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Area 51 is a US military base located in south-central Nevada and enclosed by mountains and harsh desert terrains. It is approximately 83 miles (134 km) from Las Vegas and is surrounded by the Nellis Air Force Range and borders the Nevada Test Site. The base receives its names from numbered grid assigned by the Area 51 Atomic Energy Commission (now the part of the US Department of Energy). Other names for the base include Groom Lake, Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, the Ranch, Watertown (CIA director Allen Dulles’ hometown), Watertown Strip, Homey Airport, and the Box. It is often referred to as the most famous secret base in the world. Google Map 37°14′06″N 115°48′40″W Although the base was never itself secret and became widely known in the 80s. its existence was not formally acknowledges by the US government until mid-2013. Employees of Area 51 usually travel through the base on buses with blacked out windows or fly out of the JANET (Just Another Non Existent T erminal) terminal at Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport. Location of Area 51 (source: wiki )
The lack of official acknowledgment by the government gave rise to a number of conspiracy theories and the base quickly entered UFO lore when rumors of a downed saucer at Roswell secretly being transported to Area 51. Here’s what we know: A Very Short History of Area 51 Between 1951 and 1954, the area was used by the Atomic Energy Commission to conduct most its nuclear tests. The location is covered in debris due to gunnery practice by bombers at Nellis Air Force Base. in 1955, the CIA begins Operation AQUATONE – a secret project with the purpose of designing an aircraft that could fly high enough to avoid Soviet
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surface-to-air missiles and photograph Soviet nuclear and military installations. The CIA and Skunk Works, arm manufacturer Lockheed’s elite devision begin development on the U-2 spy plane.
Location of Area 51 (source: wiki ) Location of Area 51 (source: wiki ) One of the images taken by NASA in 1974 F-117 Nighthawk
Several surveyors from Lockheed fly over the area north east of Nellis Air Force base and spot Groom Lake, a dry lakebed surrounded by mountain range and sufficiently away from public area. In may 1955, the Atomic Energy Commission publicly announces the building of a “satellite Nevada Test Site installation” via a press release.
That same year, employees from the CIA, the Air Force, and Lockheed begin arriving at the base. The first U-2 is disassembled in Burbank and secretly transported to Area 51 for testing. The plane is painted with NACA (NASA’s precursor) markings and operated under the cover of weather-related research. In 1998, the CIA revealed some details of its U-2 program. and claim it was responsible for numerous UFO sightings of the 50s and 60s. 1957 – Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 begins orbiting around Earth and capturing shots of US secret installations, including Area 51. Groom Lake employers are aware of the satellite’s trajectory and shelter aircrafts in hangers. However, the Soviets are able to determine the aircraft’s shape by heat signateurs left on the tarmac. The CIA begins Operation RAINBOW– radar absorbing panels are glued on the outside of the U-2 plane in order to make it invisible to radar. However, the panels increase drag, and its loss of aerodynamics also results into slower speeds and lower altitude. In 1958, President Eisenhower signs Executive Order No. 10633, establishing restricted airspace over the Groom Lake base. In 1959, defense contractor EG&G moves its radar testing operation to Area 51 and soon begin testing the radar deflecting abilities of Operation OXCART, the new Lockheed A-12. EG&G conducts radar tests on mock-ups and concept demonstrators. Sidenote: The CIA sets up dummy corporations in order to acquire titanium from the soviets without their knowledge. 1960 – having successfully tested the U-2, the aircraft goes operational and routinely fly over Soviet territory gathering intelligence. Soviet spies in Turkey have alerted the Soviet authorities of the existence of the U-2, but the Soviets are unable to intercept any. However, they finally succeed when Francis Gary Powell’s U-2 is shot down over Soviet territory. Powell is soon embarrassingly paraded on international television, along with the U-2’s remains, and photographs taken of Soviet military bases. Powell returns to the United States in a prisoner exchange 2 years later. 1962 – the first A-12 prototype arrives at Groom Lake. Unlike the U-2, the A-12 has radar repelling ability built in. The A-12 goes operational in 1965. It leads to the development of the recently operational SR-71s. 1968 – Area 51 receives a captured MIG-21 acquired from an Iraqi defector to Israel. They begin Operation HAVE DOUGHNUT, to assess the MIG’s capabilities. They determine that Soviets aircrafts are not superior to American aircrafts and begin training American pilots against MIGs at Area 51. Page 2 of 4
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They receive two MIG-17s the following year and test them under Operation HAVE DRILL and HAVE FERRY. Units assigned to the MIGs are known as Red Hats. 1974 – Skylab astronauts photograph Area 51 from outer space leading to a dispute between the CIA and NASA. 1977 – Researchers begin testing unusual flat-faceted fuselage crafts in order to make planes invisible to radar. Development of the Lockheed HAVE BLUE eventually lead to the development of the F-117, the first US-built plane to be completely invisible to radar. 1979 – The CIA relinquishes control of Area 51 to the Air Force.
