{"id":187771,"date":"2019-05-04T04:47:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T04:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=187771"},"modified":"2019-05-07T05:04:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T05:04:01","slug":"12-crazy-conspiracy-theories-that-actually-turned-out-to-be-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=187771","title":{"rendered":"12 Crazy Conspiracy Theories That Actually Turned Out to Be True"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lauren Cahn \u2013 Readers Digest<\/h1>\n

They say the truth is stranger than fiction. That\u2019s no lie: All of these so-called \u201cconspiracy theories\u201d turned out to be legit.<\/h5>\n

The Dead Baby Project<\/h3>\n

Laughing at crazy conspiracy theories is good fun\u2014until they turn out to be true. Take the conspiracy surrounding the \u201cProject Sunshine,\u201d for example. In the wake of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the U.S. government commenced a major study to measure the effects of nuclear fallout<\/a><\/span> on the human body.<\/h5>\n
Conspiracy: <\/strong>The government was stealing dead bodies to do radioactive testing.<\/h5>\n
The truth: <\/strong>The government was stealing parts<\/em> of dead bodies. Because they needed young tissue, they recruited a worldwide network of agents to find recently deceased babies and children<\/a><\/span>, and then take samples and even limbs\u2014each collected without notification or permission of the more than 1,500 grieving families.<\/h5>\n

Bad Booze<\/h3>\n

Conspiracy: <\/strong>During Prohibition, the government poisoned alcohol to keep people from drinking.<\/h5>\n
The truth: <\/strong>Crazy conspiracy theories almost always suggest the government is behind it all\u2014and they were right, again. Manufacturers of industrial alcohol had been mixing their product with dangerous chemicals for years prior to Prohibition. But between 1926 and 1933, the federal government pushed manufacturers to use stronger poisons<\/span><\/a> to discourage bootleggers from turning the alcohol into moonshine. That didn\u2019t stop the bootleggers or their customers, and by the end of Prohibition, more than 10,000 Americans had been killed by tainted booze. Limiting alcohol is a health advice doctors can agree on, but these 11 health controversies and conspiracies still divide people<\/a><\/span>.<\/h5>\n

The First Lady Who ran the Country<\/h3>\n

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Conspiracy: <\/strong>A stroke rendered President Woodrow Wilson incapable of governing, and his wife surreptitiously stepped in.<\/h5>\n
The truth: <\/strong>Wilson did suffer a debilitating stroke towards the end of his presidency\u2014but the government felt it was in the country\u2019s best interest to keep things quiet. The public didn\u2019t learn about the stroke for months, during which time his wife, Edith Wilson, was making most executive decisions<\/span><\/a>. Despite Mrs. Wilson claiming that she acted only as a \u201csteward,\u201d historians who have analyzed the Wilson term in office confirm that for well over a year, Mrs. Wilson was effectively president.<\/h5>\n

Government Mind Control<\/h3>\n

Conspiracy:<\/strong> The CIA was testing LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs on Americans in a top-secret experiment on behavior modification.<\/h5>\n
The truth: <\/strong>The program was known as MK-ULTRA<\/span><\/a>, and it was real. The CIA started by using volunteers; the novelist Ken Kesey was one notable subject. But the program heads soon began dosing people without their knowledge; MK-ULTRA left many victims permanently mentally disabled.\u00a0Don\u2019t miss these\u00a011 controversial medical theories that are actually true<\/a><\/span>.<\/h5>\n

The Dalia Lama\u2019s Impressive Salary<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>Conspiracy:<\/strong> The Dalai Lama is a CIA agent.<\/h5>\n
The truth:<\/strong> Perhaps the reason the Dalai Lama is smiling in all those photos has something to do with the six-figure salary he pulled down from the U.S. government during the 1960s. According to declassified intelligence documents<\/a><\/span>, he earned $180,000 in connection with the CIA\u2019s funding of the Tibetan Resistance to the tune of $1.7 million per year. The idea was to disrupt and hamper China\u2019s infrastructure.<\/h5>\n

