The Chicago Plot: A Hypothesis

[Charles Drago]

Charles, if I understand you correctly, I believe one of the best expressions of the sponsor/facilitator model came from a well-known facilitator, Henry Killinger.

In 1966, prior to entering the Nixon administration, Henry Kissinger wrote an article for the journal Daedalus in which he proclaimed the modern era as "the age of the expert," and went on to explain: "The expert has his constituency those who have a vested interest in commonly held opinions; elaborating and defining its consensus at a high level has, after all, made him an expert." [7] In other words, the "expert" serves entrenched and established power structures and elites ("those who have a vested interest in commonly held opinions"), and the role of such an expert is to define and elaborate the "consensus" of elite interests. Thus, experts, as Henry Kissinger defines them, serve established elites.
https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/sho...#post69430

There is probably more to the model than this quote, but it is certainly fascinating to see how it is embraced from those on the inside.

"Killinger" -- I love it -- indeed should be viewed as a proto-Facilitator.