Author: Travis Mateer

In 1946, after the war, Hollywood was excited to produce a film about the O.S.S., America’s predecessor to the C.I.A. Here’s a description from Wikipedia about the studios scrambling to be the first one out with their O.S.S. movie:

Richard Maibaum had just served four years in the army. He returned to Paramount, where he had been a screenwriter, and became a producer. He was assigned the job of writing and producing O.S.S. “Every studio in Hollywood was racing to come out with the first OSS film,” says Maibaum. “When I was in Washington I knew some of the OSS people so I had a head start on the subject.”

The studio had hoped to cast Sterling Hayden who had served in the OSS in real life. However he was still in uniform in early 1946 so the film was assigned to Alan Ladd, whose casting was announced in January 1946. It was one of three movies being made about the OSS in Hollywood around this time, the others being 13 Rue Madeleine and Cloak and Dagger. This resulted in filming taking place in extreme secrecy.

While the filming for this movie took place in secret, the power of movies overall was definitely NOT a secret to those working at the Office of Strategic Services, so today, courtesy of the Decoding Culture Foundation and PsyOp Cinema, I’m highlighting one of the most fascinating documents I’ve come across so far in the archives of DCF:

In assessing the incredible power of motion pictures for the U.S. Government, the Office for Strategic Services clearly indicates a role for targeting U.S. Armed Forces AND civilians in order “to inform and instruct”, “to create attitudes”, “to stimulate or inhibit action”, and “to build morale”.

Jumping forward in time, one year before the C.I.A’s first tweet, Barack Obama got heat for supposedly allowing government propaganda to be disseminated domestically. Here’s how AP News deployed some factual damage control at the time:

I won’t be getting into all the ins and outs of how the Smith-Mundt Act came to be, and whether or not Obama’s move 13 years ago made it “perfectly legal for the media to purposely lie to the American people”, because those nuances don’t seem to matter when entire characters who don’t exist are just made up and inserted into REAL LIFE dramas, like the longest and most expensive hunt for the Unabomber.

To avoid getting distracted by the fake girl-boss character in the bullshit Netflix movie I watched a few days ago, let’s take one brief look at what the conversation surrounding the Smith-Mundt Act was like when this conversation seemed to be more relevant many decades ago:

There are three key restrictions on the U.S. State Department in the Smith–Mundt Act.

The first and most well-known restriction was originally a prohibition on domestic dissemination of materials intended for foreign audiences by the State Department. The original intent was the Congress, the media and academia would be the filter to bring inside what the State Department said overseas. In 1967, the Advisory Commission on Information (later renamed the Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy) recommended the de facto prohibition on domestic distribution be removed noting that there is “nothing in the statutes specifically forbidding making USIA materials available to American audiences. Rather, what began as caution has hardened into policy.”

This changed in 1972 when Senator J. William Fulbright (D-AR) argued that America’s international broadcasting should take its “rightful place in the graveyard of Cold War relics” as he successfully amended the Act to read that any program material “shall not be disseminated” within the U.S. and that material shall be available “for examination only” to the media, academia, and Congress. In 1985, Senator Edward Zorinsky (D-NE) declared USIA would be no different than an organ of Soviet propaganda if its products were to be available domestically. The Act was amended to read: “no program material prepared by the United States Information Agency shall be distributed within the United States”.

Maybe I’m wrong in how I’m reading this excerpt, but my interpretation of this policy snapshot is that some degree of embarrassment existed among policy makers after WWII when they looked at the psychological warfare propaganda used in foreign theaters of war because, as the O.S.S. document shows, the targets considered by America’s war machine included pretty much EVERYONE involved, including allies and our own Armed Forces.

Since the end of WWII and the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947, much has been done to project the power of U.S. intelligence operations across the globe, especially once America launched a war that can’t be won, since the enemy defined by the WAR ON TERRORISM is a tactic and not a nation or foreign organization.