John Lennon Was Under Government Surveillance<\/h3>\n

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Conspiracy: <\/strong>The FBI was spying on former Beatle John Lennon.<\/h5>\n
The truth:<\/strong>\u00a0Crazy conspiracy theories regarding celebs are always interesting\u2014and this one is most certainly true. Like many counter-culture heroes, Lennon was considered a threat: \u201cAnti-war songs, like \u201cGive Peace a Chance\u201d didn\u2019t exactly endear former Beatle John Lennon to the Nixon administration,\u201d NPR reported<\/span><\/a> in 2010. \u201cIn 1971, the FBI put Lennon under surveillance, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service tried to deport him a year later.\u201d Lennon is one of\u00a013 more notable celebrities you didn\u2019t realize were watched by the FBI<\/a><\/span>.<\/h5>\n

The Government is Spying on You<\/h3>\n

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Conspiracy: <\/strong>With the advances in technology, the government is using its vast resources to track citizens.<\/h5>\n
The truth:<\/strong> In 2016, government agencies sent 49,868 requests for user data to Facebook, 27,850 to Google, and 9,076 to Apple, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/span><\/a> (the EFF), a major nonprofit organization that defends civil liberties in the digital world and advises the public on matters of internet privacy. You\u2019ve probably also heard that your computer camera could be used to spy on you\u2014here\u2019s the real likelihood someone is watching you through that camera<\/span><\/a>.<\/h5>\n

Big Tabacco Knew the Cigarettes Caused Cancer<\/h3>\n

Conspiracy:<\/strong> For decades, tobacco companies buried evidence that smoking is deadly.<\/h5>\n
The truth:<\/strong> At the beginning of the 1950s, research was showing an indisputable statistical link between smoking and lung cancer<\/a><\/span>, but it wasn\u2019t until the late 1990s that Philip Morris, the nation\u2019s largest cigarette maker at the time,\u00a0even admitted<\/span><\/a> that smoking could cause cancer.<\/h5>\n

Fake Battle, Real War<\/h3>\n

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Conspiracy:<\/strong> The Gulf of Tonkin incident on August 2, 1964, was faked to provoke American support for the Vietnam War.<\/h5>\n
The truth: <\/strong>By the time news reached American ears, the facts surrounding the North Vietnamese attack on the American Naval ship Maddox<\/em> were already fuzzy. Declassified intelligence documents have since revealed that the Maddox<\/em> had provided support for South Vietnamese attacks on a nearby island and that the North Vietnamese were responding in kind, according to the U.S. Naval Institute<\/span><\/a>. The event \u201copened the floodgates for direct American military involvement in Vietnam.\u201d Similarly, there are some crazy aviation conspiracy theories<\/a><\/span> people also believe.<\/h5>\n

There is Alien Evidence in the American Southwest<\/h3>\n

Conspiracy:<\/strong> E.T. is buried in the desert of New Mexico.<\/h5>\n
The truth:<\/strong> This one is real: The Atari video game E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial <\/em>failed so miserably that the company buried unsold cartridges<\/a><\/span> in a desert landfill. (Wait, what did you think we meant? Real aliens? In New Mexico? Not yet, anyway.)<\/h5>\n

The Canadian Government Tried to Develop Gaydar<\/h3>\n

Conspiracy:<\/strong> The Canada government was so paranoid about homosexuality that it developed a \u201cgaydar\u201d machine.<\/h5>\n
The truth:<\/strong> It really happened: In the 1960s, the government hired a university professor to develop a way to detect homosexuality<\/a><\/span> in federal employees. He came up with a machine that measured pupil dilation in response to same-sex-erotic imagery; the Canadian government used it to exclude or fire more than 400 men from civil service, the military, and the Mounties. The American government is just as guilty with these 10 secret U.S. government operations, revealed<\/a><\/span>.<\/h5>\n

The Illuminati and the U.S. Government<\/h3>\n
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The All-seeing eye associated with the Illuminati, which can be found on U.S. dollar bills. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Conspiracy:<\/strong> A secret society that rules the world\u2014the Illuminati\u2014and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) are in cahoots.<\/h5>\n
The truth:<\/strong> We\u2019re here to tell you that a link does, in fact, exist. Of course, that \u201clink\u201d is actually a hyperlink <\/em>(i.e., an electronic link between two Internet sites). If you type Illuminati backward\u2014Itanimulli\u2014into a web browser, you will land on the NSA website. Click this link if you dare: Itanimulli.com<\/a><\/span>. Rumor has it this elite society includes tons of famous personalities, actors, actresses, and performers. Meanwhile, the royal family is in a league of their own since there are 18 insane conspiracy theories about the royal family<\/span><\/a>.<\/h5>\n

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