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Interesting. I've got his book on my reading list, but haven't gotten to it yet.

I just made a tenuous mental connection between this concept and a Reddit phenomenon called "Lake City quiet pills". I heard about it on the podcast "Stuff They Don't Want You To Know" and it held my interest for a few hours' worth of investigation.

The short version is that a Redditor died. He was a stereotypical grumpy old dude, and someone hopped on Reddit and posted that he'd passed. Someone got interested and tied that poster to some websites, one of which had a bunch of stuff hidden in the public source. It definitely seems like a clandestine group of some kind communicating, but to who it was and to what end isn't clear. The Reddit conspiracist belief seems to be that it was a group of assassins-for-hire.

Podcast: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/182-stuff-they-dont-want-you-... Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/LakeCityQuietPills/



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