33 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True, What Every Person Should Know...

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33 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True, What Every Person Should 
Know...
 
By Jonathan Elinoff, New World Order Report
If you enjoy this article, please check out my documentary film series, Core of 
Corruption.  You can see it at CoreOfCorruption.com
After reading the article released by Cracked.com, I decided to  update and 
revise their work. The article gave me a chuckle because it  lacked many famous 
and much larger conspiracy theories that became  known.   Their article had only 
listed seven.  I can name 33 and I am  about to release a revised list soon with 
75.   The article I read at  cracked can be viewed here, but don't waste your 
time, all of that is in this article and more.
Most people can't resist getting the details on the  latest conspiracy theories, 
no matter how far-fetched they may seem.  At  the same time, many people quickly 
denounce any conspiracy theory as  untrue ... and sometimes as unpatriotic or 
just plain ridiculous.  Lets  not forget all of the thousands of conspiracies 
out of Wall Street like  Bernie Madoff and many others to commit fraud and 
extortion, among many  crimes of conspiracy.  USA Today reports that over 75% of 
personal ads  in the paper and on craigslist are married couples posing as 
single for a  one night affair.  When someone knocks on your door to sell you a 
set  of knives or phone cards, anything for that matter, do they have a  profit 
motive?  What is conspiracy other than just a scary way of saying  “alternative 
agenda”?  When 2 friends go to a bar and begin to plan  their wingman approach 
on 2 girls they see at the bar, how often are  they planning on lying to those 
girls?“  I own a small business and am  in town for a short while.Oh yeah, you 
look beautiful.”
Conspiracy theory is a term that originally was a neutral  descriptor for any 
claim of civil, criminal or political conspiracy.   However, it has come almost 
exclusively to refer to any fringe theory  which explains a historical or 
current event as the result of a secret  plot by conspirators of almost 
superhuman power and cunning.  To conspire means "to join in a secret agreement 
to do an unlawful or wrongful act  or to use such means to accomplish a lawful 
end.  "The term "conspiracy  theory" is frequently used by scholars and in 
popular culture to  identify secret military, banking, or political actions 
aimed at  stealing power, money, or freedom, from "the people".
To many, conspiracy theories are just human nature.  Not all people  in this 
world are honest, hard working and forthcoming about their  intentions.Certainly 
we can all agree on this.So how did the term  “conspiracy theory” get grouped in 
with fiction, fantasy and folklore?   Maybe that’s a conspiracy, just kidding.  
Or am I? 
Skeptics are important in achieving an objective view of reality,  however, 
skeptism is not the same as reinforcing the official  storyline.   In fact, a 
conspiracy theory can be argued as an  alternative to the official or 
“mainstream” story of events.    Therefore, when skeptics attempt to ridicule a 
conspiracy theory by  using the official story as a means of proving the 
conspiracy wrong, in  effect, they are just reinforcing the original 
“mainstream” view of  history, and actually not being skeptical.   This is not 
skeptism, it is  just a convenient way for the establishment view of things to 
be seen  as the correct version, all the time, every time.   In fact, it is  
common for "hit pieces" or "debunking articles" to pick extremely fringe  and 
not very populated conspiracy theories.   This in turn makes all  conspiracies 
on a subject matter look crazy.   Skeptics magazine and  Popular Mechanics, 
among many others, did this with 9/11.   They  referred to less than 10% of the 
many different conspiracy theories  about 9/11 and picked the less popular ones, 
in fact, they picked the  fringe, highly improbable points that only a few 
people make.   This was  used as the "final investigation" for looking into the 
conspiracy  theories.  Convenient, huh? 

In fact, if one were to look into conspiracy theories, they will  largely find 
that thinking about a conspiracy is associated with lunacy  and paranoia.  Some 
websites suggest it as an illness.  It is also not  surprising to see so many 
people on the internet writing about  conspiracy theories in a condescending 
tone, usually with the words  "kool-aid," "crack pot," or "nut job" in their 
articulation.  This must  be obvious to anyone that emotionally writing about 
such serious matter  insults the reader more than the conspiracy theorist 
because there is no  need to resort to this kind of behavior.  It is employed 
often with an  "expert" who will say something along the lines of, "for these  
conspiracies to be true, you would need hundreds if not thousands of  people to 
be involved.  It's just not conceivable."
I find it extremely odd that the assumption is on thousands of  participants in 
a conspiracy.  I, for one, find it hard to believe any  conspiracy involving 
more than a handful of people but the fact remains  that there have been 
conspiracies in our world, proven and not made up,  that involved many hundreds 
of people.  It's not a matter of opinion,  it's a matter of fact.
One more thing to consider, have you noticed that if the conspiracy  is 
involving powerful interests with the ability to bribe, threaten or  manipulate 
major institutions (like the mafia, big corporations or  government) then don't 
you find it odd when people use one of those as  the "credible" 
counter-argument?  What I mean is, if you are discussing a  conspiracy about the 
mafia, and someone hands you a debunking article  that was written by the Mafia, 
it doesn't seem like it would take rocket  science to look at that with serious 
criticism and credibility.  This  is the case with many conspiracies.  In fact, 
I am handed debunking  pieces all the time written in many cases by the 
conspirators in  question.  Doesn't this seem odd to anybody else but me?
While intelligent cynicism certainly can be healthy, though, some of  the 
greatest discoveries of all time were initially received (often with  great 
vitriol) as blasphemous conspiracy theories -- think of the  revelation that the 
earth was not the center of the universe, or that  the world was not flat but 
actually round.
What follows are some of these most shocking modern conspiracy  theories that 
turned out true after thorough investigation by our  society.  Some through 
congressional hearings, others through  investigative journalism.  Many of 
these, however, were just admitted to  by those involved.  These are just 33 of 
them, and I still had a long  list of others to add.  There are a total of 33 in 
this article.  Many  of these are listed with original and credible news clips 
on the matter,  as well as documentaries.
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1.The Dreyfus Affair: In the late 1800s in France, Jewish artillery officer 
Alfred Dreyfus was  wrongfully convicted of treason based on false government 
documents,  and sentenced to life in prison. The French government did attempt 
to  cover this up, but Dreyfus was eventually pardoned after the affair was  
made public (an act that is credited to writer Émile Zola).
2.The Mafia: This  secret crime society was virtually unknown until the 1960s, 
when member  Joe Valachi first revealed the society's secrets to law enforcement  
officials.What was known was that organized crime existed, but not that  the 
extent of their control included working with the CIA, politicians  and the 
biggest businesses in the world. 
Many people do not realize that J. Edgar Hoover, the first Director  of  the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation  (FBI) of the United States, was  appointed 
director of the Bureau of  Investigation—predecessor to the  FBI—in 1924 and was 
instrumental in  founding the FBI in 1935, where he  remained director until his 
death in  1972. Hoover is credited with  building the FBI into a large and  
efficient crime-fighting agency, and  with instituting a number of modern  
innovations to police technology,  such as a centralized fingerprint  file and 
forensic laboratories.  For  the majority of his time as FBI Director, there 
were numerous Mafia  shootings as a result of Prohibition.  Hoover  continued to 
deny the  very existence of organized crime.  Many figures in politics and media  
denied the existence of the Mafia, which had no official title.   Gangsters like 
Gambino and Capone were thought of as Street Kings only,  just running local 
operations.  It was not until the 1960's until people  began to learn that a 
very organized system of superiors and control  existed within the organized 
crime world.  Arnold Rothstein, the man who  rigged the World Series, started 
the major drug trade and is credited  as being the "King of the Roaring 20's." 
In his biography, he is said to  have brought Lucky Luciano into his business 
and trained him to start  "The Commission."  Five families in New York would 
work together and pay  their dues.  Throughout the entire time the media and the 
FBI denied  the mafia existed, in reality, not only did it exist, but it 
operated in  multiple territories.  Each region had a boss and underboss, with  
soldiers underneath them.  Above the boss was a Don and even above a Don  was 
more figures.  As it went up, regions got larger.  It was extremely  organized, 
down to the books.  In the 1950's, crime bosses from around  the United States 
met to centralize their power and organize their  system.  All this time, the 
public was told that the organized crime  world didn't exist, and that all the 
crimes were committed by local  gangsters... 
Even with all we knew about how organized the mafia was during  prohibition, 
people still laugh at the idea of organized crime  conspiracies taking place in 
politics.  Usually the excuse people wll  give you is something along the lines 
of, "I just don't think people are  that organized..."  Funny how easy it must 
be to get away with stuff  these days, no one believes its possible....
3.MK-ULTRA: In the  1950s to the 1970s, the CIA ran a mind-control project aimed 
at finding a  "truth serum" to use on communist spies. Test subjects were given 
LSD  and other drugs, often without consent, and some were tortured. At least  
one man, civilian biochemist Frank Olson, who was working for the  government, 
died as a result of the experiments. The project was finally  exposed after 
investigations by the Rockefeller Commission.
A short video about MK-ULTRA from a documentary called Secrets of the CIA: 
  
