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Whether we’d like to admit it or not, governments, in general, are some of the shadiest organizations out there. The bigger and more powerful the country, the more likely it is to sit on a massive pile of shocking secrets. Such is the United States case, which perhaps has the most significant number of conspiracy theories drafted in its honor.

Prior to their declassification, most of the examples we’re gonna visit in these pieces have been considered conspiracy theories. This should not, in any case, be used to verify the legitimacy of current theories.

MK Ultra program

The entire MK ULTRA program officially ran from the early 1950s until the 1970s. The CIA attempted to develop mind control methods, experimenting with LSD, among other things, on non-suspect/non-voluntary subjects in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere, in violation of the Nuremberg Protocols on Human Experiments.

The Tuskegee syphilis experiments

The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments were experiments in which the US government claimed to treat African American men in Tuskegee, AL, for health problems. Instead, they gave them injections of saline to observe the long-term syphilis effects on them. This was also in violation of the Hippocratic Oath and the Nuremberg Protocols.

Operation Northwoods

Operation Northwoods was a document from the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the intelligence services. They brainstormed to conduct all kinds of operations to get the public to allow the US government to invade Cuba. They did this by organizing actual terrorist attacks in major American cities, accusing the Cubans, and shooting down a student charter plane going to Guatemala, pretending that the Cubans had done so.

The Manhattan project

Other medical experiments on unwitting/unwilling Americans violate the Nuremberg Protocols as part of the Manhattan Project’s post-WWII follow-up and spin-off programs. People were given plutonium and other radioactive substances by injection.

Biological warfare experiments

Biological and chemical warfare experiments were carried out in major US cities by the US military and navy (illegal and very immoral) — including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. Dangerous chemicals and biological agents were released into the air inside or outside the city to study the modes of spread and the affected areas (some of which have led to health problems, allergic reactions, and even some deaths).

The FBI’s COINTELPRO program

The FBI’s COINTELPRO program, which came to light after decades of operation, aimed to collect blackmail material illegal surveillance. More seriously, the program falsified cases against “dissidents” such as John Lennon and others involved in the peace movement.

Operation Underworld

Operation Underworld consisted of the FBI and organizations in the intelligence community making deals with organized crime members from WWII and at least until the Nixon administration. The operation made it possible for the crime lords to conduct their activities free from any federal interference, on condition that they occasionally carry out intelligence operations, thefts, and some attempted murders (including several failures against Fidel Castro). The official FBI position under J. Edgar Hoover was that the Mafia did not exist and was a myth.

There are so many more, but it’s enough to get started. You can find documents on all of these topics in the Declassified National Security Archives at George Mason University, much of which can be found online.

Another place to learn a lot about this — including COINTELPRO, MK ULTRA, and so on — is by looking up archived transcripts of the Church Commission hearings of 1975 — the Congressional hearings in which much of this has been revealed.

In addition to the above, I recommend that one take a good look at archival footage from some Iran-Contra audiences from the mid to late 1980s, which are very revealing, especially some of the things said by Colonel Oliver North and Admiral James Poindexter.