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crazy conspiracy theories that actually turned out to be true and ten of thousand's killed by u.s.a. government These theories became proven fact, from a government brainwashing program, an anti-John Lennon plot to a plan to remove homosexuals from service. 15 Conspiracies That Turned Out to Be True!Show more

In the “post-truth” era we live in, it seems people are likely to believe anything. Sometimes, these falsehoods have very real impacts on reality – and sometimes, they happen to be true, proving that the truth can be stranger than fiction. Here are 15 fake-sounding conspiracy theories that turned out to be true.

Watergate Scandal
One of the most well-known political scandals was Watergate. In the 1970s, five men broke into the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters with the intention to photograph campaign documents. They were caught, and the Nixon administration attempted to cover-up its involvement. This eventually lead to Nixon’s resignation and the indictment of 69 people who were involved in some form.

Operation Paperclip
After World War II, the United States created a secret Joint Intelligence Objective Agency in which they brought more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians – many of whom had direct ties to the Nazi Party – to work for the government. Known as Operation Paperclip, its primary focus was for the U.S. to gain an advantage in the Cold War.

Operation Snow White
The Church of Scientology didn’t want anything bad about them on record, and they went to criminal means to do it. Called Operation Snow White, it included an estimated 5,000 covert agents of Church members who infiltrated 136 government agencies to scrub unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard.

USS Iowa Turret Explosion
In 1989, an explosion occurred on the USS Iowa and killed 47 of the crewman who were manning a 16-inch gun turret. To explain what happened, two investigations occurred but came to conflicting conclusions. According to the U.S. Navy, one of the crew members, Clayton Hartwig, had deliberately caused the explosion because of a homosexual relationship with a fellow crew member that went awry. After further investigation, however, the cause was concluded to be because of an excess of powder bags into the breach of the turret. The Navy never admitted to wrongdoing.

Blackbox Scandal
The Blackbox Scandal accused eight members of the Chicago White Sox of deliberately losing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds, in exchange for money. After a public trial in 1921, the men were all permanently banned from professional baseball.

The “Fruit Machine”
The idea of “gaydar” – the ability to tell whether or not someone is gay – might seem silly nowadays, but back in 1961, it was real. At the height of the Cold War, the Canadian government hired Frank Robert Way to create a scientific test that’d determine if someone was gay. The reason for this was to identify communist sympathizers and get them out of the government.

Project MKultra
Project MKultra, aka the CIA’s mind control program, lasted about 20 years and was a sanctioned way for the agency to perform experiments on human subjects. Most famously, they gave people LSD to “unwitting subjects in social situations.” To administer these tests, no medical personnel was available – often, this resulted in subjects being sick for days.

Gulf of Tonkin Incident
The fictitious Gulf of Tonkin helped draw the United States deeper into the Vietnam War. Originally, it was claimed by the National Security Agency that the North Vietnamese Navy fired torpedo boats towards the USS Maddox on August 4, 1964. But, what was later discovered were “Tokin ghosts” (aka false radar images) and no evidence of the boats. But that didn’t matter; because the Gulf of Tonkin never happened, but was used as an excuse for the U.S. expanding warfare against North Vietnam.

Bohemian Grove
Every July, some of the “richest and most powerful men in the world” head to Bohemian Grove, a 2,700 acre campground in California to engage in a series of hush-hush ceremonies that also include costumes, theatre, and music. It may or may not include former U.S. presidents, oil tycoons, and other business leaders freely urinating on Redwood trees.

CIA Giving Money to Tibetan Exiles
Determined to undermine Communist governments, the CIA gave $1.7 million a year to Tibetan exiles in their efforts against China. This also included payments to the Dalai Lama, which amounted to $180,000 annually.

“The purpose of the program,” explained in a memo written by U.S. intelligence officials, “is to keep the political concept of an autonomous Tibet alive within Tibet and among foreign nations, principally India, and to build a capability for resistance against possible political developments inside Communist China.”

Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination
John Wilkes-Booth is talked about in history books as being the man who killed President Abraham Lincoln. But it turns out that he didn’t act alone. Nine other people were found to assist Wilkes-Booth in some way – including a woman named Mary Surratt, who was the first woman to be executed by the United States.

