Top 50 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out to Be TRUE

people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook well I'm not a crook welcome to watch Mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 50 conspiracy theories from the Realms of History politics science and more that turned out to be at least somewhat real during those hearings the CIA finally admitted that this program existed they admitted that it was probably not the right thing to do number 50 Colombia's fsos positivos we past this poster present the 6,42 false positives the wrongly named false positives Eastern Columbia and Western Venezuela are dangerous regions mostly controlled by gangs and gorillas residents live in constant Terror of assassination or torture the Colombian military has been Waging War against farc gorillas in the region for years recently they'd racked up major victories having broken farks back in the region those victories have been tainted by Decades of rumors about government atrocities dating all the way back to the late 1980s in 2015 those rumors were proven to be true the Colombian military kidnapped and killed thousands of innocent men and boys the military would kidnap civilians dress their bodies as farc gorillas and claim victories in the War on Drugs the families who lost loved ones are pointing the finger of blame at the president at the time albaro urbe number 49 the Lavon Affair Israeli false Flags many conspiracists falsely see Israel as a Hidden Hand in world affairs every once in a while though the conspiracies are true in 1954 Israel launched operation Susanna a false flag operation to blow up relations between Egypt and the US and Britain Israeli intelligence recruited Egyptian Jews to plant bombs inside civilian targets like movie theaters libraries and American educational centers they were meant to explode after closing to avoid casualties the plan was to blame local militant groups groups like Communists or the Muslim Brotherhood if successful the British would be forced to maintain occupation of the Suz Canal the plot since known as the Lavon Affair failed before it began and several conspirators were arrested number 48 The Philadelphia Experiment the 1984 film The Philadelphia Experiment is based on an urban legend supposedly in October 1943 Merchant Marine Carl M Allen saw the USS eldrid turn invisible and disappear from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard the elders is beginning to fade sir she's gone it allegedly teleported to Virginia and back with harrowing effects on the crew most of the story has been debunked but researcher jacqu valet claims that it may hide some truth all of this time he was telling the truth all of this time and nobody would believe him not even me he argues that the Eld was confused with the angstrom which was docked nearby the angstrom reportedly underwent a procedure to decrease its magnetic field making it quote unquote invisible to Torpedoes it may have also traveled to Virginia and back in a single day via the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal imaginative retellings then warped the facts into the improbable Philadelphia Experiment the experiment took place on a ship in a Philadelphia Harbor 1943 October does this sound crazy you know or is this sort of thing possible now number 47 money laundering and terrorism Finance at BCCI this is a bank which ran completely out of control and a bank which was completely unregulated Bank of credit and commerce International BCCI was an International Bank created by Pakistani financiers in the early 1970s its purported goal was to be an alternative to West Western banks for so-called third world countries they had an anti-colonial mission to break Western barriers to finance for third world Nations prominent Americans including President Carter were used to uh induce foreign governments to put their their governmental deposits in BCCI in truth BCCI was a Ponzi scheme for its Executives worse BCCI engaged in widespread money laundering the bank was the premier laundering Institution for dictators the world over BCCI had a secret Client List that was a who's who of global villains the leaders of Iraq Panama and the Philippines all washed their money at BCCI as did Latin American drug lords BCCI drew the criminal road map used by International financiers to this day by the time BCCI closed down they had stolen almost $1 billion this indictment spells out the largest bank fraud in World Financial history number 46 abuse in Hollywood wood there have been rumors and accusations of sexual abuse in Hollywood for decades often they involved powerful men with the power to break or make careers the me tooo movement it is growing this morning while some such as Roman palansky were exposed the misconduct of others basically remained an Open Secret in the 2010s dozens of victims came forward with accusations against several prominent public figures in particular Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein the accusations against Weinstein launched the hash me too movement which revealed horrible abuses inside Hollywood and Beyond it confirmed the worst suspicions that many people had about how the entertainment industry often functioned and once five women 10 women 20 women tell their stories about what's happened to them it makes other women feel more couraged to be able to say this happened to me too number 45 gas companies knew about climate change from sugary sodas to cancerous cigarettes corporations have long seek to suppress harmful truths about their products but rather than impacting personal health this one had Global implications beginning in the 1970s oil and gas giant Exon Mobile put its money behind climate change research funding groups that dismissed human-caused global warming while knowing it existed and they've discovered that their climate scientist their in-house climate scientists at Exxon were actually very good at predicting how the climate was likely to change in the future they even had a hand in the Global Climate Coalition which fought the Kyoto Protocol a treaty that pledged to lower greenhouse gas emissions Exxon Mobile's climate denial continued through the 80s 9s and 2000s first admitting that global warming posed an environmental threat in 2007 to this day climate change is treatment as a debate instead of a consensus can be traced