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I realized that nowadays, no matter where you look, you will find a crazy conspiracy theory, be it in the so-called "news," on social media, or just talking with that crazy uncle everyone seems to have. So I decided to go deeper into this matter, and after weeks of research, I was finally able to make this list, a list of crazy conspiracy theories that were actually true!

Trust me, the world will be a different place after you read this.

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#1

The US Government Spread STDs On Purpose

The US Government Spread STDs On Purpose

Another one that is unfortunately true is that the American government (it is almost always the American), between 1932 and 1972, purposely infected 400 African American men with syphilis. These men were unaware of that and they never gave their consent. One important distinction should be made that they did not infect the African Americans directly, the US just lied about treating them and allowed them to spread the disease even further. The ones they did infect, however, were Guatemalans.
The study aimed to verify whether sexually transmitted diseases affected black men as they affected white men. When the ominous experiment came to an end, only 74 of the original participants were alive.

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MaeRose
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You finally realise how low of a standard a country has when news like this doesn't even shock you anymore.

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#2

Breakfast Is Not The Most Important Meal Of The Day

Breakfast Is Not The Most Important Meal Of The Day

You probably grew up hearing this, that breakfast is "the most important meal of the day," but many theorists thought it was a lie, a reverse conspiracy for big companies to sell more breakfast, and turns out... they were right!

Well, it turns out that "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" was actually a commercial slogan created by Kellogg's to help sell their new breakfast cereal. The phrase didn't have an ounce of truth—it was just advertising.

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The American Government Stole Children's Corpses To Do Nuclear Tests

The American Government Stole Children's Corpses To Do Nuclear Tests

I mean, c'mon! Imagine you are walking on the street and out of nowhere, a stranger comes to tell you about how the USA was using children's corpses to do nuclear tests. You would probably laugh in his face and think the guy was crazy, wouldn't you? But, sadly, this is yet another conspiracy that has proved to be true. The government was actually stealing body parts because they needed young human tissue for their tests. They recruited a worldwide network of agents to find recently deceased babies and children and then collect samples and even limbs from them, all without the permission of more than 1,500 grieving families. A mother was not allowed to dress her daughter for her funeral because the doctors had already amputated her legs and did not want her to find out.

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EA
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WTF did I just read. Are you KIDDING me? When you think things in America couldn’t get any worse and you hear this...

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Nikki Sevven
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly, people value corpses far too highly. Science can learn a lot from corpses in numerous situations. You can donate your body to medical science to help them learn about the pathology of whatever killed you. Body farms always need corpses to study to help investigators determine times and causes of death in murders. I mean, it's not like you're still living in it. (That having been said, they certainly should have asked for permission, especially in the case of children.)

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ZooMom
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So I was able to find two news articles detailing this practice including the specific story regarding the girl whose mother could not dress her. It was called Project Sunshine and was named in both the UK paper Independent and ABC News. What is a little fuzzy in this post is that it seems while Americans were doing the testing, bodies and predominantly femurs were being shipped from Australia and Europe. It also seems to me one point to the test was to determine if these child had been exposed to radiation and if so the effects it.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hello Zoomom, yes you are correct, the people ordering the theft were members of the United States Atomic Energy Commission and USAF Project Rand, but most of the bodies were stolen from other countries. According to then-AEC commissioner Dr. Willard Libby: "I don't know how to get them, but I do say that it is a matter of prime importance to get them, and particularly in the young age group. So, human samples are often of prime importance, and if anybody knows how to do a good job of body snatching, they will really be serving their country."

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Catlady6000
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wish this person had cited their sources. Nothing any government would surprise me anymore, but I still want verification

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Helen Haley
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why couldn't they just ask for donations? Why the subterfuge? If they stopped downplaying the importance of science, plenty of people would donate after death.

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Azolane
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sadly, science goes forward this way. If we know what veins, nerves and everything looks like, if you can get good medical treatment now, it is because at one point, corpses were stolen, or sold, from hospitals, digged up in graveyards, or even prisoners were used, for centuries. All of this with no one's consent. I'm certainly not saying it's right, but in times when the procurement of corpses was illegal or extremely difficult, this is what was done.

