20 Documents Declassified by the CIA That People Can Hardly Believe

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20 Documents Declassified by the CIA That People Can Hardly Believe

Listen, we know it sounds conspiratorial, but it’s simply a fact of modern times that the government is up to some shady shit. This isn’t a baseless opinion espoused by your most divorced uncle at Christmas dinner, when everybody should be appreciating the sick rolls you baked instead of being as weird as possible. He may be wrong about a lot of things, but the federal aid and abetting of extraterrestrial beings isn’t one of them. Okay, maybe not that exact thing, but if it was, we wouldn’t know about it for decades.

How do we know? Because the CIA has declassified countless documents in its lifetime, and they are the twistiest, most inverted roller coasters you will ever ride. In fact, some of them are so wild that they seem unbelievable even to Reddit, and those people will believe just about anything. They were recounted when user sceneybeanie asked r/AskReddit, “What are the craziest declassified CIA documents?”

leatherwolf89 10mo ago Project Acoustic Kitty. They spent 20 million dollars on making cyborg spy cats.
sputnik1288 10mo ago Project Azorian The CIA raised a Russian submarine off the ocean floor. Well part of it.
MaievSekashi 10mo ago You can download most of Osama bin Laden's hard-drive off the CIA's website. It's got a fair few licensed movies, anime, games, that sort of thing. All free for anyone who wants to get it.
GyrokCarns 10mo ago The project mockingbird files that show the CIA is directly manipulating the press, and paying them handsomely to be CIA mouthpieces.
trippedwire 10mo ago Project Paperclip, taking former nazi scientists from Germany to America to hopefully beat the soviets in the space race.
ToasterToastsToast 10mo ago CIA black sites. Sectet prisons where terrorist suspects where taken for interrigatin/prison sentences and god knows what. Some sites where in europe too Poland and Lithuania.
WerdinDruid 10mo ago US military advisors saying that an armed conflict in Vietnam can't be won due to the general sentiment and freedom movement they'd fight. That the vietnamese liberation movement would continue no matter what or who would actually end up leading it.
Gilokdc 10mo ago operation condor, cia's extense support of south american dictadorships in the 70's, they aided and guided the killing and or exiling critics of dictatorships in brazil, chile, argentina and many others!
wottsinaname 10mo ago The CIA attempted to, and successfully overthrew a democratically elected Prime Minister of Australia. Fuck the letter agencies for ruining democracy at home AND abroad.
SuvenPan 10mo ago One CIA operative, who drew up a plan to have packets of extra-large condoms, labelled small dropped on USSR. The idea was to lower their morale.
Mr-Klaus 10mo ago 1. Nuclear Bazooka Not even joking, they came up with a shoulder fired nuke. Apparently the nuke also irradiated the person firing it because it's range of 2.5 miles was shorter than the danger radius.
Top-Marzipan5963 10mo ago There is the testing of LSD and Agent Orange in Alberta and Ontario which has now been positively linked to parkinsons, mental illness etc. RCMP + CIA in the 60'-1980's was wild
WalkinTarget 10mo ago Operation Sea Spray - a 1950 U.S. Navy secret biological warfare experiment in which Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria were sprayed over the San Francisco Bay Area in California, in order to determine how vulnerable a city like San Francisco may be to a bioweapon attack. Between 1949 and 1969, open-air tests of biological agents were conducted 239 times. In 80 of those experiments, the Army said it used live bacteria that its researchers at the time thought were harmless.
VictOr117 10mo ago Edited 10mo ago During the 60's the CIA noticed that artists tend to lean towards socialism and communism. They realized the best way to prevent this or discredit these political positions was to make them wealthy so they would be more invested in capitalism. To do this the CIA would anonymously buy modern art pieces no matter how nonsensical for very high prices. This made the otherwise highly niche and difficult to access modern art genre a chique fashionable and highly profitable genre and basically prevented prominent members of the art community from turning to socialism or
RealRalphie0511 10mo ago Operation Northwoods Rejected by President JFK in 1962, the plan was for the CIA to stage and commit mass acts of terrorism against the United States that would have included hijackings and bombings across major U.S. cities. After these attacks were committed, the plan was to place the blame on Cuba to justify going to war with them. You can search this up yourself if you don't believe me.
ElephantEarTag 10mo ago Psychological warfare in the Philippines in the 1950s comes to mind. The CIA conducted research to figure out which sort of myths and superstitions the Philippine people had. They discovered that they were afraid of vampires. At one point they disrupted a group by snatching a local man, murdering him, and putting teeth marks on his neck. They then hung him upside down for his friends to find which terrified the village. This was all part of an effort to elect Ramon Magsaysay as president who basically acted as a puppet for the US. The CIA wrote
TheBassMeister 10mo ago Edited 10mo ago All the failed assassination attempts against Fidel Castro. According to Fabian Escalante, who worked for the Cuban counter intelligence, there were 638 of them. Here are some highlights: In 1960 they tried to poison his cigars. They asked the Chicago Mob for help and they said poison pills are the best. The Mobsters hired a local assassin, who gave them to a ice cream/milkshake parlor employee who was supposed to slip them into Castro's ice cream. When he tried to get the poison pills from the freezer, they were frozen solid on the coils
MontCoDubV 10mo ago The Pentagon Papers (which were leaked, not outright declassified) and the resultant Church Committee Report. These are what made public the CIA's actions in overthrowing governments and instigating/assisting coups all over the world for decades leading up to the 70s. Pretty much every negative stereotype of the CIA we have today was created or informed by the Pentagon Papers and Church Committee Report.
magistrate101 10mo ago The craziest declassified CIA documents are the ones written as red herrings for spies back in the cold war, like the one that detailed their psychic experiments with remote viewing that granted the US the capability to see anywhere at any point in time whenever they want (by using Mars as a target and looking into the past to see a recent martian civilization at various points in time).
cstross 10mo ago There was the one time on 1959 when, as part of Operation MKULTRA, Dr Louis Jolyon West shot Tusko the Elephant with a dart loaded with 250mg (milligrams, not micrograms) of LSD. It turns out that a massive overdose of LSD is fatal to elephants. Who could have imagined that?

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