Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out True
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Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out True: 10 Big Tobacco knowing about cancer dismissed until internal documents released in 1990s litigation
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1961, the chief of research at Brown & Williamson, one of America’s largest tobacco companies, wrote an internal memo stating: “We are, then, …
Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out True: 09 Iran-Contra Reagan selling weapons to Iran dismissed until Tower Commission confirmed
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On November 25, 1986, President Ronald Reagan stood before the American public and declared, “We did not—repeat, did not—trade weapons or anything el…
Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out True: 08 Operation Mockingbird CIA paying journalists dismissed until Church Committee confirmed in 1975
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1973, the New York Times published a front-page story revealing that the Central Intelligence Agency had, for decades, paid journalists at major U…
Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out True: 07 PRISM tech companies providing backdoor access to NSA dismissed until Snowden documents confirmed
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On June 6, 2013, The Guardian and The Washington Post published a single PowerPoint slide from a classified National Security Agency (NSA) presentati…
Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out True: 06 NSA mass surveillance government collecting everyones phone records dismissed until Snowden in 2013
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On 4 December 2013, the Washington Post published a declassified 2009 ruling from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) revealing that t…
Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out True: 05 Gulf of Tonkin second attack never happened dismissed as conspiracy until NSA documents declassified
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On August 4, 1964, the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted North Vietnamese naval communications discussing the loss of two ships in a battle t…
Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out True: 04 Operation Paperclip US employed Nazi scientists classified until 1990s
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1945, the U.S. Army’s Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) altered the personnel files of 1,600 German scientists—including those with dire…
Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out True: 03 Tuskegee government letting Black men die of syphilis dismissed until whistleblower exposed in 1972
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) enrolled 600 Black men in Macon County, Alabama—399 with syphilis, 201 without—to study the disease’s "…
Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out True: 02 MKUltra CIA mind control experiments on unwitting citizens dismissed until Church Committee confirme
MKUltra: The CIA’s Documented Experiments on Unwitting Citizens In 1953, the CIA’s Office of Security approved a payment of $10,000 to a New York psychiatrist to administer LSD to …
Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out True: 01 COINTELPRO FBI ran illegal program to destroy civil rights movement dismissed as paranoia until 1971
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1968, the FBI sent an anonymous letter to Martin Luther King Jr., urging him to kill himself within 34 days or face the release of recordings of h…