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[[title/short::9 Huge Government Conspiracies That Actually Happened]]
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* '''when''': [[when posted::2014/03/22]]
* '''author''': [[author::Christina Sterbenz]]
* '''source''': [[site::Yahoo!]]
* '''topics''': [[topic::conspiracy theories]]
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* '''link''': [[URL::http://finance.yahoo.com/news/9-huge-government-conspiracies-actually-130000233.html]]
* '''title''': [[title::9 Huge Government Conspiracies That Actually Happened]]
* '''summary''': <call func=smw.let.echo key=Summary>"As the years pass, however, secrets surface. Government documents become declassified. We now have evidence of certain elaborate government schemes right here in the U.S. of A."</call>
Conspiracies discussed:
# The U.S. Department of the Treasury poisoned alcohol during Prohibition
# The U.S. Public Health Service lied about treating black men with syphilis for more than 40 years. (Tuskegee)
# More than 100 million Americans received a polio vaccine contaminated with a potentially cancer-causing virus.
# Parts of the {{wp/alt|Gulf of Tonkin Incident}}, which led to [[Vietnam War|U.S. intervention in Vietnam]], never happened.
# Military leaders reportedly planned terrorist attacks in the U.S. to drum up support for a war against Cuba. ({{wp/alt|Operation Northwoods}})
# The government tested the effects of LSD on unwitting U.S. and Canadian citizens. ({{wp/alt|MKUltra}})
# In 1974, the CIA secretly resurfaced a sunken Soviet submarine with three nuclear-armed ballistic missiles.
# The U.S. government sold weapons to Iran, violating an embargo, and used the money to support Nicaraguan militants. ({{wp/alt|Iran Contra}})
#  A public relations firm organized congressional testimony that propelled U.S. involvement in the Persian [[Gulf War]].
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