One of the images taken by NASA in 1974
F-117 Nighthawk
1981 – The first YF-117A arrives at Area 51 for its maiden flight. That same year they test
the F-117 Nighthawk. 1982– Defence contractor Northrop’s flat-paneled TACIT BLUE arrives at Area 51 for testing. The plane is able to demonstrate a number of stealth technology concepts. The technology is based on the work of Nazi scientists obtained through Operation Paperclip who had worked on the Horten Ho 229 during World War 2, the world’s first stealth plane. These technologies lead Northrop to the development of the hugely expensive B-2 Stealth Bomber. 1989 – Bob Lazar comes forward with claims of having worked at S-4, an underground secret facility located near Area 51. Lazar reported having seen multiple flying saucers and that the US government was reversing alien technology powered by element 115 at Area 51. Lazar’s claims soon made national news and the location of the test site becomes mainstream knowledge, bringing unwanted attention to stealth technology research conducted at Area 51. 1994 – Former Area 51 employees file a lawsuit against the Federal government. Employees exposed to toxic fumes from burning crafts and radar absorbing paneling covered in jet fuel in large burn pits are getting sick and dying. The Air Force considered the radar absorbing materials (RAM) to be highly classified and did not want to risk trucking it outside the base. President Clinton exempts the base or any other black site from any environmental liabilities for reasons of ‘national security’ with the signing of Presidential Determination No. 95-48 in 1995. 1995 – The Federal Government seizes additional land surrounding Area 51, including White Sides 11 miles (17km) from the base and Freedom Ridge, 12 miles (19 km) off, then the most popular spots for viewing Area 51. Observers moved on to Tikaboo Peak, 26 miles (41 km) from the base. If anything, this relatively recent seizure suggests that the base is still very much active. William Fay, executive producer of upcoming Independence Day seeks the military’s assistance for the film. Page 3 ofThe 4
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film. The Pentagon is always keen to help Hollywood with films that portray the US military in a favorable light. However, the Pentagon refuses to help the producers unless they remove all mentions of Area 51 from the film. 1996 – Following the box office success of Independence Day, Nevada officially designates State Route 375 the Extraterrestrial Highway. 2013 – The CIA formally acknowledges the existence of Area 51 and releases further details on the research done at the base. What is Area 51 used for today? It is not known what Area 51 is used for today. However, we do know that JANET Boeing 737 regularly take off from Vegas and the Air Force continues to make improvements to the base and its runways. It is speculated that the base is mainly used for testing drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS). Image sources: Area 51 satellite map, Google maps; F-117 Nighthawk, wiki; U2 bomber, wiki Resources: Groom Lake/Area 51 Security Manual CIA files on Area 51 (FOIA) Area 51 Information and Photos Timeline 1955 to 2005 – a much more detailed timeline of Area 51 Area51tv – YouTube Channel dedicated to gathering Area 51-related videos Area 51 Documentaries: National Geographic -Area 51: The CIA’s Secret Files – 2014 Running Time: ~44 minutes
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government-conspiracies.com In 1999, New York attorney William Pepper represented the King family and won a wrongful death lawsuit in civil court. They found that James Earl Ray, was just a scapegoat in the killing of Martin Luther King. One of the people involved in framing Ray also testified that Memphis police officer Earl Clark fired the shot that killed King. An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King by William Pepper Running Time: 1:19 hours
Assassination of John F. Kennedy Evidence of high-level government involvement in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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Newspaper magnate William Hearst, Petrochemical brothers du Pont, US Secretary of the Treasury/banker/oil man Andrew Mellon and his nephew-in-law, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotic, Harry Anslinger conspire to pass the unconstitutional 1937 Marijuana Tax Act, effectively outlawing cannabis and eliminating hemp as a competitor in the United States. The Cannabis Conspiracy, or the Marijuana Conspiracy had been floating around pot culture for decades, but the legend was finally written into words in 1985 in Jack Herer’s The Emperor Wears No Clothes. Newspaper magnate and father of yellow journalism William Hearst stood comfortably atop his vast empire when a new invention, the decorticator, who could turn hemp into a high-quality, more environment friendly paper, could seriously affect his lavish lifestyle. Popular Mechanics soon heralded hemp as the “ New Billion Dollar Crop”. This greatly angered Hearst, who was heavily invested in the manufacturing of paper and owned large tracts of timber land. Fellow elite at the DuPont corporation, owners of a highly polluting wood pulp paper production process patent and developers of synthetic fibers such as the soon-to-be-released Nylon realized they had much in common with Hearst. A possible threat to corporate profits, and a general hate of anything environment-friendly caused the men to conspire together in crushing their competitor. US Treasury Secretary, Andrew Mellon, owner of the nation’s 6th biggest bank and largest shareholder in Gulf Oil also realized that hemp might jeopardize the emerging and profitable petrochemical industry built around toxic byproducts of the oil industry. Mr. Secretary, according to Herer, was also the du Pont’s banker. giving him further motive to oppose cannabis. (Note: The du Ponts actually preferred fellow war profiteer JP Morgan’s bank.) Nevertheless, Mellon appointed his nephew-in-law, Harry Anslinger as commissioner of the newly created Federal Bureau of Narcotics. Enemies of Weed
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Anslinger viciously attacked marijuana, often reading quotes verbatim from the disinformation in Hearst-owned
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papers. The newspapers returned the favor by printing Anslinger’s comments: “If the hideous monster Frankenstein came face to face with the monster of marijuana he would drop dead of fright.” Anslinger kept a special file on Jazz musicians and was openly racist in his public remarks: “Colored students at the University of Minnesota partying with white female students, smoking and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution. Result: pregnancy.” and… “Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.” The evils of weed was epitomized in the infamous 1936 film, Reefer Madness, in which normal high school students are turned into psychotic killers after a few tokes of weed. Even the creators of Superman, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster eventually joined the fray and exaggerated the effect of marijuana to younger audiences. “Marihuana The drug that causes the smoker to lose all moral restraint – then this comes under federal jurisdiction!” The gambit worked. Congress effectively outlawed marijuana with the passage of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 