Deep state

Deep state
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The deep state, state within a state, shadow government, or permanent government is a fluid network of individuals with de facto control of a national government. Many "democratically elected" governments work as fronts, allowing the deep state to operate in secret while providing a level of plausible deniability. On matters of deep political importance, the public machinery of government is routinely subverted by agents of the deep state.

The deep state (loosely synonymous with the shadow government or permanent government) is in contrast to the public structures which appear to be directing individual nation states. The deep state is an intensely secretive, informal, fluid network of deep politicians who conspire to amplify their influence over national governments through a variety of deep state milieux. The term "deep state" derives from the Turkish "derin devlet", which emerged after the 1996 Susurluk incident so dramatically unmasked the Turkish deep state.

Official Narrative

The official narrative of deep states used to be that they simply do not exist. This position was modified in the last few years to the claim that they don't exist here. In 2013 the New York Times defined the deep state as "a hard-to-perceive level of government or super-control that exists regardless of elections and that may thwart popular movements or radical change. Some have said that Egypt is being manipulated by its deep state." Since the Times (like the rest of the commercially-controlled media) is more or less a under the control of the deep state, such a mention is very interesting. The implication of the second half of their definition is clear:- other countries are not being manipulated by a deep state. A 2012 blog post at the World Bank takes the same line, "You think your country has undergone a transition to democracy... You realize that there are powerful elite formations bequeathed by years, even decades, of authoritarian rule still able to block progressive change and protect their interests." By stating that "deep states that exist in many youngish ‘democracies’", it neatly skirts the sensitive topic of deep state control over governments which have long claimed to be 'democracies'.. A 2013 book entitled "Deep State" attempts to soften the term, mentioning only minor infractions, making no mention of false flag attacks and poopooing 9-11 "conspiracy theorists".

Problems

The term "deep state" has experienced something of a surge in popularity in the last few years, not in the context of so called developing nations, but the US. This may reflect a disillusionment with the kleptocratic state of the US regime, which is an increasingly thinly disguised police state. Misleading metaphors such as "bad apples in government" of "deadlock in congress" are still used by the commercially-controlled media, but as the revolving door between government and private industry becomes ever clearer, more and more people are seeing the bloody fingerprints of the military industrial complex on the levers of 'democratic' government.

“There is the visible government situated around the Mall in Washington, and then there is another, more shadowy, more indefinable government that is not explained in Civics 101 or observable to tourists at the White House or the Capitol. The former is traditional Washington partisan politics: the tip of the iceberg that a public watching C-SPAN sees daily and which is theoretically controllable via elections. The subsurface part of the iceberg I shall call the Deep State, which operates according to its own compass heading regardless of who is formally in power.”
Mike Lofgren (February 22, 2014)    —  

Peter Dale Scott approves of this 'iceberg' metaphor for giving an impression of the size of the deep state, but emphasises that it fails to reflect the fluid nature of the deep state.

Behaviour

As powerful and self-interest groups (probably even more dominated by psychopaths and sociopaths than other large hierarchies), deep states seek to frustrate radical and progressive change, so as to preserve their own power, and that of the establishment in general. In contrast to overtly authoritarian rule, deep states must operate more or less secretly, like terrorist groups, so preserving secrecy is a high priority. Control of the commercially-controlled media is essential to the effective preservation of secrecy need for the deep state to work effectively. In the US this is effected through deep state control of the CIA. With the apparatus of nation states under their control, their subterfuges can be elaborate and complex. The deep states of the world have a natural common interest in hiding their existence, which predisposes them to mutual assistance. As a Turkish cartoon put it in 1997 "Deep state protects its own."

Composition

While the exact composition of particular deep state groups and deep state milieux varies, they appear to be more or less centered upon what Dwight Eisenhower referred to as the "Military-industrial-congressional complex", although intelligence agencies are essential to their functioning. They are made up of:

• The leadership of intelligence agencies;
• Deep politicians, i.e. individuals who broker agreements between other members of the deep state.
• Some senior or longstanding non-elected officials within government (e.g. top civil servants);
• Selected individuals with effective control of key commercial, military and/or criminal groups in:
  • The "defence" and "counter-terrorism" industries;
  • The financial sector;
  • Corporate media

Supranational Nature

Full article: Supranational Deep State

The name "deep state" suggests an immediate parallel with nation state, which is not altogether misleading, at least historically, since these groups often evolved as secret cabals to control nation states. However, although originating in particular localities, deep state factions are highly interlocked in the 21st century deep politics. Peter Dale Scott refers in a recent essay to "A Supranational Deep State", noting how their international integration effectively allows deep states to evade even the limited control national governments had in the early 20th century.