 
4.Operation Mockingbird: Also in the 1950s to '70s, the CIA paid a number of 
well-known domestic  and foreign journalists (from big-name media outlets like 
Time, The  Washington Post, The New York Times, CBS and others) to publish CIA  
propaganda. The CIA also reportedly funded at least one movie, the  animated 
"Animal Farm," by George Orwell. The Church Committee finally  exposed the 
activities in 1975.
5.ManhattanProject:The  Manhattan Project was the codename for a project 
conducted during World  War II to develop the first atomic bomb. The project was 
led by the  United States, and included participation from the United Kingdom 
and  Canada. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineer District (MED), it  
refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942–1946 under  the 
control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the  administration of 
General Leslie R. Groves. The scientific research was  directed by American 
physicist J. Robert OppenhMafia.The project's roots  lay in scientists' fears 
since the 1930s that Nazi Germany was also  investigating nuclear weapons of its 
own. Born out of a small research  program in 1939, the Manhattan Project 
eventually employed more than  130,000 people and cost nearly US$2 billion ($22 
billion in current  value).
It resulted in the creation of multiple production and research sites  that 
operated in secret.With the total involved, this makes it one of  the largest 
conspiracies in history.Entire towns were built for short  periods of time, 
employing people, all under secrecy and top national  secrecy at that.The 
government never admitted to it, the media never  reported on it, and people had 
no idea for over 25 years.Project  research took place at over thirty sites 
across the United States,  Canada, and the United Kingdom. The three primary 
research and  production sites of the project were the plutonium-production 
facility  at what is now the Hanford Site, the uranium-enrichment facilities at  
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the weapons research and design laboratory now  known 
as Los Alamos National Laboratory. The MED maintained control  over U.S. weapons 
production until the formation of the Atomic Energy  Commission in January 1947.
6.Asbestos: 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. American workers had in fact  sued the 
Johns Manville company as far back as 1932, but it was not  until 1962 that 
epidemiologists finally established beyond any doubt  what company bosses had 
known for a long time – asbestos causes cancer.
7.Watergate: Republican  officials spied on the Democratic National Headquarters 
from the  Watergate Hotel in 1972. While conspiracy theories suggested 
underhanded  dealings were taking place, it wasn't until 1974 that White House 
tape  recordings linked President Nixon to the break-in and forced him to  
resign. 
8.The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: The United States Public Health Service carried 
out this clinical study  on 400 poor, African-American men with syphilis from 
1932 to 1972.  During the study the men were given false and sometimes dangerous  
treatments, and adequate treatment was intentionally withheld so the  agency 
could learn more about the disease. While the study was initially  supposed to 
last just six months, it continued for 40 years. Close to  200 of the men died 
from syphilis or related complications by the end of  the study.
9.Operation Northwoods: In the early 1960s, American military leaders drafted 
plans to create  public support for a war against Cuba, to 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  
reportedly rejected by the civilian leadership, then kept secret for  nearly 40 
years.
Author James Bamford, "A Pretext For War", discusses the  declassified 
"Operation Northwoods" documents revealing that in 1962 the  CIA was planning to 
stage phony terrorist attacks on the US and blame  it on Cuba to start a war:
   
10.1990 Testimony of Nayirah:A  15-year-old girl named “Nayirah” testified 
before the U.S. Congress  that she had seen Iraqi soldiers pulling Kuwaiti 
babies from incubators,  causing them to die. The testimony helped gain major 
public support for  the 1991 Gulf War, but — despite protests that the dispute 
of this  story was itself a conspiracy theory — it was later discovered that the  
testimony was false. The public relations firm Hill & Knowlton,  which was in 
the employ of Citizens for a Free Kuwait, had arranged the  testimony.It turned 
out that she had taken acting lessons on request of  the CIA and was actually 
the niece of a major politician in  Kuwait.Nayirah was later disclosed to be 
Nayirah al-Sabah, daughter of  Saud bin Nasir Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ambassador to 
the USA.The Congressional  Human Rights Caucus, of which Congressman Tom Lantos 
was co-chairman,  had been responsible for hosting Nurse Nayirah, and thereby 
popularizing  her allegations. When the girl's account was later challenged by  
independent human rights monitors, Lantos replied, "The notion that any  of the 
witnesses brought to the caucus through the Kuwaiti Embassy would  not be 
credible did not cross my mind... I have no basis for assuming  that her story 
is not true, but the point goes beyond that. If one  hypothesizes that the 
woman's story is fictitious from A to Z, that in  no way diminishes the 
avalanche of human rights violations."  Nevertheless, the senior Republican 
Mafiae Human Rights Caucus, John  Edward Porter, responded to the revelations 
"by saying that if he had  known the girl was the ambassador's daughter, he 
would not have allowed  her to testify."
11.Counter Intelligence Programs Against Activists in the 60s: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. The FBI used  covert operations from its 
inception, however formal COINTELPRO  operations took place between 1956 and 
1971. The FBI's stated motivation  at the time was "protecting national 
security, preventing violence, and  maintaining the existing social and 
political order."According to FBI  records, 85% of COINTELPRO resources were 
expended on infiltrating,  disrupting, marginalizing, and/or subverting groups 
suspected of being  subversive, such as communist and socialist organizations; 
the women's  rights movement; militant black nationalist groups, and the 
non-violent  civil rights movement, including individuals such as Martin Luther 
King,  Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership  
Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored  People, the 
Congress of Racial Equality, the American Indian Movement,  and other civil 
rights groups; a broad range of organizations labeled  "New Left", including 
Students for a Democratic Society, the National  Lawyers Guild, the Weathermen, 
almost all groups protesting the Vietnam  War, and even individual student 
demonstrators with no group  affiliation; and nationalist groups such as those 
"seeking independence  for Puerto Rico." The other 15% of COINTELPRO resources 
were expended to  marginalize and subvert "white hate groups," including the Ku 
Klux Klan  and National States' Rights Party.The directives governing  
COINTELPRO were issued by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who ordered FBI  agents 
to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise  neutralize" the 
activities of these movements and their leaders.
This is a documentary on COINTELPRO:
Main Core is the code name of a database maintained since the  1980s by the 
federal government of the United States, which contains  personal and financial 
data of millions of U.S. citizens believed to be  threats to national security.  
The data, which comes from the NSA, FBI,  CIA, and other sources, is collected 
and stored without warrants or  court orders. The database's name derives from 
the fact that it contains  "copies of the 'main core' or essence of each item of 
intelligence  information on Americans produced by the FBI and the other 
agencies of  the U.S. intelligence community."
The Main Core database is believed to have originated with the  Federal 
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in 1982, following Ronald  Reagan's 
Continuity of Operations plan outlined in the National Security  Directive (NSD) 
69 / National Security Decision Directive (NSDD) 55,  entitled "Enduring 
National Leadership," implemented on September 14,  1982.
As of 2008 there are reportedly eight million Americans listed in the  database 
as possible threats, often for trivial reasons, whom the  government may choose 
to track, question, or detain in a time of crisis.
The existence of the database was first reported on in May 2008 by Christopher 
Ketcham and in July 2008 by Tim Shorrock.
Rex 84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984, is a plan by  the United States 
federal government to test their ability to detain  large numbers of American 
citizens in case of civil unrest or national  emergency.
According to scholar Diana Reynolds:
The Rex-84 Alpha Explan (Readiness Exercise 1984, Exercise  Plan; otherwise 
known as a continuity of government plan), indicates  that FEMA in association 
with 34 other federal civil departments and  agencies, along with other NATO 
nations, conducted a civil readiness  exercise during April 5-13, 1984. It was 
conducted in coordination and  simultaneously with a Joint Chiefs exercise, 
Night Train 84, a worldwide  military command post exercise (including 
Continental U.S. Forces or  CONUS) based on multi-emergency scenarios operating 
both abroad and at  home. In the combined exercise, Rex-84 Bravo, FEMA and DOD 
led the other  federal agencies and departments, including the Central 
Intelligence  Agency, the Secret Service, the Treasury, the Federal Bureau of  
Investigation, and the Veterans Administration through a gaming exercise  to 
test military assistance in civil defense.
The exercise anticipated civil disturbances, major  demonstrations and strikes 
that would affect continuity of government  and/or resource mobilization. To 
fight subversive activities, there was  authorization for the military to 
implement government ordered movements  of civilian populations at state and 
regional levels, the arrest of  certain unidentified segments of the population, 
and the imposition of  martial law. 
Existence of a master military contingency plan, "Garden Plot" and a  similar 
earlier exercise, "Lantern Spike" were originally revealed by  journalist Ron 
Ridenhour, who summarized his findings in "Garden Plot  and the New Action 
Army."
Rex 84 was mentioned during the Iran-Contra Hearings in 1987. The Miami Herald 
wrote subsequently on July 5, 1987:
See video of it here:
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and the Federal Emergency  Management Agency ... 
had drafted a contingency plan providing for the  suspension of the 
Constitution, the imposition of martial law, and the  appointment of military 
commanders to head state and local governments  and to detain dissidents and 
Central American refugees in the event of a  national crisis.
 
