FL. I told Lindsey that I built the same social media psychological warfare capabilities for Obama that we indicted the 13 Russians for, and that Paul Manafort was our partner.

Lindsey instructed me to give his staffer the copy of my book I brought for him which explains it in more detail, then shook my hand and took a the picture with me below. I have since then sent by both email and facsimile additional, newly discovered information in official, documented requests for a classified briefing with the Senate Judiciary Committee. I’ve heard nothing but crickets from Mr. Graham.

Patrick Bergy with Senator Lindsey Graham (2018)

Lindsey is now on a ‘McCain like’ fake news tour claiming he believe’s the Special Counsel’s report that pins the DNC email “hack” on Russia. As you can see in my speech just a few days before Lindsey started his unapologetic Russian collusion tour, I was speaking at the Tea Party Manatee club discussing the very fact that there was NO POSSIBLE WAY any intelligence agency can definitively say whom was responsible.

The technical reason my assessment is different from the intelligence report is because they are using breadcrumbs of evidence provided to them by a private, 3rd-party tech company the DNC provided. Additionally, I have evidence that connects that tech company to the Israeli company Mueller’s indictments pointed to named Wikistrat, and its sister corporation, Psy-Group.

Watch below then please explain to me how Lindsey can say with a straight face to the American people that he knows without question the DNC “hacking” was by Russian state actors? As you will see, I’m not sympathetic or naive to Russia messing with America; it’s kinda their thing.

As you will see in my chart connecting the ShadowNet to these two companies and 8 other people to the Russian dossier, one of Lindsey Graham’s closest friends, John McCain, is directly tied to the ShadowNet, fabricated Russian dossier and likely even the DNC email socially engineered influence operation (not “hacking”).

Updated to add Celeste Wallanger

In this video I explain the connections in the chart above.

Recorded March 26th, 2019 at the Tea Party Manatee club meeting. Patrick Bergy was invited to attend as their keynote speaker.

What we need now is for Senator Lindsey Graham to explain how his best friend, former Senator John McCain, is directly connected to the ShadowNet I developed for Obama’s National Security Advisor.

Patrick Bergy

Graham has known about this since I believe before the 2018 mid-term elections, and I believe had he investigated what you have just seen in the video above, the results of the mid-term elections would have been a lot different. Imagine if we had been discussing Obama’s actual connection to the ShadowNet instead of the fabricated “Russian collusion” hoax we got – LIKELY USING THE SHADOWNET!!!

Sorry for shouting there, but this DC swamp BS really gets frustrating and I could use your help. Please share this to your friends, groups, elected officials and the media. If enough people ask them, they won’t be able to continue covering it up…

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Social Media Influence Operations: Building Psychological Profiles of Target Acquisitions (TA’s)

From 2007-2010 I worked in pioneering social media psychological warfare capabilities for the Department of Defense. I was recently asked on Facebook what the “ShadowNet” & “iPsy,” which was its commercially marketed name, not the classified code-name; was built for?

The ShadowNet and iPsy were built to support what is known in military nomenclature as IIA, or Interactive Internet Activities. Here is the military’s definition.

The ShadowNet and its relational database, iPsy, served basically two distinctive purposes. The ShadowNet was used to provide anonymity (non-attribution) and dissemination of whatever content or message your wanted to get out to control the narrative. As seen above, IIA supports Computer Network Operations. CNO, for example, could be honeypots, hacking, computer virus… Does this remind you of anything? DNC emails are stolen, then disseminated using sophisticated anonymity which, in my opinion was used to create a “false flag” that pointed the intrusion at Russia.

A screenshot of the commercially available ShadowNet. Notice the Dynology 2009 Copyright. Dynology was a small, family business owned Obama’s National Security Advisor – WHILE SERVING AS OBAMA’S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR
– AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE ON A MILITARY CONTRACT!

Think of the ShadowNet as a project management tool for either covert, (using anonymity, fake persona’s and often times fabricated news) to disseminate your message in a way that is 100% unattributable to the analyst sending the message), or overtly, through attributable government organizations like Voice of American or the Public Affairs Office.

I’m only going to tell you what it was capable of, nothing operational. That would violate national security laws, and also violate the sacred trust given with my clearance. It is up to you what you do with this information. I suggest letting your elected officials know if it is something you think has been abused and our nation should have a debate on.

This would be especially useful in situations like the dissemination of the fabricated Russian Dossier and the DNC email scandal as just 2 examples. Here is a recent article I wrote about an IIA/IO operation in Afghanistan that was used by a U.S. Military PSYOP team against sitting U.S. Senator’s in an attempt to get additional funding for the war.

I found it interesting that most people only noticed the fact the U.S. Military used covert, tactical psychological warfare against American Senators, and not the most interesting and concerning part, developing psychological profiles on the TA’s, or Target Acquisitions.

When people think of using social media as a way to influence using psychological warfare, they generally first think of thousands of fake Russian bots engaging on Facebook and Twitter. What is rarely discussed is the intelligence collection process that is used to understand your target(s) for the most effective results.

