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The subjective world of one rather powerful person can infringe on the world of another person. If I can make you see the world the way I see it, then you will automatically think the way I think. You will come to the conclusions that I come to. And the greatest power one human being can exert over others is to control their perceptions of reality, and infringe on the integrity and individuality of their world. That is done, for instance, in psychotherapy...If I invade your world you will probably sense something alien, because my world is different from yours. You must, of course, fight it. But often we don't because a lot of it is subtle; we just have intimations that our worlds are being invaded, we don't know where this invasion of our personal integrity is coming from. It comes from authority figures in general.
Quote from the Philip K. Dick interview in Charles Platt's "Dream Makers--The Uncommon People Who Write Science Fiction."

Interesting choice - it's close...AND yeah, twenty intelligence organizations is a lot... but... every journey starts with one step forward.