17 Shocking Lesser Known True Stories About World Events

These declassified events reveal so much that the world intended to keep covered up.

To Oust Fidel Castro, The US Planned To Commit Acts Of Terror On US Citizens

“US planned to stage fake attacks on US just so they’d have an excuse to overthrow Castro in Cuba. In the early 1960s, American military leaders drafted plans to create public support for a war against Cuba and oust Fidel Castro from power. The plans included committing acts of terrorism in U.S. cities, killing innocent people and U.S. soldiers, blowing up a U.S. ship, assassinating Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees and hijacking planes. The plans were all approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but were rejected by JFK” Source

Project ECHELON

“NATO, Australia, and New Zealand all agreed to spy on each other and share the information, that way they wouldn’t be violating any domestic laws about spying on citizens. They carried out the project, code named program ECHELON in the 60s. This was all widely disclosed between 1988-2001, but people act like Snowden was the first time we found out the government was listening. No one was ostracized or called crazy for saying this, the truth is that hardly anyone cared at the time, then 9/11 happened and even less people cared what the government did” Source

Project MKUltra

“Project MKUltra involved a lot of human experimentation, and one of its most notable subjects was Frank Olson. Olson was a CIA employee who was dosed with LSD by his supervisor and then “committed suicide” nine days later by jumping out of his hotel window. After an autopsy, there was some evidence found that he was unconscious when he plunged out the window. Some speculate that the CIA murdered Olson. I read an interesting take on MKUltra and its goals. The organizers rationalized it as a way to incapacitate the people of the USSR without the use of nuclear weapons. If they were able to get LSD into the water supply or other method, millions of people could be temporarily unable to take up arms and therefore prevent mass casualties if war broke out” Source

Project Pluto

“The government worked on what was to be a giant nuclear powered cruise missile which would loiter over the oceans for years, waiting for WWIII. When the call for Armageddon came they would race down to fighting altitude, go supersonic and start automatically dropping thermonuclear bombs on their target list, and once out of bombs crash into another target and leak built-up fallout from its payload over the crash site. A billion dollars was spent developing this, nuclear engines were made, and worked” Source

The Horrifying Story Of Rosemary Kennedy

“Anyone bring up Rosemary Kennedy yet? Kennedy decided that his daughter should have the lobotomy performed; however, he did not inform his wife Rose of this until after the procedure was completed. Surgeons recounted the procedure: “We went through the top of the head, I think she was awake. She had a mild tranquilizer. I made a surgical incision in the brain through the skull. It was near the front. It was on both sides. We just made a small incision, no more than an inch.” The instrument Dr. Watts used looked like a butter knife. He swung it up and down to cut brain tissue. “We put an instrument inside”, he said. As Dr. Watts cut, Dr. Freeman put questions to Rosemary. For example, he asked her to recite the Lord’s Prayer or sing “God Bless America” or count backwards….. “We made an estimate on how far to cut based on how she responded.” ….. When she began to become incoherent, they stopped. (…) After the lobotomy, it quickly became apparent that the procedure was not successful. Kennedy’s mental capacity diminished to that of a two-year-old child. She could not walk or speak intelligibly and was considered incontinent” Source

Native American Sterilization

“The Department of Health and Human Services practiced female sterilization on Native American women all the way through the 1970’s. Often, women would go in for birth and be told that they would die without a “certain procedure,” but never really made clear what that procedure was. The result is people were sterilized by giving consent without full disclosure, and often weren’t informed that they were sterilized at all. Many found out years later when they couldn’t get pregnant. In other words, we were using tax dollars to suppress indigenous birth rates less than 50 years ago” Source

The US Considered Making A Gay Bomb

“The US government did initial research into a gay bomb in the 1990s. It was a bomb that compelled people to have compulsive homosexual sex. Two theoretical non-lethal chemical weapons were proposed by a United States Air Force research laboratory; the theories involve discharging female sex pheromones over enemy forces in order to make them sexually attracted to each other. A ‘heavy sweating bomb’, ‘flatulence bomb’ and ‘halitosis bomb’ were also considered by a committee at the time. The plan was to make an enemy so smelly they could be quite literally sniffed out of hiding by their opponents. It was also considered damaging to the enemy’s morale” Source

