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CIA Drug Running in LA: Pulitzer Prize Award winning journalist Gary Webb exposed this alongside LAPD Narcotics Officer turned whislteblower and author Michael Ruppert, CIA Contract Pilot Terry Reed, and many others. In August 1996 the San Jose Mercury News published Webb’s “Dark Alliance”, a 20,000 word, three-part investigative series which alleged that Nicaraguan drug traffickers had sold and distributed crack coc aine in Los Angeles during the 1980s, and that drug profits were used to fund the CIA-supported Nicaraguan Contras.
The Iran-Contra Affair: In 1985 and ’86, the White House authorized government officials to secretly trade weapons with the Israeli government in exchange for the release of U.S. hostages in Iran. The plot was uncovered by Congress in 1987.
1990 Testimony of Nayirah: A 15-year-old girl named “Nayirah” testified before the U.S. Congress that she had seen Iraqi soldiers pulling Kuwaiti babies from incubators, causing them to die. The testimony helped gain major public support for the 1991 Gulf War, but — despite protests that the dispute of this story was itself a conspiracy theory — it was later discovered that the testimony was false. The public relations firm Hill & Knowlton, which was in the employ of Citizens for a Free Kuwait, had arranged the testimony. It turned out that she had taken acting lessons on request of the CIA and was actually the niece of a major politician in Kuwait. Nayirah was later disclosed to be Nayirah al-Sabah, daughter of Saud bin Nasir Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ambassador to the USA.
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments From 1932 to 1972, a program operated by the US Public Health Service operated a clinic in Tuskegee, Alabama, providing free health care to the local black sharecroppers, many of whom were infected with syphilis. Contrary to some modern versions of the story, the study did not actually give anyone syphilis who didn't have it. Instead, they continued their studies of the progression of the disease, even after 1940 when syphilis became easily treatable with penicillin — a treatment they withheld from their patients.
Asbestos: Between 1930 and 1960, manufacturers did all they could to prevent the link between asbestos and respiratory diseases, including cancer, becoming known, so they could avoid prosecution. American workers had in fact sued the Johns Manville company as far back as 1932, but it was not until 1962 that epidemiologists finally established beyond any doubt what company bosses had known for a long time – asbestos causes cancer.
Watergate: Republican officials spied on the Democratic National Headquarters from the Watergate Hotel in 1972. While conspiracy theories suggested underhanded dealings were taking place, it wasn’t until 1974 that White House tape recordings linked President Nixon to the break-in and forced him to resign.
Operation Northwoods: In the early 1960s, American military leaders drafted plans to create public support for a war against Cuba, to oust Fidel Castro from power. The plans included committing acts of terrorism in U.S. cities, killing innocent people and U.S. soldiers, blowing up a U.S. ship, assassinating Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees, and hijacking planes. The plans were all approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but were reportedly rejected by the civilian leadership, then kept secret for nearly 40 years.
originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: rickymouse
Lots of things discussed here wind up coming out as true.
Name a conspiracy theory discussed here that has been proven true. One will do.
originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: Xtrozero
Uh... what?
That is the most nonsensical measure I have ever heard applied to anything. If a murderer can be jailed twenty years after killing someone, then that pokes some serious holes in your theory.
Gulf of Tonkin. Project paperclip. Operation Fast and Furious. NSA mass surveillance. CIA Drug Trafficking. American Funding of Hitler.
originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: rickymouse
Lots of things discussed here wind up coming out as true.
Name a conspiracy theory discussed here that has been proven true. One will do.
originally posted by: cavtrooper7
Sandy HOOK shootings were fake which was a conspiracy theory as well as accurate.
OP?
I hear crickets...
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originally posted by: captaintyinknots
Gulf of Tonkin. Project paperclip. Operation Fast and Furious. NSA mass surveillance. CIA Drug Trafficking. American Funding of Hitler.
originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: rickymouse
Lots of things discussed here wind up coming out as true.
Name a conspiracy theory discussed here that has been proven true. One will do.
Those are just off the top of my head.
Yup, you're done.
They are most definitely conspiracies.
originally posted by: Xtrozero
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originally posted by: captaintyinknots
Gulf of Tonkin. Project paperclip. Operation Fast and Furious. NSA mass surveillance. CIA Drug Trafficking. American Funding of Hitler.
originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: rickymouse
Lots of things discussed here wind up coming out as true.
Name a conspiracy theory discussed here that has been proven true. One will do.
Those are just off the top of my head.
Yup, you're done.
I guess the question would be whether these are conspiracies or just clandestine operations that have come to light?
originally posted by: SkepticOverlord
a reply to: cavtrooper7
That's a "conspiracy fantasy" with no valid proof. So much so, that we generally don't allow discussion of it here on ATS.
originally posted by: TrueBrit
I think there is a pretty clear difference between a conspiracy as we know them, and a clandestine operation.
Most of the conspiracies we talk about here, are things which have very negative connotations for the freedom of people all over the world, including, and sometimes with a particular focus on folk living in allegedly free, developed nations. If the US government, for example, was to be enacting a policy of removing dissenting voices by either coercing them, or destroying their lives, then everyone would be pissed.
If however, a foreign agent on an assassination mission gets whacked in a parking lot, no one will give a flying fig.
Conspiracy theory, basically revolves around the possibility that governments and organisations are operating policies which are harmful for the people of the nations involved, that governments particularly have policies which are designed in such a way as to obliterate the freedoms of people living in their countries on some level, AND that they lie about them, consistently, despite not having a mandate to do any of these things.
originally posted by: cavtrooper7
A fellow scout has confirmed the story.