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Intelligence Agency Secrets Revealed

71 documented claims

Documented intelligence agency operations proven true by declassified files, congressional investigations, and insider testimony. CIA, NSA, FBI, MI6 — the programs they denied running, until the evidence was undeniable.

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Intelligence agencies operate in secrecy by design. That's their function — to gather information, run operations, and conduct activities that governments don't want in the public record. The problem is that this secrecy, when combined with minimal oversight and enormous budgets, creates an environment where abuse isn't just possible, it's structurally inevitable.

The history of intelligence agencies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries reads like a catalog of paranoid fantasies that turned out to be real. Mind control experiments, domestic assassination plots, mass surveillance of citizens, media manipulation campaigns, covert regime changes in sovereign nations — every one of these was dismissed as conspiratorial thinking before the evidence proved otherwise.

MKUltra remains the most infamous example. From 1953 to 1973, the CIA ran a sprawling program experimenting with LSD, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, and psychological torture on unwitting subjects — including American citizens, prisoners, and mental patients. The program operated across 80 institutions including universities, hospitals, and prisons. CIA Director Richard Helms ordered the destruction of most MKUltra files in 1973. The program only came to light because a cache of financial records survived the purge and was discovered during a 1977 FOIA request. The subsequent Church Committee investigation revealed the scope of the program and forced reforms that, by most accounts, were insufficient.

COINTELPRO was the FBI's systematic campaign to surveil, infiltrate, discredit, and disrupt domestic political organizations from 1956 to 1971. Targets included civil rights groups, the NAACP, Martin Luther King Jr. personally, anti-war organizations, and feminist groups. The FBI sent King an anonymous letter attempting to blackmail him into suicide. They planted informants in peaceful organizations, manufactured internal conflicts, and used media contacts to spread disinformation. The program was exposed by the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI, who broke into an FBI field office in Media, Pennsylvania and leaked the documents to journalists.

Operation Mockingbird — the CIA's effort to influence domestic and foreign media during the Cold War — was long considered a fringe theory. Congressional investigations in the 1970s confirmed that the CIA had cultivated relationships with journalists at major American news outlets, planted stories, and in some cases had operatives working undercover as journalists. The full scope remains debated, but the core allegation was vindicated.

More recently, the NSA's bulk collection programs revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013 showed that intelligence agencies had built surveillance infrastructure far exceeding what the public — or even most members of Congress — knew about. Programs like PRISM gave the NSA direct access to data from major tech companies. The agency's own internal audits showed thousands of privacy violations per year.

The claims documented here aren't speculation. They're the historical record, backed by primary sources — declassified documents, congressional reports, court filings, and testimony from the people who were there. Understanding what intelligence agencies have done in the past is essential context for evaluating what they might be doing now.

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MKUltra: LSD at 44 universities, Black prisoners dosed 77 days straight, evidence destroyed — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@Viral Posts / Conspiracy Researchers·15h ago

MKUltra: LSD at 44 universities, Black prisoners dosed 77 days straight, evidence destroyed

98% CONFIRMED

5.9K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·1 source

Dismissed by — CIA Director Helms

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Journalist Hastings car exploded after 'I'm onto a big story' email - CIA had car-hack tech — documented evidenceUNVERIFIED🕵️ Intelligence
@Cybersecurity Experts·15h ago

Journalist Hastings car exploded after 'I'm onto a big story' email - CIA had car-hack tech

98% UNVERIFIED

5.4K votes

UNVERIFIED·1 source

Dismissed by — LAPD

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PRISM: 91% of internet via Google/Facebook/Apple under FISA 702 — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@Privacy Advocates·15h ago

PRISM: 91% of internet via Google/Facebook/Apple under FISA 702

98% CONFIRMED

5.3K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·1 source

Dismissed by — DNI Clapper

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Havana Syndrome victims presented evidence of a captured directed energy weapon — Norwegian researchers replicated the symptoms — documented evidenceDISPUTED🕵️ Intelligence
@Havana Syndrome Victims / Intelligence Officers·15h ago

Havana Syndrome victims presented evidence of a captured directed energy weapon — Norwegian researchers replicated the symptoms

98% DISPUTED

4.3K votes

🟡DISPUTED·2 sources

Dismissed by — CIA / National Academies of Sciences

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WikiLeaks published hundreds of thousands of classified documents — none have been proven false — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@Julian Assange / WikiLeaks·1d ago

WikiLeaks published hundreds of thousands of classified documents — none have been proven false

98% CONFIRMED

4.3K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources

Dismissed by — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

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The CIA facilitated cocaine trafficking by Contra rebels, fueling the crack epidemic in American cities — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@Gary Webb·1d ago

The CIA facilitated cocaine trafficking by Contra rebels, fueling the crack epidemic in American cities

