A one must confer periodically/no-records-kept, with one's Handler. Necessary to spawn the next level of transparent assassinations of besieged Truthiness.

(Seema a lot like a case (in an alt-Universe) wherein the masses had been infected with a mind-meld epidemic; it was discovered that the Black Plague organism was something of an accelerator in this Plan. So they 'innoculated' everyone with that. It worked! (minor aspect: 96.66% died, but Winning-IS-all).

This plot could have been an audience-dazzling episode on Inner Sanctum--the radio play of yesteryear; we kiddies would have had joyous-Nightmares; so sorry that modrin young'uns missed-out on that whole experience.. ;^>