The basic facts about Rex 84 and other contingency planning readiness  
exercises—and the potential threat they pose to civil liberties if  fully 
implemented in a real operation—are taken seriously by scholars  and civil 
libertarians.
Exercises similar to Rex 84 happen regularly. Plans for roundups of  large 
numbers of persons in the United States in times of crisis are  constructed 
during periods of increased political repression such as the  Palmer Raids and 
the McCarthy Era.
For example, from 1967 to 1971 the FBI kept a list of over 100,000  persons to 
be rounded up as subversive, dubbed the "ADEX" list. This  list contained many 
labor leaders, scholars, and public figures of the  time.
In 2008, for the first time an active military unit has been given a  dedicated 
assignment stateside for civil unrest containment. It is  assigned to Northcom, 
a joint command established in 2002 to provide  command and control for federal 
homeland defense efforts and coordinate  defense support of civil authorities.
 
12.The Iran-Contra Affair: In 1985 and '86, the White House authorized 
government officials to  secretly trade weapons with the Israeli government that 
were then  secretly traded with Iran in exchange for the release of U.S. 
hostages  held in Iran. The funds from the trades were then used to help finance  
the illegal war in Nicaragua.  The plot was uncovered by Congress in  1987.  The 
documentary series, Core of Corruption,  will be exploring details on the Iran 
Contra conspiracy in greater  detail. The series if 5 seperate films written and 
directed by Jonathan  Elinoff, investigative journalist and reporter for the New 
World Order  Report.  During Iran Contra, drug smuggling by the CIA was 
uncovered and  to this day the United States population is largely unaware of 
the  findings of this information.  Both posts on CIA drug running in this  
article of 33 conspiracies that turned out to be true are about this  very topic 
of drug running during Iran Contra.
13.The BCCI Scandal: The  Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was a 
major  international bank founded in 1972 by Agha Hasan Abedi, a Pakistani  
financier. The Bank was registered in Luxembourg. Within a decade BCCI  touched 
its peak, it operated in 78 countries, had over 400 branches,  and had assets in 
excess of US$ 20 billion making it the 7th largest  private bank in the world by 
assets.  In the late 1980's BCCI became the  target of a two year undercover 
operation conducted by the US Customs  Service. This operation concluded with a 
fake wedding that was attended  by BCCI officers and drug dealers from around 
the world who had  established a personal friendship and working relationship 
with  undercover Special Agent Robert Mazur. After a six month trial in Tampa,  
key bank officers were convicted and received lengthy prison sentences.  Bank 
officers began cooperating with law enforcement authorities and  that 
cooperation caused BCCI’s many crimes to be revealed.  BCCI came  under the 
scrutiny of regulatory bodies and intelligence agencies in the  1980s due to its 
perceived avoidance of falling under one regulatory  banking authority, a fact 
that was later, after extensive  investigations, proven to be false. BCCI became 
the focus of a massive  regulatory battle in 1991 and was described as a 
"$20-billion-plus  heist".  Investigators in the U.S. and the UK revealed that 
BCCI had  been "set up deliberately to avoid centralized regulatory review, and  
operated extensively in bank secrecy jurisdictions. Its affairs were  
extraordinarily complex. Its officers were sophisticated international  bankers 
whose apparent objective was to keep their affairs secret, to  commit fraud on a 
massive scale, and to avoid detection."
This is a report from July 23, 1991 on the BCCI:
This is a report from July 8, 1991 on Connections between BCCI and the CIA:
This is a report from August 6, 1991 on how the BCCI funded Pakistan's Nuclear 
Programs:
This is a report from March 4, 1991 on the BCCI:
14.CIA Drug Running in LA:  Pulitzer Prize Award winning journalist Gary Webb 
exposed this  alongside LAPD Narcotics Officer turned whislteblower and author 
Michael  Ruppert, CIA Contract Pilot Terry Reed, and many others.  In August  
1996 the San Jose Mercury News published Webb's "Dark Alliance", a  20,000 word, 
three-part investigative series which alleged that  Nicaraguan drug traffickers 
had sold and distributed crack cocaine in  Los Angeles during the 1980s, and 
that drug profits were used to fund  the CIA-supported Nicaraguan Contras. Webb 
never asserted that the CIA  directly aided drug dealers to raise money for the 
Contras, but he did  document that the CIA was aware of the cocaine transactions 
and the  large shipments of cocaine into the U.S. by the Contra personnel. "Dark  
Alliance" received national attention. At the height of the interest,  the web 
version of it on San Jose Mercury News website received 1.3 million hits a day. 
According to the Columbia Journalism Review,  the series became "the most 
talked-about piece of journalism in 1996  and arguably the most famous—some 
would say infamous—set of articles of  the decade."
April 6, 1987 Report on CIA Drug Running:
January 20, 1987 Report on CIA Drug Smuggling
November 19, 1993 Report on CIA Drug Running: 
15.Gulfof Tonkin Never  Happened:The  Gulf of Tonkin Incident is the name given 
to two separate incidents  involving the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the 
United States in  the waters of the Gulf  of Tonkin. On August 2, 1964 two 
American  destroyers engaged three North Vietnamese torpedo boats, resulting in  
the sinking of one of the torpedo boats.This was also the single most  important 
reason for the escalation of the Vietnam War.After Kennedy was  assassinated, 
the Gulf of Tonkin gave the country the sweeping support  for aggressive 
military action against the North Vietnamese.
The outcome of the incident was the passage by Congress of the Gulf  of Tonkin 
Resolution, which granted President Lyndon B. Johnson the  authority to assist 
any Southeast Asian country whose government was  considered to be jeopardized 
by "communist aggression".In 2005, an  internal National Security Agency 
historical study was declassified; it  concluded that USS Maddox had engaged the 
North Vietnamese on August 2,  but that there may not have been any North 
Vietnamese vessels present  during the engagement of August 4. The report stated 
“It is not simply  that there is a different story as to what happened; it is 
that no  attack happened that night…”In truth, Hanoi's navy was engaged in  
nothing that night but the salvage of two of the boats damaged on August  2.In 
1965, President Johnson commented privately: "For all I know, our  Navy was 
shooting at whales out there."
In 1981, Captain Herrick and journalist Robert Scheer re-examined  Herrick's 
ship's log and determined that the first torpedo report from  August 4, which 
Herrick had maintained had occurred—the "apparent  ambush"—was in fact 
unfounded.In 1995, retired Vietnamese Defense  Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, meeting 
with former Secretary of Defense  McNamara, categorically denied that Vietnamese 
gunboats had attacked  American destroyers on August 4, while admitting to the 
attack on August  2.In the Fall of 1999, retired senior CIA engineering 
executive S.  Eugene Poteat wrote that he was asked in early August 1964 to 
determine  if the radar operator's report showed a real torpedo boat attack or 
an  imagined one.In October, 2005 the New York Times reported that Robert J.  
Hanyok, a historian for the U.S. National Security Agency, had  concluded that 
the NSA deliberately distorted the intelligence reports  that it had passed on 
to policy-makers regarding the August 4, 1964  incident. He concluded that the 
motive was not political but was  probably to cover up honest intelligence 
errors.
November 9th, 1995 New Clip on Gulf of Tonkin:
16.The Business Plot: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. And yes, we're talking about the same  
Prescott Bush who fathered one US President and grandfathered another  
one.Smedley Butler was both a patriot and a vocal FDR supporter.  Apparently 
none of these criminal masterminds noticed that their  prospective point man had 
actively stumped for FDR in 1932.Smedley  spilled the beans to a congressional 
committee in 1934.
Everyone he accused of being a conspirator vehemently denied it, and  none of 
them were brought up on criminal charges. Still, the House  McCormack-Dickstein 
Committee did at least acknowledge the existence of  the conspiracy, which ended 
up never getting past the initial planning  stages.Though many of the people who 
had allegedly backed the Business  Plot also maintained financial ties with Nazi 
Germany up through  America's entry into World War II. In 1934, the Business 
Plot was  publicly revealed by retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler  
testifying to the McCormack-Dickstein Congressional Committee. In his  
testimony, Butler claimed that a group of men had approached him as part  of a 
plot to overthrow Roosevelt in a military coup. One of the alleged  plotters, 
Gerald MacGuire, vehemently denied any such plot. In their  final report, the 
Congressional committee supported Butler's allegations  of the existence of the 
plot, but no prosecutions or further  investigations followed, and the matter 
was mostly forgotten. 

On July 17, 1932, thousands of World War I veterans converged  on Washington, 
D.C., set up tent camps, and demanded immediate payment  of bonuses due them 
according to the Adjusted Service Certificate Law of  1924. This "Bonus Army" 
was led by Walter W. Waters, a former Army  sergeant. The Army was encouraged by 
an appearance from retired Marine  Corps Major General Smedley Butler, who had 
considerable influence over  the veterans, being one of the most popular 
military figures of the  time. A few days after Butler's arrival, President 
Herbert Hoover  ordered the marchers removed, and their camps were destroyed by 
US Army  cavalry troops under the command of General Douglas MacArthur. 

