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9 huge government conspiracies that actually happened
9 huge government conspiracies that actually happened
From the article:
"We all know the conspiracy theories — the government's plan for 9/11, the second gunman who shot JFK, the evolution of the elite from a race of blood-drinking, shape-shifting lizards.
But the people who spread these ideas usually can't prove them.
As the years pass, however, secrets surface. Government documents become declassified. We now have evidence of certain elaborate government schemes right here in the US of A."
1. The US Department of the Treasury poisoned alcohol during Prohibition — and people died.
2. The US Public Health Service lied about treating black men with syphilis for more than 40 years.
3. More than 100 million Americans received a polio vaccine contaminated with a potentially cancer-causing virus.
4. Parts of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, which led to US intervention in Vietnam, never happened.
5. Military leaders reportedly planned terrorist attacks in the US to drum up support for a war against Cuba.
6. The government tested the effects of LSD on unwitting US and Canadian citizens.
7. In 1974, the CIA secretly resurfaced a sunken Soviet submarine with three nuclear-armed ballistic missiles.
8. The US government sold weapons to Iran, violating an embargo, and used the money to support Nicaraguan militants.
9. A public-relations firm organized congressional testimony that propelled US involvement in the Persian Gulf War.
Dubious.
9 huge government conspiracies that actually happened
9 huge government conspiracies that actually happened
From the article:
"We all know the conspiracy theories — the government's plan for 9/11, the second gunman who shot JFK, the evolution of the elite from a race of blood-drinking, shape-shifting lizards.
But the people who spread these ideas usually can't prove them.
As the years pass, however, secrets surface. Government documents become declassified. We now have evidence of certain elaborate government schemes right here in the US of A."
1. The US Department of the Treasury poisoned alcohol during Prohibition — and people died.
2. The US Public Health Service lied about treating black men with syphilis for more than 40 years.
3. More than 100 million Americans received a polio vaccine contaminated with a potentially cancer-causing virus.
4. Parts of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, which led to US intervention in Vietnam, never happened.
5. Military leaders reportedly planned terrorist attacks in the US to drum up support for a war against Cuba.
6. The government tested the effects of LSD on unwitting US and Canadian citizens.
7. In 1974, the CIA secretly resurfaced a sunken Soviet submarine with three nuclear-armed ballistic missiles.
8. The US government sold weapons to Iran, violating an embargo, and used the money to support Nicaraguan militants.
9. A public-relations firm organized congressional testimony that propelled US involvement in the Persian Gulf War.