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PhillyGirl1
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not surprised. Government will do for itself before the people

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Delta Dawn
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It seems the body parts were from Europe and Australia, apparently removed by doctors post-mortem in those countries. In the US we used cremated remains of stillborn babies, which probably would have been cremated at the hospital anyway as not everyone wants to have a funeral in that circumstance, and this was back in the 50s. The remains were analyzed for fallout radiation levels. The articles I read said they didn’t know if consent had been obtained becasue the records were so old. I assume it wasn’t always obtained for the stillborn babies; if they were left behind at the hospital they were probably just sent to the DOE, as they were pretty loose about things like consent back then.

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Satan Laughs
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean the kid is already dead and every one is ok with using live animals? SMH.

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BG
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When you donate a body to a specific cause, say, cancer research, often the body is not used directly for that purpose. Bodies are often sold to the military and other interests and the funds are used by the organization. One son found out after he had donated his mother's body for Alzheimer's research that her body had been strapped to a chair and blown up by the US Army.

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BlackLabOwner
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

it is not always america what about the world wars we tried to stay out of them and 9/11 was it our idea also??

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unusual spider
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

and that country isn't even the worst country. humans can be horrifying..

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Leeh Colorada
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, with all things I hear about USA, I really doubt someone can be more... Creative? Bc everything another countries are accused, USA done before

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Zalzany Games
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah people do this one to this day, if you sign donor card its legal, but kids can't do that so people who do studies on kids who used dead bodies was a real thing for a while, they would just collect them in places it was not necessarily illegal, or just no one would enforce. I mean its same gov who once paid some one to shoot cat guided naval shells out of naval guns, because they would stear it towards water. They got paid to test it, turns out teaching cats to stear a naval shell wasn't the hard part, they never got past trial phase as the cats every time they fired the cannons to shoot the shells.

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Gypsy Lee
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No justification, though many countries have done some horrible things. BP has a fondness for only bashing the US. Maybe be more honest about ALL the governments folks. Like, oh I don’t know, a little party from Europe; starts with a N. Ends with an i. Being unethical isn’t a strictly US government problem. Be honest with yourselves; if civilians had known there would have been an uproar.

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Bi-Polar Express
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was really common to rob graves for corpses in more places than the US.

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Zack Podany
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They also stole samples from people who had been exposed to radiation without anyone's consent.

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Libby Tailor
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At least they didn't kill them. /s (This is very, very terrible and sad)

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Steven Lu
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's sad how little people know this. And even being told, many would just disbelieve.

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Trisha Howson
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not surprised I've heard worse. This is so very sad though. Why would you disrespect a child corpse. Let alone in this way. Sick the people we have up there do this s**t and it don't even phase them.

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El Dee
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wonder if this would explain the 'aliens' at Roswell? NB using body parts from deceased children (without permission) never stopped. There was a major scandal at a hospital in England (Alder Hey) some years ago. You can guarantee that it's still happening somewhere..

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Christine Jemison
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is truly horrendous even with our Government we have to watch our backs!!😢😢😢😢😢😢

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jevais
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why this doesn't surprise me! Surely the dead children weren't wasp.

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ohjojo (you/your's)
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm tired of being an American. What other country can I move to as a refugee? I'm willing at this point to begin again

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Len Mastin
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to be proud to be an American….I have for several years begun to be ashamed to. E an American…Our government…..jeez, hat can you Not say!

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Jessica Cain
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Glad I don't live there. My points have beeen proven. America Sucks. No offence

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Amy Jo Buchanan
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Such a violation of human rights and so disrespectful! If this happened in this day and age...you can bet people would be raising hell over it.

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I don’t believe this at all. It is well documented that large dogs and some livestock were used to study the effects of radiation damage, but this whole dead baby thing is just stupid beyond belief because there would be no point to it at all. Did they want to learn if radiation would kill dead babies?

