Here are crazy conspiracy theories that
turned out to be true!
8 - Gulf of Tonkin
The Gulf of Tonkin conspiracy or the USS Maddox
incident was highly debated and finally, analysis
shows that the original claims that the North
Vietnamese Navy attacked the USS Maddox was
made up.
Two main events happened during this time
an attack on August 2nd, 1964, an one on August
4th.
On the 2nd it was reported that while the
Maddox was patrolling for information on the
North Vietnamese Navy like the location of
coastal radar transmitters and any other useful
information that could be gathered from being
in international waters.
When three North Vietnamese patrol boats started
to pursue the Maddox.
The North Vietnamese boats launched a torpedo
and opened fire.
Their boats were heavily damaged by the Maddox
though and both retreated.
On the 4th is when things get tricky, almost
the entire telling of events were made upthat
day.
It was said that the Maddox reported seeing
enemy boats, torpedo attacks, enemy cockpit
lights, and other sure signs of enemy attack.
The Maddox fired off their own attack, but
in reality, they were fighting no one.
Almost every account of the incident comes
up short, it was long thought that this was
a fabricated event to escalate war, and that
was proven true.
This incident was a tactic to take the war
into US hands and fight communists and escalate
war tension to get what they wanted.
7 - MK ULTRA
Project MK Ultra is more commonly known under
a much more ominous name, as the CIA's mind
control program.
Even if you aren’t a conspiracy buff, you’ve
probably heard rumors or some crazy man shouting
about how the government is experimenting
on its citizens.
Well, don’t panic it’s not happening!...
Rather, it’s not happening now.
It did happen in the 1950s.
The CIA experimented on US and Canadian citizens
and almost all none of the participants consented
or even knew they were being experimented
on.
The first type of people that were targeted
were the ones no one would investigate too
heavily - call girls, substance abusers, and
mental patients, basically people the media
wouldn’t consider credible.
When that wasn’t enough they moved onto
the general public.
The “experiments” performed happened in
hospitals, in prisons, and even colleges.
MK Ultra included a vast amount of research
topics based on different goals, including
creating a chemical to aid in interrogation,
memory-erasing, and giving subjects LSD to
see if any of the “mind-altering effects”
would be helpful to the government.
Additional procedures were subjecting people
to sensory deprivation, verbal abuse, isolation,
hypnosis, various chemicals and drugs, and
a variety of psychological torture.
That “crazy man” isn’t sounding so crazy
anymore...
6 - Tuskegee syphilis
This is one of many examples of horrendous
things the African American community was
subjected to by scientific and medical communities.
From 1932 to 1972 the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment
was conducted in secret.
The experiment is exactly what it sounds like..
It was used to gather information on what
happens when rural African American men with
syphilis were left untreated.
It included around 600 “participants”
and by participants, we mean folks that were
tricked into becoming part of the study..
while it was disguised as free health care
by the US government.
The experiment took place in Tuskegee Alabama,
having one of the highest rates of syphilis
at the time, and 200 involuntary participants
were left untreated...
Even though the standard treatment for syphilis,
penicillin, was established in 1947 the experiment
lasted all the way until 1972.
It’s because of real-life events like this
that other conspiracy theories start to form.
6.Snow White
What do you think of when you hear the word
Scientology?
Tom Cruise and John Travolta acting funny
on the TV, or a crazy organization that executed
the largest US government infiltration in
history.
Both those things are correct, but we’re
not here to talk about Tom Cruise today.
The most notable government office infiltrated
by the scientologists, among the 136 involved,
is the International Revenue Service (IRS).
Project Snow White was a plan by scientologists
in the 1970’s to retrieve and destroy all
incriminating documents that could harm the
reputation of the organization and their founder
L Ron Hubbard.
High ranking officials in Scientology broke
into government offices and copied and stole
documents right under the nose of the government.
They also inserted their own people into government
positions, and wiretapped areas to gain access
to secret information.
Using Fake IDs and Stolen keys, they acquired
a LOT of it.
Hopefully, that information was worth it because
the scientologist linked to these illegal
activities were sentenced to five years in
prison and L Ron Hubbard went into hiding.
5 - Illuminati
Christian Eye of Providence later a symbol
of freemasonry.
