See, for example, the interesting account of staging an interview with some "Jerusalem notables" in the presence of some Ottoman visitors asking Mehmed Ali to interfere in Syria. As expected, the story was transmitted to Istanbul and relayed back to the Pasha via one of his agents there.

XREF: Builds on loc 59 (Pasha reception rituals staged power through deliberate shadow and spectacle) — both describe Mehmed Ali's theatrical manipulation as a governance tool, here extended to intelligence warfare. Builds on: "Pasha reception rituals staged power through deliberate shadow and spectacle."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 343