98% CONFIRMED

4.1K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources

Dismissed by — Washington Post / New York Times / LA Times

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Former intelligence officer David Grusch testified under oath that the US has recovered non-human craft — documented evidencePARTIAL🕵️ Intelligence
@David Grusch·1d ago

Former intelligence officer David Grusch testified under oath that the US has recovered non-human craft

98% PARTIAL

4.0K votes

PARTIAL·3 sources

Dismissed by — Pentagon Press Secretary

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The NSA's MYSTIC program recorded every phone call in entire countries, not just metadata — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@NSA Whistleblowers / The Intercept·1d ago

The NSA's MYSTIC program recorded every phone call in entire countries, not just metadata

97% CONFIRMED

3.9K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources

Dismissed by — NSA Director Keith Alexander

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Operation Paperclip: The US secretly recruited over 1,600 Nazi scientists after WWII — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@Annie Jacobsen / Operation Paperclip Historians·1d ago

Operation Paperclip: The US secretly recruited over 1,600 Nazi scientists after WWII

97% CONFIRMED

3.9K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources

Dismissed by — US State Department (1940s-1950s)

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Crypto AG, the world's leading encryption company, was secretly owned by the CIA and BND for decades — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@Crypto AG Investigators / CIA Historians·1d ago

Crypto AG, the world's leading encryption company, was secretly owned by the CIA and BND for decades

97% CONFIRMED

3.6K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources

Dismissed by — Crypto AG Management

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The CIA and MI6 orchestrated the 1953 coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected prime minister — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@Kermit Roosevelt (CIA Historian)·1d ago

The CIA and MI6 orchestrated the 1953 coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected prime minister

97% CONFIRMED

3.5K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources

Dismissed by — US State Department (for decades)

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Operation Gladio: NATO ran secret armies that carried out false flag terrorism in Europe — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@Daniele Ganser / NATO Researchers·1d ago

Operation Gladio: NATO ran secret armies that carried out false flag terrorism in Europe

97% CONFIRMED

3.5K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources

Dismissed by — NATO Press Office

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Epstein and Maxwell Ran a Mossad Blackmail Operation on World Leaders — documented evidenceINVESTIGATING🕵️ Intelligence
@Alexander Acosta·16h ago

Epstein and Maxwell Ran a Mossad Blackmail Operation on World Leaders

97% INVESTIGATING

3.1K votes

INVESTIGATING·2 sources

Dismissed by — Israeli Government

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The NSA had direct access to servers of Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Yahoo, collecting 91% of internet intelligence — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@Edward Snowden·16h ago

The NSA had direct access to servers of Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Yahoo, collecting 91% of internet intelligence

97% CONFIRMED

2.8K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources

Dismissed by — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper

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AT&T gave the NSA access to all internet traffic through a secret room (Room 641A) in San Francisco — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@Mark Klein (AT&T Technician)·1d ago

AT&T gave the NSA access to all internet traffic through a secret room (Room 641A) in San Francisco

96% CONFIRMED

2.7K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources

Dismissed by — AT&T Corporate

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The CIA Inspector General admitted the agency covered up Contra drug trafficking for over a decade — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@CIA Inspector General Frederick Hitz·16h ago

The CIA Inspector General admitted the agency covered up Contra drug trafficking for over a decade

96% CONFIRMED

2.6K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources

Dismissed by — Washington Post / New York Times / LA Times

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Operation CHAOS: The CIA illegally spied on thousands of American citizens during the Vietnam era — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@Seymour Hersh / Operation CHAOS Investigators·1d ago

Operation CHAOS: The CIA illegally spied on thousands of American citizens during the Vietnam era

96% CONFIRMED

2.6K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources

Dismissed by — CIA Director Richard Helms

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CIA-Backed Contras Flooded Black Neighborhoods with Crack Cocaine — documented evidencePARTIAL🕵️ Intelligence
@Gary Webb·16h ago

CIA-Backed Contras Flooded Black Neighborhoods with Crack Cocaine

96% PARTIAL

2.5K votes

PARTIAL·2 sources

Dismissed by — The Washington Post

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CIA Secretly Owned the World's Leading Encryption Company, Reading 120 Countries' Secrets for 50 Years — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@CIA Internal Assessment·16h ago

CIA Secretly Owned the World's Leading Encryption Company, Reading 120 Countries' Secrets for 50 Years

96% CONFIRMED

2.3K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·4 sources

Dismissed by — Swiss Government

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The NSA was conducting mass surveillance on American citizens' phone and internet communications — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@Edward Snowden·2d ago

The NSA was conducting mass surveillance on American citizens' phone and internet communications

96% CONFIRMED

2.3K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·3 sources

Dismissed by — White House Press Secretary

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Operation Mockingbird's legacy continues through modern media consolidation and government-media coordination — documented evidencePARTIAL🕵️ Intelligence
@Carl Bernstein / Church Committee·1d ago