We’re not sure when the word Illuminati
became so heavily linked with Beyonce and
pop culture, instead of the rich history actually
behind it, but let’s talk about the real
history of the Illuminati.
Because it is a real secret society and it
has a trackable history.
May 1, 1776, Adam Weishaupt held the first
Illuminati meeting in a forest.
5 men gathered together to discuss the injustice
of the church and government stifling enlightenment,
putting metaphorical chains on everyone.
Weishaupt was a philosophy teacher, and the
first members were his students, but gradually
the membership was extended to others that
fit the society's requirements.
Men who had a strong reputation, wealth, a
respectable family name, and very influential
connections.
Lawyers, doctors, intellectuals, noblemen,
and politicians started to become the backbone
of the Illuminati.
The Illuminati originally consisted of 3 classes
which were broken down into 13 grades of rank.
The original society was broken up and forbidden
in 1787.
The government back then felt threatened by
a society that wanted freedoms for people
that they couldn’t control, tax, or understand.The
“Universal happiness” which was one of
the original goals of the Illuminati isn’t
very profitable for the government or the
church.
3.Cointelpro
Speaking out against the government takes
a lot of guts, especially when you are in
a position of power in a civil rights group.
Cointelpro, a US government agency, was created
in August of 1956 with the intent of causing
disruption in the communist party.
It seemed to get out of control when it considered
civil rights groups a threat to US political
stability and it started going after influential
persons like Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm
X among many other important figures.
There’s only so far we can speculate into
their early demises, but they were definitely
on the Cointelpro radar.
The organization used tactics against their
targets like police harassment, anonymous
mailings, surveillance, infiltration, and
just plain psychological warfare.
They had a clear incentive to discredit and
even destroy strong players and their organizations
in the civil rights movement.
Other sabotage targets included groups like
the Socialist Workers Party, the Black Panther
Party, and anti-war and religious groups.
The program was kept a secret until 1971 when
it was exposed and eliminated because of…
well… it’s not very hard to see why the
program had to be disbanded.
2 - North Korea Kidnapping
An odd occurrence started happening in coastal
towns in Japan between 1977 - 1983…
Japanese citizens around the age of 20, began
disappearing.
One particular case describes the disappearance
of a 13 year old girl who was abducted just
miles away from her home.
Her parents still believe to this day that
she’s alive somewhere.
That somewhere... maybe North Korea.
It wasn’t until 2002 that the late leader
of North Korea Kim Jong-il gave an oral apology
and admitted that the North Korean government
had indeed taken 13 Japanese citizens.
They would take the people, and either steal
their identities or make them teach North
Korean spies Japanese.
They would also take people because they had
witnessed activities by North Korean infiltrators.
An apology is not nearly enough to settle
this case.
Possibly hundreds of Japanese citizens were
taken by the North Koreans, as of today only
13 people were confirmed kidnapped.
Japanese officials say that the actual number
of people taken by North Korea is 17.
And even though they returned 5 of the victims
back to their families, when missing person
reports were reviewed it reveals that there
are possibly hundreds of people that fit the
description of a person that was abducted
by the North Koreans.
One of the cremated remains sent back that
supposedly belonged to the 13-year-old year
they had taken years ago, but DNA evidence
didn’t support their claims.
What else was North Korea hiding?
1 - Prohibition
Prohibition is a significant event in our
history that we cover briefly in school, glazing
over some very important facts.
Prohibition was a government policy from 1920
to 1933, where the US banned the manufacturing,
importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic
beverages.
The history books tell us about the resistance
from US citizens - distilling their own alcohol
and creating secret places to indulge, called
Speakeasy(s).
What they don’t tell you, while you’re
thumbing through old history books, is that
the US government poisoned around 10,000 people
during that time.
While Prohibition seems to have started off
noble enough, with the idea that taking away
alcohol would reduce crime and improve health,
it ended with the government using toxic additives
that wiped out an alarming amount of people.
They thought that by adding chemicals to the
cleaning supplies that contained industrial
alcohol they could scare people away from
using it.
Among the chemicals added in the products
were Kerosene which today is used in jet engines,
gasoline, mercury salts, and Camphor which
is used in insect repellent and explosive
production.
Their idea did NOT work as planned since people
still tried to distill these supplies so that
they could still drink and sell it - causing
many to consume these lethal substances.
Here’s what’s next!