This war against a tactic was launched at the same time society-changing technology was rapidly emerging and connecting people, turning kinetic wars on actual geographical terrain into information wars for the ultimate prize: mind control through narrative control.

To undermine their narrative control, it helps to see behind the curtain, so let’s do just that by examining what’s publicly available (again, brought to you by the Decoding Culture Foundation) to contextualize the C.I.A.’s first tweet:

By becoming aware of how these operators have developed their information operations from the vantage point of the 2026 info-slop we’re all now drowning in, I’m hoping to make it easier to deflate the projected power of these assholes as little enablers, like Sean Evins, moves up the ladder to capitalize on his Public/Private government access by landing at a tech-company with a very weird name:

While Sean Evins enjoys global reach from KEK street, the inhabitants of MAIN street don’t seem to be doing all that well, especially the “conversation” happening right now between men, civil society, and a pack of rabid hyenas who risk spreading cognitive dissonance by even approaching how they see the world.

To see how sex and rape were viewed by the O.S.S., I have one final example left to share, and it will be followed by the comedic illumination of Shane Gillis and the insanity he’s baited the hyenas into exposing. Buckle up buttercup!

From O.S.S. movie ops to information technology seeded by the C.I.A., my Gen X brain really can’t take much more of this crap, which brings me and my over-loaded mind to the final words of the program on the verge of destroying the world in the 1983 movie War Games:

A STRANGE GAME.
THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS
NOT TO PLAY.

Thanks for reading!

Donald Trump made a breaking news announcement last night in Kalispell that Montana will now be the official future home of a “Super Range” for weapons testing, and this all came about because Tim Sheehy obsessively lobbied Trump for this Department of War project.

Cool!

President Trump announced Wednesday that Montana would be the home of a new Defense Department “super range” to test advanced weapons and technology during a rally promoting Aaron Flint, who is running to represent the Big Sky state in the House.

“Montana will help ensure the American military always reigns supreme,” Mr. Trump told the crowd at the Majestic Valley Arena in Kalispell.

The president said the technologies tested would include “potential autonomous weapons, space and electronic warfare technology, supersonics and hypersonics.”

He joked that Sen. Tim Sheehy, Montana Republican, pestered him until Montana won the super range.

“You’re getting it, now leave me alone,” Mr. Trump told Mr. Sheehy.

While Tim Sheehy got his Super Range, Republicans got what THEY wanted, which was Daddy Trump telling them all the things they wanted to hear, like how they’ll keep their guns, get a $5,000 bribe if Republicans win, and they’ll keep winning wars, like the 48 minutes it took to kidnap the President of Venezuela.

SO MUCH WINNING!

Making it to the BIG TIME must be exciting, but it’s also not easy. You have to either ACTUALLY believe what the President says, or pretend to, and that must be tough, like when Trump says his administration is the best at protecting the 2nd amendment while obviously not mentioning the amazing use of lawfare to weaponize the civil protection-order framework so that a Veteran like Sam Redfern can be arrested for allegedly being in possession of one.

Is this how the Trump Administration plans on protecting the 2nd Amendement?

A prominent conservative commentator from Missoula was arrested Sunday night for allegedly violating a court order that prohibited him from possessing a firearm.

Samuel Pascal Redfern’s family and friends called his arrest a “false imprisonment” online, but a federal indictment alleged that Redfern had been restrained by a court from “harassing, stalking for threatening an intimate partner … “

Law enforcement arrested Redfern, the president of the Montana Veterans Association and a conservative commentator on social media, after a grand jury said he illegally possessed a firearm, according to documents filed in Missoula federal court.

I have lots of questions, like WHEN was this protection order put into place, and which court vetted the CIVIL claims from the “intimate partner”, and how long was the order in place for, but all those questions will have to wait for the LONG and EXPENSIVE process that makes lawfare so effective, since all it takes are accusations to start this process of ruining a person’s life.

In my hearing yesterday I finally got a date for the trial and that court date is December 11th. Because I turned down the plea offer I’m now waiting for the threat of a felony charge to materialize, since it’s being claimed that a reference in one of my Substack posts represents a technical violation of a protection order that should have NEVER been put into effect in the first place.