back to the lobbying of fossil fuel companies It cast doubt on whether climate change was real it discounted human impacts and they suggested there was nothing practical to do about it anyway number 44 breakfast is not the most important meal of the day it's magically delicious but how about nutritious marshmallowy Lucky Charms a tasty part of this good breakfast that's me Lucky Charms delicious while there are plenty of legitimate health benefits to starting the day with a balanced breakfast that hasn't always been the reason it was pushed so hard the idea of breakfast being good for health especially weight loss has persisted for over a century after meat heavy breakfasts went on the decline due to their d gestive difficulty during the Industrial Revolution James Caleb Jackson and John Harvey Kellogg changed the game with flaked corn cereal as seventh day Adventists they believed that a bland diet could Aid in abstinence and ward off impure thoughts no sex no meat no alcohol no sugar no uh anything uh prant or sensual furthermore emphasizing cereal potentially helped the US government in their meat rationing efforts during World War II so don't worry too badly the next time you miss out on a breakfast of champions it just might be a clever marketing tactic number 43 the CIA drugged citizens without their knowledge John's in the Sky with Diamonds as part of a larger program on mind control in the 1950s and 60s the CIA set their sites on an unlikely population to test the effects of LSD clients of sex workers the CIA wanted to understand more about brainwashing it had money and it was ready to fund experiments by paying ladies of the night to lure in unsuspecting men the agency was able to study how the substance could affect people who didn't know they'd taken it more specifically whether they were likely to give up compromising information hey sugar you looking for a day as the sex workers drugged their patrons CIA consultant George White would analyze their behavior from behind a one-way mirror what is the extent of these brainwashing experiments how did the CIA become involved in such far-reaching and disturbing research of all the Shady CIA experiments this one quite possibly has the wildest code name and that's saying a lot operation midnight climax number 42 the Oak Ridge experiments one of the most difficult aspects for a psychiatric patient is getting anyone to believe you when you speak about the atrocities happening in a hospital this is a place that destroyed a lot of lives including mine Oak Ridge in penetang was Ontario Canada was a maximum security psychiatric Facility by the 60s the authorities drastically changed the way they treated patients instead they initiated various experiments led by Dr Elliot Barker such treatments included giving patients LSD putting them in an artificial womb and placing them in a small room but more concerning some patients were given authority to treat other patients we think the patients have really very great advantages as therapists for each other by 1983 the government forced Oakridge to close and it was later demolished in 2023 27 former patients were awarded $9 million in Damages for the horror they experienced the point of the whole program was to break us down mentally because they believed if they could strip away all our bad defenses that got us into trouble break us down mentally they could rebuild us as better human beings number 41 the doy llamas links to the CIA in the early 1950s Chinese forces and annexed Tibet after a failed Tibetan Revolt in 1959 the Dal Lama escaped and set up a government in Exile Chinese officials have tried to cast him as a western Pawn Tibetan Rebels were fighting for their Homeland however the CIA did fund their efforts throughout the 1960s these pictures show the Dalai Lama and his Entourage escorted by resistance Fighters making their way South into Guerilla hel territory at the time the CIA was doing their best to disrupt World Communist governments governmental documents show the spy agency was handing Tibetan forces $1.7 million a year we are united in detesting communist slavery we know that the cost of freedom is high but we are determined to preserve our freedom no matter what the cost with inflation that's $17.4 million in 2023 from this figure that Dal Lama was personally getting an annual fee of $180,000 from the CIA that's the equivalent of $1.8 million in 2023 reportedly he contributed most of it to his government in Exile number 40 the FBI watched Ernest Hemingway near the latter half of his life legendary author Ernest Hemingway was treated several times in hospitals for his mental health he believed the FBI was watching him cataloging his every move most people wrote it off as paranoid delusions many friends believe that this belief of constant surveillance led to Hemingway's untimely passing in 1961 and so the idea of Ernest Heming way having done anything with the Soviets especially having been recruited by the Soviets was really difficult for me to absorb however in the 1980s the Freedom of Information Act showed the feds had done just that they reportedly had a file on him detailing the writer trips to places such as Cuba where he had created an amateur spy Network against fascism during World War II it also showed that FBI director Jay Edgar Hoover was distrustful of Hemingway and the information he passed on in U number 39 beaming messages if we told you that the US government had looked at beaming messages directly into our brains you'd probably be concerned about us however this is a real thing weirdly uncovered due to the Freedom of Information Act the report known as the bio effects of selected non-lethal weapons became public knowledge within the details of various Technologies the government had been working on were disclosed including the concept of microwave hearing the information details a frequ quency that could be produced akin to a microwave firearm that could direct discret messages at a person such as a hostage frighteningly the report hypothesized the tech could be used to make someone think they have voices in their head join the Navy they're recruiting people with subliminal messages number 38 soldiers passed off civilians as Rebels as part of the Colombia conflict where governmental forces fought against Guerilla groups for power the government rewarded the soldiers whenever they