an outgrowth of the red scare, I think. COINTELPRO was very successful at making people see psyops everywhere, and predators have used that very successfully to cast their accusers as state operatives, wreckers, etc.. in practice, it's the abusers who are most likely to be compromised, however, and it's a broader conversation happening within actual formations (online discourse is, as always, mostly unmoored from reality).