A Dozen Times The US Government Conspired Against Its Own People & Lied About It (Video)
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The US government has been attacking and experimenting on the People for decades, if not a century. In this episode, though there are voluminous examples we could point to regarding their crimes against the people, we look at 12 specific ones that, though they did them and lied about them, they eventually admitted they were going on… and no one was ever held to account for what they did. NO ONE.
- Operation Northwoods
- MKUltra
- COINTELPRO
- Rethinking Conspiracy
- Operation Mockingbird
- Iran–Contra affair
- Project MINARET
- Operation Paperclip
- Timeline of Human Experimentation
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A plethora of government conspiracies and crimes against the People:
| Category | Event | Historical Context | Initial Dismissal as Conspiracy Theory | Confirmation and Sources | Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surveillance | COINTELPRO (1956–1971) | FBI disrupted civil rights groups via smears. | Labeled radical paranoia. | 1971 FBI burglary leak; 1975–1976 Senate hearings. | Program ended; FBI reforms. |
| Surveillance | NSA PRISM (2007–2013) | Warrantless data collection from tech firms. | Called dystopian surveillance fantasies. | 2013 Snowden leaks; congressional probes. | Law reforms; parts ruled unconstitutional. |
| Surveillance | Operation CHAOS (1967–1974) | CIA illegally surveilled ~300,000 anti-war Americans. | Dismissed as activist exaggeration. | Church Committee report in 1975; declassified CIA files. | Program shutdown; enhanced intelligence oversight. |
| Surveillance | Operation Snow White (1970s) | Church of Scientology deployed 5,000 agents to infiltrate 136 U.S. government agencies, stealing documents to purge unfavorable records. | Dismissed as anti-religious paranoia. | 1977 FBI raid; court documents and convictions. | 11 convictions including Mary Sue Hubbard; ended largest U.S. spy operation in history. |
| Surveillance | UK Mass CCTV Surveillance (1980s–Present) | British government expanded ~6 million public cameras with undisclosed facial recognition for mass monitoring, exposed via leaks. | Called dystopian “Big Brother” overreach. | 2013 Snowden leaks; 2018 European Court of Human Rights ruling. | Violations of privacy rights found; partial GDPR reforms and oversight. |
| Surveillance | Collusion in Northern Ireland Murders (1970s–1990s) | UK security forces (RUC, MI5) colluded with loyalist paramilitaries, providing intelligence and weapons for attacks on nationalists during The Troubles. | Viewed as republican propaganda. | 2003–2012 inquiries (Stevens Report, de Silva Review). | Public inquiries launched; limited convictions and reparations for victims. |
| Surveillance | Watergate Scandal (1972–1974) | The scandal began on June 17, 1972, when five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex, involving political espionage and a cover-up by the Nixon administration. | Initially dismissed by Nixon as a “third-rate burglary” and accusations seen as partisan attacks. | 1973–1974 Senate Watergate Committee hearings, special prosecutor investigations, and the release of the “smoking gun” tape in 1974. | Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974; 48 convictions including top aides; led to reforms like the Ethics in Government Act and campaign finance laws. |
| Surveillance | Twitter Files Government Censorship (2022–2023) | FBI, DHS, and White House officials pressured Twitter to suppress content on COVID-19 origins, election integrity, and the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of 2020 elections. | Denials of government influence on social media moderation labeled as misinformation or free speech overreach claims. | Twitter Files releases by Elon Musk (2022–2023); Missouri v. Biden court filings confirming flagged accounts and content removals. | Platform policy changes; ongoing lawsuits (e.g., Murthy v. Missouri); congressional probes into Section 230 reforms. |