showcased that they had slain a rebel they were given time off promotions or financial boosts for doing so however folks became suspicious of the high casualties and the questionable identities of certain Guerilla members family members especially known as the false positive scandal in Colombia it's believed that between 2002 and 2008 over 6,400 non- Guerilla participants were killed and dressed to look like Rebels pretending they were Rebels tarnishing their name leaving children without fathers mothers without children in reality the victims were often poor Farmers abducted by soldiers to boost their dark quotas several soldiers and officers have been sentenced for their crimes but there are calls to do far more number 37 the US military planned to kill civilians and blame Cuba in the 1960s some figures really wanted the United States to go to war with Cuba so much so that in 1962 among less lethal ideas they planned to use the C to attack military sites boats airplanes and cities and make it look as though Cuba was responsible known as operation Northwoods this false flag project theorized the possibility of slaying citizens and its own soldiers just to escalate the situation all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff gave the go-ahead for this possible destruction and handed it to the office of President John F Kennedy however thankfully it was rejected number 36 the CIA tried to control major media Outlets as the Cold War Began so did the cia's plan to manipulate the masses known as operation mocking BRD the group allegedly bribed or blackmailed newspaper journalists to create specific content or shut down stories on top of doing this in the states the CIA did the same abroad they infiltrated foreign media to gain information that they found vital in 1975 files within the church committee showed that the CIA had been involved in this conspiracy in 1977 investigative reporter Carl Bernstein claimed that the operation had resulted in over 400 journalists and media figures working for the agency at one point are there many actors in Hollywood who also Moonlight as agents do you think I think they're probably quite a few yes I think probably Hollywood is full of CIA agents and we just don't know it number 35 the phones are listening when you talk about something and then see an ad for it online it might just be because algorithms already have so much data on you they can predict your interests and behaviors and we talking about the design of the trainers and the name of the brand the trainers and I went to my Fe on my Instagram and within 5 10 minutes it was one of the adverts that popped up on there however there is at least one way in which your phone might be listening some applications use device microphones to listen to ultrasonic audio beacons inaudible to the human ear embedded in the ads they can also connect with the microphones of other devices this can give them data such as your location and how long you watched a certain ad for it's a good idea to review app permissions to minimize this number 34 the CIA was involved in cocaine trafficking victory over drugs is our cause a just cause and with your help we are going to win for decades there were rumors that the CIA was responsible for turning us areas and places abroad Rife with illegal substances in 1996 the Press accused the agency of involvement with cocaine in Nicaragua during the Civil War according to a report by former Inspector General of the CIA Frederick hitz the agency had known that the contras who the CIA backed were involved in drug smuggling to fund their campaign and some of the money they were making was going to support an army that the men who ran the cocaine ring worked for called the fdn this was an Army that the CIA started in 1981 and supported better known to us most of us who remember news the contras the group had reportedly brought in cocaine from Miami to use in the Central American region however the agency did nothing to stop it as a public elected officials all of us must be concerned that our government could have any way been involved in drug trafficking when The Drug Enforcement Administration heard about the Contra smuggling drugs the CIA worked to put them off the scent number 33 UFO investigations the US government may not be investigating UFOs at Area 51 but that doesn't mean that official research isn't happening somewhere while most of the cases were explained as either satellites weather balloons highflying Jets or even meteors still hundreds of cases remain unidentified Project Blue Book which ran from 1952 to 1969 was public knowledge the report includes more than 12,000 sightings made by military members and civilians but in 2017 it was revealed that from 2007 to 2012 the US government also funded an unpublicized investigation called the advanced Aerospace threat identification program to the tune of $22 million in 2020 we learned of another UFO program the unidentified aerial phenomenon task force its findings included photos and videos of UFOs that experts have struggled to explain this was recorded while the US Navy ship uh observed a number of small unmanned aerial systems uh in the area and importantly the video was taken through night vision goggles with a single lens reflex camera these remained unresolved for several years number 32 the US Navy sprayed chemicals into the bay area San Francisco is known for its fog but it's also been host to Sinister substances one day in 1950 11 Bay Area residents checked into the same hospital with urinary tract infections while 10 recovered one died due to a heart valve infection finally in 1977 the US Army revealed it was the result of a biological warfare test called operation seaspray weeks before the mysterious infections were reported the Navy released two types of bacteria off a ship to test their impact on the City's population Additionally the Army announced several other bioweapon experiments across the country from the 1950s and 60s that had gone undetected while President Nixon put a stop to the program in 1969 this Revelation isn't any less terrifying number 31 Canada tried to create actual gayar in the mid 20th century gay men and women had to keep their orientation secret or risk losing their social standing jobs or even their lives I mean there's a whole bunch of possible ways in which someone could have a character weakness right or some