25 Crazy Disclosed Government Secrets In The US

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Jun 24, 2018 5:00 PM EDT

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  • 01
    Text - World War Il Cat Bombs In World War II, the US military needed an effective way to bomb German boats. Figuring that cats don't like water and are fairly agile when landing on their feet, they'd be ideal bomb carriers. Their thinking was: if the cats landed in the water, they'd immediately try to swimi toward the nearest boat, and boom! Except the cats passed out during the drop, and sunk under the water. Wit
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    Text - The NSA and Snowden The biggest secret of all: when Edward Snowden released top-secret NSA documents and information to The Guardian, he revealed the agency monitored millions of Americans' phone and internet activity using a program called "Prism." This included search history, emails, and chat communications from Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook, Skype. and YouTube.
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    Text - Starfish Prime On July 9th, 1962, the US exploded a high altitude nuclear bomb over the Pacific Ocean. Officially called "Starfish Prime," it was part of a series of nuclear bomb tests to analyse dispersion patterns and fallout.
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    Text - Intentional STD's in Guatemala In the 1940s. Dr. John C. Cutler was officially sanctioned by the U.S. Military to infect Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea for his experiments of the disease. In all. he infected 1,300 patients without their knowledge. His experiments were unpublished and forgotten until 2010 when a Wellesley Professor discovered his papers.
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    Text - NTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGEN CIA's Drug Smuggling This rumour has been around for years. Starting back in the Korean War, up until Regan and the Contras it's been believed that the CIA is helping bring drugs into the country, to fund themselves. WITED STATES OF AMERIC
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    Text - Vietnam Peace Talks Sabotaged During Richard Nixon's campaign for president in 1968, he ordered to have the South Vietnamese leaders persuaded to not make a deal until after the election. This was a direct attempt to sabotage sitting President Lyndon Johnson's peace talk efforts, This plot was eventually uncovered and fueled Nixon's future resignation MENEW
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    Text - Microphone inside ear canal Surveillance Cats During the Cold War, the CIA came up with the idea of usingicatsiasispiesa Spending $10 million they put microphones and a radio transmitter inside a cat in hopes they'd get past security and spy on the Soviets. However, on their first try, their spy cat crossed the street and got ran over by a taxi. The project was shut down soon after. Transmitter and power supply
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    Text - SL-1 Reactor Explosion On January 3rd, 1961, the world's first fatal atomic accident occurred at a secret and experimental nuclear reactor in Idaho. Three men were killed in the incident. One man was blown up to the ceiling, impaled on a control rod. His body remained there for days before he was finally taken down. The three dead bodies were so radioactive, they had to bury them in lead coffins
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    Text - TUESDAY 4 AUG ATTACE INMINENT The Gulf of Tonkin The Gulf of Tonkin Incident that started the Vietnam War was mostly a big lie. The United States'claimed there was a second attack" on their ships but there actually wasn't. They used the excuse to escalate the war and retaliate. tecOmsioGA
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    Text - CIA Infiltrated 17 AQperation Midnight Climax Operation Midnight Climax was part of the MKUltra program and involved the CIA running brothels in San Francisco giving unsuspecting Suicde Re patrons acid as an experiment for mind control. They installed two-way mirrors in "safe houses" where prostitutes would bring back johns and the CIA would watch.
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    Text - Operation LAC Operation LAC (Large Area Coverage) was a test by the U.S. Military in the 1950s and 60s to dust U.S cities with a potentially toxic fine powder to test the dispersion of germs. One scientist believes one of these tests, specifically over St. Louis, could have included radioactive materials.
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    Text - Project Thor A space-based weapons technology was tested by the United States called "Project Thor involving tungsten cylinders installed in satellites in space The cylinders would be launched down at a target such as a bunker, without involving explosives. Due to the high speeds, the destruction would be deadly.
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    Text - Shiro Ishii's War Crime Immunity During World War Il in Japan, Shiro Ishii captured around 10,000 men during the course of the war and experimented on them with biological weapons. When Ishii was arrested by the US military, he negotiated his immunity from a war crimes tribunal if he gave them his research. They accepted. Shiro Ishii is said to have relocated to Maryland where he continued to advise on biological weapons.
