As a few of you know, I enjoy a good conspiracy from time to time
This has lead me to this very interesting page
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/22869 ... ould-Know-
It lists 33 known and quite large conspiracies. Just thought I'd share it with you all.
Here's one or two to get you started
9. Operation Northwoods:
In the early 1960s, American military leaders drafted plans to create public support for a war against Cuba, to oust Fidel Castro from power. The plans included committing acts of terrorism in U.S. cities, killing innocent people and U.S. soldiers, blowing up a U.S. ship, assassinating Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees, and hijacking planes. The plans were all approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but were reportedly rejected by the civilian leadership, then kept secret for nearly 40 years.
12. The Iran-Contra Affair:
In 1985 and '86, the White House authorized government officials to secretly trade weapons with the Israeli government that were then secretly traded with Iran in exchange for the release of U.S. hostages held in Iran. The funds from the trades were then used to help finance the illegal war in Nicaragua. The plot was uncovered by Congress in 1987. The documentary series, Core of Corruption, will be exploring details on the Iran Contra conspiracy in greater detail. The series of 5 separate films written and directed by Jonathan Elinoff, investigative journalist and reporter for the New World Order Report. During Iran Contra, drug smuggling by the CIA was uncovered and to this day the United States population is largely unaware of the findings of this information.
14. CIA Drug Running in LA:
Pulitzer Prize Award winning journalist Gary Webb exposed this alongside LAPD Narcotics Officer turned whislteblower and author Michael Ruppert, CIA Contract Pilot Terry Reed, and many others. In August 1996 the San Jose Mercury News published Webb's "Dark Alliance", a 20,000 word, three-part investigative series which alleged that Nicaraguan drug traffickers had sold and distributed crack cocaine in Los Angeles during the 1980s, and that drug profits were used to fund the CIA-supported Nicaraguan Contras. Webb never asserted that the CIA directly aided drug dealers to raise money for the Contras, but he did document that the CIA was aware of the cocaine transactions and the large shipments of cocaine into the U.S. by the Contra personnel. "Dark Alliance" received national attention. At the height of the interest, the web version of it on San Jose Mercury News website received 1.3 million hits a day. According to the Columbia Journalism Review, the series became "the most talked-about piece of journalism in 1996 and arguably the most famous - some would say infamous - set of articles of the decade."
21. The Church Committee:
The Church Committee is the common term for the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, a U.S. Senate committee chaired by Senator Frank Church in 1975. A precursor to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, this committee investigated intelligence-gathering by the CIA and FBI for illegality after certain activities had been revealed by the Watergate affair. The Committee uncovered, among many other things, that the CIA had violated its charter to perform only gathering of intelligence, through, for example, the assassinations of Allende in Chile and Mossadegh in Iran and assassinations of Central and South American leaders and revolutionaries, and assassinations in Africa, the Middle East, and East Asia. The list was tremendous. The committee even declassified a "Heart Attack Gun" the Agency had made for use in killing someone without detection. Cancer, car accidents, skiing accidents, suicide, boating accidents, heart attacks, and just plain shootings were common assassination methods. The committee's hearings, although recorded in full in congressional record, the mainstream media, and official policies, are still largely not taught in American schools on recent history. Most of the American public has not even heard of these revelations, let alone understood that their veracity has been confirmed. It is still common for people to refer to any of these assassinations as a joke or a baseless conspiracy hypothesis.