sort of addiction but the one that the Canadian State focuses on is homosexuality it was the key Focus not just a focus in an attempt to faret out gay men in the military or other government institutions from the 1950s on the Canadian government hired Professor Frank Robert wake wake invented what they would ultimately call the fruit machine this is the attempt by the government to determine and find a technology or a set of tests that would scientifically and objectively be able to determine who was gay or lesbian today we'd call it gar wake would strap men into a chair force them to look at sexual images and measure their physical reactions the Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigated thousands of government employees as a result the the facto policy was that if you were homosexual you were out it was just it that that's what it came down to you were out there was no discretion and the mounties got really carried away with this many men lost their jobs due to the dubious test results until it was discontinued number 30 the CIA experimented on cats Atomic Kitten isn't just a girl [Music] group going to be one during the height of the spy film craze in the 1960s the CIA devised an interesting use for our feline friends turning them into bionic carrier pigeons in an initiative called operation acoustic Kitty they inserted recording devices into cats so that they could EES drop on government officials and bring back secret Intel but in an extremely predictable turn of events they had little interest in the pursuit of Espionage and continued acting like normal cats causing the tactic to be abandoned on a Catwoman scale of Earth a kit to Zoe Kravitz it's safe to say that this experiment was a Halle Berry level misfire you always thought you could come in here and steal all these beautiful things what a perect idea number 29 weather control programs the history of the US government's attempts to control the weather began after the Civil War in the late 1800s an American engineer collected dozens of stories of rain following large battles to recreate the effect a general set off $9,000 worth of explosives in Texas the results were inconclusive where people believe that all of the natural disasters that have been occurring recently are linked to a secret climate controlling weapon used by the US Army the better part of a century later the Pentagon Incorporated weather control into their strategy for the Vietnam War operation sober popey lasted for 5 years using planes the military tried to seed rainclouds over Vietnam the silver iodide particles mimic ice crystals and provide the scaffolding of sorts for ice to form that ice then grows very efficiently by consuming the super cool liquid drops usually after about 20 minutes they grow large enough and fall out of the cloud as precipitation if they could extend the monsoon season it could provide a strategic Advantage a series of news stories revealed the program 6 years later in 1978 weather-based environmental Warfare was banned around the world so maybe the lesson learned here is we shouldn't medal with forces that we don't really understand because we may not like the result number 28 planned obsolescence out with the old in with the new it's long been speculated that tech companies like Apple and Samsung have purposely slowed down their existing gadgets after releasing new updates and models most people think you know my phone is slow I need to go buy a new phone but the problem doesn't lie necessarily with the phone it's just with the battery in the phone and while the evidence was purely anecdotal at first the arrival of iOS 10 in 2016 opened up the floodgates or should we say battery gate months later Apple admitted that the iPhone 6 and 6s struggled to adjust to the new update causing slow phones and drained batteries I think it's on them to do a much better job of helping people understand what goes on with these very expensive products as they get older in the years since the company has continued to face class action lawsuits and investigations related to the incident the term planned obsolescence goes back to the 1930s but confirmation of it in the digital age showed people they weren't going crazy after all at this demonstration in Paris apple is portrayed as the evil empire accused of tax evasion and cheating customers France has moved to make planned obsolescence a crime and has placed Apple under formal investigation number 27 the CIA administered fake vaccines vaccines have long been a favorite subject for cons conspiracy theorists and this might be the closest they've come to Vindication in 2011 the CIA conducted a hepatitis B vaccination program in Pakistan the catch the vaccines were fake and people's DNA was being collected as an effort to retrieve Osama Bin Laden's whereabouts the CIA set up a fake vaccination program in the town where it thought Bin Laden was hiding the idea was to secure a DNA sample from Bin Laden or a family member the scheme was unsuccessful in more ways than one besides doing little to track down the al-Qaeda leader it's still cited as a reason to distrust the US government when it comes to other more recent vaccines while Bin Laden was eventually located by other means that same year the mission has done plenty to dissuade people from getting the jab a growing number of people say they won't take a vaccine I don't want to inject anything like this into my body this is linked to declining trust in scientific experts and political leaders number 26 the US government poisoned alcohol during Pro prohibition ratified in 1919 the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution prohibited alcohol what do you think about Prohibition Mr NE you a drink Mr NES come on Mr NES answer the question it's not just a showpiece and I'll tell you exactly how I feel about Prohibition it is the law of the land the period of prohibition would last until 1933 ending with the ratification of the 21st amendment despite the law illegal smuggling manufacturing and distribution of drinking alcohol was rampant to satisfy a thirsty Nation gangsters like Al Capone operate illicit distilleries and smuggle in liquor from other countries in an attempt to curtail drinking the US Government tried something radical even before 1920 they'd mandated that extra contaminants be added to Industrial alcohol to prevent its consumption what the