Butler, although a self-described Republican, responded by supporting Roosevelt 
in that year's election. In  a 1995 History Today article Clayton Cramer argued 
that the devastation  of the Great Depression had caused many Americans to 
question the  foundations of liberal democracy. "Many traditionalists, here and 
in  Europe, toyed with the ideas of Fascism and National Socialism; many  
liberals dallied with Socialism and Communism." Cramer argues that this  
explains why some American business leaders viewed fascism as a viable  system 
to both preserve their interests and end the economic woes of the  Depression.
BBC - Whitehouse Coup (Part 1)
For Part 2, click here.
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17.July 20, 1944 Conspiracy to Assassinate Hitler:Among  another 20 some odd 
attempts, this one was one of the largest  conspiracies involving hundreds of 
loyalists in the highest echelons of  Hitler’s inner circle.Near the end of 
WWII, things were rapidly going  south for Germany and the time seemed ripe for 
guilt-ridden Nazi  officers to assassinate Hitler and overthrow his government. 
Colonel  Henning von Tresckow recruited Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg to join  
the conspiracy in 1944.The plot to take out Hitler and then all of his  loyal 
officers was called Operation Valkyrie.
The plan was to use the Continuity of Government Proceedings during  an 
assassination on Hitler’s life to take over full control of the  government in 
Germany.The assassination would be blamed on the Nazi SS  and therefore allow 
Stauffenberg to take full control of all aspects of  the government.It almost 
worked.In July 1944, Stauffenberg was promoted  so that he could now start 
attending military strategy meetings with  Hitler himself. On more than one 
occasion Stauffenberg planned to kill  Hitler at such a meeting with a briefcase 
bomb, but he always held off  because he also wanted to take out Hitler's two 
right-hand men, Hermann  Goering and Heinrich Himmler. On July 20, he went for 
it anyway and  exploded a bomb inside Hitler's conference room with a remote 
detonator.  Hitler survived only minor injuries.
18.Operation Ajax: For  years, Britain had a spiffy trade deal with Iran 
regarding their  prodigious oil fields. The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company was 
basically a  giant money machine for the Anglo half, while the Iranian half got  
shafted. That all changed in 1951 when Iran nationalized the AIOC and  the 
Iranian parliament elected Mohammed Mossadegh as Prime Minister.  Mossadegh was 
relatively secular, something that pissed of Iranian  clerics, but he was also 
very nationalistic.He was a democratically  elected, pro American figure but the 
West saw his nationalizing of the  oil fields a communist move(something 
Mossadegh thought was the right of  the people to profit and pay for services in 
the country with).Those  oil fields were under the control of British Petroleum, 
but  unfortunately Mossadegh overruled this long standing business  control.The 
United States sent Kermit Roosevelt, FDR’s nephew and CIA  coordinator in to 
figure out the mess.
The best he could come up with was to confront Mossadegh and have him  
overthrown and this was accomplished by bringing in what the agency  refers to 
as “jackals.”The United States backed the return of the Shah  of Iran, one of 
the most brutal dictators the country had ever seen and  intentionally overthrew 
years before with the democratic leader,  Mossadegh.Until 1979, that is, when a 
pissed off Iranian populace  finally revolted and replaced the monarchy with an 
anti-West Islamic  Republic.The result was a violently anti-American revolution 
lead by the  Ayatollah Khomeini which overthrew the Shah and took hostage US 
Embassy  workers, many of whom were involved in the plot with Kermit Roosevelt  
that installed the Shah.The planning for the Coup took place largely in  that 
embassy, but Americans were told this was due to the rise of  radical Islam and 
rise of democracy hating Muslims, which of course was  far from the truth.
Part 1 of a video done on Operation Ajax history:
Part 2 of the video:
19.Operation Snow White:Some  time during the 1970s, the Church of Scientology 
decided that they'd  had enough.Apparently, 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.
 
Grand Jury Charges, Introduction, "United States of America v. Mary Sue 
Hubbard", United States District Court for the District of Columbia, 1979.
As early as 1960, L. Ron Hubbard had proposed that Scientologists  should 
infiltrate government departments by taking secretarial,  bodyguard or other 
jobs.  In the early 1970s, the Church of Scientology  was increasingly 
scrutinized by US federal agencies, having already been  raided by the Food and 
Drug Administration in 1963. The Internal  Revenue Service (IRS) claimed it owed 
millions of dollars in taxes and  the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) sent 
agents into the  organization.  The Church's response involved a publicity 
campaign,  extensive litigation against the IRS and a program of infiltration of  
agency offices.
The specific branch of Scientology responsible for Operation Snow  White was the 
Guardian's Office. Created in 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard  himself, the Guardian's 
Office's purpose was to protect the interests of  Scientology.  At the time of 
Operation Snow White, the Guardian's  Office had worldwide headquarters 
(Guardian’s Office WW) located at  Saint Hill Manor in England. Headquarters in 
the United States  (Guardian’s Office US) were in Los Angeles, California. A 
smaller office  also existed in Washington, D.C. (Guardian’s Office DC) and 
other  cities throughout the United States. Each of the Guardian Offices had  
five bureaus including the Information Bureau which oversaw the  infiltration of 
the government. L. Ron Hubbard oversaw the Guardian's  Office, though it was 
Mary Sue Hubbard, his wife, who held the title  Commodore Staff Guardian.
Several years later, in 1973, the Guardian's Office began a massive  
infiltration of governments around the world, though the primary target  of the 
operation was the United States. Worried about Scientology’s long  term 
reputation, the Guardian’s Office decided to infiltrate Interpol  in order to 
obtain documents relating to Scientology, as well as those  connecting L. Ron 
Hubbard to criminal activity. This duty was handed by  Jane Kember to Henning 
Heldt and his staff.
Around this time L. Ron Hubbard himself wrote Guardian Order 732,  which called 
for the removal and correction of “erroneous” Scientology  files. It is here 
that Operation Snow White has its origins. Though the  order called for this to 
be achieved by legal means, this would quickly  change.   Hubbard himself would 
later be named by federal prosecutors as  an "unindicted co-conspirator" for his 
part in the operation. Though  extensive records of his involvement exist, many 
Scientologists claim  his directives were misinterpreted by his followers. 
Operation Snow White would be further refined by Guardian Order 1361.  Addressed 
from Jane Kember to Heldt, Duke Snider, and Richard Weigand,  GO 1361 called 
for, amongst other things, an infiltration of the Los  Angeles and London 
offices of the IRS, and the Department of Justice.
While the order was specific to the IRS, the Guardian’s Office was  soon 
recruiting their own field agents to infiltrate other governmental  offices, 
including the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the U.S.  Coast Guard 
intelligence service, and the National Institute of Mental  Health, among 
others, as well as the American Medical Association.  The  program called for 
rewards to be given for successful missions carried  out by Scientologists. 
Other planned elements of the operation included petitioning  governments and 
the United Nations to charge government critics of  Scientology with genocide, 
on the theory that official criticism of the  group constituted "deliberately 
inflicting on the group conditions of  life calculated to bring about its 
physical destruction".  One of the  sentencing memoranda in the case also noted 
that, contrary to what the  defendants claimed, the programs planned by the 
Guardian's Office were  not restricted to trying to remove "false reports" but 
included plans to  plant false information—for instance, planting false records 
about "a  cat with a pedigree name" into US security agency computers so that  
later "the creature holds a press conference and photographic story  results." 
The purpose of this plan was "to hold up the American security  to ridicule, as 
outlined in the GO by LRH."
The start of 1974 saw a Michael Meisner appointed Assistant Guardian  for 
Information in the District of Columbia (AG I DC). Meisner’s  responsibilities 
now included the implementation of all Information  Bureau orders, programs, and 
projects within the DC area. Meisner’s  supervisor at this time was Duke Snider, 
the Assistant Guardian for DC,  or AG DC. This was the highest position in 
Washington’s GO office.
In July 1974 Meisner was ordered by Duke Snider to implement the  previously 
written plan to obtain Interpol documents, which were then  located in the U.S. 
Department of the Treasury. Meisner had more to do  than just this, though, as 
by August he was also taking directions from a  Cindy Raymond, the GO's 
Collections Officer for the US, who ordered  Meisner to assist her in finding a 
loyal Scientologist agent to gain  employment at the IRS headquarters in 
Washington DC. This employee was  to steal all documents dealing with 
Scientology, especially those  involving current litigation by Scientology 
against the government.  Meisner discussed this with Raymond for a period of a 
month before  interviewing various Scientologists with no luck. A month after 
the  order had been given, Raymond informed Meisner that she had selected  
Gerald Wolfe.
 