| Surveillance | ECHELON (1960s–Present) | A global signals intelligence network operated by the Five Eyes alliance (U.S., UK, etc.) intercepting vast amounts of international communications without warrants. | Dismissed as dystopian global spying fiction. | 2001 European Parliament report (STOA); Snowden leaks confirming scope. | Sparked international privacy laws; program expanded but with oversight debates. |
| Recent Events | COVID Lab Leak (2020–2023) | Wuhan lab origin hypothesis. | Suppressed as racist misinformation. | 2023 FBI/DOE assessments; 2025 CIA update. | Shift to “likely” lab origin (low confidence). |
| Recent Events | Hunter Biden Laptop (2020) | Contents dismissed as Russian disinfo. | Labeled election hoax. | 2024 FBI confirmation in trial. | Authenticity verified. |
| Recent Events | Russia Collusion Hoax (2016–2017) | Post-election Intelligence Community Assessment claimed Russian interference favored Trump; declassified docs revealed it as fabricated to undermine his presidency. | Dismissed as pro-Trump denialism or election interference myths. | July 2025 DNI declassifications under Tulsi Gabbard; Obama-era memos confirming directed misinformation. | Calls for prosecutions (e.g., by Gabbard); eroded trust in intelligence agencies; influenced 2025 political discourse. |
| Government Experiments | Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932–1972) | U.S. Public Health Service observed untreated syphilis in 399 Black men in Alabama, withholding penicillin post-1947. | Labeled as unfounded racial abuse claims. | 1972 Associated Press report; 1974 lawsuit; 1979 Belmont Report. | $10M settlement; ethics reforms; 128+ deaths; 1997 presidential apology. |
| Government Experiments | MKUltra (1953–1973) | CIA dosed unwitting subjects with LSD for mind control amid Cold War fears. | Dismissed as paranoid mind-control fantasies. | 1975 Church Committee; 20,000+ declassified documents in 1977. | CIA apology; limited compensation; 12+ deaths; human experimentation bans. |
| Government Experiments | Project Midnight Climax (1953–1965) | MKUltra subproject using brothels for non-consensual LSD tests. | Rejected as spy novel fiction. | 1977 declassifications; Senate hearings. | Ethical reforms; included in MKUltra apologies. |
| Government Experiments | Operation Sea-Spray (1950) | Navy sprayed bacteria over San Francisco to test biowarfare vulnerability. | Called exaggerated germ warfare fears. | 1977 Senate hearings; military records. | 1981 lawsuit (acknowledged but dismissed); 11 infections, 1 death. |
| Government Experiments | Project Sunshine (1950s–1960s) | Atomic Energy Commission collected ~1,500 tissue samples from deceased infants without consent for radiation studies. | Dismissed as unfounded claims of unethical medical practices. | Declassified Atomic Energy Commission documents in 1995; congressional inquiries. | Ethical reforms in human subject research; public outrage over consent violations. |
| Government Experiments | MKNaomi (1952–1970) | CIA/Army program developing biological toxins and delivery systems like shellfish toxin darts. | Labeled as paranoid bioweapons fantasies. | Church Committee investigations and declassifications in 1975. | Program termination; contributed to bans on biological weapons. |
| Government Experiments | Operation Paperclip (1945–1959) | U.S. recruited ~1,600 German scientists, including Nazis, for military/space projects while concealing their pasts. | Viewed as anti-government paranoia about harboring war criminals. | Declassified U.S. government documents in the 1970s–1980s. | Advanced U.S. rocketry; ethical concerns led to historical reevaluations. |
| Government Experiments | Heart Attack Gun (1960s–1970s) | CIA developed a dart gun firing frozen poison to induce undetectable heart attacks. | Dismissed as spy fiction. | 1975 congressional testimony by CIA; Church Committee hearings. | Exposed assassination capabilities; no direct prosecutions but increased oversight. |