If the legal bullies who use the concept of “protection” and civil processes to destroy people want to maximize the pain, I’ll be arrested again on a Friday to ensure that I sit in jail for as long as possible before seeing a judge. Similarly, Sam Redfern was arrested on a Sunday and couldn’t see a judge until Tuesday, since Monday was a Federal holiday, and Brandon Bryant was arrested at the beginning of President’s Day weekend, which meant that he sat in jail for nearly FOUR whole days before seeing a judge.

For those who don’t understand how legal bullies operate, this is absolutely by design.

One of the biggest sins that earned me this legal targeting and neutralization campaign is exposing the Tax Increment Financing scam, which is being used to subsidize the company Trump mentioned last night, Janicki Industries. I guess a massive company like this can’t build an $800 million dollar facility outside Great Falls without the kind of local tax help that will ensure an entity similar to the Missoula Redevelopment Agency will now siphon off the largesse of this investment.

Here’s how tax-break whores open up their municipal legs for industry in competition with other jurisdictions that use similar enticements in the hopes pipe will be laid in their supple soils:

“What do we got to do to get you to come to Great Falls?” City Commissioner Rick Tryon said during a May 12 meeting.

The city commission approved its incentive, a tax break for new and expanding industries. It offers a 50% reduction in property taxes for five years. That reduction diminishes over the next five years, until the company pays the full amount by year 10 and beyond.

As part of the proposal, Janicki would be granted separate tax abatements for each of the four construction phases. The city has put in place occupancy guidelines to maintain eligibility for the tax benefits. The occupancy deadline for the first phase is May 31, 2029. The deadline for the fourth and final phase is May 31, 2035.

The city commission voted unanimously in favor, with Commissioner Shannon Wilson absent.

The Cascade County Board of Commissioners also met on May 12 and approved the same kind of tax incentive for its share of property taxes. The county also approved another tax break granted by state law on an estimated $2.7 million of industrial equipment. Both votes were unanimous in favor.

The total estimated tax benefit would reduce the company’s annual tax burden from $9.3 million to about $3.8 million. It would be one of the largest tax breaks given by the city and county, given the size and scope of the Janicki project.

Did offering all these tax breaks work? It must have, unless Rick Tryon did something else we don’t know about to win this massive investment for Great Falls.

It’s good to know that things Republicans don’t like get strategically ignored when Daddy Trump comes to town. Subsidize a business with deep pockets? Sure. Pretend lawfare isn’t used against conservatives by conservatives? Ok. And let’s not forget the family values of listening to Trump express how smitten he is with Sofie Cunningham.

“Don’t you like Sophie Cunningham, by the way? I think she’s great,” Trump said in Montana.

“I don’t know that much about women’s basketball. I don’t even know if she can play, I assume she can,” he added.

“She’s probably good, but there’s something about her that’s really great. I sort of like her. I must tell you. Sophie Cunningham, you know, she’s a big fan of ours, I hear.”

Alluding to her political beliefs, Trump added, “I don’t know if she’s any good at basketball, but she’s good at sanity. She’s good at bringing sanity to life.”

I’m glad Trump has someone who brings sanity to his life because, when I think of things like tax breaks and industrial investments, which I believe is more important than Sofie Cunningham’s “talent” playing basketball, I think about the serious problem of siphoning taxes from first responders as they deal with shit like this in open-air insane asylums called MISSOULA!

This stuff is a downer, so let’s focus on something more superficial, like how I said the word WHORE, which is apparently considered a cultural crime by humorless haters of comedic levity after Shane Gillis attempted the horrible offense of being FUNNY at the expense of, well, ATTENTION WHORES who don’t like it when reality is accurately described in a humorous manner.

Reality is simply amazing, so grab your guns (unless you’ve made a woman sad), fight for small government (unless you might get a check), and support businesses who don’t need handouts (unless another state is giving handouts), then enjoy those family values as the President describes his personal Sofie Cunningham mental health plan for sanity.

