Political Scandals Bigger Than Watergate
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Political Scandals Bigger Than Watergate: 10 October Surprise allegations Reagan campaign negotiated with Iran to delay hostage release until aft
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On October 21, 1980—two weeks before the U.S. presidential election—a senior Iranian official told a French intelligence officer that the Reagan camp…
Political Scandals Bigger Than Watergate: 09 InslawPROMIS government allegedly stole software sold it to foreign intelligence agencies with backd
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1983, the U.S. Department of Justice installed a secret backdoor in a software program called PROMIS, then distributed modified versions to intell…
Political Scandals Bigger Than Watergate: 08 The SL Crisis 1000 savings and loan institutions collapsed due to deregulation and fraud 160 billion
THE S&L CRISIS: THE $160 BILLION BAILOUT THAT WASN’T A BAILOUT—IT WAS A TRANSFER THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1989, the U.S. government seized Lincoln Savings and Loan, a …
Political Scandals Bigger Than Watergate: 07 BCCI scandal Bank of Credit and Commerce International laundered money for CIA drug cartels and terr
THE BANK THAT LAUNDERED FOR EVERYONE THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1988, the U.S. Federal Reserve discovered that the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) had secre…
Political Scandals Bigger Than Watergate: 06 The Pentagon Papers government lied about Vietnam for 8 years 58000 Americans died
THE PENTAGON PAPERS: THE GOVERNMENT LIED ABOUT VIETNAM FOR EIGHT YEARS—58,000 AMERICANS DIED THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On June 13, 1971, The New York Times published the first…
Political Scandals Bigger Than Watergate: 05 Church Committee Senate found CIA had plotted to assassinate foreign leaders and conducted 150 illeg
THE CHURCH COMMITTEE: THE SENATE FOUND THE CIA PLOTTED TO ASSASSINATE FOREIGN LEADERS—AND RAN 150 ILLEGAL DOMESTIC OPERATIONS AGAINST AMERICAN CITIZENS THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORG…
Political Scandals Bigger Than Watergate: 04 MKUltra CIA ran mind control experiments on unwitting American citizens for 20 years
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1953, the CIA’s Office of Security proposed dosing an unwitting American civilian with LSD to observe its effects. The subject, Frank Olson, a U.S…
Political Scandals Bigger Than Watergate: 03 Operation Paperclip US recruited and protected Nazi war criminals classified for 50 years
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1945, the U.S. Army’s Counterintelligence Corps (CIC) issued a secret memo listing 1,600 German scientists and engineers—many with direct ties to …
Political Scandals Bigger Than Watergate: 02 Iran-Contra Reagan sold weapons to Iran funded illegal war lied to Congress nobody went to prison
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On November 25, 1986, President Ronald Reagan stood before the White House press corps and declared, “We did not—repeat, did not—trade weapons or any…
Political Scandals Bigger Than Watergate: 01 COINTELPRO FBI ran illegal domestic surveillance against civil rights leaders for 15 years Congress
COINTELPRO: The FBI’s 15-Year War on Civil Rights Leaders—And the Congress That Barely Noticed THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On March 8, 1971, a group of activists broke into an F…