Mueller’s Special Counsel has indicted 2 companies, Wikistrat & Psy-Group, which are Israeli owned by Joel Zamel. According to an article in the New York Times, Psy-Group , a company that provides the exact same services that iPsy was built to do, presented the Trump campaign with a quote to build detailed, psychological profiles on Republican delegates during the highly contested 2016 Republican convention. The article states there was no evidence the Trump campaign used this service, but it wouldn’t have been illegal.

Another presidential convention in 2008 had a very contested convention, and president Obama went on to tap the owner of the ShadowNet as his National Security Advisor. Perhaps Democrats should look into this?

Patrick Bergy; Original ShadowNet developer.

This process involves not only collecting your likes, things you share and your friends to build a behavioral profile, it now includes a the real-time collection of a targets social media, credit history, financials, travel and criminal records. Components of the ShadowNet and iPsy were integrated into a new application called ClearForce, by Dynology. The ClearForce application was then turned into its own company and includes on its board former Obama CIA director, Michael Hayden, Obama’s National Security Advisor and NATO commander, Gen. James Jones, and a California Democrat Congresswoman/ Diane Feinstein campaign manager. Here is a short video I made to show what I’m talking about.

Having studied the Seth Rich incident from the perspective of a subject matter expert in both cyber-security and social media psychological warfare, I believe Seth Rich was chosen as a target. In such a scenario, a company not unlike ClearForce would use an application like ClearForce to do a detailed psychological profile on everyone with potential access to the leaked DNC emails.

The ClearForce “like” application would then use its artificial intelligence to build detailed behavioral psychological profiles, and the targets most likely susceptible to a socially engineered influence operation that gets your TA to steal the data for you.

As stated, I have no evidence of this, but the question doesn’t have to just be if they did it, it can also be about should we allow private companies owned by senior White House officials and Democrat Congresswomen to have this ability?

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Hannity Is Right – Journalism Is Dead!

On Tuesday, March 12th, I was the keynote speaker at the Citrus County Trump Republican Club. During the event I told the audience of I believe over a hundred people that it has been an absolute disgrace how our nations 4th estate has not just ignored my story, several have investigated it, never disputed a single claim, then just went silent. If you agree their behavior was lacking both professionalism and honor, please let them know. I’ve included their social media contact information at the end of this article. In my last text to them I said I wouldn’t contact them again. I didn’t say you wouldn’t…

Washington Post investigative “journalist,” Craig Timburg, (and others) spent over a month going back and fourth with me until he eventually told me they weren’t going to run the story because it didn’t indict Trump and didn’t fit their narrative. I was disappointed but not really surprised by WaPo, but what has happened with Fox News since December 18th 2018 surprised me, and it shocked pretty much everyone at the event, so I wanted to address it in more detail and you can make your own conclusions. 

Below is a link to my speaking engagement in Citrus County. It was recorded by George Colella. The video is around 50 minutes, but well worth watching. I’ll try to update this post later with the exact time in the video I spoke about Judge Jeanine. The first question at the very end was about Fox News covering my story up. 

On November 8th 2017 I called Robert Mueller’s office. I informed them I had worked for the former NATO Supreme Allied Commander from 2007-2010, developing the same social media psychological warfare applications the FBI recently indicted 13 Russians for. It was called the ShadowNet, and I told the special counsel staff our partner at the time was Paul Manafort. That seems significant, right? Just wait!

My efforts to warn Americans that both foreign and domestic threat-actors were using covert social media psychological warfare to influence the outcome of the 2016 Presidential had not gone well. My first attempts to notify the media goes back to around September 2015 with some local NPR public radio station, but they didn’t care because it was an indictment of Obama, best I could determine. WMNF was then followed by investigative journalist, Mark Douglas, with WFLA, News Channel 8. WFLA is a big media outlet which is arguably the most dominant media presence in the Tampa Bay area. WFLA refused to investigate or run the story.

It was around the end of 2015 that I realized the media were not interested in writing a story about how I pioneered social media fake news for Obama and the former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, so I started writing my book. The book was also an insurance policy in the event I was killed to keep what I was exposing quiet, and it is a fear I still feel today.

I tried reaching out to Mark Douglas around a year later after I had discovered the connection between Paul Manafort and the ShadowNet program I helped pioneer. I also mentioned to him at that time my book had resulted in a DoD investigation into the cover-up of a pedophile in Iraq involving Gen. James Jones, his son, Gen. Petraeus and several others, but WFLA and Mark Douglas didn’t think this was something the public deserved or needed to know either, and refused to run it.

Then on December 18th, 2018 I get the private cell number of Judge Jeannine Pirro, the host of “Judge Jeanine” on Fox. I call her up and to my surprise, she answers. I told her briefly, like in 30 seconds that I had pioneered the same social media psychological warfare applications we indicted the Russians for, but did it for Obama’s National Security Advisor, and Paul Manafort was our partner. The Judge told me she was just getting ready to go into the doctors office, and that should would discuss it with me later.