which imposed a $100 tariff on each ounce of marijuana. The act was opposed by hemp farmers and the American Medical Association. Hemp farmers were forced out of business because the law did not differentiate between hemp and cannabis. While both originate from the same Cannabis Sativa L plant, the difference between the two is in its usage. A high THC level is not necessary for production of industrial hemp products, while it’s a must for recreational users of cannabis. For this reason, hemp producers grow hemp with a low THC content. ( Canada and a few European nations have legalized the growing of hemp with a THC content under 0.3 percent.) The law was a legal Catch-22. In order to purchase marijuana/hemp you had to have a stamp. In order to get a stamp, you had to be in possession of marijuana/hemp. Possession was illegal without a stamp…The law itself was eventually overturned by the United States Supreme Court in Leary v. United States. However, cannabis was criminalized in the same act which repealed the 1937 act. Results: Mass deforestation and clearcuts across North and South America. The petrochemical industry continues its growth. Duponts, Melons, and Rockefellers get richer. Women go wild for Nylons. Du Ponts get richer. Hearst Corporation purchases Popular Mechanics in 1956. More flying cars – less billion dollar crops. Big Pharma continues to sell overpriced medicine for simple ailments. Widespread tar sands, fracking, deep-sea drilling and other dirty/unsafe oil extraction process. Around 1% of Americans are incarcerated, the highest rate in the world. However, critics have pointed out a few problems with the corporate agenda behind the Cannabis Conspiracy. Page 2 of 3
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Conspiracy. Specifically, Jack Herer’s claims that William Hearst, Andrew Mellon and the Duponts conspired to outlaw the cultivation of marijuana. Hearst was a buyer of paper, not a seller. According to his biographer, Hearst was forced to sell some of his art collection due in part, to his indebtedness to Canadian paper manufacturers. He would have gladly welcomed an alternative to wood pulp. Also, marijuana was already illegal in 30 states by the time Anslinger started his rant. It had been outlawed in South Africa, Canada, Britain, and New Zealand decades earlier. Herer might have seriously underplayed the role of racism behind the criminalization of cannabis. Moral righteousness can often have a large influence on history and the shaping of society. (eg. Are you non-Jewish and circumcised? You can thank John Harvey Kellogg.) The first prohibition laws in the United States were opium bans aimed at Chinese immigrants. The laws prohibiting marijuana seemingly targeted blacks and hispanics. Nevertheless, the act crippled an entire industry that could have led to unimaginable innovations. In an age of global climate change and an increasingly difficult access to fossil fuels, hemps potential as a viable biofuel cannot be ignored. It can also be a source of plastic and building material. As a fabric, hemp fibers are longer, stronger, more absorbent and more mildew-resistant than cotton. A Stockholm Environment Institute study determined that hemp appeared to be slightly easier on the environment than cotton. It can be used as a source of nutrition. It is popular with vegans, as a source of Omega-3 Fatty Acids. Resources: Legal history of cannabis in the United States Hemp and Marijuana: Myths & Realities by David P. West, Ph.D. How to Make Hemp Paper 1916 USDA study on Hemp Hurds as a Paper-Making Material Determined that hemp paper had 4 times the yield as wood pulp-paper. The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer Hemp cultivation at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Schaffer Library of Drug Policy Chronology of Hemp throughout history The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst by David Nasaw Hearst family forgive Orson Welles for Citizen Kane after 71 years Jack Herer – Emperor Of Hemp Running Time: ~58 minutes Page 3 of 3
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CIA Secret Wars, Coups, and Assassinations | Government government-conspiracies.com Conspiracies The CIA does covertly what the government is unable to do overtly. Wars fought without the knowledged of Congress, routine assassination of foreign leaders, generally being dicks, and causing worldwide mayhem. Countries Involved: United States , Nicaragua , Israel , Iran The Department of Defense and the CIA provide Iran with arms in return for money and hostages. The proceeds are used to fund black ops in South America. Operation PBSUCCESS Countries Involved: United States , Guatemala Guatemalan President Árbenz is assassinated by the CIA after he privatizes unused land owned by the United Fruit Company. Árbenz reimburses UFC based on the value attributed to the land value declared by the company on its fraudulent tax returns. The land is given to poor farmers who are able to grow food (other than bananas) to feed their families. The United Fruit Company fails to see the humor. Operation AJAX Countries Involved: United States , Iran Following the nationalization of British oil interest, MI6 and the CIA join forces to overthrow the democratic Mossadegh government and install the Shah of Iran and his brutal regime led by its secret police, the SAVAK. The CIA trains the SAVAK. Who go on a killing rampage for the next 26 years. Operation Barracuda Countries Involved: United States , Congo CIA sends a lethal virus via diplomatic pouch to assassinate democratically-elected Patrice Lumumba. Opting not to use the virus, the CIA helps Belgium assassinate and dispose of Lumumba. Mobutu, the epitome of African kleptocracy, rules brutally for the next 35 years. The CIA’s Man in Greece Countries Involved: United States , Greece George Papandreou objects to US plans for Cyprus. President Johnson replies, “F*ck your Parliament and your Constitution.” Page 1 of 2
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CIA-backed King Constantine dismisses Papandreou, installing military dictatorship of Papadopoulos – the first CIA agent to become a European premier. Operation Hike Countries Involved: United States , Indonesia The CIA overthrows democratically elected Sukarno for control Indonesia’s rich oil fields. Sukarno’s replacement, General Suharto, murders between 500,000 to 1 million “communists”. The US embassy supplies names of suspected communists to the regime. Assassination of Che Guevara Countries Involved: United States , Belgium , Bolivia CIA leads the search for infamous revolutionary Che Guevara. Two days after his capture Che is executed. CIA man at the scene steals his Rolex. Guevara becomes a symbol of anti-imperialism. Whitlam Dismissal Countries Involved: United States , Australia Prime Minister Gough Whitlam enrages the CIA by cancelling joint CIA-ASIS ops in Chile and demanding a list of CIA operatives in Australia. The CIA’s man in Australia, Sir John Kerr, in his largely ceremonial position of Governor General, dismisses Whitlam’s government. All operations are back on. Project FUBELT Countries Involved: United States , Chile Chilean coup d’état – CIA overthrows democratically elected Salvador Allende and installs the military junta of General Pinochet. Telecommunication giant ITT offers CIA $1 million to get rid of Allende. Pinochet rules as dictator until 1990 and escapes trial for war crimes.
