30 Of The Most Unsettling Declassified CIA Documents Available To The Public

The idea came from Winston Churchill. In WW2 the UK rifle barrels needed something to prevent rain draining in and they decided to use condoms. Churchill suggested to label them "small" to demoralize the enemy if they found one. ;)

Ngl, I'm pretty sure it worked, men are probably more insecure about their junk the same way we women are insecure about our whole body. Thanks society ❤️

Ironically, Russia pulled a metaphorical equivalent with Trump these past 8 years and this time it actually worked.

I think that was a joke back when I was in 8th grade (1961)

The sizes were actually extra large ones labelled as medium

It becomes quite scary when you look into that topic and find out that a bunch of countries did that. The Nazis with the Jews, the Japanese with Chinese prisoners, the US Americans themselves with the native Americans, and so many more. Humanity can be sickening sometimes

They should never have been pardoned for their crimes. Take the data and then throw them in prison. So little justice.

It’s difficult in these situations, because the information from incredibly unethical experiments CAN be incredibly valuable. Like the Nazis performed a lot of truly horrifying experiments that are the basis for a lot of things we know today. I am of the opinion that we should use that information, and make sure we remember how it was obtained and honor those who were tortured for it, but it’s a really controversial topic.

Sounds even more gruesome then what our „dear“ Mengele did. And he was very hard to top

oh my GOD - I'd never heard of that... That's awful :-(

Is that even remotely true? Sounds very unlikely

This is dubious. The super rich who buy up all the art have been buying lousy art for hundreds of years all in the name of material gain and snobbery.

I'm not buying that explanation. I can imagine the CIA dropping money into the pockets of prominent figures, and those prominent figures buying art at over-inflated prices. But the purpose would be to give those prominent figures a "get out of jail free" card, the same card played by crime bosses these days - a "reduce my sentence or you'll never see your precious painting again" bargaining chip.

So it's Banksy. Literally.

There is no stereotype in which there isn't at least a grain of "truth" to it. Take the white, upper and middle class stereotype that black people are lazy, won't work, and are content to live on the dole. That comes directly from slavery. Whites told themselves that black people were basically slightly more intelligent monkeys that "needed" to be "taken care of". Truth? Of course not! White used that as one of their excuses for slavery. But, in order to better control the slave population, slaves were kept uneducated. It was illegal, for instance, for a slave to know how to read and write. In the north, most black people were treated little better than slaves. "Everybody" "knew" that blacks were unintelligent, shiftless, good for only the most menial jobs, etc. Sure, some black people are. Some white people are. In ANY group, you're going to have some people like that. You're also going to get highly intelligent people who are capable of being computers for NASA. The white people in power chose to accent the worst of the negative stereotypes, and they still exist. Partially because for way too many years, many white Americans grew up with these stereotypes as part of their unconscious world-view. It's hard to change a belief that you've grown up with, that "everybody" agrees with, and that you don't really realize is a stereotype. Partially, because a mostly uneducated group of people, who couldn't even count on the sanctity and identity of family, have had a horrible time climbing out of that huge hole. Someone who can't read or write, who's never done any work but picking cotton, isn't going to have an easy way to get out of extreme poverty. Multiply by the sheer number of slaves set free within a short period of time, and like the migrant workers in the Depression, too many people with not enough options. The American black population, in general, is still horribly disadvantaged compared to the white population. Again, it's dammed hard to get out of such a big whole, especially when the people who put you there are absolutely sure you can do nothing but fail, and have stacked every deck against you. (If I've offended anyone by this post, I apologize. I'm not saying that these stereotypes are true, or that I believe them. I'm saying I think this is where they came from, and why they're still so prevalent today.)

Ah the good ol' CIA. Couping DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED governments around the world since it's inception!

Well, it is said that it happened as recently as 2001 with 911, so...

This document may or may not be apart of 'Operation Northwoods'. It does not actually mention any specific operation whatsoever. Also it states, "Subject: Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba (TS)" It covers action "in Cuba." The rest is vague references to latter material. Not saying false flag operations have never occurred, but this document is not close to being evidence of any misdeeds.

Not very different from what they did in Italy by supporting and funding indirectly right-wing terrorism to give a platform to right-wing authoritarian parties that were closer to the American sphere of influence. It has been thoroughly documented by a Congressional report by the Pike Committee how Graham Martin, appointed by Nixon as US Ambassador in Rome, since October 1969 funneled secret US funds into the Italian MSI party. MSI was a far-right wing movement which made wide use of political violence, whose members had prominent roles in act of terrorism (bombing of stations, trains, banks etc) and were part of no less than two attempted "coup de etats", at least one documented to have been discussed in advance with Martin. Martin wrote Nixon bragging to be able to easily install a military government in Italy if requested. The policy was upheld, but a little mitigated, By John "Golpe" Volpe, Martin's successor, and George H. Bush's CIA tenure during the Ford administration.

Funny how supporting a vicious tool like Batista came back to haunt the U.S. You'd think these warmongers would learn the lesson after so many dismal failures. Isn't that the definition of insanity?

RED2. Just because you feel paranoid, they can still be after you.

Who… who decides all these things they did is any better from what the Nazis did in WWII? All those strange experiments. Sounds very bad to me.

In CSSR State police StB experimented with LSD too, there is interesting document online.

It wasn't necessarily done by the CIA but by the 6th or 10th Psychological warfare unit

I need some sleep. I read it as mcgrill

pure b******t

I would have believed it if they didn’t tell the psychic the coordinates were mars before the interview, but they did. However, they did seem to be taking the psychic pretty seriously, so either they know something we don’t or they’re just as clueless as we are lmao.

Calling Magsaysay a puppet is grossly unfair. The US recognized common interests (combatting a Soviet-backed terrorist movement which killed tens of thousands of Filipinos), but Magsaysay was a bona fide war hero of WW2, and fought for and won U.S. pay for Philippine veterans, and was the chief opposition of the U.S.-backed social-liberal party in the "dirty election of 1949."

Victoria Nuland vibes

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Your Puppet-in-Chief for the Russians (and the Chinese) is in office right now.

Thanks, now I'm gonna be busy scrolling on there for the next 3 days. Edit: Don't visit random links, kids (yes, I know, I was stupid), but this one seems safe. It is what it says it is.