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Melanie King
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They probably wanted to see how radiation affected human tissue, if it was recent enough and the tissue was well-preserved then i assume it could prove useful in an experiment like this, even though this is completely unethical and i agree with no part of it

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Really not that bad. Your kid died, bury it, and then it's used for testing. The grave and coffin are still there, the kid is still dead. What difference does it make.

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MaeRose
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'll tell you. Before it became just a body, it was a person who had family that loved and cared for them. That body was then taken, desecrated and probably cut up into tiny little pieces to be experimented and tested upon. That sentimentality is what gives us our humanity and that sentimentality is why science has ethics and lines that shouldn't be breached, lines such as these.

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#4

The CIA Drugged, Tortured, And Experimented On The Innocent Without Them Knowing

The CIA Drugged, Tortured, And Experimented On The Innocent Without Them Knowing

Unfortunately for these poor people, this was also true. Since the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) was founded in 1947, several theories about what they actually do started to appear, one of which being that they would have drugged and tortured innocent people in illegal experiments, and as we said, unfortunately, that was true. The experiment was called MKULTRA. Its objective was to learn to manipulate people mentally. The CIA then used several methods, including the secret administration of high doses of psychoactive drugs (mainly lysergic acid) and other chemicals, electroshocks, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, and several other forms of torture. It took a few years for the theory to go from conspiracy to facts. The operation started in 1953 but was only revealed to the public in 1975, which led the CIA to destroy the documents in order to deny the story. To this day they continue with their experiments, although the American government has always denied them.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I recommend watching Wormwood, it has a really interesting story about LSD mind control.

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The Canadian Government Has Built A Gay Radar To Hunt Homosexuals

The Canadian Government Has Built A Gay Radar To Hunt Homosexuals

Seriously, who in their right mind would imagine that something so ridiculous was true, especially from Canada? But it was.

In the 1950s, the Canadian government created the so-called "fruit machine" to identify who was gay in order to fire them.

But how did this "gaydar" work? They basically showed images of gay pornography and monitored people's reactions, such as pupil dilation, and if it showed a "gay reaction," it was recorded.

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Cigarette Companies Knew About Cancer Risks Before Doctors Did

Cigarette Companies Knew About Cancer Risks Before Doctors Did

Today it seems stupid to not know that cigarettes are bad for your health, but back in the 1930s until 1950, all people saw were advertisements saying how good cigarettes were for you, advertisements that came with phrases from legitimate doctors saying "do not worry."

For decades, anyone who dared to say that cigarettes were not good, but a poison, were labeled crazy, idiots, or even enemies of the state, since the government made a lot of money with taxes on this product. And when the truth finally came out, what did the companies say? Simple, that they also did not know that cigarettes were harmful to our health. But as you may have guessed, this was a lie. Research relating to cancer and cigarettes was already being marketed in the 1950s and the companies themselves spent a lot of money trying to cover up these medical findings, sometimes even bribing doctors to officially say they were false.

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The FBI Was Spying On Singer John Lennon

The FBI Was Spying On Singer John Lennon

Why the hell would the FBI waste its time spying on the ex-Beatle? Simple, he was considered a "threat to the American government" as his songs about peace and love did not please the US government, which was in the middle of a war.

In 1971, the FBI placed Lennon under surveillance, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service attempted to deport him a year later.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imagine being a threat to a government because you sing about peace...

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The Government Poisoned And [disposed Of] 10,000 People Using Poison In Alcoholic Beverages

The Government Poisoned And [disposed Of] 10,000 People Using Poison In Alcoholic Beverages

After some research, I can tell you that this theory is a half-truth.

When the manufacture and sale of alcohol were illegal between 1920 and 1933, regulatory agencies actually encouraged measures that made industrial alcohol deadly for consumption, including adding lethal chemicals to the mix. But the government never really planned for people to actually drink this alcohol. It was the fault of people who would rather poison themselves than dropping alcohol altogether, even with several people dying around them.

And if you think that's too stupid to be true, replace drinking alcohol with wearing a mask and see how dumb it actually is.

