• From propaganda to a conspiracy about the moon landing, we count 10 conspiracy theories
that were actually true.
10 – Operation Paperclip, • We all know the Nazis were awful people,
especially when you take into account their inhumane science experiments, but that doesn’t
take away from the fact that under the Nazi malice was an intelligence that could and
did change the world.
• After World War 2 was over America decided that instead of putting the Nazi scientists
into a prison and throwing away the key that they would recruit them to help out with various
scientific endeavours, the main one being rocket science.
• Over 100 rocket scientists from Nazi Germany were put to work under the American government
and it’s mostly thanks to them that we have the Saturn V rocket, the one that put man
on
the moon.
9 – The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, • On the 2nd of August, 1964, during the
middle of the Vietnam War, an American Destroyer claimed that they were attacked during a recon
mission, the resulting fireworks damaged a US Air carrier.
• There was another report of a naval battle two days later with no damages or injuries.
• However, later down the line it was confirmed by US officials that the second battle never
happened, and there have been convincing reports from whistle-blowers and allusions by the
President of the time that neither incident actually occurred.
• The reason they might have faked these attacks?
Well it gave the Military and the President a reason to respond with deadly force in the
way of Air Strikes, even if it was just one attack that was faked, it’s still a grimy
thing to do.
8 – North Korea Abductions, • During the years between 1977 and 1983
Japanese citizens were disappearing, the public was in disarray and began pointing fingers
at North Korea, eventually Japan admitted to the public that eight men and nine women
were taken by North Korea and they themselves admitted that they took 13.
• However, the estimated numbers are actually much higher than 17 people, especially when
you take into account other nations, in particular South Korea, current estimates hover around
480 kidnapped victims.
• But that’s not all, there’s a few districts in Japan that fund schools run by
North Korea and they all teach the children studying there that the abductions are fabrications
by the Japanese government and media.
7 - COINTELPRO, • Most conspiracy theories about America
involve the CIA, but in this case it was actually the FBI who subverted the law, in particular
they violated the American right of free speech in the name of national security.
• Basically the FBI surveyed, infiltrated and discredited many political movements,
including the black civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King Jr, feminist organisations,
as well as the socialist parties that were rising up during the 50s and 60s.
• They mostly did this by getting undercover agents in these circles, while also running
false news stories and in some cases flat out arresting them under fabricated pretences.
6 – The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, • There was a clinical study done by the
US Public Health Service that focused on studying the progression of untreated syphilis in patients,
it took place in Alabama and lasted from the 30s to the 70s.
• The PHS took in African American men, the majority of which had previously had the
disease, and infected them with syphilis; in return the government promised them free
health care.
• However, none of the men were told that they had syphilis and the government refused
to give them penicillin, even after it had been proven to cure the disease, they were
instead told that they were being treated for ‘bad blood’.
5 – Prohibition Poisoning, • The prohibition against alcohol is a famous
time in American history, it started because many people drank alcohol more than most people
with alcoholism do in the present, possibly because of how much easier it was to get than
clean water.
• However, in order to combatant illegal selling of alcohol the government poisoned
the industrial grade alcohol, which didn’t work at first thanks to the smuggler’s chemists,
but eventually they found a potency that was difficult, if not impossible to remove.
• Not only did the prohibition give the Mafia a significant boost while also rising
all types of crime by a significant amount, but the poisoning also killed around 10,000
people before it was abolished from the law.
4 – Operation Northwoods, • This one never went through, but it’s
still chilling to think that it was even proposed by a respectable member of the military and
supported by some parts of the government.
• Basically during the Cold War the US Department of Defence was worried about Cuba, but they
had no legal reason to go to war with them, so they had a bright idea to orchestrate fake
terrorist attacks on American soil to give them permission to open fire.
• Luckily the Kennedy administration didn’t agree to such a horrific and counter-productive
method, who knows?
Maybe if this went through there’d be an irradiated desert in place of the USA right
now.
3 – The Nayirah Testimony, • In the year 1990 a 15-year-old girl called
Nayirah gave a heart-wrenching talk about how she watched Iraqi soldiers wrench babies
from their incubators and leave them to die.
• This testimony was later cited by various US senators as a reason to go to war, eventually
these senators got what they wanted and the US started the Gulf War.
• However, it was later revealed to be completely false and the girl was told to say these things
by the Citizens for a Free Kuwait by a PR company that was hired by the Kuwait government.
• If this piece of propaganda was never released it’s entirely possible that the
US would have never gone to war in the Middle East.
2 - Project MK Ultra, • If this story wasn’t true it’d sound
like the drug-addled ramblings of a tin-foil hat wearing homeless man that you do your
best to ignore on the train.
• Seriously, the CIA actually tried to develop a mind control drug using LSD, they conducted
inhumane, unethical experiments all through the USA to those described by the CIA as ‘those
who could not fight back.’
• This included mental patients, prisoners, drug addicts and prostitutes, one mental patient
was kept on LSD for a total of 174 days.
• The ultimate goal of this was to force Russians to defect from their country, but
they also wanted to know if it was possible for the Russians to make their agents defect.
1 – PRISM • For as long as the internet has been around
there have been rumours and conspiracies about how the government was surveying everyone
and everything, as of recent years this has been proven to be more true than most people
thought.
• The PRISM program was brought to light by Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee,
who released thousands of classified NSA documents regarding PRISM.
• It turns out the American government has been scrawling and keeping petabytes of data
from internet users from all over the globe, although NSA claims it only takes data when
they have a warrant, the documents released by Snowden say that this is not the case.
• So yeah, this program has almost certainly affected anyone watching this program, so
don’t go and say things that’d get you on a watch list, like you know watching a
video explaining how the NSA is doing something shady.