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Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers | Government Conspiracies
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Tom A. Hidell Whistleblowers Pentagon analyst leaks the Pentagon Papers, a secret report revealing that the US Government had no intentions of pulling out of Vietnam despite public statements. It also documented secret wars in neighboring countries Laos and Cambodia. In June of 1967, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara commissioned a secret report giving a true picture of the war in Vietnam compiled from classified material. The report, officially titled United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense was not completed until McNamara had left his post. One of the recipients of the secret report was the RAND Corporation where military analyst Daniel Ellsberg was given clearance to read the report. Outraged that Nixon continued the lies of the previous administrations of intending to pull out of Vietnam, Ellsberg leaks part of the papers to the New York Times. After 3 months of meetings the Times decides to publish parts of the documents in June of 1971. Nixon calls foul and claims National Security. The Attorney General orders the paper to stop printing material related to the Pentagon Paper and eventually wins a restraining order against the New York Times. For the first time since the US civil war, a newspaper is prevented by law from printing a story. Ellsberg then releases the Pentagon Papers to the Washington Post where Katherine Graham also decides to print them. The Washington Post is also blocked. Ellsberg then gives the papers to the Boston Globe. Newspaper after newspaper defied the order and printed sections and revelations from the Pentagon Papers. The case quickly makes its way to the Supreme Court where 6 of the 9 judges rule in favor of the press. It determines that the ban has less to do with National Security than protecting the reputation of politicians involved. (Nixon wasn’t happy) Ellsberg is charged under the Espionage Act and faces up to 115 years in jail. However, revelations that Nixon’s team of White House Plumbers had illegally installed wiretaps on Ellsberg caused the judge to call a mistrial. Ellsberg has since supported a number of whistleblowers, including Manning and Snowden. Sources and further information: Nixon Tapes: Nixon first learning about the Pentagon Papers from Haig. He is at first unconcerned since the documents concern mostly Kennedy but he is convinced by Kissinger that failure to act could set a dangerous precedent for future presidencies. Containment of China Related: Mark Felt – Watergate’s Deep Throat Mark Felt was the anonymous source known as Deep Throat that led Bob Woodward and Carl […] Page 1 of 2
Smedley Butler and the Business Plot US Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler testifies to the Jul 12, 2015 05:27:37AM MDT
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Chelsea Manning Exposes US War Crimes After coming across evidence of US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan US Army [‌]
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How a group of bankers took the power of money creation from government and entrusted it to unknown individuals and groups. Secret Jekyll Island Meeting November 22th 1910, seven men representing the banking establishment secretly meet at J.P. Morgan’s Jekyll Island. They create the plans for a new U.S. central bank. The bank’s name had to sound governmental, (despite being privatized) and appear to be non-central, (despite being centralized). They named the new privately-owned central bank, the Federal Reserve. (a.k.a. The Fed) Nelson W. Aldrich Senator, (daughter married to Rockefeller’s daughter) A. Piatt Andrew – Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department Frank Vanderlip – president of the National City Bank of New York (Rockefeller) Henry P. Davison – senior partner of J.P. Morgan Company Charles D. Norton – president of the First National Bank of New York Edward House – the power behind President Wilson and founder of the Council on Foreign Relations Paul Warburg – Kuhn, Loeb, & Co Picture a party of the nation’s greatest bankers stealing out of New York on a private railroad car under cover of darkness, stealthily riding hundred[s] of miles South, embarking on a mysterious launch, sneaking onto an island deserted by all but a few servants, living there a full week under such rigid secrecy that the names of not one of them was once mentioned, lest the servants government-conspiracy-secret-jekyll-island-meeting learn the identity and disclose to the world this strangest, most secret expedition in the history of American finance. I am not romancing; I am giving to the world, for the first time, the real story of how the famous Aldrich currency report, the foundation of our new currency system, was written… The utmost secrecy was enjoined upon all. The public must not glean a hint of what was to be done. Senator Aldrich notified each one to go quietly into a private car of which the railroad had received orders to draw up on an unfrequented platform. Off the party set. New York’s ubiquitous reporters had been foiled… Nelson (Aldrich) had confided to Henry, Frank, Paul, and Piatt that he was to keep them locked up at Jekyll Island, out of the rest of the world, until they had evolved and compiled a scientific currency system for the United States, the real birth of the present Federal Reserve System, the plan done on Jekyll Island in the conference with
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Paul, Frank, and Henry‌ Warburg is the link that binds the Aldrich system and the present system together. He more than any one man has made the system possible as a working reality. ~ Frank Vanderlip autobiography From Farmboy to Financier, 1935 After minor adjustments to the plans made at Jekyll Island, an empty Congress votes in favor of creation of the Federal Reserve.
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Gary Webb, the C.I.A. and the Crack Epidemic | Government Conspiracies
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Tom A. Hidell Whistleblowers Unable to provide direct assistance to rebel Nicaraguan Contras, the C.I.A. backs and protects cocaine smugglers fueling the L.A. crack epidemic. The early 1980s Boland Amendment placed severe restrictions on the C.I.A.’s ability to wage its secret wars against the Nicaraguan government. The Boland Amendment had also lead to the Iran-Contra affair, in which the Senior officials of the US government were involved in a plot to sell weapons to Iran in order to secretly fund the Contras. The C.I.A. and the Reagan White House were aware that the Contras were smuggling cocaine into the United Sates which was transformed into crack flooding the streets of Los Angeles and other major metropolis with cheap cocaine and causing the crack cocaine epidemic. Gary Webb’s Dark Alliance detailing the plot was printed in the San Jose Mercury News series In August 1996. Webb determined that the drugs were coming from one source and that the money was used to finance a guerrilla war in South America. He also documented that the C.I.A. was aware of the Contras’ activities but failed to report them to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). It was later revealed that the CIA had a get-out-of-jail card in the form of a 1982 secret agreement to allow their assets to break certain laws, including drug smuggling Initially there was public outrage. The government reacted by not reacting and let their gatekeepers at the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and at the New York Times do the talking. (See Operation Mockingbird) San Jose Mercury News could not take the pressure and eventually backed down. From that point on, Gary Webb was persona non grata and unable to work for a daily newspaper again. He made all his information available on his Dark Alliance website so that anyone could verify his research for themselves. In 1998 the Justice Department published a report revealing that the Reagan White House was aware of the trafficking and that the CIA had directly interfered in DEA investigation to protect Contra smugglers. That same year, the CIA Inspector General published his internal investigation in which he describes how the Reagan Whitehouse gave protection to 50 Contras smugglers with the full knowledge of the National Security Council and Oliver North. Whistleblower Gary Webb was found dead in December 2004 with two gun shots to the head. His death was ruled a suicide. Sources and further information: Related: CIA Secret Wars, Coups, and Assassinations The CIA does covertly what the government is unable to do overtly. Wars fought without […]