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#9

Hitler's Skull Was Fake, Or Someone Else's Skull

Hitler's Skull Was Fake, Or Someone Else's Skull

Several conspiracy theorists think Hitler survived World War II, so when his skull was presented by the Russians as evidence of his death, many said it was a fake, or someone else's, and these rumors persisted until 2009 when it was finally proved that... it really was fake!

DNA examinations proved that the skull actually belonged to a woman who was between 20 and 40 years old. To this day, nobody knows who this woman was, but as you may have already imagined, there is no shortage of theories about her identity.

Russian FSB intelligence service, the successor of the KGB, however, has said that the DNA test is false and the skull is definitely Hitler's.

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Thousands Of Copies Of E.T. For Atari Were Buried In The Desert

Thousands Of Copies Of E.T. For Atari Were Buried In The Desert

Atari's "ET - The Extra-terrestrial" cartridge was a total failure; even today, it is considered one of the worst games ever made. The bad reviews obviously caused many to give up on buying the game cartridges, which the company then buried in a New Mexico landfill.

The games were unearthed in 2014 in a collaboration between the New Mexico government and several companies, such as Microsoft, for example. A number of them were auctioned off to raise funds for a museum.

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#11

Chemicals In The Water Are Making Gay Frogs

Chemicals In The Water Are Making Gay Frogs

This is another one of those things that just hearing makes you think it is a bizarre conspiracy, but it has a little bit of truth in it... but, thank God, only a little.

Radio presenter and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones said in his program that "chemicals in water are making frogs gay," something that was later repeated by his thousands of followers. Although chemicals do not change a frog's sexual orientation, a study has shown that exposure to a particular pesticide can change the sex of frogs. Estrogen in suburban lakes can have the same effect.

So while chemicals do not change a frog's sexual orientation, it does, sadly, change its sex, apparently, which can cause biological problems in the near future.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Environmental determinants of sex in amphibians evolved many millions of years before man-made chemicals arrived on the scene, but the brain chemistry of Alex Jones would make for a fascinating scientific study.

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The Mafia Actually Works For The American Government

The Mafia Actually Works For The American Government

Since the Mafia ("cosa nostra") was created, people say that these mobsters actually work for the government of their country. This theory actually has a simple origin: the mafia used to put its members in positions of power within the government, but that doesn't mean that criminals worked for the government, does it? Well, at least until the day they actually did.

This myth is true: the mafia has actually worked for the American government on several occasions, one of the most famous being during World War II. The United States entered the Great War somewhat by surprise, so its defense system was not yet complete. Knowing that enemy soldiers had begun to infiltrate the United States through the city's ports, they knew they needed some kind of defense on them. And who was the "owner" of those ports but the mafia? The government then asked the criminals for help with the agreement that the mafia would protect the ports, ensure that all workers ended the strike that was going on, and would provide information to the Americans, who in turn would lower the sentence for mobster Lucky Luciano.

After the war, Lucky wanted his promised freedom, but the government lied and denied that they had help from the mafia to win the war, which only further increased the conspiracy theories surrounding this incident, but official documents showed the truth: Luciano was released and deported to Italy.

Other times that the Mafia worked for the government include assassination attempts on Fidel Castro and Operation Husky, which was the name given to the invasion of Sicily.

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The Dalai Lama Was A Secret CIA Agent

The Dalai Lama Was A Secret CIA Agent

As crazy as that sounds, this is somewhat true. According to declassified intelligence documents, the Dalai Lama, whose real name is Tenzin Gyatso, was paid $180,000 in connection with the CIA's financing of the Tibetan Resistance, in the amount of US $1.7 million per year. The idea was to interrupt and hinder China's infrastructure, something that never really happened effectively.

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The Illuminati Is Affiliated With The American National Security Agency

The Illuminati Is Affiliated With The American National Security Agency

Although the Illuminati do exist, they have no control over anything, but this theory really does have an origin. Type Illuminati backward, that is, "Itanimulli," and you will be redirected to the website for the American National Security Agency. Really weird.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can buy websites and redirect them to other websites, that's not weird, it's a prank.

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