| Government Experiments | Government Poisoning of Alcohol (1920–1933) | U.S. Treasury added toxic chemicals to industrial alcohol during Prohibition to deter bootlegging. | Derided as exaggerated government overreach claims. | Historical records and declassified policy documents; medical examiner reports. | ~10,000 deaths; contributed to Prohibition repeal in 1933. |
| Government Experiments | Operation Popeye (1967–1972) | U.S. Air Force conducted cloud-seeding operations over Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia to extend monsoon seasons and disrupt enemy supply lines. | Labeled as weather warfare fiction. | Declassified in 1974 Senate hearings; U.S. State Department documents. | Contributed to 1977 UN treaty banning environmental modification for military use; program ended. |
| Government Experiments | CIA Fake Vaccination Program (2011) | CIA orchestrated a sham hepatitis B vaccination drive in Abbottabad, Pakistan, to collect DNA samples from Osama bin Laden’s family. | Dismissed as anti-vaccine conspiracy. | 2014 Senate Intelligence Committee report; CIA admissions and journalistic exposés. | Global backlash against intelligence misuse of health programs; ethical guidelines established banning such tactics. |
| Government Experiments | CIA Assassination Plots Against Foreign Leaders (1950s–1970s) | CIA pursued plots using poisons, explosives, and mob connections against leaders like Fidel Castro, Patrice Lumumba, and Rafael Trujillo. | Called spy novel excess. | 1975 Church Committee hearings; declassified Senate reports. | Prompted 1976 executive order banning political assassinations; increased congressional oversight of CIA. |
| Government Experiments | Roswell Incident (1947) | Debris from a crashed high-altitude balloon from Project Mogul, a top-secret program to detect Soviet nuclear tests, was recovered near Roswell, New Mexico. | Initial press release called it a “flying disc,” quickly retracted as a weather balloon, leading to decades of UFO conspiracy theories dismissed as hoaxes. | 1994 U.S. Air Force report declassifying Project Mogul as the source of the debris. | Explained the incident but fueled ongoing skepticism; no legal actions, but increased transparency demands for classified projects. |
| Government Experiments | Phoenix Program (1965–1972) | The CIA and U.S. military ran the Phoenix Program in Vietnam to neutralize Viet Cong infrastructure through capture, interrogation, and assassination of ~26,000 suspects. | Accusations of widespread torture and civilian killings dismissed as anti-war propaganda exaggerations. | 1971 Winter Soldier Investigation and 1972 congressional hearings; declassified documents in the 1990s. | Program ended in 1972 amid controversy; contributed to U.S. public opposition to the war; no major prosecutions but influenced post-war ethics in counterinsurgency. |
| Government Experiments | Gulf War Syndrome Cover-up (1990–1991) | U.S. and allied troops exposed to chemical agents, depleted uranium, and experimental vaccines during the Gulf War, leading to chronic illnesses in veterans dismissed as psychological. | Labeled as “Gulf War Syndrome” hysteria or post-traumatic stress without physical cause. | 2008 Research Advisory Committee report; declassified DoD documents in 2010s confirming exposures and suppressed data. | VA expanded benefits; $400M+ in compensation; reforms in veteran health reporting. |
| False Flags | Gulf of Tonkin Incident (1964) | Exaggerated attacks led to Vietnam escalation. | Denied as anti-war propaganda. | 2005 NSA declassifications. | Acknowledged as “mistake”; 58,000+ U.S. deaths; war pretext exposed. |
| False Flags | Operation Northwoods (1962) | Proposed U.S. false-flag attacks to blame Cuba. | Viewed as wild war-justification myths. | 1997 declassifications under JFK Act. | Rejected by Kennedy; revealed military tactics. |
| False Flags | Operation Mockingbird (1948–1970s) | CIA recruited journalists for propaganda. | Dismissed as media manipulation paranoia. | 1975 Church Committee; Bernstein’s 1977 article. | Oversight reforms; prohibited direct payments (1976). |
