Recent days have seen riots break out in Los Angeles and other cities over President Donald Trump's enforcement of immigration law.

While supporters suggest that those events are organic, a CIA dossier explains how such unrest can be manufactured. 

Document helped to inform U.S. actions in Nicaragua

According to the Daily Mail, the 92-page document dates back to 1983 but was declassified in 2023 has begun to circulate on social media.

Titled "Psychological Operations," it functions as a manual for destabilizing a country and helped inform American activities in Nicaragua. The dossier recommends funding and training professional agitators to spark antigovernment demonstrations as well as working with criminal elements.

"The control of mass meetings in support of guerrilla warfare is carried out internally through a covert commando element, bodyguards, messengers, shock troops (incident initiators), poster carriers (also used to give signals), and slogan shouters, all under the control of the external commando element," it states.

Part of that effort involves the use of simple, emotionally charged slogans which crowds are able to embrace and easily repeat.

Dossier calls for use of a "front organization," infiltration of existing groups

The CIA then calls for establishing a "front organization" while also having guerrillas infiltrate and then gain control over existing organizations such as labor unions or student groups.

Those guerrillas are to engage in "armed propaganda," which is aimed at convincing the population that weapons will be used in their defense.

Also important is the staging of violent clashes in which civilians can be killed and then later held up as "martyrs" to inspire further action by others.

Observers point to distribution of gas masks

The Daily Mail pointed out how there is no evidence to suggest that the CIA has been involved in organizing anti-ICE protests.

However, City Journal contributor Tal Fortgang nevertheless argued in an article published on Thursday that much of the chaos is being planned and coordinated, writing, "Nothing about this 'protest' is organic. It is organized, activated, and AstroTurfed."

"Who brought gas masks by the truckload?" Fortgang asked. "Who managed to convince hundreds of people to take up rock-throwing, Molotov cocktail-dropping, and arson at seemingly arbitrary places and times?"

"Who laid the groundwork for street violence by training people in the tactics that prevent law enforcement from ending it promptly?" he continued. "As domestic-extremism expert Kyle Shideler puts it, this violence is 'not black magic, it's just hard work.'"