government then looked at was can we do something to this alcohol that makes it much riskier to drink and use that essentially as a chemical enforcement of Prohibition in 1926 they added new regulations requiring the inclusion of more toxic poisons manufacturers added Benzene Mercury and methanol unsurprisingly this stopped neither the Bootleggers nor the drinkers an estimated 10,000 people died and many others were blinded number 25 the sugar industry paid off scientists it's hard to imagine now with everything we know about diabetes and dental hygiene but sugar was once viewed by many as a healthy food the reason sugar producers and sweet companies pushed fat as the enemy instead the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that scientists were paid in the 1960s to play Down the link between sugar and heart disease and instead make saturated fat the culprit in 2016 a researcher at the University of California San Francisco found that the sugar Research Foundation funded a 1967 Harvard stud study downplaying Sugar's impact on heart health instead pointing to saturated fat as a cause of heart disease meanwhile Coca-Cola has been paying researchers Millions to minimize the relationship between sugary sodas and obesity as recently as 2015 Coke has poured Millions into funding research that says exercise not diet is the best way to fight obesity and that's just one example unlike the taste of their products these companies ethics were anything but sweet number 24 the CIA created a heart attack gun guns and arrests go hand inand but cardiac arrests not so much so-called heart attack guns seemed like the stuff of James Bond movies until a 1975 CIA testimony revealed their existence during the hearing CIA director William Colby and Idaho senator Frank Church unveiled a handgun that shot Frozen darts containing shellfish toxin does this pistol fire the dart yes yes it does Mr chairman the uh that the round thing at the top is obviously the site the rest of it is what is practically a a normal 45 although it's it's special upon entering the body the poison would leave behind a red dot and give off the impression of a heart attack allowing the shooter to get away untraced at least until the autopsy and a special one was developed which potentially would be able to uh enter the target without perception however while there's evidence of the gun's existence there aren't any confirmed cases of it being used in high-profile assassinations number 23 Bayer spread HIV many conspiracies tend to focus on government cabals often times though some of the worst Secrets come from the private sector they wanted to keep it secret they didn't want to publicize something which will be damaging for the company German pharmaceutical company Bayer has been selling aspirin since 1899 since that time they've expanded to all kinds of drugs and medications in the 1980s the bay owned company cutter biological was selling blood clotting factors for hemophiliacs but recruiting highrisk donors to manufacture it the medicine's called Factor rate it was an inject an injection medicine that was used for hemophiliacs mostly children children had been born with an in hold onik that clotting Factor became contaminated with HIV when the problem was discovered cutter declared the response irrational but switched over to Safe heat treat products for the Western market then they shipped the contaminated products to Latin America and Asia to make a buck this company knew absolutely that they had a problem with the product they knew that that it was infected with AIDS they dumped it because they wanted to turn This Disaster into a profit roughly 20,000 patients were infected by Bay's products number 22 the Iran Contra affair in 1985 US President Ronald Reagan had a dilemma Iran had approached the states to buy weapons from them however the country was backing Hezbollah which had American hostages in Lebanon plus the US had an arms embargo on Iran due to the hostage crisis that began in 1979 but the lore of using the proceeds of the weapon sale to fund the rebel group contras against the Socialist L government of Nicaragua and get the hostages released was too much for the Reagan Administration to ignore Reagan initially denied the allegations when they leaked only to reverse that soon after Oliver North who helped move the money to the contra came forward to confirm the rumors number 21 Nazi officers tried to kill Hitler several efforts were made to assassinate Adolf Hitler during the height of World War II perhaps the most famous one is sometimes known as operation Valkyrie otherwise referred to as the 20th of July plot the furer Adolf Hitler is dead a group of radicals in the SS are attempting to seize control of the government initiate operation Valkyrie members of the German resistance planned to set off a bomb during Hitler's visit to the Wolf's layer headquarters German army officer klus Von staenberg managed to place the hidden explosive but the result failed to kill the Nazi leader the other part of the plot involved seizing control of the military in the dictator's absence despite painstaking attempts to account for every move the operation was discovered and the co-conspirators were largely executed the rest of you are under arrest no General you are the film Valkyrie brought a renewed interest to the complicated story of the failed plot Number 20 the US Air Force was developing a gay bomb how do you slow down an impending Army instead of dropping lethal explosives the US military once considered an unexpected [Applause] alternative researchers considered the possibility of dropping a non-lethal bomb full of pheromone mixture on troops although this idea never reached the battlefield the theory was that soldiers would be too distracted by each other to keep fighting that you will not only be disinclined to fight but you will be compelled to be having sex with the people around you it's especially clear that authorities were really reaching with this particular idea do they really think that like faced with like guns and like being killed they're really going to choose sex this isn't to be confused with the theoretical and equally confusing concept of gar which the Canadian Authority hoped would reveal people's sexual preferences all the same it's crazy to think that any amount of time was spent working on a gay bomb when the Pentagon says that