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“I was introduced to this world by a former spy named Robert Steele, who called me in the fall of 1992 and asked me to speak at a Washington conference that would be ‘attended primarily by intelligence professionals.’” Barlow also wrote, “Steele’s conference was attended by about 600 members of the American and European intelligence establishment, including many of its senior leaders.”

The CIA’s open source coordinator, Paul Wellner, invited Barlow to the CIA Headquarters after this conference. Barlow continued writing, “in early 1993, I passed through the gates of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.”

...If Barlow is writing in Forbes about how he not only spoke at a conference in front of 600 intelligence officers (including many senior leaders), but also how he entered the CIA headquarters only months later, how laughable is it that the FOIA request filed by by Outtrim resulted in the CIA denying any “openly acknowledged CIA affiliation” with Barlo

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Barlow’s EFF once helped win a lawsuit against the Secret Service, sponsoring Steve Jackson Games in the lawsuit, which is described by the New York Times as a “small book publisher.” This is pretty far from the truth. From my history (owning Steve Jackson products), I immediately recognized Steve Jackson Games as the creators of the “Illuminati Card Game,” created in the 90s. This card game has been shown to have predicted events such as 9/11, the Boston Marathon Bombing, the Aurora theatre “Batman” shooting, and even the Las Vegas Shooting. A simple analysis of Steve Jackson Games should reveal that they aren’t some simple role-playing game company as is widely reported. After all, they were initially raided in relation to an online document leak about the 9-1-1 system on their servers.