Peter Dale Scott is a poet, antiwar activist, and professor emeritus, University of California, Berkley who wrote a tract entitled "The War Conspiracy", in which he alleges that certain of the American government and economy conspire to maintain the status quo by manipulating our armed forces in an effort to keep a steady supply of consumer goods. Scott alleges that were the "conspiracy" (he maintains that the conspiracy manifests itself not in cabalistic backroom dealings, but rather a continual and pathological disregard for accountability in government) to suddenly fail, the standard of living in America would plunge sharply, and therefore the government conspires to maintain this standard of living through constant acquisitive warfare. The Central Intelligence Agency censored Scott's work in a highly unusual and visible move. The University of California (UC) is a public university system within the State of California. ... Jump to: navigation, search The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ...

The Guerilla News Network posted a video documentary of Scott's work to the Internet Archive; the video appears to have been tampered with (at the 2m02s mark, the image becomes static and the sound is replaced with a high pitched whine, and, later, silence, for the remaining 2m15s. Other postings of the video show distinct differences between the soundtrack and the movement of Scott's lips.).