The Venetian Conspiracy | Webster Tarpley
The Venetian Conspiracy – 1981 | Webster Tarpley
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D.
Address delivered to the ICLC Conference, Germany, 1981
Dead Souls
How an Oligarchic Machine Weaponised Thought to Enslave Humanity
The Venetian Conspiracy exposes a 1,500-year oligarchic project using psychological warfare, false flags, and scientific fraud to crush human creative reason and maintain the illusion system keeping humanity enslaved.
Webster Tarpley‘s The Venetian Conspiracy exposes the darkest engine of modern history: a 1,500-year oligarchic project to crush human creative reason and maintain a permanent illusion system. Far from a mere historical footnote, the Republic of Venice was the world’s first permanent intelligence state, a harbour of spies and assassins that perfected the arts of psychological warfare, false flag operations, and social engineering long before the term “psychological operations” existed.
For the aware reader, the story is familiar: a hidden hand steers world events from the shadows. Tarpley’s work reveals that this hand is Venetian in origin, having migrated from the Adriatic to London to launch an epistemological war against mankind’s highest potential.
The Dead Souls Faction
Denying the Human Spirit
At the heart of the conspiracy lies what Tarpley identifies as the “Dead Souls” faction. This ideological current denies the existence of the human soul and humanity’s capacity for creative discovery. Instead, it views mankind as a resource to be managed, manipulated, and kept in a state of perpetual ignorance.
The Venetian oligarchy’s primary objective is to maintain the illusion system—the belief that the current order is natural, inevitable, and unchangeable. To achieve this, they wage war not primarily with bombs, but with ideas. Epistemological warfare, the control of how people think and what they believe to be true, is far more powerful than any military campaign.
The Three Generations of Venetian Game Masters
Tarpley traces the operation through three masterminds who orchestrated Europe’s destruction across centuries:
| Mastermind | Era | Operation |
|---|---|---|
| Paolo Sarpi | 16th–17th Century | Architect of the Thirty Years’ War; mastermind behind Protestant Reformation as a tool of division |
| Contarini | Early Venetian Intelligence | Established the original spy network and intelligence apparatus |
| Antonio Conti | 18th Century | Birth of the French Enlightenment; inserted Venetian agents Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Casanova into intellectual circles |
Sarpi, in particular, stand out as the operational genius who understood that destroying human unity through religious war would create the chaos necessary for oligarchic control. The Thirty Years’ War was not an accident of history but a manufactured catastrophe.
The Scientific Fraud
Galileo, Newton, and the War on Reason
Perhaps the most explosive claim in Tarpley’s analysis is that the “Scientific Revolution” was itself a Venetian operation. Galileo Galilei was not an heroic truth-seeker but a Venetian agent deployed to discredit true discovery and replace it with a mechanistic, deterministic worldview.
The telescope operation was a carefully staged publicity stunt. By plagiarising Johannes Kepler‘s true discoveries and presenting them as Galileo‘s own, Venice launched a war on creative reason. Kepler’s actual breakthroughs in planetary motion were buried, while a fabricated narrative of scientific progress took hold.
Isaac Newton, celebrated as the father of modern physics, is revealed as “the last of the Babylonian magicians.” His secret alchemical obsession—the “Green Lion”—demonstrates that his work was rooted in occult traditions, not genuine scientific discovery. The calculus war between Newton and Leibniz was orchestrated by the Royal Society, a Venetian front, to plagiarise Leibniz’s superior work and establish Newton’s fraudulent authority.
This epistemological fraud serves a critical function: if humanity believes the universe is a deterministic machine governed by immutable laws, then creative intervention becomes impossible. The illusion system depends on this fatalistic worldview.
The Transfer to London
The British Empire as Venetian Metastasis
The Venetian Party did not disappear with the Republic’s fall. It transferred its fortunes, intelligence networks, and ideological apparatus to London. The British Empire was, in Tarpley’s words, a “Venetian metastasis”—a geographical relocation of the same oligarchic project.
This shift enabled the oligarchy to launch larger-scale operations: the manufacturing of the French Enlightenment through Venetian agents like Voltaire and Montesquieu, the development of Newtonian social science by Giammaria Ortese, and the eventual emergence of Malthusianism as a tool for population control.
False Flags, Counter-Gangs, and the Manufacture of Enemies
The Venetian playbook continues today through techniques perfected centuries ago. The “counter-gang” or “pseudo-gang” technique involves creating a parallel underground organisation that mirrors a genuine nationalist or reform movement. This fake group commits atrocities that are then blamed on the original movement, discrediting and demonising it.
False flag operations follow a predictable pattern: spectacular and emotional events with instant media saturation and a compliant machine that amplifies the narrative without question. Without an enemy image, the oligarchy cannot maintain control. Endless war, manufactured hysteria, and fictitious external threats are not bugs in the system—they are features.
The illusion system requires perpetual crisis to justify the concentration of power. As Tarpley notes, the beneficiaries are primarily financiers who believe that without the diversion of war, they cannot maintain the current property relations and social order.
Breaking the Illusion
Creative Reason as Resistance
The path to liberation lies in reclaiming creative reason—the distinctly human capacity to discover new truths and reshape reality. The Dead Souls faction fears nothing more than humanity awakening to its own creative power.
Tarpley’s work is not merely an exposé of hidden history; it is a manual for epistemological resistance. By recognising the Venetian machinery of psychological warfare, propaganda, and social engineering, we begin to dismantle the myth machines that keep us enslaved.
The story machine’s primary objective is to maintain the illusion system. Our task is to break it.
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