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Peter Buxtun and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study From 1932 to 1972, The United States Public Health Service studied the natural, [‌]
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Newspaper magnate William Hearst, Petrochemical du Pont brothers, US Secretary of the Treasury/banker/oil man Andrew Mellon and his nephew-in-law, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotic, Harry Anslinger conspire to pass the unconstitutional 1937 Marijuana Tax Act… …effectively outlawing cannabis and eliminating hemp as a competitor in the United States. Area 51 Area 51 is a US military base located in south-central Nevada and enclosed by mountains and harsh desert terrains. It is approximately 83 miles (134 km) from Las Vegas and is surrounded by the Nellis Air Force Range and borders the Nevada Test Site. The existence of the base was not acknowledged by the CIA until July 2013. Project MK-ULTRA MKULTRA is the most infamous of the known CIA experiments into mindcontrol. The Agency and the Army Chemical Corps experimented with an array of hallucinogens and other drugs on uninformed Americans and Canadians in an effort to discover the ideal truth serum, modify behaviors, manipulate memories and other methods of mind control. Operation Northwoods Joint Chiefs plans to bomb American civilian aircrafts and military bases disguised as Cubans in order to declare war on Cuba. COINTELPRO The FBI begins surveilling, harassing, intimidating and even assassinating leaders of civil rights movements and other organization deemed too left, or too right. Operation Mockingbird CIA infiltrates mainstream media news organizations in order to influence and control the news. CIA Secret Wars, Coups, and Assassinations The CIA does covertly what the government is unable to do overtly. Wars fought without the knowledged of Congress, routine assassination of foreign leaders, generally being dicks, and causing worldwide mayhem. Watergate, the ‘X’ Envelope, and the Paris Peace Talks Beyond Watergate: What were the Plumbers REALLY after? Government Surveillance The NSA routinely spies on US citizens. Page 1 of 2
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Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment The US Health Department conducts human experiments on uninformed poor Americans. Federal Reserve How a group of bankers took the power of money creation from a corrupted government and entrusted it to unknown individuals and groups. Gulf of Tonkin Johnson Whitehouse fabricates evidence of a Vietnamese attack on US warships in order to escalate the Vietnam War. Operation PAPERCLIP Following the end of World War 2, the OSS (precursor to the CIA) secretly alters war records of Nazi scientists and other war criminals in order to make them eligible for recruitment in the US. Assassination of John F. Kennedy Evidence of high-level government involvement in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. CIA and the Global Drug Trade The CIA is complicit and involved in the production and distribution of illegal drugs. Prohibition and Poisoning of Alcohol US Treasury adds poison to alcohol in order to discourage illegal consumption. Public Schools Oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller and other early 20th century industry giants redesign the US educational system to create better workers. Operation Gladio Left-behind troops conduct terror campaigns throughout Europe following WW2 in order to discredits Communists.
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Project 112/Project SHAD, or Shipboard Hazard and Defense, was a series of tests conducted by the Department of Defense from 1962 to 1974. Servicemembers [SIC] participated in conducting the tests. The purpose was to determine the potential risks to U.S. warships and American forces from chemical and biological warfare agents. ~ Project 112/Project SHAD Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment The US Health Department conducts human experiments on uninformed poor Americans.
Prohibition and Poisoning of Alcohol US Treasury adds poison to alcohol in order to discourage illegal consumption.
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CIA infiltrates mainstream media news organizations in order to influence and control the news. The CIA recruits journalists from mainstream news organizations. We’re talking about the biggies like ABC, CBS, NBC, Reuters, Associated Press, Washington Post, New York Times, Newsweek, Time and Life Magazines. In 1948, Frank Wisner was appointed director of the Office of Special Projects (OSP). Soon afterwards OSP was renamed the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC). This became the covert action branch of the Central Intelligence Agency. Wisner was told to create an organization that concentrated on “propaganda, economic warfare; preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, and support of indigenous anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free world.” Later that year Wisner established Mockingbird, a program to influence foreign media. Wisner recruited Philip Graham from The Washington Post to run the project within the industry. According to Deborah Davis in Katharine the Great; “By the early 1950s, Wisner ‘owned’ respected members of The New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles.” Wisner called this propaganda network the “Mighty Wurlitzer”. ~ Operation Mockingbird The CIA secretly bought the rights to Orwell’s Animal Farm and altered the ending. Instead of the pigs becoming the same as the their former masters, they are deposed by animals from outside the farm. The Agency also changed the ending of 1984. The CIA, Operation MOCKINGBIRD, and the funding of the George Orwell’s Animal Farm Animated Film Animal Farm started out as a piece of political satire that nobody wanted to publish only to, ironically, wind up a piece of government-funded propaganda in film. Regardless, both the novel and movie are true classics; in fact, Animal Farm was the first theatrical animated feature film made in England, despite the fact that the budget was funneled down from The United States’ Central Intelligence Agency. The animation of Animal Farm isn’t its selling point. Released in 1954, the animation is typical for the times. It’s the story and backstory that make it an invaluable piece of history. Animal Farm, as a book, took years to get published because it was so critical of the Soviet Revolution, given that Joseph Stalin was a powerful ally to the UK; it wasn’t until after World War II that the book was finally made available. A mere 8 years later, The Cold War had escalated to the point where the CIA gave money to two-time Academy Award Winner Louis de Rochemont and Halas and Batchelor, a British animation company that specialized in short animated propaganda films during The War. They believed that funding a local studio, such as Walt Disney could too easily be tied back to the Agency. The irony of it all is truly fantastic, understanding the plotline and surrounding events. Page 1 of 2
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The film is painstakingly loyal to the book, because you can’t really beat an Orwellian masterpiece. There was one major alteration, however – the ending of the book is cynical while the film simply ends with another revolution (that had never happened). Most people find this to be a flaw, believing the film should have ended a few minutes earlier, and kept true to the book.