Operation Mockingbird's legacy continues through modern media consolidation and government-media coordination

96% PARTIAL

2.3K votes

PARTIAL·2 sources

Dismissed by — CIA Public Affairs Office

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Israeli Spyware Pegasus Targeted World Leaders and Khashoggi's Fiancee — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@Agnes Callamard·16h ago

Israeli Spyware Pegasus Targeted World Leaders and Khashoggi's Fiancee

96% CONFIRMED

2.2K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources

Dismissed by — NSO Group

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The CIA ran secret brothels in San Francisco to drug unwitting men with LSD and watch through one-way mirrors — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@CIA (declassified)·16h ago

The CIA ran secret brothels in San Francisco to drug unwitting men with LSD and watch through one-way mirrors

96% CONFIRMED

2.2K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources

Dismissed by — CIA Director Allen Dulles

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CIA-Funded Psychiatrist Permanently Destroyed Patients' Minds in Montreal Hospital — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@MKUltra Survivors·16h ago

CIA-Funded Psychiatrist Permanently Destroyed Patients' Minds in Montreal Hospital

96% CONFIRMED

2.1K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources

Dismissed by — CIA

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CIA Built an Undetectable Heart Attack Gun Using Frozen Shellfish Toxin — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@William Colby·16h ago

CIA Built an Undetectable Heart Attack Gun Using Frozen Shellfish Toxin

95% CONFIRMED

2.0K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources

Dismissed by — Gerald Ford Administration

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The CIA compiled a 693-page internal report of its own crimes called 'The Family Jewels' and kept it secret for 34 years — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@CIA (declassified)·16h ago

The CIA compiled a 693-page internal report of its own crimes called 'The Family Jewels' and kept it secret for 34 years

95% CONFIRMED

2.0K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·1 source

Dismissed by — CIA (for 34 years)

2.0K56ShareSave
CIA Developed Tools to Spy Through Smart TVs Even When Off — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@Julian Assange·16h ago

CIA Developed Tools to Spy Through Smart TVs Even When Off

95% CONFIRMED

2.0K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources

Dismissed by — CIA

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1,400+ Israeli Military Intelligence Veterans Embedded at Major US Tech Companies — documented evidencePARTIAL🕵️ Intelligence
@Drop Site News·16h ago

1,400+ Israeli Military Intelligence Veterans Embedded at Major US Tech Companies

95% PARTIAL

2.0K votes

PARTIAL·2 sources

Dismissed by — IDF

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Five Israelis Arrested Filming and Celebrating the 9/11 Attacks — documented evidenceDISPUTED🕵️ Intelligence
@The Forward (News Publication)·16h ago

Five Israelis Arrested Filming and Celebrating the 9/11 Attacks

95% DISPUTED

2.0K votes

🟡DISPUTED·2 sources

Dismissed by — FBI

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NATO and CIA Ran Secret Armies Across Europe Linked to Terrorist Attacks — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@Giulio Andreotti·16h ago

NATO and CIA Ran Secret Armies Across Europe Linked to Terrorist Attacks

95% CONFIRMED

1.9K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources

Dismissed by — US State Department

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The CIA conducted secret mind control experiments on unwitting American and Canadian citizens — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@CIA (declassified)·2d ago

The CIA conducted secret mind control experiments on unwitting American and Canadian citizens

95% CONFIRMED

1.9K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources

Dismissed by — CIA Director Richard Helms

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CNN anchor Anderson Cooper interned at the CIA before becoming a journalist — a fact he acknowledges — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@Anderson Cooper CIA Critics·1d ago

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper interned at the CIA before becoming a journalist — a fact he acknowledges

95% CONFIRMED

1.9K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·1 source

Dismissed by — Anderson Cooper (CNN)

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Carl Bernstein revealed over 400 American journalists secretly carried out assignments for the CIA — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@Carl Bernstein / Church Committee·16h ago

Carl Bernstein revealed over 400 American journalists secretly carried out assignments for the CIA

95% CONFIRMED

1.9K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·1 source

Dismissed by — CIA Director Stansfield Turner

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The CIA operated secret 'black site' prisons across the globe where detainees were tortured using techniques from its own MKUltra research — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@US Senate Intelligence Committee·16h ago

The CIA operated secret 'black site' prisons across the globe where detainees were tortured using techniques from its own MKUltra research

95% CONFIRMED

1.9K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·1 source

Dismissed by — Vice President Dick Cheney

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CIA Scientist Secretly Dosed with LSD Then Thrown from a 13th-Floor Window — documented evidencePARTIAL🕵️ Intelligence
@James Starrs·16h ago