A few days passed and I didn’t hear from her. Fearing she thought I was just crazy, I sent a follow-up text message (See Below.)

First text from Patrick Bergy to Judge Jeanine after speaking to her the day before.

As you can see in the text I sent her, I told her I was a man of honor and integrity. I said if I don’t hear from you, I won’t bother you again. To me, her response was an acceptance to act honorably. Her response (captioned below) was, “working on this now.”

Judge Jeanine’s reply.

On February 2nd, 2019 I sent a follow-up text to Judge Jeanine. I sent her one other previous text January 2nd stating I knew she was a very busy person and asked if there was someone on her staff I could speak with; she never replied. I hadn’t heard from her for nearly 2.5 months so I sent her another follow-up text, (shown below.) I included a picture of me in uniform, and said, “I believe you to be someone of honor and integrity, just as I…”


Much to my surprise, Jeanine replied, “I will speak to congressman [sic]nunes re ur information.”

It is March 13th and she has never replied. However, not to worry! I’ve been working with investigative “journalist,” Sara Carter since January 13!!! Sara’s got my back, right?

Sara and I spoke for I believe over an hour that night over the phone. She was blown away!

I spent the next week blocking off my schedule at the times Sara asked me to be available for her to call, but each time she never called. In most cases she never even replied for a day or two. Ok, no problem; she’s a busy professional and I will give her time. I sent her a lot of information – at her request – making sure it wasn’t bother her.

*The text came in out of sequence, so I put numbers to represent the proper order.

The above reply from Sara was Thursday, February 7th, 2019!

Sara has never contacted me back since; where is the honor in that? This is a very personal issue to me, both as a patriot and a man that has seen his life destroyed by these people for doing his job and protecting national security. I get it, I’m nothing to someone like 4-star General James Jones or Fox News, but I have more honor that the lot of them, and that’s ok with me. My work isn’t done.

Myself and several friends have setup an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to raise money for my next book, “ShadowNet: The American Awakening.” I am using this, my now 2nd book, to expose the fraud, waste, abuse and corruption within our 4th estate and the Military Industrial Complex.

Please help contribute by either donating to our Indiegogo project or sharing it with friends and family.

Click the following link to visit our Indiegogo campaign: “ShadowNet: The American Awakening.”

Here is the social media contact information I have for Sara Carter and Judge Jeanine Pirro.

Twitter:
@SaraCarterDC
@JudgeJeanine
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/judgejeaninepirro/
https://www.facebook.com/saraacarter/

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Disturbing Chinese Intelligence Connection to Manafort, Davis and McCain’s 2008 Primary.

According to numerous reports, including this NYT article from October 2007, the McCain presidential campaign paid the social media company, 3EDC, more than a million dollars, which was about 1/10 of their entire campaign budget at the time when Rick Davis took over John McCain campaign in 2007. 3EDC was founded by a former partner of Rick Davis, Paul Manafort. As you can see in the New York Times article below, there were other concerning relationships with 3EDC, most of which flew in the face of McCain’s own politics. The new connection I have just made verifiably adds Chinese Intelligence/Influence to this mystery.

I would also add when you read further down below that you notice how crappy a website 3EDC was. For a company paid nearly $3 million for web services by McCain’s campaign and the RNC, 3EDC sure sucked at making their own website. I guess it’s just a case of, “the plumbers leaky pipes?”

NYT October 2007 – “All told, 3eDC billed the campaign more than $1 million for Web services during the first half of the year. (The amount still owed the company accounts for about a third of the campaign’s debt.) News reports also noted that Davis Manafort, the business development and consulting practice from which Mr. Davis is on leave, had been giving campaign advice to the Ukrainian prime minister, Viktor F. Yanukovich, a favorite of the Kremlin, whose power Mr. McCain often warns against.”

The NYT article goes on to report the campaign was seemingly pulled from political ashes by a viral social media posting showing John McCain service videos. It was published by a group called Foxhole Productions.

NYT October 2007 – “And when high-priced media consultants left the financially struggling campaign, a group of loyalists working for little or no money made a searing television commercial showing footage of Mr. McCain as a prisoner of war. The group that made the advertisement called itself Foxhole Productions.”

I cannot prove it, but having spent years pioneering social media psychological warfare  for the Department of Defense, and Foxhole Productions sounds an awful lot like what in military psychological warfare nomenclature is know as IIA, or Interactive Internet Activities.

I developed IIA for a company called Dynology from October 2007- April 2010. Dynology was owned by a lifelong friend of John McCain; Gen. James Jones. Dynology was a very small, family owned business in which nearly 1/3 of the 15 employees when I started were immediate members of Gen. Jones’s family.

One of the products I helped pioneer for Dynology was known as the ShadowNet and its relational database, iPsy. In simplest terms, the ShadowNet and iPsy were marketed by Dynology commercially, and had the ability to alter the outcome of any size election. It was built to provide the exact same covert, social media psychological warfare capabilities we indicted the 13 Russians for last summer. Only difference is the ShadowNet was built and owned by the former NATO Supreme Allied Commander. Wow, that’s kinda awkward…

Here is a copy of the original Dynology “ShadowNet” commercial marketing slick.