The CIA had their own agenda, altering the story to push their agenda…which is a central theme of what the antagonist pigs (Communists) do throughout Animal Farm. Knowing these factors and watching all the subtle points of the film makes it as timeless as the book; each time you view/read either, you will discover ernment-conspiracies-mockingbird-cia-animal-farm something new, not because of complexity of animation or storyline, but because of the knowledge of the facts surrounding the film, and what the film portrays. Carl Bernstein, “The CIA & The Media“, Rolling Stone, October 27, 1977’ Senator Frank Church on The CIA’s Mockingbird Running Time: 3:12 minutes Animal Farm, 1954 Running Time: 1:09
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Project MK-ULTRA | Government Conspiracies
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MKULTRA a cryptonym for a series of mind control experiments conducted by the CIA. The Agency and the Army Chemical Corps experimented with an array of hallucinogenics and other drugs on uninformed Americans and Canadians in an effort to discover the ideal truth serum, modify behaviors, and manipulate memories. Following the end of American involvement in the Korean War in the early 50s, CIA officials had become intrigued by rumors of Soviet and Chinese advancement in “brainwashing”* methods. This prompt CIA Director Allen Dulles to instigate the CIA’s mind control research programs. The CIA’s mind control programs grew out of Operation Paperclip, a US intelligence program to protect Nazi war criminals in return for aiding the United States against the Communists. The Navy began Project CHATTER in 1947 with the objective of testing various drugs to aid in interrogations while the CIA began Project BLUEBIRD in 1950 with similar goals. Project BLUEBIRD was renamed Project ARTICHOKE the following year and continued research into behavior modification and mind control. A 1952 CIA memo asked “Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature?” The following year Dulles appointed Dr. Sidney Gottlieb to head up the CIA’s new Project MK-ULTRA. Operation MKULTRA consisted of around 150 subprojects each experimenting with different methods to achieve the Agency’s goals. Subproject 119 sought to control a subject’s mind remotely; Subproject 136 explored Extrasensory Perception (ESP) and Subproject 128 involved experiments with hypnosis. Dr. Sidney Gottlieb
The CIA used a variety of fronts to forge partnerships with al least 80 institutions, including prestigious universities, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies At its height, MkULTRA ate up 6% of the CIA’s budget. MKULTRA included experiments with a variety of drugs such as heroin, marijuana, morphine, MDA, MDMA, mescaline, magic mushrooms, sodium pentothal and alcohol. It also used electroshocks, hypnosis, sleep deprivation and other forms of torture… ANYTHING to achieve its goals. The CIA soon heard of a discovery by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann at Sandoz Laboratories in Switzerland. They had determined that Hofmann’s lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) might just be the elusive drug the Agency had been looking for. The CIA panicked after hearing that Sandoz was in the process of synthesizing millions of LSD doses for market. They feared that the Soviets might gain possession of the drug. The CIA was determined to buy the entire lot. Unfortunately, the CIA agent providing the information was unfamiliar with the metric system and mistaken milligrams for kilograms, a difference between 100 million doses, and 100. In early 1953, pro tennis player, Harold Blauer checked into the New York Psychiatric Institute seeking treatment for depression following a divorce. Blauer was unaware that the institute had a secret agreement with the Army Chemical Corps allowing them to do test on patients as part of their mind control experiments. Page 1 of 4
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experiments. Blauer was giver a heavy dose of a mescaline derivative (MDA), killing him, leading to a subsequent 22-year cover-up. A US Judge finally awarded $700k to Blauer’s estate in 1987. Later that year, Frank Olson, a chemists for the Army Chemical Corps, plunged to his death from a 13th story window of his hotel. He had unknowingly been slipped LSD by his CIA supervisor and had grown depressed. The family also eventually received an out-of-court settlement of $750k in 1975, as well as an apology from President Ford and CIA Director William Colby. However, after having the body exhumed for reburial, a second autopsy revealed that Olson had been murdered. Olson’s role in ARTICHOKE had made him privy to state secrets revealed in the course of interrogations, including the alleged use of biochemical weapons (Anthrax) by the US in the Korean War. Despite the now increasingly suspicious circumstances surrounding Olson’s death, the family was unable to file suit due to their previous settlement with Ford. Dr. Gottlieb appoints George White of the Narcotics Bureau to head up Operation Midnight Climax. CIA safe houses are repurposed as brothels in San Francisco and New York where agents begin observing the effect of various drugs on unsuspecting patrons through a one-way mirror. These observations help develop sexual blackmail and surveillance techniques that are soon used in CIA field operations In Canada, psychiatrist Ewen Cameron at McGill’s Allan Memorial Institute receives funding from a CIA front, the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, to pursue his research into “depatterning”. Cameron “treatment” involved” electroshocks and drug-induced comas (of up to 3 months) that he hoped would allow him to erase memories, reprogram human brains and cure schizophrenia. His treatments soon became part of the KUBARK torture manuel.
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The CIA financed university research programs and as a result made drugs, especially LSD, widely available throughout the United States. Researchers and professors such as Harvard psychology professor Timothy Leary soon started experimenting with the drugs themselves giving rise to the counterculture.
John Lennon said “We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD, by the way.” and felt that the Man’s plan had backfired” “They brought out LSD to control people, and what they did was give us freedom.” On the heels of Watergate in 1973, CIA director Richard Helm gave the order to destroy all documents relating to MKULTRA. Rumors of MKULTRA experiments on human reached the public and published in the New York times. The President formed the Rockefeller Commission while Congress appointed the Church Committee. Fearful of what such investigations into the CIA’s illegal activities might uncover, the CIA’s General Counsel Lawrence Houston travelled to the Washington to brief Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, then part of the Ford administration, on Operation Dormouse. Operation Dormouse, as Houston explained, was the Agency’s plan to give the investigators and the media a tasty morsel to chew on in the form of MKULTRA in order to keep revelations of Project ARTICHOKE from reaching the light of day, which in Houston’s opinion, would undo the Central Intelligence Agency. They agreed to throw Dr. Sidney Gottlieb and others to the wolves as well as to reveal ties to Harvard and other prestigious universities and hospitals. This would insure that the universities and the media themselves would act as gatekeepers and justify the CIA excesses and experiments on US citizens. Page 2 of 4
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and justify the CIA excesses and experiments on US citizens.
