As everyone knows, most conspiracy theories are BS.
However, what about the lesser known and under-reported “conspiracy FACTS”?
The latest episode of the ongoing podcast series UNDERGROUND KNOWLEDGE is all about revealing such conspiracy facts…In this episode I outline 17 mind-blowing facts…Which prove that the conspiracy field is more nuanced than commonly acknowledged…
Number 1: Operation Paperclip
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
The New York Times: Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/us/14nazis.html
The Guardian: UK arranged transfer of Nazi scientists to Australia (Operation Matchbox) https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/aug/17/iantraynor
Number 2: Operation Northwoods
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
ABC News: U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662
Number 3: Operation Mockingbird
The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/why-are-the-media-taking-the-cias-hacking-claims-at-face-value/
“In 1977, Carl Bernstein published an exposé of a CIA program known as Operation Mockingbird, a covert program involving, according to Bernstein, “more than 400 American journalists who in the past 25 years have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency.” Bernstein found that in “many instances” CIA documents revealed that “journalists were engaged to perform tasks for the CIA with the consent of the managements of America’s leading news organizations.”
Operation Mockingbird – The Black Vault http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/operation-mockingbird/
Operation Mockingbird was a secret campaign by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to influence media. Begun in the 1950s, it was initially organized by Cord Meyer and Allen W. Dulles, it was later led by Frank Wisner after Dulles became the head of the CIA.
The organization recruited leading American journalists into a network to help present the CIA’s views, and funded some student and cultural organizations, and magazines as fronts. As it developed, it also worked to influence foreign media and political campaigns, in addition to activities by other operating units of the CIA.
Declassified Documents http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/operation-mockingbird/
The New York Times: Project Mockingbird – Spying on Reporters https://washington.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/project-mockingbird/
THE CIA AND THE MEDIA – Carl Bernstein http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php
Number 4: Project MK-Ultra
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
The Washington Post: The Victims of MKULTRA https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/04/18/the-victims-of-mkultra/016c7686-1277-4ac6-aee6-8f1a69c86110/
Number 5: Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
TIME: How the Public Learned About the Infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study http://time.com/4867267/tuskegee-syphilis-study/
Tuskegee syphilis experiment – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment
Number 6: The U.S. Military Is Creating Insect Drones
CNN: Military drones that mimic hawks and insects http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/14/tech/mci-drone-robohawk-robofly/index.html
DAILY MAIL: Military unveils insect-sized spy drone with dragonfly-like wings http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3734945/Now-bugged-Military-unveils-insect-sized-spy-drone-dragonfly-like-wings.html
Is That a Bug or a Robotic Spy? https://www.roboticstomorrow.com/article/2017/12/is-that-a-bug-or-a-robotic-spy/11089
“A team of researchers in conjunction with the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research is developing what they are calling a micro aerial vehicle (MAV) that will undertake various espionage tasks. The robotic insect can effortlessly infiltrate urban areas, while being controlled from a long distance; and it is equipped with a camera and a built-in microphone.”
Number 7: Operation Midnight Climax
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Midnight_Climax
SF Chronicle: When the CIA ran a LSD sex-house in San Francisco http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/When-the-CIA-ran-a-LSD-sex-house-in-San-Francisco-7223346.php
Number 8: The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
NSA.gov (declassified reports) https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/gulf-of-tonkin/
New York Times: Vietnam War Intelligence ‘Deliberately Skewed,’ Secret Study Says http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/02/politics/vietnam-war-intelligence-deliberately-skewed-secret-study-says.html
The Truth About Tonkin | U.S. Naval Institute https://www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/2008-02/truth-about-tonkin
“Questions about the Gulf of Tonkin incidents have persisted for more than 40 years. But once-classified documents and tapes released in the past several years, combined with previously uncovered facts, make clear that high government officials distorted facts and deceived the American public about events that led to full U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.” -U.S. Naval Institute
Number 9: Project Sunshine
Project Sunshine: A Tale of Body-Snatching | Mysterious Universe http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/06/project-sunshine-a-tale-of-body-snatching/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SUNSHINE
Number 10: The U.S. cover-up of the perpetrators of Unit 731 – the ‘Asian Auschwitz’
American cover-up of Japanese war crimes – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cover-up_of_Japanese_war_crimes
The New York Times: A New Look at Japan’s Wartime Atrocities and a U.S. Cover-Up https://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/china-unit-731-japan-war-crimes-biological/
Number 11: The Willowbrook State School Hepatitis Experiments
Victims of sinister medical procedures included residents of Staten Island’s infamous Willowbrook State School http://www.silive.com/northshore/index.ssf/2011/03/victims_of_sinister_medical_pr.html
Medical Ethics Text: http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/SocialSciences/ppecorino/MEDICAL_ETHICS_TEXT/Chapter_7_Human_Experimentation/Case_Study_Willowbrook_Experiments.htm
“Mentally retarded children housed at the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, New York, were intentionally given hepatitis in an attempt to track the development of the viral infection. The study began in 1956 and lasted for 14 years.
The researcher also wanted to determine the effectiveness of gamma globulin injections as protection against hepatitis. They justified their deliberate infections and exposures by claiming that given that there was a high rate of infection in the institution it was practically inevitable that the children would become infected.”
Number 12: The 1933 Reichstag terror attack…A Nazi false flag attack
“There is enough evidence to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that it was the Nazis who planned the arson and carried it out for their own political ends.” -Shirer, William (2011). The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Simon and Schuster. p. 192.
Sunday Telegraph: Historians find ‘proof’ that Nazis burnt Reichstag http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/1310995/Historians-find-proof-that-Nazis-burnt-Reichstag.html
Number 13: The Monster Study
Monster Study – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Study
The New York Times: The Stuttering Doctor’s ‘Monster Study’
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/16/magazine/the-stuttering-doctor-s-monster-study.html
Number 14: Animal Spies
Smithsonian: The CIA’s Most Highly-Trained Spies Weren’t Even Human As a former trainer reveals, the U.S. government deployed nonhuman operatives—ravens, pigeons, even cats—to spy on cold war adversaries https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-cias-most-highly-trained-spies-werent-even-human-20149/
The CIA’s bizarre attempts to use animals as spies during the Cold War era http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2439884/CIAs-bizarre-attempts-use-animals-spies-Cold-War-era.html#ixzz5366UmQYg
Number 15: The Duplessis Orphans
Duplessis Orphans – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplessis_Orphans
The Duplessis Orphans – CBC Archives – CBC.ca http://www.cbc.ca/archives/topic/the-duplessis-orphans
Number 16: Operation Gladio
Operation Gladio – Wikispooks https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Operation_Gladio
The Black Vault – Operation Gladio (Declassified documents) http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/operation-gladio/
NATO’s Secret Armies. Operation GLADIO and the Strategy of Tension https://www.globalresearch.ca/natos-secret-armies-operation-gladio-and-the-strategy-of-tension/5500132
Number 17: The Guatemalan syphilis experiment
Wikipedia: Guatemala syphilis experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_syphilis_experiment
The Guatemala syphilis experiment and medical ethics in science-based medicine https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-guatemalan-syphilis-experiment-and-medical-ethics/
Thanks for listening/reading/watching!
James Morcan
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