I also don't know about Carlin (and stated that). I don't know if he was aware that he was doing the work of the Cabal by his actions; that he was helping people stay within The Matrix. Just because he was almost certainly controlled opposition doesn't mean he knew he was CO. He might have been, he might not have been. I haven't dug into at all, nor do I care to.

Hell, we are all CO, or at least were. Those who were truthers push C_A narratives, planted among the community to make them look crazy. There are quite a few such planted narratives. For example, Flat Earth has all the signs of being a purposeful narrative, by the C_A, designed for exactly that purpose; to make everything else FE'ers believe look like "crazy conspiracy theory." This is how the evidence is hidden, by incentivizing people to not look.

Everyone is controlled opposition because the system is designed to make everyone CO. Everyone in opposition to each other, "the enemy we can see" so that the larger population never looks for the enemy we can't see; the only true enemy.