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  • 10. Project MK-ULTRA

  • In 1953 the CIA launched a deadly mind-control program.

  • Masked asintelligence research’, they secretly administered LSD to the public and

  • manipulated their mental states. The CIA’s ultimate goal was to create a brainwashed

  • assassin programmed to kill.

  • Patients were also hypnotized and given electroshock therapy to try and create split personalities

  • that could be used against the Russians in the Cold War.

  • But when investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported illegal CIA surveillance in

  • 1975, the American public were outraged. Further government investigations discovered thousands

  • of files on MK-ULTRA and some truly disturbing human experiments.

  • 9. Operation Paperclip

  • After WW2 the USA recruited 1,600 Nazi scientists in order to prevent their knowledge falling

  • into Soviet hands.

  • The US government claimed that any hired German found to be a former Nazi would be excluded

  • from the program - but this was a sham.

  • Instead, hundreds of Nazi technicians were given fake records and offered sanctuary in

  • the USA.

  • Some of these Nazis, like Arthur Rudolph and Otto Von Bolschwing helped Hitler topurge

  • Germany of the Jews’.

  • 8. CIA Drug Trafficking

  • In 1996 investigative journalist Gary Webb exposed the CIA for facilitating the sale

  • of cocaine to LA street gangs.

  • Webb alleged that in the 1980s the CIA targeted drugs to African-American communitiesand

  • millions of dollars worth of cocaine funded the CIA’s army in Nicaragua.

  • Newspapers influenced by American intelligence, like the LA Times, severely discredited his

  • work. With his career ruined, Webb killed himself.

  • 9 years later, the LA Times apologized for falsely attacking Webb, and admitted that

  • his allegations had indeed been correct.

  • 7. Operation Northwoods

  • In 1962 US military intelligence planned terrorist attacks on its own country. US operatives

  • intended to blame these attacks on the Cuban government to justify a war against Cuba.

  • The operation involved hijacking planes and bombing US cities, to gain public support

  • against Cuba’s communist leader, Fidel Castro.

  • Operation Northwoods was rejected by the Kennedy administration and forgotten for 40 years.

  • It was rediscovered in the early 90s during a surge of interest in JFK’s assassination

  • and provoked outrage from the American public.

  • 6. The NSA Files

  • In 2013 computer analyst Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA was accessing tens of millions

  • of Americansonline records and tracking phone callsunder the pretence of trying

  • to uncover terrorist plots.

  • But before the scandal broke, the director of national intelligence James Clapper lied

  • under oath to Congress, when he claimed that the NSA did not collect the data of millions

  • of Americans.

  • Whistle-blower Snowden has since been charged with theft of government property and is seeking

  • asylum in Russia.

  • 5. COINTELPRO

  • Peace activists suspected the FBI of infiltrating the anti-war movement - and they were right.

  • On March 8th 1971 they broke into an FBI office and stole hundreds of files, which revealed

  • the bureau’s true motives.

  • The Counter Intelligence Program was an aggressive, covert operation by the bureau to destroy

  • Communism and the New Left.

  • For nearly 2 decades the FBI sought to intimidate, blackmail, and sometimes even assassinate

  • individuals who threatened to disrupt political order.

  • They even targeted Martin Luther King Jr., wiretapping his hotel rooms and trying to

  • persuade him to commit suicide.

  • 4. Operation Snow White

  • In the 1970s the Church of Scientology performed one of the largest infiltrations of US government

  • in history. 5,000 undercover members raided 136 American agencies to steal documents critical

  • of the church.

  • In 1977 former Scientology member Michael Meisner contacted the FBI, suspecting that

  • the Scientology community was involved in criminal activities.

  • His suspicions were correct. In 1978 the founder of Scientology’s wife, Mary Sue Hubbard,

  • and 10 other conspirators, were found guilty of stealing classified records from the US

  • government.

  • To this day, the Church of Scientology denies the existence of the operation.

  • 3. Guatemala Syphilis Study

  • Between 1946 and 1948 the USA landed in Guatemala City and secretly infected 1,500 people with

  • syphilis to test the effectiveness of penicillin.

  • At least 83 people died in these experiments, which had the approval of The Rockefeller

  • Foundation and Johns Hopkins University.

  • America kept quiet for 6 decades until Professor Susan Reverby uncovered the experiment in

  • 2005. Both Rockefeller and Hopkins have denied any connection.

  • However, government officials have since reported that their researches used US taxpayers

  • money to pay prostitutes with syphilis to infect unknowing subjects, and bribed others

  • with cigarettes to be injected with the disease.

  • 2. Gulf of Tonkin

  • The Vietnam War was started because of a lie.

  • On August 2nd 1964 America and North Vietnam engaged in military combat in the Gulf of

  • Tonkin.

  • According to official reports, North Vietnam also initiated an attack on August 4th, prompting

  • the USA to respond with military action. Only this second attack never happened.

  • In 2005 it was revealed that President Lyndon B. Johnson falsely claimed that Vietnam had

  • attacked the USA in order to go to war and declare that South Vietnam was jeopardized

  • by 'communist aggression'.

  • 1. Operation Mockingbird

  • In the 1950s the CIA launched a secret campaign to control the media, recruiting top journalists

  • so they would have power over the New York Times, CBS, and Newsweek.

  • By 1953 they influenced over 25 newspapers and radio stations and could promote big business,

  • positive US government messages, and anti-communist agendas.

  • They even attempted to buy every copy of a book critical of the CIA, but decided against

  • it when the publisher revealed that this would lead to a second edition being printed.

  • After a number of exposés, the US government officially revealed in 1976 that the CIA tried

  • to control public opinion using covert propaganda.

10. Project MK-ULTRA

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