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Marketing Slick #2 – Are those examples of Middle Eastern and SOUTH AMERICAN Social Media Sites in the Examples on this Slick?

Prior to 3EDC taking over McCain’s IT services, Dynology was providing the McCain campaign IT security services. As you can see in the screenshot below of 3EDC’s website captured in 2007, Dynology was 3EDC’s #1 strategic partner. Click for link to Google’s WayBack capture of the screenshot below.

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Now take a look at this Google WayBack Machine capture of 3EDC’s website on March 4th, 2007 below. It is from their “about” page and describes their tools, “…to affect results in the political, social, and commercial worlds.” I’m pretty sure anyone working with me developing IIA in Iraq at the same time 3EDC is selling these micro-targeted social media capabilities to John McCain’s presidential campaign would be EXTREMELY worried.

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This is when I found something extremely disturbing, and I am calling on the FBI to investigate this further. Notice the public website Paul Manafort’s company 3EDC is using is at www.3edc.NET (I capitalized NET to highlight its significance.) Notice the email address is not @3edc.net, it is @3edc.com

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Ok, so let’s take a look at who owned 3EDC.com on November 20th 2007 that is listed on 3EDC’s website contact information… Bohan IT – a state owned Chinese IT company.

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This is an english translation of 3EDC.com’s website several months after the info@3EDC.com email address was listed on the Manafort/Davis corporate site. I would like for ANYONE in U.S. Intelligence to tell me hosting or purchasing anything from that company used in a presidential campaign isn’t an IMMEDIATE red-flag!

From translation – As a Chinese joint venture company of Sakura Internet Co., Ltd. (TSE Mothers listing list 3778, Japan’s top backbone capacity No. 1), since May 2006, we have been conducting Internet hosting business by self-contract data center in Shanghai.

(C) Copyright 2007 BohanIT Shanghai Henan Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. Copyright ownership

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Why is a person like me with over a decade with the Department of Defense information security concerned when I see a presidential candidate with potential ties to Chinese influence and intelligence? Because this presidential candidate also had a nickname of “Songbird” McCain, and it has been long suspected that Chinese Intelligence had tapes of Songbird McCain singing like a bird to North Vietnamese Intelligence Officers, that’s why…

I am asking our law enforcement to look into this. I can think of a 1000 ways this relationship looks treasonous, and only about 1 way it could be coincidental. I’m hoping someone else might pick this up and peer-review it for accuracy. Please, tell me I made an obvious mistake here, but I just can’t see how.

Lastly, if you are a Republican, I’m saying with 99% certainty that technology from the ShadowNet and iPsy, which was owned by Gen. James Jones, a 40-year personal friend of John McCain, was used by Jones, Manafort and Davis to alter the outcome of the 2008 Republican Primary. Are you ok with not having this investigated? I would also add that I have connected the ShadowNet to several more of Mueller’s indictments.

POST PUBLICATION UPDATE:

I noticed that in 2013 it was reported that the Chinese had hacked both the Obama and McCain campaign servers. As previously mentioned, Dynology provided McCain’s IT security and I remember being told back in 2008 that the intrusion happened after 3EDC had replaced Dynology just after winning the primary. Jim Jones, the president of Dynology told me that with kind of a snicker, which is why I remember it.

Based on what I can see and know, it seems to me like Paul Manafort’s company, 3EDC, may have been the source of the data spillage/breach, but it seems more like there was a relationship between the Chinese Intelligence agency and 3EDC, and not a criminal/victim one you would expect to see.

That said, this new information forces me to change my odds on this being coincidental or not known to Manafort went from 1000 ways it looks treasonous, to two ways it could just be a coincidence. If 3EDC was a Chinese hosted and apparently owned domain, that could easily, and in fact be highly likely, a false-flag. Just thought I would add that little nugget in as well 🙂

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2014 Warnings Of Social Media Election Influence Went Ignored

My 2014 Warnings of Social Media Election Influence by Hostile Nations Went Ignored!

By Patrick Bergy

4 November 2017, Tampa – In late 2014, myself, a three-time Purple Heart recipient, a NASA engineer, and another IT guy, all set out to provide out troops overseas with a safe way to feel that “Touch of Home.”  We launched, MOPS Networks, a veteran based non-profit as a free way to provide video on demand and social media services to our troops overseas. I originally published this article on our MOPS Networks website (now shutdown) back in late 2014 or early 2015. The next few paragraphs will help to setup the original article, ‘Targeting US Military Families through Social Media,’ which I included below. Here is a quote from my 2014 article:

“Right now, as you are reading this article, there are literally thousands of people in Russia, China, Iran and the U.S. that are paid by their government (or by a company or terrorist organization), pretending to be someone that they are not, posting comments on every major (and even smaller) social media sites, blogs and even online media sites. Their mission, to push a narrative that favors their employer, product or country, and you will never know it.”

