Whats up people hope youre having an awesome day, Im your host Ayman Hasan and welcome
back to another video here at most amazing top 10.
So im lowkey a bit scared to even make this video and have it live on the interwebs because
i dont wanna be found and disposed of if you know what I mean.
Throughout time there have been countless stories about the CIA, some good, most bad,
and others will never see the light of day.
I know my FBI agent is probably definitely listening in on me through my phone and laptop,
Steve i hope you dont have links with the CIA.
i thought we were cool man.
Just wanted to preface this with the fact a lot of these stories do make the CIA look
bad and i dont want our american subs commenting being like shes so antiamerican cus im totally
not these are literally just facts.
Take em with a grain of salt and here we go.
Here are the Top 10 Scary CIA Urban Legends.
Starting us off with number 10 is Polybius.
Now this urban legend started circulating around 1981 in Portland Oregon and it was
actually an arcade game.
It was apparently so popular it got players super addicted to the point lines started
forming around the game and people would regularly fight over turns.
Legend has it the game was actually a government-run crowdsourced psychological experiment.
Many reported seeing Men in Black visit the machines in order to collect unknown data
from them.
Apparently they would test the responses to the game for psychoactive effects and most
users suffered from hallucinations, amnesia, insomnia and night terrors.
It was said it was a CIA experiment spun off MK Ultra which was a psychoactive drug study
one on unsuspecting subjects.
Which I don't even think is legal but then again isnt half the stuff the CIA does illegal?
The game randomly disappeared without a trace from all arcade markets a month after its
release and that was the end of that.
Fun fact of the day Polybius was also the name of a greek historian who was known for
his claim that historians should never report on things they cant verify through eyewitnesses.
Which i feel links to the game also.
They wanted to collect firsthand primary data to verify whatever they were trying to find
out.
Whether they did or not who knows.
Coming in at number 9 is Jane Wallis Burrell.
Now Jane was the first CIA officer ever to die in the agency's service but her death
remains a bit of a mystery.
Jane joined the OSS which was the precursor to the CIA and worked as an analyst.
The chief of counterintelligence at the time James Murphy liked promoting women he saw
potential in because he thought they paid better attention to detail than the men employed.
Youre not wrong James youre not wrong.
I got a haircut last week guys and i feel like probably none of the guy viewers noticed
but my girls did.
Thats the tea.
Either way she soon ended up in X-2 and a lot of her personnel documentation started
having a lot of contradictions and ambiguities.
On January 6th 1948 Jane was one her way from Brussels to Paris when the plane crashed on
its approach to the airport killing all crew members and 10 out of 11 passengers.
Press reports said Jane was a clerk or a courier but they were obviously wrong.
Official documents shed no light on what the purpose of Janes trip was, its said she was
on an operational mission but a US spokesperson said she was just on holiday.
Again idk how trustworthy the documents are considering her documents were riddled with
mistakes anyway.
Either way she didnt even end up on the CIAs memorial wall because those are only for employees
that died on missions.
I think thats a huge snub if i ever saw one.
At number 8 we have Project MK-Ultra.
This isnt really an urban legend because we all know it happened but it was technically
meant to be secret and it was for a very long time.
Secret and illegal.
From 1953 to 1964 the CIa launched this project in which they secretly tested the effects
of drugs on hundreds of Americans that had no idea.
They used to use hookers to lure unsuspecting men for testing, and narcos would even just
go and slip the drugs into peoples drinks.
The project examined the effects of LSD, Acid and other barbiturates and i know it seems
screwed up and random but they did so because the US government thought the Soviet Union
was using these drugs to hypnotise captured Americans so they didnt want to fall behind
in any way.
So lets drug our population.
They would literally drug randomers and then follow them and see what they would do.
US Marshall Wayne Ritchie got dosed wtih acid at a bar with other officers and then the
room started spinning and he went upstairs to drink water but it got worse.
He thought he was being assassinated so he thought he would try to get them first by
getting his guns and getting money for his gf to buy a ticket our of here.
He went into the bar, pointed his gun at the bartender and demanded money.
He was eventually subdued and arrested and had to leave the Marshal service and only
40 something years later he realised he was on acid the day he went crazy.
In 1973 CIA director ordered all documents about and from the project be destroyed.
Filling our number 7 slot is Acoustic Kitty.
And I promise you this one is not a joke.
A report from the CIA in 1967 stated that the CIA spent 20 million dollars to try and
train cats to spy on Soviet embassies and the Kremlin.
Dubbed Acoustic Kitty, the program involved implanting a microphone in the cats ear canal
and a small radio transmitter at the bottom of its skull.
This would allow teh cat to record and transmit anything its hearing.
Although it sounds like a foolproof plan, they encountered problems with the cats mainly
they kept getting distracted and or hungry.
The first kitty on a mission was meant to spy on two men standing outside a soviet compound
but our brave compadre was hit and killed by a taxi on its way there.
The project got disclosed in 2001 and i think this is the funniest thing ive heard to date.
After they realised the project was clearly a fail all the implanted cats were reoperated
on and went on to live 9 happy lives.
Now at number 6 is Operation Paperclip.
This was a secret clearly not so secret program of the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency.
It was an OSS and Army CIC program that aimed to lure and recruit German engineers, scientists
and technicians from Germany to America to obviously be employed there.