| False Flags | Lavon Affair (1954) | Israeli agents staged bombings in Egypt to blame nationalists and justify intervention. | Labeled as anti-Israel fabrications. | Israeli government declassification in 2005. | Political scandal; agents convicted but later honored. |
| False Flags | Operation Gladio (1950s–1990s) | NATO stay-behind networks conducted false-flag operations in Europe to blame communists. | Dismissed as Cold War paranoia. | Parliamentary investigations and declassifications in 1990s across Europe. | Exposed secret armies; trials for terrorism involvement. |
| False Flags | Business Plot (1933) | Wealthy businessmen plotted fascist coup against FDR, recruiting Gen. Smedley Butler. | Viewed as sensationalist rumors. | Congressional committee testimony by Butler in 1934. | Plot exposed and halted; no prosecutions. |
| False Flags | Nayirah Testimony (1990) | Fabricated story of Iraqi atrocities used to build support for Gulf War. | Denied as anti-war disinformation. | 1992 journalistic investigations; Amnesty International retraction. | Influenced U.S. entry into Gulf War; PR firm exposed. |
| False Flags | Operation Ajax (1953) | CIA and MI6 orchestrated a coup against Iran’s Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh using propaganda, bribes, and staged riots to secure oil interests. | Viewed as anti-Western fabrication. | 2013 CIA declassifications; National Security Archive documents. | Installed the Shah; led to long-term U.S.-Iran tensions and 1979 revolution. |
| False Flags | 1973 Chilean Coup | CIA supported General Augusto Pinochet’s overthrow of socialist President Salvador Allende through propaganda, economic sabotage, and military contacts. | Dismissed as leftist hysteria. | 1975 Church Committee; 2000 declassifications. | Pinochet dictatorship (17 years, thousands killed); 1998 Pinochet arrest; reparations for victims. |
| False Flags | CIA Funding of Dalai Lama (1950s–1970s) | CIA provided $180,000 annually to the Dalai Lama and Tibetan exiles to foment anti-Chinese unrest during the Cold War. | Dismissed as Tibetan myth. | 1998 CIA declassifications; historical memos. | Exposed U.S. meddling in Tibet; Dalai Lama criticized program’s end as revealing ulterior motives. |
| False Flags | Iran-Contra Affair (1985–1987) | Reagan administration officials secretly sold arms to Iran despite an embargo to secure hostage releases, using proceeds to fund Nicaraguan Contras against congressional bans. | Initially denied as rumors and conspiracy theories about illegal arms deals. | 1986 Lebanese magazine leak, followed by 1986–1987 congressional hearings (Tower Commission, Walsh investigation). | 14 indictments (11 convictions, some pardoned); damaged Reagan’s presidency; led to independent counsel law extensions. |
| False Flags | USS Liberty Incident (1967) | During the Six-Day War, Israeli forces attacked the USS Liberty, a U.S. intelligence ship in international waters off Sinai, killing 34 Americans and injuring 171 with torpedoes, napalm, and machine guns. | Official U.S. and Israeli narrative claimed mistaken identity for an Egyptian vessel; survivor accounts of deliberate targeting dismissed as errors or paranoia. | Declassified NSA documents (2003–2007); 2003 Moorer Commission report; 2025 Zeteo investigation with survivor testimonies. | No prosecutions; $6M+ compensation to families; strained U.S.-Israel relations briefly; ongoing demands for full inquiry. |
| False Flags | Operation Himmler (1939) | Nazi SS staged attacks on German targets, including the Gleiwitz radio station, dressed as Polish soldiers to fabricate a border invasion justifying WWII. | Post-war claims of premeditated false flags dismissed amid Allied victory narratives. | Nuremberg Trials (1945–1946) testimonies and captured SS documents. | Enabled German invasion of Poland; contributed to Holocaust and 70M+ deaths; key evidence in Nazi war crimes convictions. |
| False Flags | Reichstag Fire (1933) | The German Reichstag parliament building was set ablaze, allowing the Nazis to blame communists and consolidate power through emergency decrees. | Dismissed as communist sabotage; alternative theories of Nazi orchestration labeled as anti-regime propaganda. | Post-WWII declassified documents and historical investigations confirming Nazi involvement or exploitation. | Enabled the Enabling Act; rise of Nazi dictatorship; influenced studies on false flag tactics. |