Our veteran based non-profit project failed after the Director of TV for the Armed Forces Network started contacting our mutual vendors, like FOX Entertainment and others, telling them not to do business with us. We discovered a short time after that AFN had secured a multi-million dollar video on demand agreement with Comcast, and they didn’t want to compete with a veteran based non-profit that was offering content providers a tax deduction for content they were otherwise donating to AFN, but without the tax deduction.

A report from an investigation by the Inspector General acknowledged the collusion between AFN, FOX Entertainment, and others, but lawyer’s from the major networks blocked the investigation, according the the IG’s final report. I go into much greater detail on this in my book, Victim of the Swamp: How the “Deep State” Destroyed the 40-Year-Old-Private.

One of the major issues our veteran based non-profit was trying to address, was the threat to our troops overseas, and their families back home, from terrorists and hostile nations using social media. Sound familiar? Notice in my article, Russia wasn’t the only threat I mention. In watching the recent Senate “Hearing on Social Media Influence in the 2016 United States Election,” I wanted to again be at least one voice of reason that points out Russia is not our only threat. It’s great our Senator’s are looking into this, but it was in so many instances seen as a partisan, political opportunity for Senators, and less about addressing a problem ALL OF THESE SENATORS have known about for a very long time.

It seems to me they haven’t learned that their decades of complaining, but not fixing, did not result in any lessons learned from the 2016 election. I hope voters are again paying attention in 2018. I would bet at least half of the Senators in that room, both Republican and Democrat, had knowledge of, or participated in, some sort of covert, social media election influence in 2016 and likely previous elections.

Targeting US Military Families through Social Media

By Patrick Bergy

(December, 2014?) Seoul, South Korea – It seems like every day there is another article in the news reporting on how a company’s website was hacked and thousands of customers lost personal information. Recently, a group out of Austria filed a lawsuit against Facebook for collecting their information and using it in ways we will likely never fully understand.

During the 2010 and 2012 elections, Facebook conducted a “randomized controlled trial of political mobilization messages delivered to 61 million Facebook users during the 2010 US congressional elections.”   Why should this worry Republicans, just look at this screenshot from Facebook’s own website for that answer. Seems like they favor supporting Democrats? Just wait until the Republican’s catch on and start paying more. Do you think Facebook cares about politics more than profit?

Although Republicans should be immediately concerned about the above screenshot, it is only a matter of time until everyone with the right amount of money is using social media to control our moods, voting habits, diets, and yes, even wars – and you will likely never even know that it happened, or what company, country or political party was responsible. This isn’t some sort of fringe, radical conspiracy theory – it is already happening.

Right now, as you are reading this article, there are literally thousands of people in Russia, China, Iran and the U.S. that are paid by their government (or by a company or terrorist organization), pretending to be someone that they are not, posting comments on every major (and even smaller) social media sites, blogs and even online media sites. Their mission, to push a narrative that favors their employer, product or country, and you will never know it.

Here is just a 2 minute search.

Special Forces get Social in New Psychological Operation Plan

Is the Islamic State Propaganda a Psyop? Calls To Shut Down Social Media “Extremism” Intensify.

PsyOps and Socialbots

Every major country, corporation and extremist group is getting in on the action. Think that person you are arguing with online in that forum you are in, or in the comments section below that article you just read on CNN is a real person? You shouldn’t be so sure about that. Sometimes, they are pretty easy to spot, but the more sophisticated organizations are so well coordinated and organized in documenting everything they do, and instructed on everything they say, you will never, ever even know you have just been socially played.

Recent events involving over 100 military and their families should be a real wake-up call though.

CNN – As ISIS threats online persist, military families rethink online lives.

From 2007 to 2009, the U.S. government understood this threat and acted to protect military families by blocking most of the major social media networks on all bases. Although their intentions were good, without another viable, commercial option for service members to communicate safely with their families back home, or any real enforcement of the regulations available off base, they again made social media available to our troops on base. What we should learn from this failed experiment is that you cannot take something away from someone, without offering them an even greater experience without expecting less than positive results. MilTube would be a great example of that.

This threat is very real to everyone in the military. Family members, friends, battle buddies – everyone. That is why MOPS Networks is building our MOPS verified secure social media platform, strictly for verified active and prior military, their families and civilian assets that support them. With membership thoroughly vetted and verified by ID.me and strong account security measures, all service members, both active and prior, will have a safe and secure means by which to communicate with their families and battle buddies. Eventually, even certain friends can be sponsored by members once their ID has been verified, but access to profiles outside of their sponsors will be restricted. Encrypted chat and VOIP phone capabilities will be brought online shortly after our official launch. The MOPS social network will also be linked to FreedomStream.TV, our members only, online VOD service that will allow you to share your favorite movies and watch what is trending. A truly first of its kind integration of social media and home entertainment!

This is a new, digital world we are living in. There are people (criminals, governments, terrorists) everywhere that seek to do you, your family and your country harm. Even with the most secure social media site, you should always keep yourself informed of new scams, and understand all the tools and knowledge bases out there that can help you to prevent, or at least limit the likelihood of something happening to you.