They did so to aid Americas postwar efforts and to also make sure that the most valuable
scientific knowledge would end up in their hands rather than the Soviet Unions.
Surprisingly enough many of the Germans recruited were former leaders or members of the Nazi
Party.
They even managed to steal rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (verner fon brown) and his
V-2 rocket team who eventually went on to mastermind NASAs Apollo moon missions.
Hence making the US the winner of the Space Race when it could have very well been the
Soviet Union.
Coming in at number 5 is Tupac Shakur (sha-coor).
I know there are many theories out there that claim Tupac is still alive hiding somewhere
maybe on an island in the Bahamas perhaps or in the countryside of Scandinavia who knows.
But some people think the CIA killed Tupac.
When the CIA first joined twitter in 2014 they took 10 minutes to answer the top 5 questions
they got and obviously where is Tupac was a very popular question.
Their official reply was No, we dont know where Tupac is.
#twitterversary but even their blatant denial didnt have people convinced.
Many people were replying saying would the CIA even tell us if they did know, that the
denial makes them even more sure they killed him etc. i mean true they probably wouldnt
tell us if they did know so i mean its all up in the air really.
At number 4 is the Kidnapping of the Lunik.
This document was declassified by the CIA and it basically tells the story of a CIA
led mission to borrow a lunar satellite from the Soviet Union.
The kidnapping oh sorry i mean borrowing happened in the early 60s at the peak of the space
race.
At this point the Soviet Union were actually winning and to rub salt in the US’ wound
they launched a multinational exhibition of their Lunik satellite which was the first
spacecraft ever to reach near the moon.
On that fateful night undercover CIA agents persuaded the driver who was transporting
the satellite from city to city to have a nap at a hotel nearby and leave the satellite
with them.
First off that guy was a dumbass for doing that but also everyone has a price they probably
bribed him.
While he napped they took the satellite apart, took pictures of its parts and then put it
back on the truck.
And to make matters worse, the Soviets had no idea this even happened until they declassified
the document.
Damn b you guys got played.
Big time.
Filling our number 3 slot is Operation Northwoods.
We already know that during the Cold War the US and Cuba had a very very tense strained
relationship.
Having done international relations at uni my whole degree was literally the cold war
so i feel like i could talk about this in my sleep.
Either way the US government and the CIA undertook many schemes to try and take down Fidel Castro
including Operation Mongoose which included just straight up killing him.
Operation Northwoods proposed the CIA commit acts of terrorism against american civilians
and military targets and then blame it on the Cuban government to justify waging war
against Cuba.
How screwed up is that even.
I wish i could use a stronger word but its gonna get bleeped out for sure.
They were talking hijackings, bombings, the full shabang even planting false evidence
to implicate the Cuban government.
In 1998 the NSA published declassified documents about the operation that never actually ended
up happening and the Kennedy administration said they recognised the problem with the
operation, great finally, and then rejected the proposal.
Now at number 2 is The Crack Era.
Back in the late 90s the San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold huge amounts of cocaine
to the gangs of LA, poured millions in drug profits to a guerilla army that was run by
the CIA itself.
This drug network was the bridge between Columbias cartels and LA which later became the crack
capital of the world.
Investigative journalist Gary Webb published an extremely controversial 3 part newspaper
series on the situation in 1996 essentially exposing the CIA.
it was even dubbed the most talked about piece of journalism in 1996.
So what followed?
Having talked to people that lived during that time, they were saying things like none
of us even owned planes how else dyu think crack got here?
And i mean theyre not wrong.
3 huge newspapers the LA Times, the NY Times and the Washington Post all teamed up with
the CIA to sent out intercept reports to discredit his series and they succeeded.
By the end of 2004 Webb committed suicide.
His story was actually made into a movie called Kill the Messenger.
It will never be confirmed whether the CIA really did fuel the crack epidemic in LA or
not but evidence does point that way.
And finally at number 1 is Frank Olson.
Frank was a biological warfare specialist and a CIA employee with their Technical Services
Staff.
Many of his coworkers were involved in Project MK Ultra He worked at Camp Detrick and during
a meeting at Deep Creek Lake in Maryland he was dosed with LSD by his CIA supervisor.
The next day Olson spoke to his boss and told him he was unhappy with his performance at
the retreat and wanted to leave Camp Detrick.
Obviously he had no idea he had been on LSD so no shit he wasnt happy with his performance.
After the LSD episode Frank started experiencing severe paranoia and nervous breakdowns.
The CIA sent him to a mental institution for recovery and he was seen by Harold Abramson
an allergist pediatrician who was helping the CIA with Project Ultra.
9 days later after the LSD episode he magically fell out of a 10th story window and died.
Initially the US government was adamant that it was a suicide then they said it was a misstep
and then people started speculating the CIA murdered him.
After performing a second autopsy cuts and abrasions were found all over his body, a
huge hematoma was found on his head and a large injury on his chest.
That implied he had suffered blunt force trauma to his head and chest before the fall.
The evidence pointed to murder.
Franks sons have been adamant on finding out the truth of their dads death ever since and
are convinced this was the CIAs first manual assassination.
And thats all guys!
Honestly i learnt a lot today, i didnt know about most things on this list but now i feel
woke yknow i feel informed i hope you guys do too.
Let me know what you thought of this list and as always im your host Ayman Hasan and
ill see you next time.
Or i wont yknow if i too accidentally fall out of 25th storey apartment window, look
for me.
Byee.