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The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if you wanted to psychologically manipulate westerners... you might try leaking a fake "psychological manipulation training manual" that causes them to cast doubt on ordinary everyday interactions.

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This particular document is nothing more but a bunch of a truthful trivialities. I don't see how it can help to manipulate anyone.

You should try to feed your inner conspiracy theorist with documents such as Bezmenov interview http://uselessdissident.blogspot.com/2008/11/interview-with-... (also it's all over youtube). You might want to skip straight to the second part as the first one is merely establishes background on what was the ussr/kgb back then. This ancient (1984) interview might ring you a tzar-bell drawing parallels to the current times.

These "ordinary every day interactions" should case doubt, as they are genuinely meant for the sole purpose of psychologically manipulating you in most cases when these phrases are present.

I have the exact same thought about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics - it makes way too many people go "ah yes".

Yea for real. That was my exact thought too.

Make the population see conspiracies everywhere and question everything. Even if they don't do it in practice (i.e. you still go to the doctor even though on Facebook you reject all the science) it'll have a wide scale detrimental effect.

What a world

https://www.rt.com a.k.a. Russia Today

> RT QUESTION MORE

Look again at the document. Notice how it looks like a scanned document from decades ago, but the lines are all dead straight? Try searching for text..it's actually a font! The apparent imperfections in the letters is fake.

No, it’s a translation of the actual manual here it is in Russian

https://www.4freerussia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/...

Yes you can select the letters but that’s only because of the OCR that is built into your pdf reader.

I don't think it's OCR. The imperfections in each letter are identical in every single instance. It's very clear if you zoom in

It is OCR inspect the pdf yourself the defects are also not identical at all...

https://imgur.com/a/QnfBRas

It’s a relatively clean scan and good quality print.

It can ofc be fake but you are going down some rabbit hole for the wrong reasons.

I was talking about the document that's the subject of the post.

That’s a translation of the Russian document, the KGB aren’t going to write their documents in English.

It’s literally says translated by....

This is the translator https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_A._Fitzpatrick

She used to run Radio Free Europe.

I'm not sure what your point is. We all know it's a translation. I merely pointed out that it has been artificially made to look like it was scanned or photocopied, when in fact that is a special font that fakes the appearance of imperfections. You contradicted that, so I just responded to prove it.

That doesn’t makes it fake... it’s just a typewriter font.

All pages are bound on the left?

glad to see someone else other than me reacted to this obvious bullshit.

Then it would have been written in that Boris and Natasha English.

sorry hijacking oot, do you still remember the course name from tu delft about business process management ? is it this https://www.edx.org/professional-certificate/delftx-business...? thank you reply

Did you try my email? Is it not visible? Anyway. If we're talking about the same course, on Edx platform, then it was taught by prof. Alexander de Haan [1].

There was a book associated with the class, and I was able to find a OCW link at TUDelft website [2]. Unfortunately, the other links on the page are 404. I've copied the book info here:

Solving Complex Problems: Professional Group Decision-Making Support in Highly Complex Situations; A. de Haan & P. de Heer; Eleven International Publishing 2012, ISBN: 978-9490947712

I was really into MOOCs at that time and I made a project page, http://scp.naiveso.com/ It's a crap little WordPress site, but you might recognize the projects if you also took the course.

There was another called Business Process Management by the Hasso Plattner Institute on the OpenHPI site. (I started on those lessons and did one, but I also started a new job at that time so I didn't finish the course. Links here http://bpm.naiveso.com/ )

[1]: https://www.edx.org/bio/alexander-de-haan [2]: https://ocw.tudelft.nl/course-readings/readings-solving-comp...

thank you very much Sir for the information, I usually see the profile but I don't see anything.

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