The plan worked. The Pandora’s box that was ARTICHOKE remained closed. Even to this day, the media and academia portray ARTICHOKE as having been absolved into MKULTRA despite continuing for at least 17 years following the creation of MKULTRA. The death was of Frank Olson is always mentioned in connection to MKULTRA despite him being a chemists for the Army Chemical Corps and actually attending a ARTICHOKE meeting when he was dosed To this day, the CIA and other intelligence agencies continue to experiment with drugs and methods that will give them an edge in interrogations. WARNING: Researchers into MKULTRA and other government mind control programs are bound to run into claims of “ Monarch” mind control programming. There is no evidence of Monarch other than questionable claims obtained through “deprogramming”. If Nazis or US intelligence had been able to create perfectly docile, completely unaware, all-obeying, all-forgetting, self-destructing mind-controlled slaves/assassins in the 1940s, there is little benefit in having gone through the BLUEBIRD/ ARTICHOKE/ MKULTRA/ MKSEARCH/ ETC charade. However, the claims of Illuminati blood sacrifice and alien reptilians by Arizona Wilder and Cathy O’Brien might be so outrageously unbelievable by design. In 1995, Valerie Wolf, Chris deNicola, and Claudia Mullen testified for the Presidential Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments (?) that satanic ritual abuse (SRA) was most likely used as a cover for experiments as part of the CIA’s MkUltra program. *The term brainwashing had been coined by anti-Communist journalist Edward Hunter in his book Brainwashing in Red China: the calculated destruction of men’s minds. Hunter had been a propagandist for American intelligence during World War 2 and was a collector of Chinese propaganda pamphlets. Resources: 1975 CIA memo on ARTICHOKE U.S. Congress: The Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Foreign and Military Intelligence, report no. 94-755, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. 1976 Church Committee Reports – Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence (p.390+) U.S. Senate Report Joint Hearing before The Select Committee on Intelligence and The Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources 95th Cong., 1st Sess. 1977 John Marks The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The Cia and Mind Control Tables from The Search for the Manchurian Candidate List of MkULTRA subprojects Interview Page 3 of 4
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Interview with Richard Helm (CIA.gov) Cries From the Past: Torture’s Ugly Echoes Codename Artichoke – The CIA’s Secret Experiments on Humans Frank Olson Documentary (2002) Running Time: ~53 minutes ABC News CIA MKULTRA: Mission Mind Control (1979) Running Time: ~47 minutes
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Public Schools | Government Conspiracies
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Oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller and other early 20th century industry giants redesign the US educational system to create better workers. Oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller and other early 20th century industry giants take it upon themselves to redesign the US educational system. As corporate masters, they needed workers who were more docile, loyal Public Schools and most importantly, obedient. They needed to be able to follow orders without questions – without thinking for themselves. In 1902 Rockefeller and clergyman Frederick T. Gates found the General Education Board in early 1902 and begin throwing vast sums of money to anyone whose theories coincided with their goals. Men like Stanley Hall, John Dewey, and Edward Thorndike become overnight sensations thanks to Rockefeller’s and his board’s financial backing.
General Education Board Trustees, 1915. Front : Edwin A. Alderman, Frederick T. Gates, Charles W. Eliot (Harvard), Harry Pratt Judson (University of Chicago), Wallace Buttrick. Middle : Wickliffe Rose, Hollis B. Frissell, John D. Rockefeller, E.C. Sage, Albert Shaw, Abraham Flexner. Back : George E. Vincent (Rockefeller Foundation), Anson Phelps Stokes, Starr J. Murphy, Jerome D. Greene.
School’s true purpose became to create better workers who completely accepted their lives of servitude.
“In our dreams…people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present educational conventions fade from our minds, and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk.” ~General Education Board, Occasional Letter Number One (1906)
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The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition. Quora Contributor July 10 2015 12:09 PM
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It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights, when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room at New York City's Bellevue Hospital. He was flushed, gasping with fear: Santa Claus, he kept telling the nurses, was just behind him, wielding a baseball bat. Before hospital staff realized how sick he was—the alcohol-induced hallucination was just a symptom—the man died. So did another holiday partygoer. And another. As dusk fell on Christmas, the hospital staff A police raid confiscating illegal alcohol, in Elk Lake, Canada, in tallied up more than 60 people made desperately ill by alcohol and eight dead from it. Within the next two days, 1925. yet another 23 people died in the city from celebrating the season. Doctors were accustomed to alcohol poisoning by then, the routine of life in the Prohibition era. The bootlegged whiskies and so-called gins often made people sick. The liquor produced in hidden stills frequently came tainted with metals and other impurities. But this outbreak was bizarrely different. The deaths, as investigators would shortly realize, came courtesy of the U.S. government. Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people. Although mostly forgotten today, the "chemist's war of Prohibition" remains one of the strangest and most deadly decisions in American law-enforcement history. As one of its most outspoken opponents, Charles Norris, the chief medical examiner of New York City during the 1920s, liked to say, it was "our national experiment in extermination." Poisonous alcohol still kills—16 people died just this month after drinking lethal booze in Indonesia, where bootleggers make their own brews to avoid steep taxes—but that's due to unscrupulous businessmen rather than government order. I learned of the federal poisoning program while researching my new book, The Poisoner's Handbook, which is set in jazz-age New York. My first reaction was that I must have gotten it wrong. "I never heard that the government poisoned people during Prohibition, did you?" I kept saying to friends, family members, colleagues. I did, however, remember the U.S. government's controversial decision in the 1970s to spray Mexican marijuana fields with Paraquat, an herbicide. Its use was primarily intended to destroy crops, but government officials also insisted that awareness of the toxin would deter marijuana smokers. They echoed the official position of the 1920s—if some citizens ended up poisoned, well, they'd brought it upon themselves. Although Paraquat wasn't really all that toxic, the outcry forced the government to drop the plan. Still, the incident created an unsurprising lack of trust in government motives, which reveals itself in the1 occasional Page of 3
