Reddit mentions of The Professional Paranoid

FYI.

"COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum" was apparently first posted in 2008 on a Ron Paul affiliated forum.

Its has since been rebranded as part of "The Gentleman's Guide To Forum Spies" a mash-up of playbooks on online deception, manipulation, disinformation, propaganda, you name it.

Part 2, "Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation and 3, "Eight Traits of the Disinformationalist were written by a conspirationist named H. Michael Sweeney, a.k.a "The Professional Paranoid" in the late nineties (1997?)

Part 4 is claimed to come from a booklet "How To Spot a Spy" and was last edited (at least the version circulating) by a "batshit insane blogger and crank, who calls herself a "scientific mystic and PaleoChristian Shaman", Laura Knight Jadczyk, author of highly praised books such as "9/11 the Ultimate Truth" and "
High Strangeness: Hyperdimensions & The Process Of Alien Abduction.

part 5 "[Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression]
(http://www.dcdave.com/article3/991228.html)" may have been written in 1999 by a guy named David Martin from the American Patriot Network or American Freedom Network, they would probably call themselves America Great Again Freedom Network nowadays... you get the idea.

You might want to read about the GCHQ's JTRIG unit

Peace

edit: typo