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Manafort, McCain, and The Military Industrial Complex

Did Paul Manafort, John McCain and The RNC Pay $4 Million for Covert, Military Grade, Social Media Psychological Warfare in 2008?

With Paul Manafort’s political baggage, why did anyone ever recommend Manafort to work for the Trump campaign?

By Patrick Bergy

31 October, 2017 – Tampa, FL. –  Having both served in the U.S. Army, and worked as a private contractor in the military industrial complex for over a decade combined, I’m not a big believer in coincidence as it relates to politics and the DC Swamp, and this story from the Washington Post back in June, 2008, didn’t help.

Full disclosure:

I worked for the defense contracting company, Dynology, for over 8 years.  It was a small company owned by General James L. Jones, and I answered directly to his son, Dynology’s president, Jim Jones.  I spent over 6 of those years deployed overseas in Iraq and South Korea providing contract support for Dynology in support of the Department of Defense.  My career was ended in May, 2015, after filing an official report of fraud, waste, and abuse.  within 24 hours of filing that report, the contract I had been supporting for over 5 years, was modified by the very people I profiled in my official report.

Within a few days of me leaving the contract, it was magically modified back to its original requirements, and my position was replaced.  I was denied whistleblower protection by the Inspector General, not based on any merits of my official reports, but because I was a contractor, and told I wasn’t covered under whistleblower protection, even though the IG’s very own website stated that contractors had been added under whistleblower protection since 2013.  I tried every legal means within the system to find justice, and when all other means failed, I took to social media to try and get support, and have my story heard.  I recently published my first book, ‘Victim of the Swamp: How the “Deep State” Destroyed the 40-Year-Old Private’ as yet another attempt to expose the decade of systemic fraud, waste, and abuse I experienced between our government, military, and the military industrial complex.

So, back to the Washington Post story. According to the report,

“the RNC and 3eDC have apparently been negotiating a larger contract for the firm to oversee microtargeting, a deal that could be worth $2 million or $3 million.“

Here are some facts The Washington Post didn’t know when they wrote the article in 2008, and I’ll let you decide if it’s all just a coincidence.  Just as the Washington Post, I am not accusing anyone of anything, I am merely pointing out facts.  It is up to American’s that read this to make their own conclusions.

Fact #1 – 3eDC was an internet firm owned by Richard “Rick” Davis, then McCain 08′ campaign manager, and Paul Manafort, whom I think can best be described as a political “fixer,” and international man of mystery.  Many news organizations felt it was inappropriate for McCain to be paying Paul Davis through his company, 3eDC, when his campaign was struggling financially, and Davis had said he would “forego” his campaign salary.  I would also be in that camp.

“NEWSWEEK. Federal campaign records show the McCain campaign paid Davis Manafort $90,000 through July 2007, when a cash crunch prompted Davis and other top campaign officials to forgo their salaries and work as volunteers. Separately, another entity created and partly owned by Davis– an Internet firm called 3eDC, whose address was the same office building as Davis Manafort’s–received payments from the McCain campaign for Web services, collecting $971,860 through March 2008.”

Fact #2 – What was 3eDC?  According to a Google “Wayback Machine” capture of 3eDC’s website from 2008, “3eDC was established to develop cutting edge web and data tools… designed to connect people and to affect the results in the political, social, and commercial worlds.”

When I saw the Washington Post report the RNC was in negotiations to pay 3eDC for “Microtargeting,” and then saw the company, Dynology,  everything started to fall in place for me.  I had spent from 2007-2010 pioneering microtargeting, social media psychological warfare application for on a DoD contract in Iraq, and also back in Tampa, at McDill, and it made me wonder… Notice Dynology is listed as 3eDC’s top Strategic Partner – forgoing alphabetical order.

According to the Washington Post, “the RNC and 3eDC have apparently been negotiating a larger contract for the firm to oversee microtargeting, a deal that could be worth $2 million or $3 million…”

 

 

Fact #3 – Dynology Strategic Partnership.  A couple quick facts: Dynology is owned by the 4 Star General, James Jones. To understand Gen. Jones’ moral compass, it was a family owned business that was making millions of dollars from Department of Defense contracts, both while Gen. Jones was in uniform serving as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, and while also serving as Obama’s National Security Advisor from 2009-2010.  I’m sorry, but in what world is it honorable, or even legal for that matter, for someone in uniform, or sitting at the right-hand of a U.S. president as his National Security Advisor, while at the same time your family owned and run defense contracting company is profiting millions in Department of Defense contracts.

