Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan

Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan

Explore the dark world of real psychological operations In this 10-episode docuseries, former Navy SEAL, CIA contractor, and host of The Shawn Ryan Show, Shawn Ryan, takes listeners inside the real PSYOPs being conducted across the world. Discover how secret PSYOPs have shaped nations, manipulated minds, and continue to wage silent wars on the unsuspecting public. From paramilitary Russian troll farms and the Chinese Communist Party's cognitive warfare operations to intelligence agency infiltrations of Hollywood, social media influence campaigns, and even futuristic direct energy weapons, the series explores how sophisticated psychological operations have become. Featuring insights from whistleblowers, insiders, military officials, tech innovators, and intelligence experts, each episode takes us deeper into the rabbit hole to discover where these operations are headed—and how we can stop them. Who’s really pulling the strings? NEW EPISODES EVERY TUESDAY Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan is an IRONCLAD Original Sponsor: SBIR Advisors: If you’re serious about selling to the military, visit https://www.sbiradvisors.com Mention PSYOP and get your first month free.

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Real Disclosure About UFOs, UAP, Reverse Engineering Programs and Secret Military Black Projects?

June 9, 2026 • 113 mins
NOTE: If you like Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan check out this IRONCLAD Original documentary about UAP Disclosure, "Change Agents: BLACK PROJECT: Disclosure, the Truth About UFOs & Secret Programs" Who is hiding the truth about UFOs? Are UAP actually secret government weapon programs? In this full length documentary (created from a supercut of our IRONCLAD Original series, Black Project), Andy Stumpf talks w...
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Chapter 10: Combatting the PSYOPs That Are Trying to Manipulate Your Behavior(with Chase Hughes)

April 8, 2026 • 26 mins
In this special episode of Target Intelligence: PSYOP, we are joined by psychological operations insider, human behavior expert, and NCI University founder Chase Hughes. Chase’s insights are featured through the 8-episode narrative series, and in the final two episodes of the season, Chase explains how PSYOPs work — and how we can avoid being manipulated by them. More from Chase: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/U...
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Chapter 9: The PSYOP Wars (with Chase Hughes)

March 31, 2026 • 46 mins
In this special episode of Target Intelligence: PSYOP, we are joined by psychological operations insider, human behavior expert, and NCI University founder Chase Hughes. Chase’s insights are featured through the 8-episode narrative series, and in the final two episodes of the season, Chase explains how PSYOPs work — and how we can avoid being manipulated by them. More from Chase: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC...
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Episode 8: Gray Matters: PSYOPs that Could End the World

March 24, 2026 • 51 mins
In the narrative episode finale, Shawn Ryan looks at the future of psychological operations and cognitive warfare: direct energy weapons, brain-to–weapon interfaces, the Havana Syndrome attacks, “biological dominance”, and strategies that target your brain. We're is this all headed? Chapters: (00:47) What is “biological dominance”  (04:25) The Havana Syndrome Attacks  (09:15) How ex...
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Chapter 7: The Uncanny Valley: PSYOPs That Blur Reality Itself

March 17, 2026 • 54 mins
What happens when you can no longer distinguish between what is real and what is artificial intelligence? In this chapter, we uncover the technological breakthroughs that are reshaping PSYOPs, and find out why facial recognition advancements, big tech influences, and deepfake abilities have insiders very concerned. Chapters: (00:53) A Deepfake targeting Marco Rubio (04:27) Detecting Deepfakes (07:11) The Concept of the Uncann...
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Chapter 6: The Master Plan - Secret PSYOPs That Run the World

March 10, 2026 • 62 mins
PSYOPs are now a critical part of the U.S. military’s defense strategy. But, how did psychological operations evolve – and what happens when they go too far? In this chapter, we look at the origins of American military PSYOPs and examine how cultural figures – ranging from public relations pioneer Edward Bernays to the filmmakers behind the Kony 2012 viral video – have used media to shape geopolitics.  ...
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Chapter 5: Are UFOs Government PSYOPs?

March 3, 2026 • 49 mins
In the summer of 1952, strange objects began appearing in the skies over the White House and major military installations. More than 70 years later, “drones” and odd lights were seen hovering over sensitive sights in New Jersey and across the east coast. What were they? Clues might be found in an elaborate PSYOP conducted on an unsuspecting veteran who had been working with intelligence agencies to prevent what he belie...
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Chapter 4: The Price of Admission - The CIA and Hollywood

February 24, 2026 • 56 mins
The CIA, the military, and foreign countries are now major players in Hollywood. But, how did defense and intelligence agencies get seats in the writers’ rooms that are scripting blockbusters and TV shows? In this chapter, we find out.  Chapters: (01:30) Investigating Ben Affleck's Emails (06:43) How the CIA Works in Hollywood (10:15) The Military and the Media in WWII (14:40) Political Films in the 1960s (19:50) E...
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Chapter 3: The Engaged Follower

February 17, 2026 • 53 mins
What does it take to turn a normal person into a killer? What’s behind a recent string of assassinations and assassination attempts? In this chapter, we do a deep dive into the psychology of “engaged followership” and a dark experiment that proves just how easy it is to get a seemingly normal person to kill. Chapters: (02:31) - Infiltrating a Mind Control Cult (10:30) - How Mind Control Cults Work (13:15) ...
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Chapter 2: The Smoke-Filled Room

February 10, 2026 • 51 mins
Traditional PSYOPs try to affect what people think. But, a new kind of warfare – Cognitive Warfare – aims to change how people think. In this chapter, experts like Bill Gertz explain how China is using apps like TikTok to slowly damage users’ cognition and create an environment where truth and fiction become indistinguishable. And Chase Hughes breaks down the psychological experiment that makes in possible.&n...
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Chapter 1: The Zone

February 3, 2026 • 50 mins
When Frances Haugen worked on Facebook’s counter-espionage team, she uncovered massive PSYOP operations intended to spark violent uprisings. In this chapter, we hear Frances’ story, learn how troll farmers in Russia have evolved, and author Gregg Hurwitz uncovers the methods they use to try to destroy America from within. Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan is an IRONCLAD Original. Go to ⁠https://thisisiro...
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Prologue: Who's Really Pulling the Strings?

January 26, 2026 • 5 mins
An introduction to Target Intelligence: PSYOP from Shawn Ryan In each episode, we look at a different method of psychological operations, how they’ve evolved, and how they are being deployed. Here’s why getting to the truth about PSYOPs matters. Sponsors: GHOSTBED: Go to https://www.GhostBed.com/PSYOP and use code PSYOP for an extra 15% off sitewide.
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