Fluid nature

Power relations between deep politicians remain fluid, so deep states should not be be seen as alternative power structures to the visible organisational structures which they dominate. Relationships between Mafia families offer a suitable parallel, combining an often uneasy cooperation with occasional violent and sudden change. All deep state groups share share a common interest in preventing exposure of the real goings on behind the facade of electoral politics, so even violently opposed factions can cooperate to hide the true nature of deep events.

Deep Politics

Full article: Deep Politics

"Deep Politics" is a term used to describe the topics and processes of importance to the agents of the deep state. These might or might not be recognisable as connected to the concerns called "politics". Since (by definition) deep politics are concerns of which the public are ignorant, they are generally presented instead as politics. In most countries of the world today, party politics is basically a veneer used to obscure the real, deep political, considerations. In contrast to multiple levels of superficial political considerations, deep political motives are sometimes much simpler; Charlotte Denett, for example, suggests that the deep politics of WW1 and WW2 was actually centered on control of the Middle East's oil and gas supplies.

Deep Events

Full article: Deep Events

"Deep Events" are the footprints of the deep state. Low level deep events are typically unnoticed at the time, and discovered only as part of later investigations. Mid level deep events have a set of cover stories which are made available to a supine or venal commercially-controlled media to steer attention away from their deep political significance. The assassination of David Kelly, for example, is often presented as suicides. Sometimes a planeload of other victims are used to obscure their deep political significance.

Deep state groups use structural deep events to try to change entire societies, sometimes without them even knowing it. The JFK Assassination, for example, was actually a coup d'etat that radically changed the US political scene, but corporate media successfully presented it to US citizens as the work of a "Lone Nut" devoid of deep state connections.

The defining deep event of the 21st century, the 9/11 attacks, helped launch the era of perpetual war known as the "War on Terror". While the broad outline is increasingly understood, many of the details remain obscure even to researchers. Larry Silverstein's multi-billion dollar windfall and the insider trading are widely known, but evidence is accumulating that these were but minor parts of much larger suite of financial frauds carried out deep political insiders who capitalised on the opportunity.  

Events carried out

Event	Date
9-11/WTC7/Collapse	11 September 2001 17:20:52 - 11 September 2001 17:20:58
Arms for Libya	1977 - 1981
BBC/Censorship
BBC/Propaganda
Operation Gladio/B	1997 - Present

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
American War Machine	book introduction	1 November 2010	Peter Dale Scott
Anatomy of the Deep State	essay	21 February 2014	Mike Lofgren	An up to date analysis of the deep state in the US from a former insider who does not oppose the official narrative of 9-11.
Counter-Intelligence: Spying Deters Democracy	interview	7 July 2014	Kim Petersen Scott Noble
Democratic State v Deep State	essay	1 January 2008	Ola Tunander	An excellent introduction to deep politics. By clarifying the real role of the Secret Intelligence Services and the policy agenda they under firm control in most Western 'Democracies' (especially the UKUSA nations), it demonstrates the irrelevance of the party-political masquerade.
Fifty Years of the Deep State	book	22 November 2013	Mark Gorton	A remarkable summary of the deep state which names names - the most prominent being that of George H.W. Bush, whom Gorton identifies as the mastermind behind the 9/11 plot.
Obama’s Humanitarianism as Window-Dressing for the US “Deep State” Agenda - The Case of Syria	article	18 June 2013	Elizabeth Woodworth
The Deep State and 9/11	article	11 June 2008	Peter Dale Scott
The State, the Deep State, and the Wall Street Overworld	paper	10 March 2014	Peter Dale Scott	An recommended and highly referenced overview of the deep state in action centering on the complex milieu of Khashoggi, the BCCI, and the Safari Club.
The Terror Attacks in France. The Broader Geopolitical Implications	interview	10 January 2015	Umberto Pascali	Interview with Umberto Pascali – For Voice of the People, TV Sonce, Skipje, Macedonia
Transnationalised Repression Parafascism and the US	article	September 1986	Peter Dale Scott

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Harry S. Truman	“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.”	Harry S. Truman
Malcolm Muggeridge	“In the eyes of posterity it will inevitably seem that, in safeguarding our freedom, we destroyed it. The vast clandestine apparatus we built up to prove our enemies' resources and intentions only served in the end to confuse our own purposes; that practice of deceiving others for the good of the state led infallibly to our deceiving ourselves; and that vast army of clandestine personnel built up to execute these purposes were soon caught up in the web of their own sick fantasies, with disastrous consequences for them and us.”	Malcolm Muggeridge	May 1966
Theodore Roosevelt	“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.”	Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson	“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”	Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson	“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”	Woodrow Wilson