20.Operation Gladio:Gladio  is a code name denoting the clandestine NATO 
"stay-behind" operation in  Italy after World War II, intended to continue 
anti-communist  resistance in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion of Western 
Europe.  Although Gladio specifically refers to the Italian branch of the NATO  
stay-behind organizations, "Operation Gladio" is used as an informal  name for 
all stay-behind organizations, sometimes called "Super NATO".
The role of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in sponsoring  Gladio and the 
extent of its activities during the Cold War era, and its  relationship to 
right-wing terrorist attacks perpetrated in Italy  during the Years of Lead and 
other similar clandestine operations is the  subject of ongoing debate and 
investigation. Italy, Switzerland and  Belgium have had parliamentary inquiries 
into the matter.What can we  prove about that role?Thousands of documents, 
depositions and testimony  as well as recorded conversations and admission by 
the highest levels of  government in Italy.That’s about as credible as it gets, 
regardless of  the CIA’s adamant denial it ever happened.   What took place?The  
shooting of innocent civilians, terrorism and assassinations all blamed  on 
leftist communists were actually apart of well coordinated, “black  
operations.”Black operations are typically involving activities that are  highly 
clandestine and, often, outside of standard military protocol.
“The right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.”Black ops  missions 
often fit into the deniable category, a situation in which  there is no claim of 
responsibility for the action, and/or a false flag  operation is used to give 
the appearance that another actor was  responsible, or – most often – black 
operations involve extensive  arrangements so as to be able to hide the fact 
that the black operation  ever occurred. Black military operations, or 
paramilitary operations,  can be used by various secret services to achieve or 
attempt to achieve  an unusually sensitive goal. The methods used in black 
operations are  also used in unconventional warfare. Depending on the precise 
situation  in a given case, and the level of authoritarianism of the national  
government or other responsible party, some tasks will be conducted as  black 
operations, while there are usually other activities that can be  admitted 
openly.
Black operations may include such things as assassination, sabotage,  extortion, 
spying on allied countries or one's own citizens, kidnapping,  supporting 
resistance movements, torture, use of fraud to obtain funds,  use of child 
soldiers, human experimentation, trafficking in contraband  items, etc.Since 
9/11, many black operations and long time unethical  standings have been 
approved for legality in the war on terror.In other  words, since September 
11th, 2001, it is no a longer  conspiracy for any of this to occur, a simple 
decision by a top level  military or CIA official is enough, without oversight 
or even one thread  of admission by the Government or Private conspirators.Much 
of the  Black operations today are performed by private contract companies like  
Blackwater (now Xe).
This is a documentary banned in teh United States that was allowed to  air on 
BBC.  It was an investigation into Operation Gladio:
21.The CIA Assassinates A Lot Of People (Church Committee):  The Church 
Committee is the common term referring to the United States  Senate Select 
Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to  Intelligence 
Activities, a U.S. Senate committee chaired by Senator  Frank Church in 1975. A 
precursor to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on  Intelligence, the committee 
investigated intelligence gathering for  illegality by the CIA and FBI after 
certain activities had been revealed  by the Watergate affair.The Committee 
uncovered, among many other  things, that the CIA had violated its charter to 
perform only gathering  of intelligence.
For example, the assassinations of Allende in Chile and Mossadegh in  Iran. 
Assassinations against Central and South American leaders and  revolutionaries, 
as well as Africa, Middle East and East Asia.The list  was tremendous.They even 
declassified a “Heart Attack Gun” the Agency  had made for the use of killing 
someone without it being  detected.Cancer, car accidents, skiing accidents, 
suicide, boating  accidents, heart attacks, and just plain being shot were 
common  assassination methods.The hearings, although recorded in full in  
congressional record, the mainstream media and official policies, is  still 
largely not taught in American schools on recent history.The  American public 
still has no idea this was ever actually confirmed or  even took place.It is 
common for people to still refer to any of these  assassinations as a joke or 
made up conspiracy.
Watch the one-minute video below for the description of a former CIA  secretary 
and Congressional testimony on this secret assassination  weapon which caused 
heart attacks.
To watch the revealing 45-minute documentary from which the above clip was 
taken, click here.
22.The New World Order:This  popular conspiracy theory claims that a small group 
of international  elites controls and manipulates governments, industry and 
media  organisations worldwide. The primary tool they use to dominate nations  
is the system of central banking. They are said to have funded and in  some 
cases caused most of the major wars of the last 200 years,  primarily through 
carrying out false flag attacks to manipulate  populations into supporting them, 
and have a grip on the world economy,  deliberately causing inflation and 
depressions at will. The people  behind the New World Order are thought to be 
international bankers, in  particular the owners of the private banks in the 
Federal Reserve  System, Bank of England and other central banks, and members of 
the  Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg  
Group.Now, although this conspiracy theory was ridiculed for years, it  turns 
out that the Bilderberg does meet and requests no media  coverage.They receive 
no media coverage.The world’s elite meet every  year and it goes largely 
unreported, for what?
Discussions at the meetings include the economy, world affairs, war  and in 
general, world policy.After the financial collapse, the  Bilderberg played a key 
role in proposing that the world prepare for a  new world order and have a 
standard world currency.This was propsed  shortly after by almost all attendees 
of the Bilderberg meeting.During  the 20th century, many statesmen, such as 
Woodrow Wilson and Winston  Churchill, used the term "new world order" to refer 
to a new period of  history evidencing a dramatic change in world political 
thought and the  balance of power after World War I and World War II.
They all saw these periods as opportunities to implement idealistic  or liberal 
proposals for global governance only in the sense of new  collective efforts to 
identify, understand, or address worldwide  problems that go beyond the capacity 
of individual nation-states to  solve. These proposals led to the creation of 
international  organizations, such as the United Nations and N.A.T.O., and  
international regimes, such as the Bretton Woods system and the General  
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which were calculated both to maintain a  
balance of power as well as regularize cooperation between nations, in  order to 
achieve a peaceful phase of capitalism.
In the aftermath of the two World Wars, progressives welcomed these  new 
international organizations and regimes but argued they suffered  from a 
democratic deficit and therefore were inadequate to not only  prevent another 
global war but also foster global justice.  American  banker David Rockefeller 
joined the Council on Foreign Relations as its  youngest-ever director in 1949 
and subsequently became chairman of the  board from 1970 to 1985; today he 
serves as honorary chairman. In 2002,  Rockefeller authored his autobiography 
Memoirs wherein, on page 405, he wrote:
"For more than a century ideological extremists at either end  of the political 
spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents  ... to attack the 
Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they  claim we wield over 
American political and economic institutions. Some  even believe we are part of 
a secret cabal working against the best  interests of the United States, 
characterizing my family and me as  'internationalists' and of conspiring with 
others around the world to  build a more integrated global political and 
economic structure - one  world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand 
guilty, and I am proud  of it."
Thus, activists around the globe formed a world federalist movement  bent on 
creating a "real" new world order. A number of Fabian socialist  intellectuals, 
such as British writer H. G. Wells in the 1940s,  appropriated and redefined the 
term "new world order" as a synonym for  the establishment of a full-fledged 
social democratic world  government.In the 1960s, a great deal of right-wing 
conspiracist  attention, by groups like the John Birch Society and the Liberty 
Lobby,  focused on the United Nations as the vehicle for creating the "One World  
Government", and contributed to a conservative movement for United  States 
withdrawal from the U.N.. American writer Mary M. Davison, in her  1966 booklet 
The Profound Revolution, traced the alleged New  World Order conspiracy to the 
creation of the U.S. Federal Reserve  System in 1913 by international bankers, 
who she claimed later formed  the Council on Foreign Relations in 1921 as the 
shadow government. At  the time the booklet was published, "international 
bankers" would have  been interpreted by many readers as a reference to a 
postulated  "international banking conspiracy" masterminded by the Rothschilds 
and  Rockefellers.American televangelist Pat Robertson with his 1991  
best-selling book The New World Order became the most prominent  Christian 
popularizer of conspiracy theories about recent American  history as a theater 
in which Wall Street, the Federal Reserve System,  Council on Foreign Relations, 
Bilderberg Group, and Trilateral  Commission control the flow of events from 
behind the scenes, nudging us  constantly and covertly in the direction of world 
government for the  Antichrist. 