Actually, now that I think about, jail doesn’t sound so bad after all.

I have one more thing to note before I conclude my analysis of Trump’s Kalispell speech, and that’s how one of the loudest moments last night was also one of the quietest. Let me use a post from X to explain why:

When Governor Greg Gianforte was first referenced by Donald Trump last night, the audience’s response was noticeably very quiet, which is the most protest one can expect from Team MAGA a few weeks before the election. The reason, of course, is the H-1B Visa worries I put into my style of context in this post.

Silence is the best way to deal with potential triggers to cognitive dissonance, so I wish the best to Republicans as Montana continues on its path toward the utopia I’m sure awaits us with bio-medical industry enhancement’s to God’s defective creation and technological innovations for war that definitely won’t ever be used on U.S. citizens.

Tomorrow, if I’m not in jail, I’ll be writing about Boomers again, and the value of keeping your head down in a world dominated by cognitive dissonance, so stay tuned!

And, as always, thanks for reading.

Before last week I had never heard of Kirby Sommers, but an episode of The Higherside Chat introduced me to this “Epstein researcher” who seems more adamant about accusing OTHER RESEARCHERS of misdeeds than she is actually stopping the Epstein Network’s global power and influence, specifically Whitney Webb, Johnny Vedmore, and the publisher I wrote about in May, Kris Millegan, who runs TrineDay Press.

With my own research into the Epstein Network, and an interview I did last month with Johnny Vedmore, I won’t claim NOT to be biased with my opinion of a woman who boasted about her relationship with a married billionaire before rebranding this relationship as an example of sexual slavery, with Kirby being, of course, being the innocent victim.

Ok, so does THIS sound like an innocent sex-slave victim?

When getting clicks is more important than vetting “researchers” like Kirby Sommers, REAL researchers, like Johnny Vedmore, pay the price, especially when they become the targets of a woman like “Kirby” who sold real estate in New York, made money off Hurricane Katrina survivors, and changed her name as part of her rebranding process.

None of these red flags were enough to stop Greg Carlwood from platforming this woman on the internet, which was created BY white men FOR white men, obviously.

If you didn’t know these facts about the internet, a University of Montana alum, Rebecca Solnit, has a new piece up at The Nation about mis-adventuring across the MANOSPHERE that I’m sure will be enlightening.

By gendering the creation of the internet and focusing on the MANOSPHERE slice of online culture, paid culture-agitators, like Solnit, get to ignore how TOTALLY INSANE social media has made many women–unless you consider identifying with a baby killer and throwing ice cubes in your bathroom to be normal female behavior.

Since I have court today and am anticipating a felony criminal charge for JUST SAYING NO to a shitty plea deal, I’m going to wrap up today’s post with an example of how fucked the truth is, and the reason the truth is officially fucked is because of this TERRIBLE idea, as reported by WIRED:

Would you put money on whether Covid-19 originated from a lab? How about whether some of the footage from the Apollo 11 moon landing was actually filmed on Earth?

Verifact Markets, a new startup that bills itself as a “prediction market for disputed facts,” is betting that people will be eager to weigh in on questions like these. The company’s premise is so quirky it sounds like something a couple of philosophy and economics majors dreamed after too many bong rips in their dorm room: Instead of wagering on the future, why not trade on stuff that already happened?

Not only is this gambling-on-the-past idea a TERRIBLE idea, it’s part of the gamification of everything, which is having a particularly destructive impact on men. Here’s a little more about this terrible idea:

When Verifact Markets launched on Friday, some of the initial topics traders could take a position on included whether Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide and whether insurance behemoth State Farm “intentionally delayed” claims related to the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. The featured market during beta testing was, indeed, about the origins of Covid-19. (As of writing, the market is still open, with “true” priced at 76 cents and “false” at 32; the majority of participants had put money on the pandemic beginning at Wuhan Institute of Virology.)