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the occasional rumors circulating today that federal agencies, such as the CIA, mix poison into the illegal drug supply. During Prohibition, however, an official sense of higher purpose kept the poisoning program in place. As the Chicago Tribune editorialized in 1927: "Normally, no American government would engage in such business. … It is only in the curious fanaticism of Prohibition that any means, however barbarous, are considered justified." Others, however, accused lawmakers opposed to the poisoning plan of being in cahoots with criminals and argued that bootleggers and their law-breaking alcoholic customers deserved no sympathy. "Must Uncle Sam guarantee safety first for souses?" asked Nebraska's Omaha Bee. The saga began with ratification of the 18th Amendment, which banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States. * High-minded crusaders and anti-alcohol organizations had helped push the amendment through in 1919, playing on fears of moral decay in a country just emerging from war. The Volstead Act, spelling out the rules for enforcement, passed shortly later, and Prohibition itself went into effect on Jan. 1, 1920. But people continued to drink—and in large quantities. Alcoholism rates soared during the 1920s; insurance companies charted the increase at more than 300 more percent. Speakeasies promptly opened for business. By the decade's end, some 30,000 existed in New York City alone. Street gangs grew into bootlegging empires built on smuggling, stealing, and manufacturing illegal alcohol. The country's defiant response to the new laws shocked those who sincerely (and naively) believed that the amendment would usher in a new era of upright behavior. Rigorous enforcement had managed to slow the smuggling of alcohol from Canada and other countries. But crime syndicates responded by stealing massive quantities of industrial alcohol—used in paints and solvents, fuels and medical supplies—and redistilling it to make it potable. Well, sort of. Industrial alcohol is basically grain alcohol with some unpleasant chemicals mixed in to render it undrinkable. The U.S. government started requiring this "denaturing" process in 1906 for manufacturers who wanted to avoid the taxes levied on potable spirits. The U.S. Treasury Department, charged with overseeing alcohol enforcement, estimated that by the mid-1920s, some 60 million gallons of industrial alcohol were stolen annually to supply the country's drinkers. In response, in 1926, President Calvin Coolidge's government decided to turn to chemistry as an enforcement tool. Some 70 denaturing formulas existed by the 1920s. Most simply added poisonous methyl alcohol into the mix. Others used bitter-tasting compounds that were less lethal, designed to make the alcohol taste so awful that it became undrinkable. To sell the stolen industrial alcohol, the liquor syndicates employed chemists to "renature" the products, returning them to a drinkable state. The bootleggers paid their chemists a lot more than the government did, and they excelled at their job. Stolen and redistilled alcohol became the primary source of liquor in the country. So federal officials ordered manufacturers to make their products far more deadly. By mid-1927, the new denaturing formulas included some notable poisons—kerosene and brucine (a plant alkaloid closely related to strychnine), gasoline, benzene, cadmium, iodine, zinc, mercury salts, nicotine, ether, formaldehyde, chloroform, camphor, carbolic acid, quinine, and acetone. The Treasury Department also demanded more methyl alcohol be added—up to 10 percent of total product. It was the last that proved most deadly. The results were immediate, starting with that horrific holiday body count in the closing days of 1926. Public health officials responded with shock. "The government knows it is not stopping drinking by putting poison in alcohol," New York City medical examiner Charles Norris said at a hastily organized press conference. "[Y]et it continues its poisoning processes, heedless of the fact that people determined to drink are2 of daily must be charged Page 3 absorbing that poison. Knowing this to be true, the United States governmentJul 12, 2015 05:30:34AM MDT
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that people determined to drink are daily absorbing that poison. Knowing this to be true, the United States government must be charged with the moral responsibility for the deaths that poisoned liquor causes, although it cannot be held legally responsible." His department issued warnings to citizens, detailing the dangers in whiskey circulating in the city: "[P]ractically all the liquor that is sold in New York today is toxic," read one 1928 alert. He publicized every death by alcohol poisoning. He assigned his toxicologist, Alexander Gettler, to analyze confiscated whiskey for poisons—that long list of toxic materials I cited came in part from studies done by the New York City medical examiner's office. Norris also condemned the federal program for its disproportionate effect on the country's poorest residents. Wealthy people, he pointed out, could afford the best whiskey available. Most of those sickened and dying were those "who cannot afford expensive protection and deal in low grade stuff." And the numbers were not trivial. In 1926, in New York City, 1,200 were sickened by poisonous alcohol; 400 died. The following year, deaths climbed to 700. These numbers were repeated in cities around the country as public-health officials nationwide joined in the angry clamor. Furious anti-Prohibition legislators pushed for a halt in the use of lethal chemistry. "Only one possessing the instincts of a wild beast would desire to kill or make blind the man who takes a drink of liquor, even if he purchased it from one violating the Prohibition statutes," proclaimed Sen. James Reed of Missouri. Officially, the special denaturing program ended only once the 18th Amendment was repealed in December 1933. But the chemist's war itself faded away before then. Slowly, government officials quit talking about it. And when Prohibition ended and good grain whiskey reappeared, it was almost as if the craziness of Prohibition—and the poisonous measures taken to enforce it—had never quite happened. Correction, Feb. 22, 2010: The article originally and incorrectly said that the 18th Amendment banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol, not consumption. (Return to the corrected sentence.)
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Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment | Government Conspiracies government-conspiracies.com The US Health Department conducts human experiments on uninformed poor Americans. For 40 years, the US Health Department lies to around 400 poor African-Americans about receiving free treatment for their “bad blood�, when in reality, doctors are observing the effect of untreated Syphilis. The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment Running Time: ~10 minutes
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Watergate, the ‘X’ Envelope, and the Paris Peace Talks | Government Conspiracies
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Beyond Watergate: What were the Plumbers REALLY after? The story of the 4 burglars breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex is well known. What is less well-known is what the burglars were after that night. It turns out that Nixon’s people had gone behind President’s Johnson back to deliberately sabotage the Paris Peace Talks. Near the end of his presidency, Lyndon Johnson gave a mix of secret and top-secret files he had amassed on Nixon’s treasonous behind-the-scene manipulations to his national security adviser, Walt W. Rostow. Rostow kept the file and labelled it the “X-Envelope“. With the climate the way it stood in 1968, there was a very good chance that the Peace talks would have succeeded. However, Nixon’s team interceded and persuaded the South Vietnamese to boycott the talks entirely. FBI Director Hoover informed Nixon that the Democrats had obtained wiretaps that could contain proof of Nixon’s involvement in sabotaging the Peace Talk. This would surely cost Nixon the elections. Nixon his National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger to find the potentially damaging wiretaps. And THAT is what the Watergate burglars were looking for on that night. Nixon HAD to know what the Democrats could prove about the Paris Peace talks. Enter the plumbers.
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