After the turn of the century, specifically during the financial  crisis of 
2007–2009, many politicians and pundits, such as Gordon Brown,  Henry Kissinger, 
and Barack Obama, used the term "new world order" in  their advocacy for a 
Keynesian reform of the global financial system and  their calls for a "New 
Bretton Woods", which takes into account  emerging markets such as China and 
India. These declarations had the  unintended consequence of providing fresh 
fodder for New World Order  conspiracism, and culminated in former Clinton 
administration adviser  Dick Morris and conservative talk show host Sean Hannity 
arguing on one  of his Fox News Channel programs that "conspiracy theorists were 
right".
In 2009, American film directors Luke Meyer and Andrew Neel released New World 
Order,  a critically-acclaimed documentary film which explores the world of  
conspiracy theorists, such as American radio host Alex Jones, who are  committed 
to exposing and vigorously opposing what they perceive to be  an emerging New 
World Order.
May 24, 1992 Report on New World Order:
23.Kennedy Assassination - the 2nd Investigation by Congress Few People Know 
About, United StatesHouse of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations 
(HSCA): The HSCAwas  established in 1976 to investigate the John F. Kennedy 
assassination  and the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination. The Committee  
investigated until 1978, and in 1979 issued its final report, concluding  that 
President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated by a  conspiracy involving 
the mob, and potentially the CIA.The House Select  Committee on Assassinations 
undertook reinvestigations of the murders of  John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther 
King, Jr. In 1979, a single Report  and twelve volumes of appendices on each 
assassination were published by  the Congress. In the JFK case, the HSCA found 
that there was a  "probable conspiracy," though it was unable to determine the 
nature of  that conspiracy or its other participants (besides Oswald).
This finding was based in part on acoustics evidence from a tape  purported to 
record the shots, but was also based on other evidence  including an 
investigation of Ruby's Mafia connections and potential CIA  and/or FBI 
connections to Oswald.  To this day, many conspiracy deniers  are unaware that 
the Congressional investigation into JFK’s  assassination concluded beyond any 
shadow of a doubt that it was a  conspiracy.What made them come to this 
conclusion?
Aside from reading the report, many witnesses (some of whom were CIA  agents and 
station chiefs in Dallas that morning) were killed the night  before 
testifying.For example, George de Mohrenschildt was a petroleum  geologist who 
befriended Lee Harvey Oswald during the months preceding  the assassination of 
U.S. President John F. Kennedy.He also worked for  the CIA.He also blew his 
brains out the night before he was to testify  to the committee.The committee 
also uncovered, among many things, that  Oswald left the marines where he 
learned how to speak fluent Russian (at  the height of the cold war).He was 
given money by the State Department  to travel to Russia where he stopped off in 
Japan at a top secret US  Military facility.The Warren Commission even mentioned 
this part.What  most people do not know is that he probably was working in the 
Cold War  infiltrating the Russians as either a “dangle,” “double agent,” or  
“defector" of some kind.
What is interesting is that upon his return he got more money from  the State 
Department to buy a house and work with an ex FBI Chief and  CIA officials in 
training anti-Castro Cubans for an invasion.In  Louisiana, where he was working, 
the CIA was involved in Operation  Mongoose, Where Oswald worked under CIA Agent 
David Ferrie, who killed  himself before testifying in a trial on the 
Assassination as  well.Operation Mongoose worked closely with Southern Mafia 
figures  largely because the casinos in Cuba, which were shut down after Fidel  
obtained control over the country, were epicenters for control on the  island.
The CIA even hired the Mafia to assassinate Fidel on many occasions, 3  attempts 
which failed are common knowledge.What is funny is that  figures who worked very 
close with Oswald either ended up dead (over 100  of them connected to the 
assassination died within a few years of  unusual circumstances) or they ended 
up in other conspiracies.
For instance, E Howard Hunt (CIA Agent) confessed to being involved  in the 
conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy on his deathbed.E Howard Hunt  was one of the 
Watergate Burglars.Barry Seal, who worked with Oswald and  Ferrie ended up being 
one of the largest cocaine smugglers in the  United   States during Iran Contra, 
as a key player for the agency and  informant for the DEA.There is so much more 
to get into, but there just  isn’t enough time.  Oswald's tax returns are still 
classified top secret  to this day.  Why?  Perhaps he was still getting $$ from 
the United  States, which places him on the payroll.  That money trail leads to  
figures, many of whom were murdered, that would have blown the story  wide open.  
For 14 years, most didn't know this.  The HSCA  investigaitons by congress went 
against the findings of the Warren  Commission and both reports are from the 
same source, Congressional  Committees.  Which is true?  Why do we only teach 
one to our children in  school?
December 30, 1978 Report on HSCA Findings:
24.1919 World Series Conspiracy:The  1919 World Series (often referred to as the 
Black Sox Scandal) resulted  in the most famous scandal in baseball history. 
Eight players from the  Chicago White Sox (nicknamed the Black Sox) were accused 
of throwing the  series against the Cincinnati Reds.Details of the scandal 
remain  controversial, and the extent to which each player was involved varied.  
It was, however, front-page news across the country when the story was  
uncovered late in the 1920 season, and despite being acquitted of  criminal 
charges (throwing baseball games was technically not a crime),  the eight 
players were banned from organized baseball (i.e. the leagues  subject to the 
National Agreement) for life.There are hundreds of other  conspiracies involving 
throwing games, sporting matches and large scale  entertainment events.It is 
common knowledge for many, this list would  have to go into the thousands if we 
included all of them.
25.Karen Silkwood:Karen  was an American labor union activist and chemical 
technician at the  Kerr-McGee plant near Crescent, Oklahoma, United States. 
Silkwood's job  was making plutonium pellets for nuclear reactor fuel rods.After 
being  hired at Kerr-McGee, Silkwood joined the Oil, Chemical & Atomic  Workers 
Union local and took part in a strike at the plant. After the  strike ended, she 
was elected to the union's bargaining committee and  assigned to investigate 
health and safety issues. She discovered what  she believed to be numerous 
violations of health regulations, including  exposure of workers to 
contamination, faulty respiratory equipment and  improper storage of samples. 
She also believed the lack of sufficient  shower facilities could increase the 
risk of employee contamination.
In the summer of 1974, Silkwood testified to the Atomic Energy  Commission (AEC) 
about these issues, alleging that safety standards had  slipped because of a 
production speedup which resulted in employees  being given tasks for which they 
were poorly trained. She also alleged  that Kerr-McGee employees handled the 
fuel rods improperly and that the  company falsified inspection records.On 
November 5, 1974, Silkwood  performed a routine self-check and found almost 400 
times the legal  limit for plutonium contamination. She was decontaminated at 
the plant  and sent home with a testing kit to collect urine and feces for 
further  analysis. Oddly, though there was plutonium on the exterior surfaces  
(the ones she touched) of the gloves she had been using, the gloves did  not 
have any holes.
This suggests the contamination did not come from inside the glove  box, but 
from some other source, in other words, someone was trying to  poison her.The 
next morning, as she headed to a union negotiation  meeting, she again tested 
positive for plutonium. This was surprising  because she had only performed 
paperwork duties that morning. She was  given a more intense decontamination. 
The following day, November 7,  1974, as she entered the plant, she was found to 
be dangerously  contaminated — even expelling contaminated air from her lungs. A 
health  physics team accompanied her back to her home and found plutonium traces  
on several surfaces — especially in the bathroom and the refrigerator.
The house was later stripped and decontaminated. Silkwood, her  partner and 
housemate were sent to Los Alamos National Laboratory for  in-depth testing to 
determine the extent of the contamination in their  bodies.Later that evening, 
Silkwood's body was found in her car, which  had run off the road and struck a 
culvert. The car contained no  documents. She was pronounced dead at the scene 
from a "classic, one-car  sleeping-driver accident".
26.CIA Drug Smuggling in Arkansas:August  23, 1987, in a rural community just 
south of Little   Rock, police  officers murdered two teenage boys because they 
witnessed a  police-protected drug drop.The drop was part of a drug smuggling  
operation based at a small airport in Mena,  Arkansas. The Mena  operation was 
set up in the early 1980's by the notorious drug smuggler,  Barry Seal. Facing 
prison after a drug conviction in Florida, Seal flew  to Washington, D.C., where 
he put together a deal that allowed him to  avoid prison by becoming an 
informant for the government. As a  government informant against drug smugglers, 
Seal testified he worked  for the CIA and the DEA. In one federal court case, he 
testified that  his income from March 1984 to August 1985, was between $700,000 
and  $800,000. This period was AFTER making his deal with the government. 

Seal testified that nearly $600,000 of  this came from smuggling drugs while 
working for -- and with the  permission of the DEA. In addition to his duties as 
an informant, Seal  was used by CIA operatives to help finance the Nicaraguan 
Contras. The  CIA connection to the Mena operation was undeniable when a cargo 
plane  given to Seal by the CIA was shot down over Nicaragua with a load of  
weapons. In spite of the evidence, every investigator who has tried to  expose 
the crimes of Mena has been professionally destroyed, and those  involved in 
drug smuggling operations have received continued protection  from state and 
federal authorities. 