Human Tissue Collected for Atomic Bomb Tests
“Project Sunshine” doesn’t sound so sunny when you find out what it’s about. In the 1950s, the U.S. government secretly collected human tissue – primarily from cadavers, without permission from next of kin. The purpose was to monitor the effects of radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons tests. More than 1,500 samples (many of them babies) were gathered around the world.

Dr. Willard Libby, a researcher and commission member, is quoted as saying, “I don’t know how to get them [human samples], but I do say that it is a matter of prime importance to get them and particularly in the young age group. So, human samples are of prime importance, and if anybody knows how to do a good job of body snatching, they will really be serving their country.”

Bayer Medicine Causes AIDS
In the mid-1980s, pharmaceutical company Bayer discovered that their blood-clotting medicine for hemophiliacs carried a high risk of transmitting AIDS. They fixed the problem in 1984, but didn’t pull the dangerous product from the market. Instead, they sold it to Asia and Latin America, while Europe and the United State got the newer version.

The Testimony That Helped Launch the Gulf War
On October 10, 1990, a 15-year-old girl known only as Nayirah gave a tearful testimony that recounted a terrifying event; she said she witnessed Iraqi soldiers take babies out of incubators in a Kuwaiti hospital, take the incubators, and then leave the children to die. This harrowing description helped the U.S. rationalize their decision to back Kuwait in the Gulf War. But Nayirah’s testimony was proven false. She was actually the daughter of Saud Al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States.

Tuskegee Syphilis Study
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study is one of the most infamous clinical studies in American history. Conducted between 1932 and 1972, it observed the natural progression of syphilis in black men in rural Alabama. Unfortunately, this was not known to those involved in the study – they thought they were receiving free health care from the government.

The horror of 'Project Sunshine'
Laughing at conspiracy theories is good fun – at least until they turn out to be true.

Take the conspiracy surrounding the “Project Sunshine,” for example.

In the wake of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the U.S. government commenced a major study to measure the effects of nuclear fallout on the human body.

Conspiracy: The government was stealing dead bodies to do radioactive testing.

The truth: The government was stealing parts of dead bodies. Because they needed young tissue, they recruited a worldwide network of agents to find recently deceased babies and children, and then take samples and even limbs – each collected without notification or permission of the more than 1,500 grieving families.

The world only woke up to the the horrific scientic history of Project Sunshine half a century later.

Bad booze 1920 Poisoned Alcohol
Conspiracy: During Prohibition, the government poisoned alcohol to keep people from drinking.

The truth: Manufacturers of industrial alcohol had been mixing their product with dangerous chemicals for years prior to Prohibition.

But between 1926 and 1933, the federal government pushed manufacturers to use stronger poisons to discourage bootleggers from turning the alcohol into moonshine.

That didn’t stop the bootleggers or their customers, and by the end of Prohibition, more than 10,000 Americans had been killed by tainted booze.

Much of the illegal booze was sold in infamous night spots called ‘speakeasies’ – so called from the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not to alert the police and neighbor's.

The first lady who ran the United States
Conspiracy: A stroke rendered United States President Woodrow Wilson incapable of governing, and his wife surreptitiously stepped in.

The truth: Wilson did suffer a debilitating stroke towards the end of his presidency – but the government felt it was in the country’s best interest to keep things quiet.

The public didn’t learn about the stroke for months, during which time his wife, Edith Wilson, was making most executive decisions.

Despite Mrs. Wilson claiming that she acted only as a “steward,” historians who have analyzed the Wilson term in office confirm that for well over a year, Mrs. Wilson was effectively president.

And although a woman president is yet to be formally elected to the White House, here are ten quotes from the strongest women of the real world and silver screen for inspiration in the meantime.

Government mind control
Conspiracy: The CIA was testing LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs on Americans in a top-secret experiment on behavior modification.

The truth: The program was known as MK-ULTRA, and it was real.

The CIA started by using volunteers – the novelist Ken Kesey was one notable subject.

But the program heads soon began dosing people without their knowledge; MK-ULTRA left many victims permanently mentally disabled.

At the present time, another drug that alters food and perception and is causing great public concern because of its harmful effects is meth.

The Dalai Lama's impressive salary
Conspiracy: The Dalai Lama is a CIA agent.

The truth: Perhaps the reason the Dalai Lama is smiling in all those photos has something to do with the six-figure salary he pulled down from the U.S. government during the 1960s.