| False Flags | Operation Condor (1970s–1980s) | U.S.-backed dictatorships in South America (Argentina, Chile, etc.) coordinated cross-border operations to kidnap, torture, and assassinate ~60,000 left-wing dissidents. | Denied as exaggerated leftist claims of U.S. imperialism. | 1990s declassifications by U.S. State Department; 2016 Argentine trials and National Security Archive documents. | Dozens of convictions; reparations to victims; exposed CIA role in regional repression. |
| Corporate/Health | Big Tobacco Cover-Up (1950s–1990s) | Companies hid smoking-cancer links. | Derided as anti-industry hysteria. | 1998 Master Settlement Agreement memos. | Internal documents released; liability shifts. |
| Corporate/Health | Bayer HIV-Tainted Blood (1980s) | Sold HIV-contaminated blood products abroad after safer versions available in U.S. | Labeled as corporate negligence myths. | 2003 internal Bayer documents; FDA reviews. | Infected thousands; lawsuits and compensation. |
| Corporate/Health | Exxon Climate Change Denial (1970s–2010s) | Hid internal research on global warming while funding denial campaigns. | Dismissed as environmental hysteria. | 2015 investigative reports; company documents. | Lawsuits for deception; increased climate accountability. |
| Corporate/Health | Catholic Church Sex Abuse Cover-up (mid-20th–2000s) | Hierarchy protected abusive priests and silenced victims. | Viewed as isolated scandals. | Pennsylvania Grand Jury report (2018); global investigations. | Massive settlements; reforms in Church policies. |
| Corporate/Health | Bohemian Grove Rituals (1872–Present) | Elite all-male club’s annual secretive retreats featured pagan mock sacrifices and policy discussions among U.S. leaders and CEOs. | Derided as occult fantasy. | 1980s media infiltrations (e.g., CBS); 2000 Alex Jones video; attendee admissions. | Raised ethics concerns over elite networking; no legal actions, but ongoing scrutiny. |
| Corporate/Health | Hillsborough Disaster Cover-up (1989) | South Yorkshire Police altered statements and evidence to blame 97 Liverpool fans’ deaths on hooliganism, deflecting from stadium failures. | Labeled as fan conspiracy. | 2012 independent panel report; 2016 inquest. | Unlawful killing verdict; 2021 prosecutions; £3.5M+ compensation to families. |
| Corporate/Health | Thalidomide Scandal (1957–1961) | The drug thalidomide was marketed by Chemie Grünenthal as a safe sedative for pregnant women, causing severe birth defects in ~10,000 children worldwide. | Early reports of birth defects dismissed as unrelated or coincidental by the company and regulators. | 1961 warnings by Dr. Frances Kelsey (FDA blocked U.S. approval); 1968 Australian investigations and company admissions. | Drug withdrawn globally; compensation funds established (e.g., $100M+ in settlements); stricter drug testing regulations like the 1962 Kefauver-Harris Amendment. |
| Corporate/Health | Purdue Pharma Opioid Crisis Cover-up (1990s–2010s) | Purdue aggressively marketed OxyContin as non-addictive, misleading doctors and regulators while suppressing addiction risks, fueling the U.S. opioid epidemic. | Dismissed as anti-pharmaceutical hysteria or overblown addiction claims. | 2020 DOJ guilty plea; 2025 $7.4B settlement with states confirming deceptive practices. | Company bankruptcy; Sackler family stripped of control; $50B+ in total settlements for victim compensation and addiction treatment. |
| Corporate/Health | Volkswagen Dieselgate (2009–2015) | Volkswagen installed defeat devices in 11M+ diesel vehicles worldwide to cheat emissions tests, allowing higher pollutant output while appearing compliant. | Denied as regulatory conspiracy against German auto industry. | 2015 EPA discovery; 2017 DOJ guilty plea to fraud and Clean Air Act violations. | $30B+ in fines and buybacks; CEO imprisonment; global emissions regulations tightened. |
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