{"id":1471,"date":"2024-12-04T18:43:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T18:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrumour.co.nz\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2024-12-04T18:43:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T18:43:20","slug":"10-conspiracy-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrumour.co.nz\/index.php\/2024\/12\/04\/10-conspiracy-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-real\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out to Be Real"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Business Plot<\/h3>\n

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In 1933,\u00a0wealthy businessmen allegedly planned a coup\u00a0<\/strong>to overthrow President Roosevelt and install a fascist government. The plot was exposed by Marine Corps General Smedley Butler.<\/p>\n

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The Lavon Affair<\/h3>\n

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In 1954, Israeli agents planted bombs in US and UK targets in Egypt to\u00a0frame Muslim Brotherhood militants and damage US-Egyptian relations.<\/strong>\u00a0The operation became known as the Lavon affair after the Israeli defense minister,\u00a0Pinhas Lavon<\/strong>, who was forced to resign.<\/p>\n

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Operation Gladio<\/h3>\n

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A secret NATO network of anti-communist\u00a0“stay-behind” armies operated in Europe from the 1950s to the 1990s<\/strong>. It was involved in numerous terrorist attacks and assassinations.<\/p>\n

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The BCCI Scandal<\/h3>\n

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The Bank of Credit and Commerce International was a corrupt bank that\u00a0laundered money for drug cartels, terrorists, and corrupt politicians<\/strong>. Its downfall in the 1990s exposed widespread corruption in the banking industry.<\/p>\n

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COINTELPRO<\/h3>\n

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The FBI’s Counterintelligence Program was aimed at\u00a0disrupting and discrediting political organizations<\/strong>\u00a0in the US. It included illegal surveillance, infiltration, and harassment of civil rights leaders and anti-war activists.<\/p>\n

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The Iran Hostage Crisis<\/h3>\n

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The 1979 hostage crisis at the US embassy in Tehran was\u00a0initially dismissed<\/strong>\u00a0by some as a staged event to demonize Iran. However,\u00a0it was later confirmed<\/strong>\u00a0to be a genuine crisis.<\/p>\n

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The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment<\/h3>\n

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From 1932 to 1972, the US Public Health Service conducted\u00a0an unethical medical experiment\u00a0<\/strong>on African American men with syphilis, without their knowledge or consent.<\/p>\n

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The Manhattan Project<\/h3>\n

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The top-secret US government project to develop the first atomic bomb\u00a0was kept hidden from the public<\/strong>\u00a0until after the bombs were dropped on Japan in 1945.<\/p>\n

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MK-Ultra<\/h3>\n

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MK-Ultra was a CIA project in the 1950s and 60s that involved\u00a0mind control experiments on human subjects.<\/strong>\u00a0The experiments included the use of drugs, hypnosis, and other forms of psychological torture. The project was initially denied by the CIA, but it was\u00a0later confirmed through declassified documents.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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CIA Assassinations<\/h3>\n

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The CIA was involved in\u00a0multiple assassinations of foreign leaders<\/strong>, including Patrice Lumumba of Congo and Salvador Allende of Chile.<\/p>\n

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Operation Mockingbird<\/h3>\n

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The CIA’s covert operation to\u00a0control the media by planting stories and manipulating the news<\/strong>\u00a0was exposed in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

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Edward Snowden’s Revelations<\/h3>\n

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In 2013,\u00a0Edward Snowden,\u00a0<\/strong>a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor,\u00a0leaked classified documents<\/strong>\u00a0that revealed the extent of the U.S. government’s surveillance programs. The documents showed that the NSA was collecting phone records of millions of Americans and spying on foreign governments and individuals. Snowden’s revelations\u00a0sparked a global debate about government surveillance and privacy rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Roswell Incident<\/h3>\n

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The Roswell Incident has long been a topic of debate among conspiracy theorists, with many believing that the U.S. government\u00a0covered up evidence of an alien spacecraft crash<\/strong>\u00a0in 1947. While the government initially denied any knowledge of the incident, it later admitted that it had in fact been involved\u00a0in the recovery of a “flying disc.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Gulf of Tonkin Incident<\/h3>\n

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The 1964 attack on the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin was used as a pretext for US involvement in the Vietnam War.\u00a0Declassified documents later revealed that the attack never happened.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Operation Ajax<\/h3>\n

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The US and UK\u00a0orchestrated a coup\u00a0<\/strong>in Iran in 1953 to overthrow Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, who had nationalized the country’s oil industry.<\/p>\n

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Prohibition Poisonings<\/h3>\n

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From 1920 to 1933, the U.S. government put a ban on all alcoholic sales due to the ethical and moral corruption it was hypothesized to cause. During this period, the government began\u00a0adding toxic chemicals to industrial alcohol to discourage people from drinking it.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The chemicals used included things like kerosene, gasoline, and formaldehyde, which led to thousands of deaths and illnesses. Despite the risks, the government continued to poison alcohol until Prohibition was repealed in 1933.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Watergate<\/h3>\n

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The Watergate Scandal is considered\u00a0one of the most significant political scandals in US history.\u00a0<\/strong>The scandal involved the Nixon administration, which was accused of breaking into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in the Watergate complex to spy on their political opponents. The scandal eventually led to Nixon’s resignation and several White House officials being indicted and convicted.<\/p>\n

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The Iran-Contra Drug Trafficking<\/h3>\n

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The Contra rebels funded by the US government were involved in drug trafficking to finance their activities.\u00a0The CIA was aware of the drug trade<\/strong>\u00a0but turned a blind eye.<\/p>\n

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Operation Northwoods<\/h3>\n

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Operation Northwoods<\/strong>\u00a0was a proposed false flag operation by the\u00a0US\u00a0<\/strong>government in the 1960s to stage terrorist attacks against US citizens to justify a war with Cuba. The plan was rejected by then-President Kennedy, but\u00a0it was later revealed through declassified documents.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Iran-Contra Affair<\/h3>\n

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In the 1980s, the US sold weapons to Iran and used the proceeds to fund Contra rebels in Nicaragua,\u00a0despite a congressional ban on such funding.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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