Ok, I’m done. And from the looks of it, so is society.

Thanks for reading!

At the VERY end of 2025, Montana’s Attorney General, Austin Knudsen, had his future political career saved from destruction when a case against him–referred to by the Montana Free Press as a “misconduct saga”–was officially “laid to rest”:

Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s 41-count professional misconduct saga was laid to rest Dec. 31 in the final work hours of the final day of the fifth year since anonymous complaints triggered a high-stakes attorney discipline proceeding by accusing him of defying a Montana Supreme Court order and disparaging the system of justice.

The New Year’s Eve ruling was greeted by a flood of prepared statements from Republican elected officials and Knudsen himself, some issued minutes before the 149-page state supreme court order on the matter was posted online for public consumption.

A judicial panel technically dismissed the case but wrote that some of the misconduct charges were justified — in effect declining to deliver punishment beyond stern words.

Yes, despite the fact a judicial panel CONFIRMED that “some of the misconduct charges were justified”, Austin Knudsen faced no actual consequences for that misconduct.

I wonder why?

If Austin Knudsen had something that gave him insurance, like dirt on a Supreme Court Justice, who could that be? And what kind of dirt?

At the beginning of 2025 (Austin’s tough legal year), Supreme Court Justice, Mike McGrath, retired. For a little context on McGrath’s career trajectory, here’s some perspective on his tenure as a prosecutor:

Chief Justice McGrath was raised in Butte. A veteran, he served in the United States Air Force from 1970-1972. He earned a BA in business administration from the University of Montana in 1970 and graduated from Gonzaga University School of Law in 1975.

Following graduation from law school, Chief Justice McGrath worked as a Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellow in Reno, Nevada, providing legal services to low-income clients. He returned to Montana as a Montana Assistant Attorney General from 1977 to 1982.

In 1982 he was elected as Lewis and Clark County Attorney in Helena and in his 18 years as the lead prosecutor for the County, he emphasized the prosecution of child abuse and neglect, sexual assault and DUI cases. He served as president of the Montana County Attorneys Association in 1992-1993.

The rumor I’ve heard is that McGrath was being investigated for misconduct with a minor and that Jason Ellsworth had this dirt, which he gave to Austin Knudsen, who then turned on Ellsworth and helped pull strings to get him investigated for corruption, and we all know how that went.

While this is just a conspiracy theory, it’s one of the angles I’m looking at in order to better understand the obvious lawfare against Sam Redfern, who I wrote an emergency post about yesterday after speaking with a member of his family and someone who saw the “aggressive” arrest go down.

The official story, as told by Griffin Smith at the Missoulian, is that the February raid by the ATF and the “Fed Hold” arrest on Sunday by the FBI and the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office is ONLY about an alleged violation of a protection order.

Does anyone really believe this?

Violations of protection orders are NOT usually investigated by the ATF and the FBI, so obviously there is more to the story than what we are being told, like how does this “X” account always get such quality inside info?

Who you working for, “Montana Muckraker”?

If the origin of Sam Redfern’s arrest on Sunday was a protection order, I wanted to know who opposing counsel could have been back then, so I scanned Redfern’s Facebook account for clues and found this:

Seeing that were four ladies of “justice” and one aspiring future Governor comprising this list, I wondered if, perhaps, the lady lawyers were as politically active as Sam was.

The answer? Yep!

A bill that would have Montana courts take into consideration adultery or physical abuse when considering division of property during a couple’s divorce could harm abuse victims and cost them even more in attorney’s fees, a prosecutor and family law attorneys said Friday.

“This bill is giving abusive partners a legal tool to use allegations of adultery in a public forum against their spouse to harass, humiliate and intimidate them into staying in a violent relationship,” said Emily Lucas, a Missoula family law attorney who testified in opposition to House Bill 237.

Emily Lucas is doing us ALL a favor by helping me make the case that there’s an INDUSTRY involved in “supporting” “victims”, which means that, yes, there are PROFESSIONAL VICTIMS, and they are so good at leveraging their victim status for personal, financial, and political gain that the good ones ensure you cannot even write their names without risking felony charges.