According to declassified intelligence documents, he earned $180,000 in connection with the CIA’s funding of the Tibetan Resistance to the tune of $1.7 million per year.

The idea was to disrupt and hamper China’s infrastructure.

The Dalai Lama is believed to have the power to choose the body into which he is reincarnated, meaning that the current Dalai Lama is a reincarnation of the last. Today millions of people – across all religions – believe in reincarnation.

John Lennon was under government surveillance
Conspiracy: The FBI was spying on former Beatle John Lennon.

The truth: They most certainly were. Like many counter-culture heroes, Lennon was considered a threat: “Anti-war songs, like “Give Peace a Chance” didn’t exactly endear former Beatle John Lennon to the Nixon administration,” NPR reported in 2010.

“In 1971, the FBI put Lennon under surveillance, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service tried to deport him a year later.”

In 1957, John Lennon and Paul McCartney met at a party in Woolton. Just yards away from their meeting place was the grave of Eleanor Rigby. A bizarre coincidence, or not?

The government is spying on you
Conspiracy: With the advances in technology, the government is using its vast resources to track citizens.

The truth: In 2016, government agencies sent 49,868 requests for user data to Facebook, 27,850 to Google, and 9,076 to Apple, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (the EFF), a major nonprofit organisation that defends civil liberties in the digital world and advises the public on matters of internet privacy.

If you are concerned about your internet privacy, we asked technology experts to give us the lowdown on the likelihood you are being watched through your computer camera.

Fake battle, real war
Conspiracy: The Gulf of Tonkin incident on August 2, 1964, was faked to provoke American support for the Vietnam War.

The truth: By the time news reached American ears, the facts surrounding the North Vietnamese attack on the American Naval ship Maddox were already fuzzy.

Declassified intelligence documents have since revealed that the Maddox had provided support for South Vietnamese attacks on a nearby island and that the North Vietnamese were responding in kind, according to the U.S. Naval Institute.

The event “opened the floodgates for direct American military involvement in Vietnam.”

Paraquat Pot: The True Story Of How The US Government Tried To Kill Weed Smokers With A Toxic Chemical In The 1980s

When people talk about “killer weed,” that’s typically understood to mean really good weed. But due to US government policies that started in the 1970s and extended through most of the 1980s, marijuana fields were being sprayed with a chemical that can actually kill you.
The chemical, known as “paraquat,” is an herbicide sprayed over marijuana fields in Mexico in the 1970s—with the aid of US money and US-provided helicopters—and over marijuana fields in Georgia in the 1980s under the direction of the Reagan Administration.

But normally, anything poisonous enough to kill plants is also toxic enough to kill humans, and that is the case with paraquat.

Big Tobacco knew that cigarettes caused cancer
Conspiracy: For decades, tobacco companies buried evidence that smoking is deadly.

The truth: At the beginning of the 1950s, research was showing an indisputable statistical link between smoking and lung cancer, but it wasn’t until the late 1990s that Philip Morris even admitted that smoking could cause cancer.

The benefits of quitting smoking are huge: food tastes better, your mouth feels fresher and, most importantly, your risk of tobacco-related disease drops significantly.

There is alien evidence in the American Southwest
Conspiracy: E.T. is buried in the desert of New Mexico.

The truth: This one is real: The Atari video game E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial failed so miserably that the company buried unsold cartridges in a desert landfill. (Wait, what did you think we meant? Real aliens? In New Mexico? Not yet, anyway.)

Canada tried to develop 'gaydar'
Conspiracy: The Canada government was so paranoid about homosexuality that it developed a “gaydar” machine.

The truth: It really happened: In the 1960s, the government hired a university professor to develop a way to detect homosexuality in federal employees.

He came up with a machine that measured pupil dilation in response to same-sex-erotic imagery; the Canadian government used it to exclude or fire more than 400 men from civil service, the military, and the Mounties.
Fortunately, things have changed a lot since those days.

The Illuminati and the U.S. government
Conspiracy: A secret society that rules the world – the Illuminati – and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) are in cahoots.
The truth: We’re here to tell you that a link does, in fact, exist.
Of course, that “link” is actually a hyperlink (i.e., an electronic link between two Internet sites). If you type Illuminati backward – Itanimulli – into a web browser, you will land on the NSA website. Click this link if you dare: Itanimulli.com

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