The FBI was not just infiltrating and spying on dissident groups from 1956 to 1971. The FBI was deliberately disrupting them by spreading words that someone else was the informant or snitch. And this was, you know, a deliberate attempt to make people afraid of one another. This is an example of a real world conspiracy.
Over the last few years, this show has devoted many shows to the psychology behind what we saw in the Capitol in January 2021. So, in this episode, we re-listen to three interviews on conspiratorial thinking to gain some perspective.
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