Protocol 12 states: "Literature and journalism are the two most important educational powers; for this reason (we)... will buy up the greater number of periodicals. By these means we shall neutralise the bad influence of the private press and obtain an enormous influence over the human mind...the public must not have the slightest suspicion of these measures, therefore all periodicals published by us will seem to be of contradictory views and opinions, thus inspiring confidence and presenting an attractive appearance to our unsuspecting enemies, who will thus fall into our trap and be disarmed...These newspapers, like the Indian God Vishnu, will be possessed of hundreds of  hands, each of which will be feeling the pulse of varying public opinion...If any chatterers are going to imagine that they are repeating the opinion of their party newspaper, they will in reality be repeating our own opinion, or the opinion which we desire."