The Church Of Scientology Infiltrated The US Government

“Operation Snow White: The Church of Scientology managed to perform the largest infiltration of the United States government in history. Ever. 5,000 of Scientology’s crack commandos wiretapped and burglarized various agencies. They stole hundreds of documents, mainly from the IRS. No critic was spared, and in the end, 136 organizations, agencies and foreign embassies were infiltrated” Source

The Man Who Singlehandedly Prevented World War III

“On 27/10/62 a Russian sub was found by an American battle group. The Americans dropped signaling depth charges to force the sub to the surface for identification. As the sub had been hiding in deep water it had no way of knowing if the USSR and the US were at war. The captain of the sub wanted to fire a nuclear torpedo, but Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov, who was serving as first officer on the sub as well as flotilla commander, refused. This action basically prevented a nuclear shooting war and probably WWIII. Funnily enough Arkhipov also served on the infamous K-19 and it was that reputation which managed to convince the sub captain to not launch the nuclear torpedoes” Source

America’s Plan To Go To War With Canada

“War Plan Red. It was a plan created by the US in the early 20th century preparing for if they went to war with the United Kingdom. Basically the idea was to invade Canada and hope the UK surrenders” Source

The FBI Tried To Take Down The Civil Rights Movement

“The FBI for years were hard-bent on taking down the civil rights movement. COINTELPRO (an acronym for Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States.They framed, blackmailed and even killed various leaders. FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt was convicted of violating people’s civil rights, the highest law enforcement official ever held criminally responsible for ignoring the Constitution. And then Reagan pardoned him” Source

Japanese Human Experimentation

“The Japanese famously conducted human experimentation research on the Chinese and Koreans, in a location called Unit 731. They performed vivisections, forced people to infect each other and children with STDs namely syphilis, freeze peoples limbs solid and record the damage and results, and perform a battery of other brutal tests. Experiments attempting to weaponize the Bubonic Plague also took place. The most disturbing part is that when it was shut down, rather than be charged with war crimes, the US pardoned the researchers in exchange for all their information. These war criminals walked free and the US got a nice payday of bio and chemical weaponry data, some of which is still undisclosed” Source

Nixon’s Deadly Cambodia Bombings

“It is a lesser known memory that Nixon ordered massive bombings of Cambodia by B52 bombers, which resulted in the deaths of approximately 150,000 people. This also helped lead to the rise of Khmer Rouge who killed 3 million people” Source

The US Nearly Nuked Itself Accidentally

“On January 3, 1961, a United States B-52 bomber went into a tail spin and broke up mid air, accidentally dropping two Mark-39 hydrogen bombs over Goldsboro North Carolina. One of the bombs worked exactly as intended. It’s parachute deployed and triggers activated, armed and ready to donate on impact. Shortly before impact, 3 of the 4 low voltage safety switches failed, preventing two 4 megaton nuclear explosions” Source

JFK’s Brain

“John F. Kennedy’s brain was lost before it could be autopsied. I don’t mean that it was left at the scene; they cut it out of his head, set it aside, and said, ‘whoops'” Source

A Corporate Takeover Of The United States Government Was Going To Be Real

“In 1933, group of wealthy businessmen that allegedly included the heads of Chase Bank, GM, Goodyear, Standard Oil, the DuPont family and Senator Prescott Bush tried to recruit Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler to lead a military coup against President FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in the United States” Source

Why We Used Cancer Causing Asbestos For So Long

“Between 1930 and 1960, manufacturers did all they could to prevent the link between asbestos and respiratory diseases, including cancer, becoming known, so they could avoid prosecution” Source

CIA’s Family Jewels

“The CIA’s family jewels. It’s a collection of messed up stuff the CIA did during the Cold War. Highlights include sexually assaulting prisoners to make them more likely to fail a lie detector test and the various wire taps and standing orders to read all mail to and from Russia. The linked document has a table of contents” Source