Name: 30 Government Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be TRUE
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And today we'll be counting down our picks for those long standing rumors and stories concerning government programs that wound up having connections to real life.

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This program tells a bizarre story how during the Cold War, an arm of the US government provided covert funding for a huge variety of cultural activity.

For decades, skeptics dismissed the abstract expressionist movement of the 1950s as a pretentious bubble, or worse, a cultural scam.

Critics felt artists like Jackson Pollock were being artificially propped up by unseen forces.

In the heat of the Cold War, the CIA secretly weaponized American abstract art against the Soviet Union, while the Soviets pushed rigid realistic propaganda.

The CIA used a common Congress for cultural freedom to showcase American creativity as a symbol of liberty.

The agency covertly funded gallery tours and promoted favorable critics, turning modern art into a global phenomenon largely to prove a point to the Russians.

And I don't think it's any more reasonable to say that Pollock was supported by the CIA and therefore, you know, that's why he became important.

He became important because other painters could see what and in how he'd enriched the traditions of art.

You know, if what I was thinking was true or what?

In the early 1970s, John Lennon sounded like a paranoid wreck.

He claimed the US government was tapping his phones, tailing his car and trying to deport him to silence his anti war activism.

At the time, most dismissed this as the ramblings of an eccentric rock star.

However, released government files later proved Lennon was absolutely correct.

The Nixon administration, fearing Lennon could sway the youth vote in the 1972 election, launched a massive surveillance campaign via the FBI and INS.

Edgar Hoover's own files confirmed that they were building a bogus deportation case solely to neutralize Lenin's political voice.

Number 28, Project 100,000 or McNamara's Morons.

I wrote McNamara's Folly to Tell the story of a very sad and tragic chapter in the Vietnam War.

And hopefully it will contribute to the possibility that it will never happen again.

A dark rumor persisted during the Vietnam War that the government viewed soldiers as disposable meat, targeting the most vulnerable to fight in an unpopular meat grinder.

This was confirmed by Project 100,000, a program initiated by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in 1966.

As troop levels dwindled, the military lowered their standards to draft men who had previously failed mental aptitude tests, many with IQs falling well below average.

Dubbed McNamara's morons by cruelty contemporaries, these men were sent into combat with little understanding of the complex warfare they faced.

Indeed, they died at three times the rate of other GIs, proving the government was willing to sacrifice the mentally disabled just to meet a quota.

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Explain the fact a lot of people don't know what the Fast and the Furious is.

They had sold guns to the cartel under the guise that this is the way they would track the guns.

The idea that the US Government would arm the very drug cartels they claim to be fighting.

Yet between 2009 and 2011, this became a shocking reality.

An abolished sting operation known as Fast and Furious.

The ATF allowed licensed firearm dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers.

The plan was to track the guns across the border and catch Mexican cartel leaders.

Instead, the ATF lost track of over 1400 high powered weapons.

The incompetence was tragically exposed when two of these lost guns were found at the murder scene of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.

The government inadvertently allowing the death of one of their own.

The 2010 killing of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.

Authorities in Mexico have made an arrest.

Terry's death, you might remember, exposed and eventually ended the gun running operation known as Fast and furious number 26, Project Azorian.

It wasn't safe enough though, for us to just go out in a U.S. navy carrier.

And we also needed to create the technology that would go down and grab the submarine from the bottom of the ocean floor and that vessel to house it.

So really what we needed was the perfect cover mechanism.

And that came in the form of Howard Hughes.

In the 1970s, billionaire Howard Hughes announced he was building a massive ship to mine the ocean floor.

While the media bought the story, conspiracy theorists suspected Hughes was fronting for something far more sinister.

The Hughes Glommer Explorer was actually a giant floating claw built by the CIA for about $5 billion in today's money.

Its true mission was Project Desorian, a daring attempt to lift a sunken Soviet submarine from the ocean floor and recover its nuclear secrets.

FYI, the sub broke apart while it was being raised, so the whole thing was a massive waste.

When asked about the operation, the government famously responded that they could neither confirm nor deny its existence.

Did you know that the phrase we can neither confirm nor deny started right here at CIA?

Operation Gladio on November 9, 1990, the Prime Minister of Italy, Giulio Andreotti, revealed to his own parliament and the world the existence of a top secret European wide network of secret agents.

Post war Europe was a hotbed of rumors about shadow armies answering to no government.

For years, people whispered that NATO had secret paramilitary squads hiding in plain sight.

In 1990, the Italian Prime Minister, Giulio Andriati finally admitted the truth.

Operation Gladio during the Cold War, the CIA and NATO established secret stay behind armies across Western Europe designed to act as a resistance force if the Soviets ever invaded.

However, in countries like Italy, these networks didn't stay dormant.

They allied with right wing extremists to carry out false flag terror attacks and then blame the communists, hoping to frighten the public away from voting for left wing parties.

Right wing people were of course afraid of what they called communist danger.

Now if you see graffiti like this in your neighborhood, you can suspect your DNA is being targeted by a release of aluminum into the atmosphere through chemtrails.

A systematic spreading of a substance that triggers a genetic response.

One of the most persistent conspiracy theories is that the government sprays chemicals on its citizens from the sky.

While the practice of using chemtrails has been consistently debunked, Operation Sea Spray is basically the same thing.

In September 1950, the US Navy spent six days spraying Serratia marcescens, a bacteria they believed was harmless, into the fog off the coast of San Francisco.

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