Image Cheapening
"Image Cheapening" is a strategy employed by the United States FBI to undermine the credibility or reputation of individuals, groups, or governments through various means such as propaganda, disinformation, or covert operations. This tactic aims to diminish the perceived legitimacy or authority of the target. Examples include the dissemination of false rumors, planting fabricated stories in media outlets, or orchestrating public scandals to tarnish the image of the target.
Examples
 Some notable examples of U.S. citizens who were targeted by the FBI using Image Cheapening include:
- Martin Luther King Jr.: The FBI under J. Edgar Hoover conducted a covert campaign to discredit and undermine Martin Luther King Jr. This included wiretapping his phones, surveillance, and spreading damaging information about him to the media in an effort to portray him in a negative light.
- Jean Seberg: The FBI's COINTELPRO program targeted Jean Seberg, an American actress and civil rights activist, in the late 1960s due to her support for civil rights and involvement with the Black Panther Party. The FBI launched a smear campaign against Seberg, aimed at discrediting her and damaging her reputation. This included spreading false rumors and planting fabricated stories in the media to portray her as a supporter of radical groups and engage in promiscuous behavior. One particularly egregious tactic involved circulating a false rumor that Seberg's unborn child, fathered by her husband Romain Gary, was actually fathered by a Black Panther member. This malicious rumor was intended to scandalize Seberg and create personal and professional turmoil in her life. The FBI's campaign against Seberg had severe consequences for her mental health and well-being, contributing to her suffering from depression and anxiety. Tragically, Seberg died by suicide in 1979, and while her struggles were multifaceted, the relentless harassment and character assassination by the FBI undoubtedly played a role in her tragic demise.
- John Lennon: The FBI conducted surveillance on John Lennon due to his anti-war activism during the Vietnam War. The agency attempted to deport Lennon by using his past drug charges as leverage, with the intention of silencing his political activism.
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2024
The technical name for this articleâs swift and devastating takedown strategy inside the FBI is âImage Cheapeningâ which we have known since the 1970s via Davidon et al.
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We donât yet know why it was written. We donât yet know who commissioned it.
We do know that no independent minded health professional who could contradict the public health institutions and czars has been allowed to ascend to @hubermanlabâs level of popularity, power and influence without âImage Cheapeningâ coverage.
In fact, since Lindbergh used his popularity to sway public opinion on entry into WWII, no independent minded individual has been amassed state-level influence without such FUD (Fear-Uncertainty-Doubt) campaigns. The theory we have advanced behind this is that the State learned the lesson from Lindberghâs interference with FDR that all charismatic independent minded individuals (like a John Lennon) cannot be allowed state levels of influence and must be preemptively cheapened and harassed. Here it is applied to medical professionals who could interfere with future Anthony Fauci health czars.
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This is the medical version of âNo Living Heroesâ theory:
It is not that heroes are not allowed. Just not ones that can make active decisions on a going forward basis.
We celebrate the birthday of the target of this FBI âImage Cheapeningâ campaign as a national holiday.
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I have been warning people about this since the 1980s and did so more actively on Twitter 2011-2017. I think I will keep posting this old thread more often to remind our friends in the USG that this has been anticipated.
This was always coming. And it will always take the apparent form of independent voices in places like Nature, The Lancet, The LA Times, Harvard, the NAS.
Everyone you could turn to when you need to question the state will have been preemptively splattered with feces.
Learn the pattern of Seberging. The âtellsâ are relentless mockery, private life invasion and FUD against independent minded people of influence through ostensibly non state actors.
I know this was long. Thanks for your time. đ
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1/ US Deep-State use of "Fake News" in Main Stream Media to Destroy Inconvenient US Citizens: A tweetstorm in honor of Black America & MLK. https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/27071821434064897
2025
Learning a lot. Or maybe I am just getting confused. I will take this down if it is all wrong. There just isn't a lot of guidance as to what I am looking at.
Q: Am I to understand that King Abdullah of Jordan had/has a Jewish Brother because the CIA procured a Jewish Starlet for King Hussein? That can't be right.
Or that the CIA will build an entire set in the United States from a photograph of a room taken in Moscow, hire Actors and 'Actresses' that resemble both foreign leaders and their female associates, and shoot naughty short films in Los Angeles to look like a tryst took place in a room in Russia?
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Like just using Hollywood magic and knowhow to destroy leaders based on the fear of being called 'Conspiracy Theorists'? Think about it. The leader is confronted with incontrovertible cinematic and photographic evidence that something happened in Moscow that actually happened in Los Angeles!
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And when the individual says: "That is not true!" they sound like an insane person. Why?
Because of the epithet 'Conspiracy Theorist'! This is so brilliant.
This was called "image cheapening" in the trade.
Here the CIA is acting as a film company, financing risque short films to appear as as-if "fake documentaries", to remove leaders by cheapening their images.
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CONCLUSION: The concept of 'Conspiracy Theorist' is beyond dead. This is nakedly diabolical.
It may even be in the national interest. But this is so wild that I don't want to ever hear "That sounds like a conspiracy theory." Let's face the facts: This is what we do. It is who we are. And we are very good at it.
We conspire. We fake. We attack reputations. We topple leaders. We cheapen images. And we do it all so as to be completely untraceable. We are totally diabolical and we destroy anyone who suggests that we are that.
Our government is the gaslighter and we are the gaslit.
Now ask yourself *after* reading the above: what are the odds that people who operate like this might have interferred in our own 2020 US election or been involved in any of the attempts on President Trump's life?
Try saying 'Uh. That sounds like a conspiracy theory!" after reading this.
I bet you can't do it anymore. You'll sound like a complete idiot now.
See Also
- Abomination Ratio
- Cobalt and Baby Blue-on-Blue
- Break-Glass-in-case-of-Emergency People
- Checker
- Church Committee
- Communication Security Complex
- Digital Wet-work
- Fact Burning
- Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD)
- Follow the Silence
- Information Asymmetry
- Kayfabrication
- No-Living-Heroes Theory
- Regulated Expression
- Seberging
- Steady Hands
- The United States of Absolutely Nothing (U.S.A.N.)
- Tuskegee Principle
- Universal Institutional Betrayal