February 20, 1986 report on Mena Drug Smuggling:
April 7, 1988 Report on CIA Drug Running:
March 25, 2995 News Clip on Mena Drug Smuggling:
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27.Bohemian Grove:For  years, many conspiracy theorists were saying that the 
rich and powerful  met every year in the woods and worshiped a giant stone owl 
in an occult  fashion.It turns out, ABC, CBS, NBC, and many other credible news  
agencies investigated this and found out, its true.It is said to be just  all 
fun and games, like brotherhood style fraternity stuff.These news clips can be 
viewed by clicking here.
Bohemian Grove Secrecy Upheld, Nixon Speech 7-30-1971, NBC
Bohemian Grove Weinberger and Reagan Retreat Mentioned 7-21-1983, NBC
Bohemian Grove Detailed Report 7-23-1982, NBC
Bohemian Grove Detailed Report 7-23-1981, ABC
Bohemian Grove Mention at Smith Testimony 1-15-1981, ABC
Nixon Tape Discusses Homosexuals at Bohemian Grove
Alex Jones asks David Gergen about Bohemian Grove Rituals
For more clips on the Bohemian Grove including comprehensive investigations by 
the mainstream media, click here...
28.Operation Paperclip:  Operation Paperclip was the code name for the 1945 
Office of Strategic  Services, Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency recruitment 
of German  scientists from Nazi Germany to the U.S. after VE Day.President 
Truman  authorized Operation Paperclip in August 1945; however he expressly  
ordered that anyone found "to have been a member of the Nazi party and  more 
than a nominal participant in its activities, or an active  supporter of Nazi 
militarism" would be excluded.These included Wernher  von Braun, Arthur Rudolph 
and Hubertus Strughold, who were all  officially on record as Nazis and listed 
as a "menace to the security of  the Allied Forces." All were cleared to work in 
the U.S. after having  their backgrounds "bleached" by the military; false 
employment histories  were provided, and their previous Nazi affiliations were 
expunged from  the record. The paperclips that secured newly-minted background 
details  to their personnel files gave the operation its name.
29.The Round Table:British  businessman Cecil Rhodes advocated the British 
Empire reannexing the  United States of America and reforming itself into an 
"Imperial  Federation" to bring about a hyperpower and lasting world peace. In 
his  first will, of 1877, written at the age of 23, he expressed his wish to  
fund a secret society (known as the Society of the Elect) that would  advance 
this goal:“To and for the establishment, promotion and  development of a Secret 
Society, the true aim and object whereof shall  be for the extension of British 
rule throughout the world, the  perfecting of a system of emigration from the 
United Kingdom, and of  colonization by British subjects of all lands where the 
means of  livelihood are attainable by energy, labor and enterprise, and  
especially the occupation by British settlers of the entire Continent of  
Africa, the Holy Land, the Valley of the Euphrates, the Islands of  Cyprus and 
Candia, the whole of South America, the Islands of the  Pacific not heretofore 
possessed by Great Britain, the whole of the  Malay Archipelago, the seaboard of 
China and Japan, the ultimate  recovery of the United States of America as an 
integral part of the  British Empire, the inauguration of a system of Colonial 
representation  in the Imperial Parliament which may tend to weld together the  
disjointed members of the Empire and, finally, the foundation of so  great a 
Power as to render wars impossible, and promote the best  interests of 
humanity.”
In his later wills, a more mature Rhodes abandoned the idea and  instead 
concentrated on what became the Rhodes Scholarship, which had  British statesman 
Alfred Milner as one of its trustees. Established in  1902, the original goal of 
the trust fund was to foster peace among the  great powers by creating a sense 
of fraternity and a shared world view  among future British, American, and 
German leaders by having enabled  them to study for free at the University of 
Oxford.Milner and British  official Lionel George Curtis were the architects of 
the Round Table  movement, a network of organizations promoting closer union 
between  Britain and its self-governing colonies.
To this end, Curtis founded the Royal Institute of International Affairs in June 
1919 and, with his 1938 book The Commonwealth of God,  began advocating for the 
creation of an imperial federation that  eventually reannexes the U.S., which 
would be presented to Protestant  churches as being the work of the Christian 
God to elicit their support.  The Commonwealth of Nations was created in 1949 
but it would only be a  free association of independent states rather than the 
powerful imperial  federation imagined by Rhodes, Milner and Curtis.The Council 
on Foreign  Relations began in 1917 with a group of New York academics who were  
asked by President Woodrow Wilson to offer options for the foreign  policy of 
the United States in the interwar period.
Originally envisioned as a British-American group of scholars and  diplomats, 
some of whom belonging to the Round Table movement, it was a  subsequent group 
of 108 New York financiers, manufacturers and  international lawyers organized 
in June 1918 by Nobel Peace Prize  recipient and U.S. secretary of state, Elihu 
Root, that became the  Council on Foreign Relations on 29 July 1921. The first 
of the council’s  projects was a quarterly journal launched in September 1922, 
called Foreign Affairs.Some  believe that the Council on Foreign Relations is a 
front organization  for the Round Table as a tool of the "Anglo-American 
Establishment",  which they believe has been plotting from 1900 on to rule the 
world.
The research findings of historian Carroll Quigley, author of the 1966 book 
Tragedy and Hope,  are taken by both conspiracy theorists of the American Old 
Right (Cleon  Skousen) and New Left (Carl Oglesby) to substantiate this view, 
even  though he argued that the Establishment is not involved in a plot to  
implement a one-world government but rather British and American  benevolent 
imperialism driven by the mutual interests of economic elites  in the United 
Kingdom and the United States. Quigley also argued that,  although the Round 
Table still exists today, its position in influencing  the policies of world 
leaders has been much reduced from its heyday  during World War I and slowly 
waned after the end of World War II and  the Suez Crisis. Today it is largely a 
ginger group, designed to  consider and gradually influence the policies of the 
Commonwealth  of  Nations, but faces strong opposition. Furthermore, in American 
society  after 1965, the problem, according to Quigley, was that no elite was in  
charge and acting responsibly.
American banker David Rockefeller joined the Council on Foreign  Relations as 
its youngest-ever director in 1949 and subsequently became  chairman of the 
board from 1970 to 1985; today he serves as honorary  chairman. In 2002, 
Rockefeller authored his autobiography Memoirs wherein, on page 405, he wrote: 
“For more than a century ideological  extremists at either end of the political 
spectrum have seized upon  well-publicized incidents ... to attack the 
Rockefeller family for the  inordinate influence they claim we wield over 
American political and  economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of 
a secret cabal  working against the best interests of the United States, 
characterizing  my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with 
others  around the world to build a more integrated global political and  
economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I  stand 
guilty, and I am proud of it.”Barkun argues that this statement is  partly 
facetious (the claim of "conspiracy" or "treason") and partly  serious – the 
desire to encourage trilateral cooperation among the U.S.,  Europe, and Japan, 
for example – an ideal that used to be a hallmark of  the internationalist wing 
of the Republican Party when there was an  internationalist wing.
However, the statement is taken at face value and widely cited by  conspiracy 
theorists as proof that the Council on Foreign Relations  (itself alleged to be 
a front for an "international banking cabal", as  well as, it is claimed, the 
sponsor of many "globalist" think tanks such  as the Trilateral Commission) uses 
its role as the brain trust of  American presidents, senators and 
representatives to manipulate them  into supporting a New World Order.
Conspiracy theorists fear that the international bankers of financial  
capitalism are planning to eventually subvert the independence of the  U.S. by 
subordinating national sovereignty to a strengthened Bank for  International 
Settlements with the intent to “create a world system of  financial control in 
private hands able to dominate the political system  of each country and the 
economy of the world as a whole”.In a 13  November 2007 interview with Canadian 
journalist Benjamin Fulford,  Rockefeller countered:
“I don't think that I really feel that we need a world government. We  need 
governments of the world that work together and collaborate. But, I  can't 
imagine that there would be any likelihood or even that it would  be desirable 
to have a single government elected by the people of the  world ... There have 
been people, ever since I've had any kind of  position in the world, who have 
accused me of being ruler of the world. I  have to say that I think for the 
large part, I would have to decide to  describe them as crackpots. It makes no 
sense whatsoever, and isn't  true, and won't be true, and to raise it as a 
serious issue seems to me  to be irresponsible.”
Some American social critics, such as Laurence H. Shoup, argue that  the Council 
on Foreign Relations is an "imperial brain trust", which  has, for decades, 
played a central behind-the-scenes role in shaping  U.S. foreign policy choices 
for the post-WWII international order and  the Cold War, by determining what 
options show up on the agenda and what  options do not even make it to the 
table; while others, such as G.  William Domhoff, argue that it is in fact a 
mere policy discussion  forum, which provides the business input to U.S. foreign 
policy  planning. The latter argue that it has nearly 3,000 members, far too  
many for secret plans to be kept within the group; all the council does  is 
sponsor discussion groups, debates and speakers; and as far as being  secretive, 
it issues annual reports and allows access to its historical  archives.
30.The Illuminati:The Order of the Illuminati was an Enlightenment-age secret 
society founded on May 1st,  1776, in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Adam 
Weishaupt, who was the  first lay professor of canon law at the University  of 
Ingolstadt. The  movement consisted of freethinkers, secularists, liberals, 
republicans  and pro-feminists, recruited in the Masonic Lodges of Germany, who  
sought to promote perfectionism through mystery schools. As a result, in  1785, 
the order was infiltrated, broken and suppressed by the  government agents of 
Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, in his  campaign to neutralize the threat 
of secret societies ever becoming  hotbeds of conspiracies to overthrow the 
monarchy and state religion.In  the late 18th century, reactionary conspiracy 
theorists, such as  Scottish physicist John Robison and French Jesuit priest 
Augustin  Barruel, began speculating that the Illuminati survived their  
suppression and became the masterminds behind the French Revolution and  the 
Reign of Terror.
The Illuminati were accused of being enlightened absolutists who were  
attempting to secretly orchestrate a world revolution in order to  globalize the 
most radical ideals of the Enlightenment:  anti-clericalism, anti-monarchism, 
and anti-patriarchalism. During the  19th century, fear of an Illuminati 
conspiracy was a real concern of  European ruling classes, and their oppressive 
reactions to this  unfounded fear provoked in 1848 the very revolutions they 
sought to  prevent.Although many say that the Illuminati was disbanded and  
destroyedso long ago, it is well known that the Rothschild dynasty  following 
the family’s involvement in the secret order in Bavaria  received much attention 
for its major takeover of Europe’s central  banks.The Rothschild dynasty owns 
roughly half of the world’s wealth and  evidence suggests it has funded both 
sides of major wars, including the  United States Civil War. 

