11 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out to Be True

Tinfoil hat time! From the must read article at CY.TALK NEWS BLOG.

• MK-ULTRA

  

  The CIA administered drugs to, and practiced mind control on Americans without their consent, with the goal to control human actions "contrary to an individual's basic moral principles."

• The Manhattan Project

  

  A project conducted during World War II to develop the first atomic bomb.

• Asbestos

  

  In 1962 epidemiologists established beyond any doubt what asbestos manufacturers had known for a long time : asbestos causes cancer.

• Watergate

  

  In 1972 The FBI to connect the payments of five men that were arrested for breaking into Democratic headquarters to a slush fund used by the 1972 Committee to Re-elect the President.

• The Tuskegee Syphilis Study

  

  Experiments conducted in the 1940s in which US researchers deliberately infected Guatemalan prison inmates, women and mental patients with syphilis.

• Operation Northwoods

  

  In the 1960s, American military leaders planned to commit acts of terrorism on U.S. cities, in an effort to create public support for a war against Cuba.

• Nayirah

  

  In 1991 "Nayirah” gained support for the Gulf War with her testimony before Congress that she witnessed "the Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with guns, and go into the room where . . . They took the babies out of the incubators, ... and left the babies on the cold floor to die." Turns out her testimony had been arranged by the group Citizens for a Free Kuwait and that she had taken acting lessons on request of the CIA.

• COINTELPRO

  

  The reasoning behind the FBI sending this letter to Martin Luther King Jr. which urges him to commit suicide just before he was to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, was in effort to disrupt dissident from political organizations within the United States.

• The Iran-Contra Affair

  

  The White House authorized the trade of weapons with the Israel in exchange for the U.S. hostages in Iran.

• The CIA/Contras Cocaine Trafficking

  

  The involvement of the CIA in the widespread crack cocaine epidemic that swept through many U.S. cities during the 1980s.

• The Business Plot

  

  In 1933, group of wealthy businessmen, that included George Bush's grandfather, Senator Prescott Bush, plotted to overthrow then President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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