The Fallen Ape-theist (Richard Suttles) currently serves as a senior intelligence analyst and liaison with the U.S. federal government. For the past thirty-one years he’s worked in many realms of the intelligence community- with the Department of Defense (DOD), Department of State (DOS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). From 1995 – 2005 he served in the United States Marine Corps, including tours in Haiti and Iraq. He has two postgraduate degrees with the University of Oklahoma- one in Communications and another in International Relations. He also completed a counter-terrorism training program at the Naval Postgraduate School. Richard has a special focus in the radicalization processes some people go through when they become committed to conducting violence in the interest of furthering ideological goals. He also studies the intricacies of persuasion campaigns. These are methodologies from organizations and social media algorithms that can prompt people to become fervent supporters of goals chosen by the campaign.