https://www.thedailybeast.com/i-got-trained-by-a-cia-officer-and-qanon-movie-star
For $25 a month, you can receive “training” from ex-CIA officer (and conspiracy theorist) Kevin Shipp, star of QAnon’s favorite Hollywood-conspiracy film. It’s quite a journey.
the typical route to becoming a CIA agent involves a four-year bachelor’s degree, a year-long application process, and specialized training at the Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis, an offshoot of the bluntly named CIA University. But for those in search of a shortcut, there’s Kevin Shipp’s Patreon.
Shipp does not disclose how many patrons subscribe to his curriculum or how much money he has made from it. But his following has grown since April, when Out of Shadows appeared on YouTube. Self-produced by a little-known former stuntman named Mike Smith, the film contends that Hollywood is run by a cabal of pedophilic Satanists who control the masses through subtle messaging in movies like Zoolander, the music of Katy Perry, and the performance art of Marina Abramovic. The movie drew little press attention, but racked up more than 20 million views on YouTube alone. An attorney for Smith told The Daily Beast in August that, between its website, other platforms, and foreign translations, the film had been watched “roughly 100 million times.”