The Cryptocracy

Summary

The Cryptocracy (from Greek kryptos = hidden, kratos = rule) refers to "rule by secrecy" - the hidden power structure that operates through intelligence agencies and secret societies beyond democratic oversight. The term was popularized by Walter Bowart to describe how the CIA and related agencies function as an invisible government within the visible government.

Origins

Post-WWII Creation

The Cryptocracy emerged from:

• The National Security Act of 1947: Created the CIA and National Security Council
• Operation Paperclip: Importation of Nazi scientists and intelligence officers
• Cold War paranoia: Justification for secrecy and covert operations
• Atomic age: New technologies requiring classified development

Truman's Regret

President Harry S. Truman, who signed the National Security Act, later expressed regret:

"For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the government... I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak-and-dagger operations."

Characteristics

Total Control

According to CIA-connected psychologist Timothy Leary:

"There are two aspects of this social conditioning regime which are not stressed by Skinner. To make it work, the government psychologists must have total control over the citizenry and there must be TOTAL SECRECY and censorship."

Need-to-Know Security

The Cryptocracy uses compartmentalized secrecy to maintain control:

• Information restricted on "need-to-know" basis
• No single person has complete picture
• Plausible deniability built into operations
• Whistleblowers discredited or eliminated

Continuity Across Administrations

Unlike elected officials who come and go, the Cryptocracy persists:

• Career intelligence officers
• Permanent bureaucratic structures
• Long-term research programs (MKULTRA, etc.)
• Continuity of black operations budgets

Structure

Visible Layer

• Elected government officials
• Public agencies and departments
• Congressional oversight (limited)
• Judicial system

Hidden Layer

• Intelligence agencies (CIA, NSA, DIA, etc.)
• Military special operations
• Defense contractors
• Private intelligence firms

Deep Layer

• Secret societies (Skull and Bones, etc.)
• International banking families
• Interconnected occult groups
• Multi-generational elite families

Methods

1. Secret Research Programs

• MKULTRA and related mind control projects
• Black budget technology development
• Human experimentation without consent
• Suppression of beneficial technologies

2. Media Control

• Operation Mockingbird (CIA media infiltration)
• Controlled opposition narratives
• Discrediting of truth-tellers
• Manufactured consent

3. Secret Laws and Courts

• FISA courts operating in secret
• National security letters
• Classification to hide crimes
• Immunity for intelligence operatives

4. Economic Control

• Federal Reserve (private banking control)
• Central banking system
• Black budget funding (off-books)
• Drug trade and organized crime partnerships

5. Social Engineering

• Educational system control
• Cultural programming
• Behavioral modification
• Population control measures

Nazi Continuity

Bowart and others documented how the Cryptocracy incorporated Nazi expertise:

"No one could see that the Nazis who helped establish the agency had used the 'need-to-know-security-system' to continue the Third Reich in the United States under the impenetrable cloak of national security."

The Nazis brought:

• Advanced mind control techniques
• Propaganda and psychological warfare methods
• Eugenics and population control theories
• Totalitarian social control systems

The Three C's: Discreditation Strategy

The Cryptocracy labels truth-tellers as:

• Crazy: Mentally ill, delusional
• Convicts: Criminals with no credibility
• Crusaders: Biased zealots with agendas

As Bowart noted:

"However, it is the very group of Crazies, Convicts or Crusaders who have come forward with the wealth of information that essentially is behind this book. It is this group as a whole that has been exploited and manipulated... and it is this group that has historically been kept 'under control' by discrediting, minimizing and humiliating them."

Modern Manifestations

Targeted Individual Program

The modern targeting of individuals with electronic weapons represents Cryptocracy operations against:

• Whistleblowers
• Activists
• Truth-tellers
• Potential threats to the system

Mass Surveillance

• NSA warrantless surveillance
• Corporate data harvesting
• Social media monitoring
• Smart device surveillance

Technocratic Control

• Digital currency (tracking all transactions)
• Biometric ID systems
• AI-driven social credit
• Internet of Things (IoT) surveillance

Resistance

Understanding the Cryptocracy is essential for:

• Recognizing hidden power structures
• Understanding why governments don't serve people
• Explaining continuity of harmful policies across administrations
• Identifying controlled opposition

As Bowart stated:

"Through one secret program or another, half of the people in this country – maybe more than 150 million people – have been the targets of our own government's clandestine experiments."