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I was talking to a colleague about TIA, and he was not familiar.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness

Not sure if this was the inspiration for ‘Person of Interest’ tv series.

If you want to go down the rabbit hole on the history and pervasiveness of the surveillance state, its media propaganda arms and the torture and drugging of US citizens:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

And if you want to dip your toes a little outside of "US citizens":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor

The School of the Americas is pretty disgusting too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_f...

Interesting question. Apparently the answer is yes.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-t...

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