they rejected this proposal it's simply not true and and we have the facts to demonstrate that they've continue to think about it and to consider it number 19 operation menu the Vietnam War affected neighboring nations in Southeast Asia such as Cambodia Northern Vietnamese troops used the eastern part of Cambodia for resupplying an encampment during the conflict this prompted a bombing campaign from the US which targeted Cambodian sites operating along the Vietnamese border from 1969 to 1970 this bombardment leveled much of the area this action was hugely controversial given the force and destruction Unleashed on the cambodians along with the fact that the secret operation was conducted on a non-combatant country it later inspired Operation Freedom deal which was an even harsher camp campaign that cut deeper into the heart of Cambodia details of this scheme were largely revealed in a declassification from the year 2000 they can't impeach me for bombing Cambodia the president can bomb anybody he likes that's true number 18 the US worked with former Nazi scientists even though the Allies won the war and put many Nazi war criminals on trial that didn't stop the US from hiring German scientists these experts were later integral in the development of the US space program and other military improvements during the Cold War many of them had close ties and allegiance to the Nazis making this entire operation all the more controversial there was on the one hand the truth about the program kept secret and on the other hand the idea that we'll tell the the public that these are the good Germans the Soviet Union also conducted a similar operation in attempts to bolster their post-war staying power one of the recruits for the American side verer Von Bron is considered among the more important figures in modern rocketry and early space travel sometimes celebrating their achievements the authorities also largely disregarded many of the subjects connections to atrocities number 17 the business plot coup well somebody's trying to do something dark and treacherous known as the business plot this little-known conspiracy wanted to bring down the presidency of Franklin D Roosevelt although this was a nefarious coulot the case didn't come to light until the testimony of retired General Smedley Butler Butler asserted that he was asked to usurp the 32nd president of the United States partly due to his support of veterans groups the plan has outlined to me was to form an organization of veterans to use as a bluff or as a club at least to intimidate the government and break down our Democratic institution even with the General's Revelations some people question the veracity of certain details and the extent of the planning that took place George HW Bush's father Prescott Bush has been linked to the plot but it's still unconfirmed confed as to his ultimate involvement David O Russell's film Amsterdam is just one project that fictionalizes the events surrounding the scheme they're paying you to be their mouthpiece that's right exactly and they know the veterans will follow number 16 faked Gulf War testimony what I saw happen to the children of Kuwait and to my country has changed my life forever the Gulf War was a brief but notable conflict preempted by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait the US intervened soon after using a number of of stories to support the decision including the testimony of a teenager withdraw from Kuwait or face a coalition ready and willing to employ all means necessary she was known as naira and her account of babies being removed from incubators in Kuwait shocked and helped sell the war to American citizens took the incubators and left the children to die on the cold floor that was horrifying it became a much qued story for President George H W bush and other proponents of military action later revealed to be falsified naira was actually the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States she not only didn't see any crimes firsthand but many details were generated by a PR firm the case has become infamous as a deeply flawed attempt to sell the war I'm glad I am 15 old enough to remember Kuwait before Saddam hin destroyed it and young enough to rebuild it number 15 Tuskegee St study they were never told that they had the disease one of the most horrifying chapters in American medical history came out the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama a research study offered black men free health care in exchange for a secretive and unethical observation withholding syphilis diagnosis from participating members researchers from health organizations such as the US Public Health Service attempted to study the effects of untreated syphilis without treating the patients knowing that you were denied treatment and that you were lied to would affect anybody this also came at a time when penicillin was becoming a widely confirmed treatment for the sufferers of the disease and for the sake of science they sacrificed some human beings and it raised the question did they really believe these men were human beings Not only was it a complete travesty perpetrated by the medical community but it created a genuine distrust of the Health Care System among many people in the African-American Community what the United States government did was shameful and I am sorry number 14 Operation Condor at this point it's well known that the CIA had a large scale and destructive influence on South American politics Operation Condor was one such plan that completely altered the landscape of countries such as Argentina and Chile by propping up dictators like austo Pinos the US helped finance coups of various leaders across the continent the actions that were supported by American intelligence groups created irreversible damage in these nations and thousands were killed President Clinton eventually Declassified more information about the operation and its effects bringing forth new details about the plans to delegitimize left-leaning political movements in the region in the decades since Operation Condor its lasting impact is still felt in the countries affected number 13 Bohemian Grove rumors have always swirled about secret societies and country clubs where Elites meet up to discuss world affairs in the case of Bohemian Grove this accusation is at least partly true many of the most powerful and influential