Editor’s Note: This is an investigative series article in Metajournalism, a concept coined by the author and defined as “journalism on journalists,” with a greater focus on the storytellers, and not the stories themselves.
Dawson's employment for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ties a logical bow on his status in the independent media. My experiences with Maria Farmer and Dawson support Johnny Vedmore's assertion.
Ryan Dawson, the founder of the media outlet, ANC Report, was pegged as an asset of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by investigative journalist, Johnny Vedmore, over Easter Weekend, after a collaboration between Dawson and alleged Epstein victim, Maria Farmer, was publicly announced.
Dawson’s status as a CIA asset would make complete logical sense and would also fit into a framework for spies who pose as journalists: they live OCONUS, are proverbial “independent media” members, and prominent ones to boot. More on these other intelligence assets or “journalists,” later.
Vedmore’s statement came after ANC Report released a collaboration with Epstein network associate and alleged “victim” of the Maxwell/Epstein spy ring, Maria Farmer.
“Ryan Dawson = CIA,” Vedmore stated. “It’s clear that [he] is down with the CIA!”
“Amazed to see how he’s promoting someone who was in bed with the CIA’s main man Pottinger, and who seeded fake news all over the Epstein case,” Vedmore added.
Vedmore went on to clarify and provide sources for his statement.
“Maria Farmer is totally exposed in the 3rd part of The Pottinger Series,” Vedmore said. “[Ryan Dawson] is promoting a fraud. He’s a CIA c*k s**ker.”
“Mossad Absolutists like [Dawson] point at Israel constantly to take the attention away from the CIA,” Vedmore said. “Epstein worked with the Mossad, CIA & MI6. Ryan Dawson only works for the CIA it seems.”
“What a total fraud!” Vedmore added.
After a Twitter user asked Vedmore about the differences between the different intelligence agencies, the intrepid journalist clarified his stance, and sees no functional difference between them.
“There is no difference. It’s a grey blob which uses an [Operation Condor] like approach to get away with domestic surveillance programs. They work together,” Vedmore replied. “Epstein clearly worked with/for all three. The partnership is why people like Epstein are needed, they work as interlocutors.”
When I first met Dawson in 2021, he had with him a physically fit bodyguard; approximately 6’1” and 210 pounds. The ANC Report editor clearly did not feel comfortable meeting me in person, alone. Photographer Peter Duke of The Duke Report was present at the time, and did a photoshoot of my interview with Dawson. Duke later called the encounter, “spooky,” despite the fact he later implicitly denied being suspicious of Dawson in an an interaction on the public Twitterverse.
As for Miss Farmer, after I covered the #GhislaineMaxwellTrial our working relationship started and progressed with rapport. However, in 2022, I was showed a tweet which Farmer posted and then later deleted which called me a “snake.”
Why did Maria Farmer call me a snake?
Well, Farmer contacted me on a weekday evening around 8PM EST in spring of 2022 and demanded that I conduct an interview with her then and there, that evening. I told her I was busy at the time but that tomorrow, the next day, I would be available to interview her, something which I wanted to do.
Farmer took great offense to this and proceeded later to call me a snake. What is interesting is that both Farmer and Dawson seemed to be envious of my relationship at the time, perhaps for different reasons [I addressed the Dawson situation previously).
The only other explanation for their behavior would be workforce sabotage, which is a possibility that cannot be ruled out definitively.
If this is your first taste of #metajournalism, let me say this: Welcome to the frontline.
Sources:
https://twitter.com/JohnnyVedmore/status/1774191423966904480
https://x.com/JohnnyVedmore/status/1774191426189881853?s=20
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https://x.com/JohnnyVedmore/status/1774605540259238143?s=20