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    Text - Project Iceworm In order to be able to launch missiles at the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the US conducted a top-secret construction project in northern Greenland to create bases inside the thick ice sheets. They were able to make the bases, but unstable ice and weather conditions forced them to abandon the project.
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    Text - Spying on John Lennon In the 60s, John Lennon was a vocal opponent of violence and war, and even coined the phrase Let's give peace a chance.Because of his opposition, he was under constant surveillance (except for that one time he was assassinated.) 88
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    Text - Operation Popeye During the Vietnam War, the United States wanted to prolong monsoon season and flood the Ho Chi Minh trail, cause mudslides, destroy bridges, and disrupt the North Vietnamese movement by controlling the weather. Called Operation Popeye, the top secret mission went from 1967 to 1972. While no one knows the success of the missions, they spent $3 million a year on it with over 2,000 runs. So, something must have been working.
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  • 17
    Text - RESTRICTED AREA NO Area 51 Declassified Due to declassified documents, we know a lot more about Area 51 than we ever have before, and the government maintains that there aren't any aliens there. At Area 51, the government was testing top-secret planes like the U-2 spy plane program. The reports claim any UFOS people had seen were really U-2 planes flying at 60,000 feet.
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    Text - DREAD DISEASE GERMS DESTROYED B&RAVS Cancen Experiments in Puerto Rico While stationed in Puerto Rico Cornelius Pseen Pelif Rhoads: a successful oncologist, used his Puerto ancer Bio San Diegan In Rican patients as guinea pigs and dicexperiments By Solor on.them without thefr knowledge. Rhoads later left Puerto Rico to head the U.S Army Biological Weapons division
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  • 19
    Text - Operation Ivy Bells During the Cold War, the US discovered an undersea cable in the Sea of Okhotsk. They tapped-it and learned about Russian submarine.and missle capabilities. In 1980, an NSA agent tried to sell what the US had learned back to Soviets and got caught
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  • 20
    Text - Plum Island - Lab 257 Officially, this a lab dedicated to animal diseases. In reality. it's a biological weapons testing labratory. While this has been denied repeatedly. leaked documents about this NY Island, outline plans to use the weapons against Russian livestock, to disrupt their economy
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  • 21
    Text - Project Pluto Also called "The Flying Crowbar.' Project Pluto was a low altitude cruise missile with a ramjet nuclear engine capable of deploying 16 or more hydrogen bombs at once. But with safety and accuracy concerns, as well as the inexpensive ICBMS on hand, this plan was scrapped
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    Text - Roswell Baily KECOR FHONES ins Oc 22 Rerord teeed Wie Ausdated Pre NewD 2217 www.t.md Claims Army DAAF Cartures avies as Usal he Roswell curesFlying Saucer ROS NGis son GRAND Couts No Pefa ls of Daccec discovered a UFO near Roswell, New Mexico. Tax Slast Lgesca Conspiracy theorists called it an alien spacecraft that the government was trying to cover up but in reality, it was Project Mogul Also called Operation Mogul the U.S. Air Force used high altitude fame of balloons with microphones
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  • 23
    Vehicle - TESLA CIA Car Hacking During a WikiLeaks reveal in 2014, it came out that the CIA was researching how to hack into cars and cause them to crash thus assassinating anyone riding inside with no one the wiser.
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  • 24
    Text - Churchill's Plan for Hitler If Hitler was captured alive, Churchill didn't want him sent to a tribunal, as the other allies had intended, but sent directly to the electric chair, Of course, we all know that never happened as Hitler killed himself in a war bunker.
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  • 25
    Text - USS Liberty During the Six Days War in 1967, Israel led a bombing run against the USS Liberty, Afterward, the United States and Israel both claimed it was a mistake. However, recent declassified documents and testimony revealed the Israeli pilots deliberately attacked knowing it was a US ship On the other side, the United States knew it wasn't a mistake, and yet, still covered it up as to not embarrass a US ally. The only thing we don't know is why the Israeli's attacked in the first plac
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