American figures of the 20th century met at the California Club the place was reserved for people like Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon along with a list of businessmen and even Nobel laurates Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan had a talk there about who was going to run for president first and obviously Richard Nixon won that while one of their precepts involves leaving world affairs at the door there's no shortage of evidence to the contrary it was also the sight of a meeting regarding the Manhattan Project the Manhattan Project was conceived at the Grove in 1942 the Manhattan Project of course is what led to the Adam Bomb the presence of many US presidents provokes even more gossip about about the other conversations that took place there number 12 the FBI spied on John lennin they're after us because we we talk about peace you know when John Lennon moved to the US in the 70s he became a target of FBI observation his outspoken political beliefs were already controversial and some us leaders worried that he would influence the next election with story swirling about Lenin's possible tour which was an apparent attempt to recruit young liberal voters G Edgar Hoover put the musician under close watch not only that the artist was threatened with deportation during this period Republican Richard Nixon ended up winning the 1972 election but the attempts to kick the singer out of the country continued until the Court ruling in 1975 when we approach people for help somebody somewhere Rings them up and says these people are criminals unsurprisingly this wasn't the first or last person hounded by the FBI as their Co inel program spied on many citizens and political groups secret FBI memos made public Today Show that the late J Edgar Hoover ordered a nationwide campaign to disrupt the activities of the new left without telling any of his superiors about it number 11 big tobacco's big lie there's extensive use of this technology which is called ammonia chemistry that allows for nicotine to be more rapidly absorbed in the lungs and therefore affect the brain and central nervous system smoking causes lung cancer and a lot of other adverse health effects scientists demonstrated this definitively in the 1950s however public opinion wavered for decades with sources springing up to generate controversy and debate some suspected that the tobacco industry was suppressing and distorting the facts through a coordinated campaign and it eventually came out that they were together the world's largest tobacco companies initiated operation Burkshire to generate fake controversy and debate big tobacco go knew that smoking caused cancer and that nicotine was addictive they decided not to make cigarettes less harmful because addiction made them a lot of money now the work we did here is confidential not for public scrutiny any more than our one's Family Matters you're threatening my family now too just goes to show where there's smoke there's often fire see how camels agree with your throat see how mild and good tasting a cigarette can be number 10 the FBI spied on political activist groups all power to all the people those involved in political protests and other activist causes are often paranoid that they're being watched and they should be because it's happened before and it can happen again tapes from the hotel rooms FBI reports those are pieces of information that we shouldn't have from the late 50s to the early' 7s the FBI engaged in illegal surveillance infiltration and disruption of protest movements and other organizations deemed subversive he realized how sick this country was we were trying to reveal the truth about segregation these ranged from Independence movements to civil rights movements to feminist organizations they even had John Lenin the former Beatles front man under watch while this program named co-intel Pro was abolished in 1971 others may have taken its place this represents the darkest part of the bureau's history number nine the first female US president while the United States has yet get to elect a woman to the office of President by Electoral College anyway some theorize that a woman has assumed the duties of the office already in 1919 President woodro Wilson suffered a debilitating stroke this left him bedridden and partially paralized with some impaired judgment if I don't help him be president what a kind of wife am I for over a year Wilson's wife Edith aided him in governing the country to the point where she was basically performing his job in all but name the degree of her involvement was kept a close secret and Wilson herself denied that she made executive decisions until her death so he's like sitting there and they like move his arm and then they just release that to the press and that's how dumb people were back then number eight the white socks through the World Series the Chicago White Socks are on record for having one of the longest droughts between winning world series at 87 years however they weren't always known for their bad luck back in the late 1910s the socks won in 1917 and they even had a Wonder like sches Joe Jackson on the team yet rumors during the 1919 Series held that the games were fixed the white socks Lost the series but the rumors persisted into the next year eventually a grand jury found evidence that eight players including Jackson though his role is disputed were involved in a conspiracy to receive money in exchange for throwing the series I think the Black Sox players saw a high reward for what they were doing they could make as much as their yearly salary in one week uh for fixing the World Series while a trial found them not guilty they were nevertheless banned from the league permanently number seven Roswell coverup in the summer of 1947 an object crashed down to earth in Roswell New Mexico theories that it was an alien spacecraft have pervaded pop culture for over a half a century since everybody thinks that Roswell was the first sighting of of a UFO in the United States and that bull Roar the US Air Force claimed that the object was merely a weather balloon only added fuel to the fire and the conspiracy theorists were right it was no weather balloon and there was a cover up but it wasn't an alien ship either probably the object was a high-altitude balloon launched as part of project Mogul these balloons were intended to detect