Conspiracy of the day
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Conspiracies that were true, pretty interesting read when you dig deeper
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Before 1996 if you would of said that the CIA had a hand in the crack epidemic in the US you would of been called crazy. After Gary Webb's investigation though it's become a pretty accepted conspiracy theory. His book Dark Alliance details the CIA's connections to South American Contra groups, the Reagan administration, and the DEA. Even further down the rabbit hole Gary Webb's life was ruined after the books release, and he "committed suicide" shooting himself in the face twice. Oh also if you don't want to read Dark Alliance, but still want to know more there's a film called "shoot the messenger" staring Hawkeye which focuses more on Webb's life.Project MKUltra
Even today people don't believe (or don't know) that the CIA attempted mind control experiments using US citizens as test subjects despite the Church Committee findings in 1977, and the FOIA public release of 20,000 MKUltra documents in 2001. Overall the full extent of the MKUltra experiments remains a mystery since a majority of the documents were destroyed in 1973.Tuskegee syphilis experiment
The U.S. Public Health Service under the guise of providing free healthcare left hundreds of syphilis infected men untreated even 20 years after penicillin was found to easily cure the disease. They even went as far as discouraging the participants from seeking treatment elsewhere.Operation Northwoods
In 1962 the DOD, and JCS proposed performing a series of false-flag operations to garner support to invade Cuba. Luckily President Kennedy shot down the idea. If you mentioned this before November 6th 1998 you probably would of been called crazy.The Iran-Contra Affair
Ok so this one didn't really have enough time to settle into "theory" territory before being accepted by the media. In 1985 and 1986 the Reagan administration gave authorization to provide weapons in exchange for the release of U.S. hostages. In 1987 this was under investigation by congress, and eventually Reagan took full responsibility.The BCCI Scandal
The BCCI was once the 7th largest bank in the world. It also turned out to be a huge scandal. Basically it had been setup to avoid as many bank regulations as possible which in turn lead to it being involved in everything from money laundering to terrorism.Rest here:
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