An ordinary person who is recruited as a patsy/useful idiot to harass a Targeted Individual in a gangstalking campaign.
Using well-established manipulation tactics, the higher-level gangstalkers recruit Collaborators to carry out
small actions, typically the delivery of conditioned cues and the spreading of rumors. The collaborators are usually not aware of who they are really acting for, and often would not even agree with the
true objective of the gangstalking campaign.
The use of numerous Collaborators makes the gangstalking campaign very
hard to prove, and even harder to prosecute. The
small actions of the Collaborators are shielded with plausible deniability. The Collaborators
serve as a layer that separates the higher-level perpetrators and their clients/inducers from the victim.
Under the Zersetzung program in
communist East
Germany, there would typically be only three Stasi agents assigned to each Targeted Individual. These Stasi agents would amplify the effort by recruiting numerous Collaborators, often people already close to the victim, to
carry-out specific harassment tasks. This was very disturbing to the victims, as it created the impression that the whole world was against them.
Tim began experiencing bizarre harassment in the form of numerous people delivering identical repetitive cues. This seemed to be happening wherever he went. This created the chilling impression that he was faced with a large group of some sort, with loyalties and convictions
deep enough that they were all willing to participate in criminal harassment on behalf of someone else. What he did not realize at the
time was that the people he was encountering were not a unified group, but rather individual Collaborators who were manipulated into carrying out the specific
small actions.