In 1953 the CIA launched a deadly mind-control program.

Masked as ‘intelligence research’, they secretly administered LSD to the public and

manipulated their mental states. The CIA’s ultimate goal was to create a brainwashed

assassin programmed to kill.

Patients were also hypnotized and given electroshock therapy to try and create split personalities

that could be used against the Russians in the Cold War.

But when investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported illegal CIA surveillance in

1975, the American public were outraged. Further government investigations discovered thousands

of files on MK-ULTRA and some truly disturbing human experiments.

9. Operation Paperclip

After WW2 the USA recruited 1,600 Nazi scientists in order to prevent their knowledge falling

into Soviet hands.

The US government claimed that any hired German found to be a former Nazi would be excluded

from the program - but this was a sham.

Instead, hundreds of Nazi technicians were given fake records and offered sanctuary in

the USA.

Some of these Nazis, like Arthur Rudolph and Otto Von Bolschwing helped Hitler to ‘purge

Germany of the Jews’.

8. CIA Drug Trafficking

In 1996 investigative journalist Gary Webb exposed the CIA for facilitating the sale

of cocaine to LA street gangs.

Webb alleged that in the 1980s the CIA targeted drugs to African-American communities – and

millions of dollars worth of cocaine funded the CIA’s army in Nicaragua.

Newspapers influenced by American intelligence, like the LA Times, severely discredited his

work. With his career ruined, Webb killed himself.

9 years later, the LA Times apologized for falsely attacking Webb, and admitted that

his allegations had indeed been correct.

7. Operation Northwoods

In 1962 US military intelligence planned terrorist attacks on its own country. US operatives

intended to blame these attacks on the Cuban government to justify a war against Cuba.

The operation involved hijacking planes and bombing US cities, to gain public support

against Cuba’s communist leader, Fidel Castro.

Operation Northwoods was rejected by the Kennedy administration and forgotten for 40 years.

It was rediscovered in the early 90s during a surge of interest in JFK’s assassination

and provoked outrage from the American public.

6. The NSA Files

In 2013 computer analyst Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA was accessing tens of millions

of Americans’ online records and tracking phone calls – under the pretence of trying

to uncover terrorist plots.

But before the scandal broke, the director of national intelligence James Clapper lied

under oath to Congress, when he claimed that the NSA did not collect the data of millions

of Americans.

Whistle-blower Snowden has since been charged with theft of government property and is seeking

asylum in Russia.

5. COINTELPRO

Peace activists suspected the FBI of infiltrating the anti-war movement - and they were right.

On March 8th 1971 they broke into an FBI office and stole hundreds of files, which revealed

the bureau’s true motives.

The Counter Intelligence Program was an aggressive, covert operation by the bureau to destroy

Communism and the New Left.

For nearly 2 decades the FBI sought to intimidate, blackmail, and sometimes even assassinate

individuals who threatened to disrupt political order.

They even targeted Martin Luther King Jr., wiretapping his hotel rooms and trying to

persuade him to commit suicide.

4. Operation Snow White

In the 1970s the Church of Scientology performed one of the largest infiltrations of US government

in history. 5,000 undercover members raided 136 American agencies to steal documents critical

of the church.

In 1977 former Scientology member Michael Meisner contacted the FBI, suspecting that

the Scientology community was involved in criminal activities.

His suspicions were correct. In 1978 the founder of Scientology’s wife, Mary Sue Hubbard,

and 10 other conspirators, were found guilty of stealing classified records from the US

government.

To this day, the Church of Scientology denies the existence of the operation.

3. Guatemala Syphilis Study

Between 1946 and 1948 the USA landed in Guatemala City and secretly infected 1,500 people with

syphilis to test the effectiveness of penicillin.

At least 83 people died in these experiments, which had the approval of The Rockefeller

Foundation and Johns Hopkins University.

America kept quiet for 6 decades until Professor Susan Reverby uncovered the experiment in

2005. Both Rockefeller and Hopkins have denied any connection.

However, government officials have since reported that their researches used US taxpayers’

money to pay prostitutes with syphilis to infect unknowing subjects, and bribed others

with cigarettes to be injected with the disease.

2. Gulf of Tonkin

The Vietnam War was started because of a lie.

On August 2nd 1964 America and North Vietnam engaged in military combat in the Gulf of

Tonkin.

According to official reports, North Vietnam also initiated an attack on August 4th, prompting

the USA to respond with military action. Only this second attack never happened.

In 2005 it was revealed that President Lyndon B. Johnson falsely claimed that Vietnam had

attacked the USA in order to go to war and declare that South Vietnam was jeopardized

by 'communist aggression'.

1. Operation Mockingbird

In the 1950s the CIA launched a secret campaign to control the media, recruiting top journalists

so they would have power over the New York Times, CBS, and Newsweek.

By 1953 they influenced over 25 newspapers and radio stations and could promote big business,

positive US government messages, and anti-communist agendas.

They even attempted to buy every copy of a book critical of the CIA, but decided against

it when the publisher revealed that this would lead to a second edition being printed.

After a number of exposés, the US government officially revealed in 1976 that the CIA tried

to control public opinion using covert propaganda.