sound waves from Soviet atomic bomb tests during the Cold War the US military couldn't exactly be honest about that in the papers now whether you think that's another cover story well this better not be another damn Russian spy job number six scientologists infiltrated the US government the Church of Scientology is infamously touchy about any criticism of their organization get out I I didn't mean anything by it I don't even know Ron I their influence over celebrities is welln but theories about their influence over the government government are also out there and here's the thing scientologists really did infiltrate the government in the 1970s at least 5,000 members of the organization conducted Espionage on government agencies and private organizations and this wasn't a fringe element either the Founder's wife Mary Sue hubard pleaded guilty and went to prison it was one of the largest scale infiltrations of the US government in history all of this was done with the aim of destroying evidence that painted science anology in an unfavorable light it arguably had quite the opposite effect number five project Sunshine with a name like this images of happiness or some form of green energy initiation spring to mind lollipops rainbow everything that's wonderful but in reality it's incredibly dark headed by the United States atomic energy Commission in 1955 project Sunshine was created to see the effects of nuclear radiation on the human body however the group went morbid with it in the ' 50s around 1500 bodies were taken across Europe and Australia often without the permission of the next of kin most of those stolen were children or younger to hide the body snatching one British mother was refused access by authorities to dress her daughter in a christening gown in 1957 in case she discovered what the doctors had done number four the Watergate scandal perhaps the most well-known political conspiracy of all time the Watergate scandal was Unthinkable when when it occurred because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook the Scandal began when Republican president Richard Nixon's Administration illegally wiretapped and broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters we don't know who ordered the burglary and we don't really know what the burglars were up to that night their aim was to acquire information about Nixon's opposition in the forthcoming election the arrest of the perpetrators LED to attempts by Nixon and his administration to cover up their involvement however mounting evidence and leaks soon exploded into a scandal that has become a byword for political disgrace leading to Nixon's resignation one of the things it's so hard to recreate and understand now looking back is there was no sense that the president could lie to the American people things have changed Garrett things have changed today number three the government is spying on you the common refrain for cranks and conspiracy nuts for decades has been that the government is watching our every move and it's not completely wrong with the rise of smartphones and the internet the government has unprecedented access to information on its citizens they're following us in the wake of 9/11 the Bush Administration initiated far-reaching Mass surveillance programs both foreign and domestic the nsa's activities in the years since have included sucking up and storing online history emails metadata text messages you name it Edward Snowden revealed a lot of this with his leaks including how other governments were also implicated even if you send it to somebody within the United States your wholly domestic communication between you and your wife can go from New York to London and back and get caught up in the database few believe that in the time since governments have just given up number two false justification for war in August 1964 the USS Maddox fired a warning shot as three North Vietnamese torpedo boats approached the Gulf of tonen after the torpedo boats opened fire the Maddox sank all three 2 Days Later the report of a second attack known as the Gulf of tonan incident prompted president Lynden B Johnson to authorize further military action in Vietnam for years people questioned this justification at one point the commander of the ship said we're not certain of the attack another point they said yes we're absolutely positive and then finally late in the day Admiral sharp said yes we're certain it happened it was eventually revealed that the second attack was imaginary based on wrongly interpretated Communications intercepts it wasn't the last dubious rationale for War as we already mentioned in 1990 George HW Bush leveraged false testimony crafted by a public relations firm to initiate the Gulf War over a decade later his son would falsely claim that Iraq possessed wmds to justify an invasion the people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into settings and switch on your notifications number one the CIA conducted mind control experiments the idea of a government agency trying to control people's minds might sound like science fiction but it really happened prostitutes would lure men to these apartments and then once the men were in the apartments they were dosed with LSD and then they were basically studied by CIA scientists in the 1970s a commission on the cia's activities within the US exposed the existence of project MK Ultra a secret program that used drugs and torture to manipulate its victim's mental States this who Aid was spiked with LSD it was horrible these experiments were conducted on prisoners in secret detention centers around the world as well as within American universities hospitals and prisons the day that my father was brought to the hospital they immediately put him on insulin uh to put him into like an insulin coma the CIA also funded brutal experiments involving electroconvulsive therapy in Montreal Canada victims of MK Ultra included Ken key and Alan Ginsburg it's one of the darkest conspiracies out there and we still don't know the full extent of it which of these conspiracies do you find the most disturbing let us know in the comments boy those scientologists they can be pretty sensitive did you enjoy this video check out these other clips from watch Mojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos [Music] n

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Published: Sat Dec 09 2023