COINTELPRO 5.0: The Digital Inquisition and the Perfection of Psychological Warfare

Zersetzung: A History of Breaking Minds — Book 7

What began with the Jesuit Counter-Reformation, the Inquisition, the Okhrana, the Gestapo, the Stasi, and Hoover’s original COINTELPRO has reached its final, perfected form. In the aftermath of 9/11, a global system of surveillance and psychological warfare emerged, fusing all past methods into a seamless architecture of control. This is COINTELPRO 5.0 — the Digital Inquisition, where dissent is erased not with fire or chains, but with silence, stigma, and erasure.

This book uncovers how mass surveillance, AI profiling, predictive policing, and institutional complicity have created a world where dissent is neutralized before it begins. It documents the tactics of modern repression: gang-stalking, digital Zersetzung, replacement figures, protective ridicule, shadowbanning, psychiatric branding, and community infiltration. Together, these tools form the most insidious system of psychological warfare ever devised — one that leaves no martyrs, only broken lives and silenced voices.

Across its chapters, the book traces the continuity of conscience control from the confessional booth to metadata collection, showing how intelligence agencies, Big Tech, and religious power have merged into a single apparatus of global suppression. It exposes how Protestants outside the ecumenical fold, whistleblowers, freethinkers, and survivors of clerical abuse are systematically targeted, discredited, and erased in the name of stability and consensus.

COINTELPRO 5.0 is not just another stage in repression — it is the endgame of centuries of psychological warfare, the perfected phase of Zersetzung. The warning is stark: liberty does not collapse with violence, but with managed silence.

For readers of history, politics, religion, and surveillance studies, this is the final volume in Zersetzung: A History of Breaking Minds — a chilling exploration of how freedom is being dismantled in the digital age.