Perhaps it explains how he can afford this house, as was reported by Angelajean? If you read her post, you will notice in her description of General Jones, there is no mention of his relationship with Dynology, yet he has the largest office in Dynology’s headquarters, on the 15th floor of the Towers Crescent building, one of the most premier high rise buildings in Tyson’s Corner, VA.  In fact, try doing a Google search looking for any relationship with General James L. Jones and Dynology, and you will find virtually nothing. He founded it early in 2000 or 2001, and has profited millions from its Department of Defense and Marine Corp. contracts for nearly two decades now.  General Jones openly boasts of his membership publicly on many other boards, and his position in many other corporations and non-profits.  Why is there virtually nothing to the fact Dynology was being run by his two sons, and many other family members, as well as his massive private office suite in such a luxurious building?  I think most can make their own conclusions based on the facts.

Fact #4 – Dynology (Gen. Jones) was paid a tremendous amount of taxpayer funds to send me to Iraq on an Interactive Internet Activities (IIA) Defense Department contract to build social media psychological warfare applications that were capable of covertly “microtargeting” (sound familiar) social network users.  I’m not acknowledging ANYTHING we may or may not have done with it, as any of the dissemination process or actual projects would be classified at the Top Secret level!  Additionally, Dynology maintained the intellectual property rights to the application, and made it commercially available to the public.  Understanding the potential for such an application to be misused, I was personally troubled by this at the time, but never spoke out.  Below is a screenshot of the application, notice the copyright Dynology 2009 at the bottom of the application window.  The only thing I discuss is what the application is capable of when it was made publicly available.

Fact #5 –  Think of iPSY (what I named it for commercial sale at Dynology) as a “Fake News” project management tool.  Let’s say you woke up one day and wanted to alter the outcome of an election, or start riots that spread across the United States, like what we witnessed in Ferguson. (I actually saw this happening in 2014 and spoke out, but nobody listened, until a few weeks ago when Facebook and the FBI acknowledged it.)  If you did decide to go such an unscrupulous route, you would require a project management tool exactly like this.

Fact #6 –  If you think it’s just a coincidence Paul Manafort, John McCain, Richard Davis and the RNC was funneling millions of dollars into a project billed as “microtargeting” using 3eDC, a social media influence company, and a Strategic Partner with Dynology, think about this.  It’s not like you can call up ‘The Geek Squad’ and ask, “do you sell covert, social media PSYOP project management applications capable of microtargeting specific demographics in Facebook, Twitter using multiple fake persona’s?   Projects that “effect the results in the political, social and commercial worlds,” as 3eDC boasted on their website, which is exactly what iPSY was designed to do, are very well funded, covert and tactical. How many U.S. companies in 2007 actually had this capability outside, or within, the military industrial complex?  The answer to that is like one or two, including Dynology in that figure.  I also worked a contract in Afghanistan for another company for a few months on an Interactive Internet Activities project.  I know what I am talking about here.

Fact #7 – Why covert, well, for two reasons. First, when you’re managing a small group of analysts (maybe 10-15) using multiple fake social media “persona’s,” (maybe 10-25 fake persona per analyst,) trained in psychological warfare to disseminate a particular narrative, you might have a problem if your opponent found out and made it public.  You can’t have anyone tracing it back to you.  You must be able to make it look like your anyone you want, coming from anywhere in the world you want to make it look like you’re coming from, and do it in such a way that no intelligence agency on the planet could tell.  Second, many blog sites and social networks have site administrators that look at where you’re internet IP address is located, as well as many other characteristics of you and your computers profile.  Look at what Facebook just admitted to congress about identifying over 250 fake persona’s coming from a single location in Russia.  If a group of fake persona’s all show up using the same software, computer profiles, and are all from the same physical location in Tyson’s Corner, VA., you would busted.  It is for that very reason I strongly question the U.S. intelligence assessments that Russia was actually doing this.

Firstly, you wouldn’t have a team of 250 people, that would be ridiculous to manage and maintain anonymity.  You would use a small, 10-15 person group of highly skilled analysts, and project managers that had years of experience in Psychological Warfare.  Second, the only “breadcrumbs” the program would leave that could trace back to anyone, would be what they wanted you to find.  Having Facebook and U.S. intelligence agencies so quickly and easily find a group of 250 Russians, on a project they claim was budgeted at close to $100 million, makes me think it is more likely someone in the U.K., like GCHQ, which would seemingly love to bring us to war with Russia based on their recent actions.

After going to war in Iraq based on false intelligence, I’m sorry, but I need to see more evidence before I get on board with the Russia scandal.  I openly acknowledge Russia uses social media to influence the U.S., but the actual stuff they are doing, we wouldn’t know about, and won’t for years, if ever.  They’re some of the best, if not the best, on the planet at this stuff (after me, of course.)

Fact #8 – On March 22, 2017, the Associated Press reported,

“Manafort was paid $10 million from 2006 to 2009 to lobby on behalf of the Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, using a strategic “model” that the AP said Manafort wrote would “greatly benefit the Putin Government if employed at the correct levels with the appropriate commitment to success.”

