Name: 10 Disturbing Conspiracy Theories About the CIA
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From Dallas, Texas, the flash, apparently official, President Kennedy died at 1 p.m.

Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at the darkest, most unbelievable conspiracies that the Central Intelligence Agency has been accused of orchestrating.

I was having trouble with my parents, and my father and my stepmother decided to put me in the Allen Memorial Institute.

I'm an ex-CI colonel with blood up to my armpits.

Not personally, I never killed myself, but I managed wars that killed a lot of people.

The Vietnam War was and remains one of the most historically unpopular war efforts ever.

Countless casualties on both sides, deeply shameful events like the My Lai Massacre and the CIA's Phoenix Program made up just some of the reasons why the Vietnam War was so heavily protested.

The CIA was tolerant of torture in Vietnam.

It also participated in it on occasion in some of the interrogation centers as a matter of policy.

Of course, as a matter of policy, it had to deny it.

For the purposes of our video today, the Phoenix Program, which operated from 1968 to 1972, was described by the CIA as a set of programs that sought to attack and destroy the political infrastructure of the Viet Cong using disturbing tactics like infiltration, torture, and even assassination.

The CIA neutralized just over 80,000 people suspected of being associated with the Viet Cong.

We never got interrogation reports out of the PICS.

Others said, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.

In fact, I never found one who was ever identified as a class A VC from a village.

I went to all of the PICS, military region three.

We were mostly concerned with targeting the Soviet Union, the PRC, China, some of our other enemies, Libya, Iran, Iraq.

Psychic superpowers like telepathy and telekinesis are the stuff of science fiction and superhero comic books, right?

Unfortunately, at least for now, the answer is yes.

But that didn't stop the CIA from trying to find out.

So they asked the California psychics at SRI, can you tell us what's happening there?

And with mixed results, nonetheless, there was enough information that convinced the CIA this is worth investigating in a serious way.

In the 1970s, unnerved by reports that the Soviet Union was conducting research into parapsychology and the occult, the agency set up a top secret research unit within the US Army that would attempt to prove the existence of so-called remote viewing, the in-house CIA moniker for what was essentially telepathy.

The program ran for a few decades, but would ultimately shut its doors in 1995 after failing to prove the existence of such psychic phenomenon.

Remote viewing is a perceptual technique whereby a person can describe places, events, or people that are perceived mentally but separated from the viewer by distance, shielding, and even time.

It's, if you like, it's a trained intuitive ability.

Operation Chaos, the CIA's mission, which is ostensibly to collect intel about global threats to US national security, became more than a little murky when the existence of Operation Chaos was revealed.

A domestic espionage operation, Chaos' goal was straightforward.

Chaos would attempt to uncover any possible foreign influences on quote-unquote submersive American groups and organizations.

The program, founded by President Lyndon B.

Johnson and continued by President Richard Nixon, maintained a network of informants as well as covert wiretaps to spy on American citizens.

Targets of Operation Chaos included activist groups like the Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Panther Party, Women's Strike for Peace, and more.

Recently, I read a book called Atom Bomb Children.

In this book, it was a collection of compositions written by children that were living through the bomb.

At night, when I put my five children to sleep, I would touch their arms and wonder, can this happen to them?

A ton of cocaine was smuggled into the United States of America by the Venezuelan National Guard?

That's what, that's exactly what appears to have happened.

Although you'd think that one of the CIA's main goals would be to end drug trafficking, it's faced numerous accusations of participating in the illegal trade since its founding in 1947.

Said DEA agent, Hector Boreas, quote, I know specifically that some of the CIA contract workers, meaning some of the pilots, in fact were bringing drugs into the US and landing some of these drugs in government military air bases, end quote.

If this has not been approved by DEA or an appropriate law enforcement authority in the United States, then it's illegal.

Similarly, historian Alfred McCoy has claimed that the CIA was condoning and even cooperating with corrupt elements in Southeast Asia's illegal drug trade out of political and military considerations, involving itself in the Golden Triangle heroin trade.

Several investigations have failed to prove these allegations, but they couldn't be ruled out either way.

One example, Levine said, was during the Nixon administration when he was about to bust a major source of heroin.

And I was stopped, stopped cold, because that source were our allies in the Vietnam War.

Levine said this was not an isolated incident, that it had happened many times in his 25-year career.

I've been an investigative journalist for about 25 years for daily newspapers.

And in 1996, I wrote a series of stories entitled Dark Alliance, which was about CIA involvement in drug trafficking.

Many Americans will likely be familiar with the deeply damaging Iran-Contra affair, which caused President Ronald Reagan's credibility and overall reputation to take a serious, lasting hit.

Although several investigations did not find sufficient evidence to justify the accusation, the CIA has been accused of playing a not insignificant role in the scandal.

What my story showed was that the cocaine that was being sold in those neighborhoods was coming from mainly one source.

And this one source was being used to finance a guerrilla war in Central America.

That's specifically with regard to their links to the right-wing Nicaraguan militant group, the Contras.

As part of a U.S. effort to overthrow the Sandinista government.

To that end, the 1986 Cary Committee found payments to drug traffickers by the U.S.

State Department of Funds authorized by the Congress for Humanitarian Assistance to the Contras.

The general idea of the CIA dealing drugs was something that the American mainstream press had never written about before.

And that's why it prompted outrage among blacks, among drug reform activists, among politicians, by the CIA, by every federal agency involved in the drug war, because it showed they weren't doing their jobs.

The alleged existence of the CIA's Operation Mockingbird is enough to make you realize that propagandistic state-controlled messaging can come from any part of the world, even bedrocks of democracy like the United States.

While its existence has never been formally proven, its supposed activities will likely cause you to hope that it never is.

In the aftermath of the explosive Watergate scandal, the congressional inquiry group known as the Church Committee discovered some truly shocking secrets.

According to Carl Bernstein, more than 400 American journalists have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency.

That being said, no evidence exists to suggest that the CIA carried out a plan to influence American mass media as a whole.

We don't need to tell you that there exists no shortage of conspiracy theories as to who truly took President Kennedy's life in 1963.

While the official story, that Kennedy was slain by disgruntled lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald, has been widely accepted as the truth, some have accused the CIA of puppeting Kennedy's murder.

Garrison, the Warren Commission said that Oswald acted alone and there was no conspiracy.

Apparently, you do not believe the Warren Commission's report.

I believe the Warren Commission was wrong and will be shown to be wrong.

New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison began researching the theory in 1966 and arrested international trademark leader Clay Shaw for his supposed involvement in the Kennedy assassination.

Shaw was accused of working for a CIA front organization that conspired to kill Kennedy.

Although the businessman was brought to trial in 1969, he was ultimately found not guilty.

What are your general feelings about the case now?

Well, you understand I am constrained by court order not to discuss the case as such.

I can say to you, as I have said before, I am completely innocent.

I have no knowledge of any conspiracy whatsoever to kill President Kennedy or anyone else.

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