CIA Scientist Secretly Dosed with LSD Then Thrown from a 13th-Floor Window

95% PARTIAL

1.9K votes

PARTIAL·2 sources

Dismissed by — CIA

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CIA's $3 Billion Program Armed the Militants Who Became Al-Qaeda and the Taliban — documented evidencePARTIAL🕵️ Intelligence
@Zbigniew Brzezinski·16h ago

CIA's $3 Billion Program Armed the Militants Who Became Al-Qaeda and the Taliban

95% PARTIAL

1.9K votes

PARTIAL·2 sources

Dismissed by — CIA

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The CIA helped 6 South American dictatorships coordinate the assassination and disappearance of 60,000-80,000 political dissidents — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@Operation Condor Victims / John Dinges·16h ago

The CIA helped 6 South American dictatorships coordinate the assassination and disappearance of 60,000-80,000 political dissidents

95% CONFIRMED

1.9K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources

Dismissed by — US State Department (initially)

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British Intelligence Used a Boys' Home for VIP Blackmail Operations — documented evidenceINVESTIGATING🕵️ Intelligence
@Chris Moore·16h ago

British Intelligence Used a Boys' Home for VIP Blackmail Operations

95% INVESTIGATING

1.9K votes

INVESTIGATING·2 sources

Dismissed by — HIA Inquiry

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The CIA attempted to assassinate at least 5 foreign leaders using exploding cigars, poisoned wetsuits, and mafia hitmen — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@Church Committee / Sen. Frank Church·16h ago

The CIA attempted to assassinate at least 5 foreign leaders using exploding cigars, poisoned wetsuits, and mafia hitmen

95% CONFIRMED

1.9K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources

Dismissed by — CIA Director William Colby

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Mossad Stole US Software, Backdoored It, and Sold It to 120+ Countries for Espionage — documented evidenceDISPUTED🕵️ Intelligence
@Ari Ben-Menashe·16h ago

Mossad Stole US Software, Backdoored It, and Sold It to 120+ Countries for Espionage

95% DISPUTED

1.9K votes

🟡DISPUTED·2 sources

Dismissed by — DOJ

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Journalist Investigating CIA Director Dies in Suspicious Car Hack Crash — documented evidenceDISPUTED🕵️ Intelligence
@Richard Clarke·16h ago

Journalist Investigating CIA Director Dies in Suspicious Car Hack Crash

95% DISPUTED

1.9K votes

🟡DISPUTED·2 sources

Dismissed by — LAPD

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The CIA spent $8 million to destabilize Chile's democracy and orchestrate the 1973 coup that installed Pinochet's brutal dictatorship — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@Church Committee / Sen. Frank Church·16h ago

The CIA spent $8 million to destabilize Chile's democracy and orchestrate the 1973 coup that installed Pinochet's brutal dictatorship

95% CONFIRMED

1.8K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·1 source

Dismissed by — Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

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CIA Secretly Controlled Major American Media Outlets for Decades — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@Philip Graham (attributed)·16h ago

CIA Secretly Controlled Major American Media Outlets for Decades

95% CONFIRMED

1.8K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·6 sources

Dismissed by — CIA

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US and Israel Deployed the World's First Cyber Weapon Against Iran's Nuclear Program — documented evidencePARTIAL🕵️ Intelligence
@Ralph Langner·16h ago

US and Israel Deployed the World's First Cyber Weapon Against Iran's Nuclear Program

95% PARTIAL

1.8K votes

PARTIAL·2 sources

Dismissed by — White House

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The CIA systematically recruited American journalists and media organizations to spread propaganda — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@CIA (Operation Mockingbird)·2d ago

The CIA systematically recruited American journalists and media organizations to spread propaganda

94% CONFIRMED

1.7K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources
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The CIA's Project Artichoke tested whether they could program unwitting people to become assassins using drugs and hypnosis — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@CIA (declassified)·16h ago

The CIA's Project Artichoke tested whether they could program unwitting people to become assassins using drugs and hypnosis

94% CONFIRMED

1.7K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·1 source

Dismissed by — CIA

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Israel Deliberately Attacked USS Liberty Killing 34 Americans; US Government Covered It Up — documented evidenceDISPUTED🕵️ Intelligence
@James Bamford·16h ago

Israel Deliberately Attacked USS Liberty Killing 34 Americans; US Government Covered It Up

94% DISPUTED

1.7K votes

🟡DISPUTED·2 sources

Dismissed by — Israeli Defense Forces

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CIA Systematic Assassination Program Killed 26,000+ Vietnamese Civilians — documented evidencePROVEN RIGHT🕵️ Intelligence
@Samuel Adams·16h ago

CIA Systematic Assassination Program Killed 26,000+ Vietnamese Civilians

94% CONFIRMED

1.7K votes

🟢CONFIRMED·2 sources

Dismissed by — William Colby

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