To unpack what Emily Lucas is saying in the above quote, if women are found to be lying, cheating home-wreckers, then it’s important for the Victim Industry to insulate them, legally, from financially experiencing the consequences.

Men, I hate to say this, but we are at war with this industry, whether you want to be or not.

While I prepare to face a felony criminal charge tomorrow, possibly in Landee Holloway’s court–the female judge who is up for reelection and who should be, at the very least, a little embarrassed I’m asking Epstein questions about her time with Missoula Probation and Parole–I figure now is as good a time as any to take MY investigation into the case of my missing Lego sign to the next level by releasing a still image from video footage acquired in pursuit of defending myself.

If you were at the Great Burn Brewery on June 19th from 5-6pm, I would love to speak with you, so contact me at willskink at yahoo dot com.

While Officer Castro is reportedly reserving 10am to call my PD to see the video evidence, which is of course the WORST time to call a Public Defender, my sense of time is getting more and more urgent, which doesn’t help my PTSD, currently untreated with counseling because I made Daddy angry and he uses money to control people, like our system does.

Because Sam Redfern’s case intersects with mine in ways I can’t disclose, I will be following what happens closely, and writing carefully, about only the things I feel necessary to disclose at this point, and for my own safety.

People who haven’t experienced lawfare have no idea the toll it takes as it grinds on for MONTHS and YEARS, and that’s by design. If people like me, who attended the University to be a writer, then created an LLC to be a content creator before Hurrican Harri____ hit, have to be made an example of, then I will take any more jail time this system feels necessary to give me and find MORE stories of weaponized restraining orders INSIDE those concrete walls in order to show how the new prisons and renovated jails, run by the same CORRUPT SHERIFFS, will be filled by this civil/criminal/psycho-bitch pipeline.

#HeToo

*a special thanks to all the readers and supporters I know who are NOT a part of the Victim Industry, it’s going to take both sides of the gender divide to stop lawfare and protect ACTUAL victims of abuse.

UPDATED WITH MISSOULIAN ARTICLE BELOW

When I heard that Samuel Pascal Redfern was in jail last night I had to see for myself, since the quality of “commentary” online was what you would expect.

I went to the jail detention portal, where names are listed, and confirmed that Sam was officially booked on a “Fed Hold” at 8:57pm by the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office:

After taking this screenshot I got what little sleep I could, but I felt uneasy. I’ve known Sam Redfern has been targeted since February, when Griffin Smith reported on the raid that put Sam in the hospital, but what I learned today from two people with direct knowledge of this case–someone who was present during his arrest, and a member of Sam’s family–I am VERY worried that Samuel Redfern may have already suffered a medical emergency IN JAIL!

The news report from February didn’t specify the medical reason for Redfern’s hospital visit, but his family member did because those in the family who HAD direct communication with Sam when he first arrived in jail told me that he was describing symptoms of cardiac distress over the phone, and that’s coming from someone in the family with a professional medical background.

After contacting the jail repeatedly about their concerns, and not being satisfied with the claim that Sam had seen a nurse, communication from the jail was cut off.

So the family called 911 to report their alarm that Sam could be having a medical emergency inside the jail and they KEPT calling 911 until THEY cut off communication.

There’s more I could say, like the report that the FBI were involved in the arrest, and that the raid in February involved something called a “sneak peek” warrant, but getting this information out NOW is more important, and that’s because the family has additional concerns that Sam could be moved somewhere out of Missoula where they will have even less information about what’s happening to him.

Don’t worry, readers of the most dangerous blog in Big Sky Country, as long as I’m not there with him, in jail, I’ll stay on this story as it develops.

Thanks for reading, and please say a prayer for Sam Redfern. Regardless of what you may feel about his political work and strong opinions, no one deserves to have the law used against them like this.

UPDATE–Here is the Missoulian article’s report: