The Western Intelligence agencies CIA, DGSE , Mossad, MI6 et al are largely there to create synthetic terror through the use of gangs and countergangs and/or low intensity operations.
British Colonial psycho General Frank Kitson is largely credited with refining the art during the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya. It's even name checked in British drama as an insidious subterfuge for population control and the creation of a strategy of tension. That's how the world runs, and yet no newscaster mentions it, and no talking head is by and large aware of it.