It deeply concerns me that the timing of 3eDC’s reported payments by McCain and the RNC, as well as descriptions like “microtargeting,” and “affect the results in the political, social, and commercial worlds,” is used by a company that was seemingly propped up overnight as a front under suspicious circumstances.  If Dynology did license military grade, social media psychological warfare technology it was contracted to build by the Department of Defense, commercially, what steps would have been taken to prevent it falling into the hands of our foreign adversaries?  Especially given the report by AP listed above describing Paul Manafort’s talks with close allies of the Russian President Vladimir Putin around 2006.

Fact #9 – Even if the Strategic Relationship between Dynology and 3eDC, as well as the descriptions of services, was all just a coincidence, I don’t believe it should just be ignored.  It should be investigated!  Paul Manafort was just indicted on multiple charges relating to money laundering, and numerous accusations by news outlets and foreign leaders for interfering with elections well before he got involved with the Trump campaign.  Manafort’s moral piggy bank seems to have a few “IOU’s” in it?  Then you have, in my personal opinion, a morally bankrupt, 4 star General owning a defense contracting company making millions on Defense Department contracts, both while in uniform, and while serving as National Security Advisor.  You have Rick Davis owning a business, 3eDC, that is taking in money from the very campaign (John McCain’s Straight Talk Express) he is managing, as well as the RNC reportedly giving him many millions more through that very same company.   McCain’s Straight Talk Express seems less like an “Express,” and more like a commuter service, making stops at every lobbying firm and donor kickback it sees, in my personal opinion.

finally, what was the RNC and others around Trump supposedly tasked with protecting him thinking when they recommended Paul Manafort work for the Trump campaign?  I get it, Trump hasn’t been in politics like the rest of these folks, how was it ever a good idea in anyone’s mind to allow this to happen?  Something here smells very “swamp like” and fishy, if you ask me.

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Interactive Internet Activities (IIA); The U.S. Governments Nomenclature for “Fake News.”

The Military Has A Name For “Fake News,” And It’s Called ‘Interactive Internet Activities’ (IIA)

By Patrick Bergy

Tampa, Florida – Since virtually days after the U.S. Presidential election, when the Clinton campaign covertly released the now infamous British “Dossier” on Donald Trump, all you hear in the news is how the Russian’s were trying to alter the outcome of the U.S. Presidential election.  We now know it was a multi-million dollar “fake news” work of IIA fiction by the Clinton campaign to bring down, or weaken, a democratically elected U.S. President, while destroying any hope of better U.S. relations with Russia.

The military uses Interactive Internet Activities, or IIA, as the Psychological Operations nomenclature for a tactical social media warfare program like this (left.)   IIA can also both covertly and overtly support other PSYOP components, such as Information Operations (IO) and Computer Network Operations (CNO.)  Many countries do it, most have their own name for it.  I use IIA, because when I was contracted by the U.S. Government from 2007 – 2010 to pioneer this technology, this was what we called it.

The image on the right is of Patrick Bergy at the 4th Psychological Operations Group, Psychological Operations Task Force in Baghdad, Iraq, where I provided IIA contract support for from 2007-2008.

We were basically tasked with moving Psychological Operations (PSYOP) from airplane dropped leaflets, to tactically targeting social networks, blogs, and online news feeds.  It was truly a challenge, as the Department of Defense was strictly prohibited from EVER targeting or influencing American citizens. Other such government agencies with three letter acronyms did not have such restrictions.

It was 2007, and the true potential of Information Operations using social media was just being understood.  Apple had just announced the release of their “iPhone,” and the smartphone revolution had begun.  Personally, I had been using the HP iPac smartphone since around 2001, but it was mostly a market for nerds until Apple made it “cool.”

Having pioneered this weapon you know as social media “fake news,” I was able to recognize when other countries or organizations were using it to tactically target and influence.  It took me all of a few seconds to recognize it was being use by whom I believe was either North Korea or Russia (Ukraine) to influence social chaos during the Michael Brown riots, and I published this in my blog online in 2014 when I was working on a Defense Department contract in South Korea.  I warned about IIA being used to alter the outcome of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election – in 2015.  I also believe I recognized it being used in March, 2017, by the British intelligence agency, GCHQ, using a “journalist” known as Louise Mensch, to harm President Trump.

I spotted Louise on Twitter by her use of IIA nomenclatures.  She used terms that someone not trained in IIA wouldn’t know, and I quickly made her connection with the British intelligence agency, GCHQ from there.  I responded to one of her tweets, asking how she knew so much about IIA, when seemingly nobody else online had any clue.  She responded to me in typical Tory Twitter Trash fashion, calling me “Hitler,” or “Putin.” I can’t remember for sure, as she calls anyone who threatens her narrative that.  I responded with the fact I didn’t think such attacks were warranted, having served in uniform in Afghanistan alongside British soldiers.  At that point even her supporters said she was out of line, but she continued with hateful remarks, rather than addressing my question.

I felt somewhat vindicated today when I saw a WikiLeaks posting of an email between Louise Mensch and the Clinton campaign back in 2016.

“From:mkives@caa.com To: ha16@hillaryclinton.com, john.podesta@gmail.com, re47@hillaryclinton.com Date: 2016-02-14 16:29 Subject: Fwd: Hillary ad