Mechanism By which a structurally closed power arrangement purchases moral authority from an ideologically adjacent open-access movement. Example: Anthropic's $4 million donations to Alpha-Omega and OpenSSF (via Linux Foundation) accompanying the closed-consortium Glasswing launch. The OSS community's reputation supplies the 'open' ideological cover; the donation supplies the procurement. Per Turchin Framework #3: elite consolidation under structural pressure requires a legitimizing ideology. Pattern recurs across domains — Rockefeller/Carnegie foundation-philanthropy laundering industrial capital, WEF 'stakeholder capitalism' laundering corporate-governance capture, AI-safety discourse laundering capability gating.