31.The Trilateral Commission:The  Trilateral Commission is a private 
organization, established to foster  closer cooperation among the United States, 
Europe and Japan. It was  founded in July 1973 at the initiative of David 
Rockefeller, who was  Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations at that time. 
The  Trilateral Commission is widely seen as a counterpart to the Council on  
Foreign Relations.In July 1972, Rockefeller called his first meeting,  which was 
held at Rockefeller's Pocantico compound in New York's Hudson  Valley. It was 
attended by about 250 individuals who were carefully  selected and screened by 
Rockefeller and represented the very elite of  finance and industry.Its first 
executive committee meeting was held in  Tokyo in October 1973. The Trilateral 
Commission was officially  initiated, holding biannual meetings.
A Trilateral Commission Task Force Report, presented at the 1975  meeting in 
Kyoto, Japan, called An Outline for Remaking World Trade and  Finance, said: 
"Close Trilateral cooperation in keeping the peace, in  managing the world 
economy, and in fostering economic development and in  alleviating world 
poverty, will improve the chances of a smooth and  peaceful evolution of the 
global system." Another Commission document  read:"The overriding goal is to 
make the world safe for interdependence  by protecting the benefits which it 
provides for each country against  external and internal threats which will 
constantly emerge from those  willing to pay a price for more national autonomy. 
This may sometimes  require slowing the pace at which interdependence proceeds, 
and checking  some aspects of it. More frequently however, it will call for 
checking  the intrusion of national government into the international exchange 
of  both economic and non-economic goods."
March 29, 1981 News Clip on Trilateral Commission:
May 2, 1995 News Clip on Trilateral Commission:
32.Big Brother or the Shadow Government:It  is also called the “Deep State” by 
Peter Dale Scott, a professor at the  University of California, Berkeley.   A 
shadow government is a  "government-in-waiting" that remains in waiting with the 
intention of  taking control of a government in response to some event.It turned 
out  this was true on 9/11, when it was told to us by our mainstream  media.For 
years, this was ridiculed as a silly, crazy conspiracy theory  and, like the 
others listed here, turned out to be 100% true.It is also  called the Continuity 
of Government.The Continuity of Government (COG)  is the principle of 
establishing defined procedures that allow a  government to continue its 
essential operations in case of nuclear war  or other catastrophic event.Since 
the end of the cold war, the policies  and procedures for the COG have been 
altered according to realistic  threats of that time.These include but are not 
limited to a possible  coup or overthrow by right wing terrorist groups, a 
terrorist attack in  general, an assassination, and so on.Believe it or not the 
COG has been  in effect since 2001.After 9/11, it went into action.Now here is 
the  kicker, many of the figures in Iran Contra, the Watergate Scandal, the  
alleged conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy, and many others listed here  are 
indeed members of the COG.This is its own conspiracy as well.
March 1, 2002 News Clip on Secret Government:
The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the 
World is a book written by Air Force Col. L fletcher Prouty, published in  
1973.From 1955 to 1963 Prouty was the "Focal Point Officer" for contacts  
between the CIA and the Pentagon on matters relating to military  support for 
"black operations" but he was not assigned to the CIA and  was not bound by any 
oath of secrecy. (From the first page of the 1974  Printing) It was one of the 
first tell-all books about the inner  workings of the CIA and was an important 
influence on the Oliver Stone  movie JFK. But the main thrust of the book is how 
the CIA started  as a think tank to analyze intelligence gathered from military 
sources  but has grown to the monster it has become. The CIA had no authority to  
run their own agents or to carry out covert operations but they quickly  did 
both and much more.
This book tells about things they actually did and a lot about how the 
operate.In Prouty's own words, from the 1997 edition of The Secret Team: This  
is the fundamental game of the Secret Team. They have this power  because they 
control secrecy and secret intelligence and because they  have the ability to 
take advantage of the most modern communications  system in the world, of global 
transportation systems, of quantities of  weapons of all kinds, and when needed, 
the full support of a world-wide  U.S. military supporting base structure. They 
can use the finest  intelligence system in the world, and most importantly, they 
have been  able to operate under the canopy of an assumed, ever-present enemy  
called "Communism." It will be interesting to see what "enemy" develops  in the 
years ahead. It appears that "UFO's and Aliens" are being primed  to fulfill 
that role for the future. To top all of this, there is the  fact that the CIA, 
itself, has assumed the right to generate and direct  secret operations. "He is 
not the first to allege that UFOs and  Aliens are going to be used as a threat 
against the world to globalize  the planet under One government.
March 1, 2002 report on Secret Government:
The Report From Iron Mountain is a book, published in 1967 (during the Johnson 
Administration) by Dial Press, that states that it  is the report of a 
government panel.According to the report, a 15-member  panel, called the Special 
Study Group, was set up in 1963 to examine  what problems would occur if the 
U.S. entered a state of lasting peace.  They met at an underground nuclear 
bunker called Iron Mountain (as well  as other, worldwide locations) and worked 
over the next two years. Iron  Mountain is where the government has stored the 
flight 93 evidence from  9/11.A member of the panel, one "John Doe", a professor 
at a college in  the Midwest, decided to release the report to the public.
The heavily footnoted report concluded that peace was not in the  interest of a 
stable society, that even if lasting peace "could be  achieved, it would almost 
certainly not be in the best interests of  society to achieve it." War was a 
part of the economy. Therefore, it was  necessary to conceive a state of war for 
a stable economy. The  government, the group theorized, would not exist without 
war, and nation  states existed in order to wage war. War also served a vital 
function  of diverting collective aggression. They recommended that bodies be  
created to emulate the economic functions of war. They also recommended  "blood 
games" and that the government create alternative foes that would  scare the 
people with reports of alien life-forms and out of control  pollution.
Another proposal was the reinstitution of slavery.U.S. News and World Report 
claimed in its November 20, 1967 issue to have confirmation of the  reality of 
the report from an unnamed government official, who added  that when President 
Johnson read the report, he 'hit the roof' and  ordered it to be suppressed for 
all time. Additionally, sources were  said to have revealed that orders were 
sent to U.S. embassies,  instructing them to emphasize that the book had no 
relation to U.S.  Government policy.Project Blue Beam is also a common 
conspiracy theory  that alleges that a faked alien landing would be used as a 
means of  scaring the public into whatever global system is suggested.  Some  
researchers suggest the Report from Iron Mountain might be fabricated,  others 
swear it is real.
Bill Moyers, the American journalist and public commentator, has  served as 
White House Press Secretary in the United States President  Lyndon B. Johnson 
Administration from 1965 to 1967. He worked as a news  commentator on television 
for ten years. Moyers has had an extensive  involvement with public television, 
producing documentaries and news  journal programs. He has won numerous awards 
and honorary degrees. He  has become well known as a trenchant critic of the 
U.S. media. Since  1990, Moyers has been President of the Schumann Center for 
Media and  Democracy.  He is considered by many to be a very credible outlet for  
the truth.  He released a documetnary titled, The Secret Government,  which 
exposed the inner workings of a secret government much more vast  that most 
people would ever imagine. Though originally broadcast in  1987, it is even more 
relevant today. Interviews with respected top  military, intelligence, and 
government insiders reveal both the history  and secret objectives of powerful 
groups in the hidden shadows of our  government.
Here is that documentary:
For another powerful, highly revealing documentary on the manipulations of    
the secret government produced by BBC,click here (view free at link provided). 
The intrepid BBC team clearly shows how  the War on Terror is largely a 
fabrication. For those interested in very  detailed information on the 
composition of the shadow or secret  government from a less well-known source, 
take a look at the summary available here.
33.The Federal Reserve Bank:The  fundamental promise of a central bank like the 
Federal Reserve is  economic stability.  The theory is that manipulating the 
value of the  currency allows financial booms to go higher, and crashes to be 
more  mild.  If growth becomes speculative and unsustainable, the central bank  
can make the price of money go up and force some deleveraging of risky  
investments - again, promising to make the crashes more mild.The period  leading 
up to the American revolution was characterized by increasingly  authoritarian 
legislation from England.  Acts passed in 1764 had a  particularly harsh effect 
on the previously robust colonial economy.   The Sugar Act was in effect a tax 
cut on easily smuggled molasses, and a  new tax on commodities that England more 
directly controlled trade  over.  The navy would be used in increased capacity 
to enforce trade  laws and collect duties.Perhaps even more significant than the  
militarization and expansion of taxes was the Currency Act passed later  in the 
year 1764.
"The colonies suffered a constant shortage of currency with which to  conduct 
trade. There were no gold or silver mines and currency could  only be obtained 
through trade as regulated by Great Britain. Many of  the colonies felt no 
alternative to printing their own paper money in  the form of Bills of Credit."   
The result was a true free market of  currency - each bank competed, exchange 
rates fluctuated wildly, and  merchants were hesitant to accept these notes as 
payment.  Of course,  they didn't have 24-hour digital Forex markets, but I'll 
hold off  opinions on the viability of unregulated currency for another time.
England's response was to seize control of the colonial money supply -  
forbidding banks, cities, and colony governments from printing their  own.  This 
law, passed so soon after the Sugar Act, started to really  bring revolutionary 
tension inside the colonies to a higher level.   American bankers had learned 
early on that debasing a currency through  inflation is a helpful way to pay off 
perpetual trade deficits - but  Britain proved that the buyer of the currency 
would only take the deal  for so long...Following the (first) American 
Revolution, the "First Bank  of the United States" was chartered to pay off 
collective war debts,  and effectively distribute the cost of the revolution 
proportionately  throughout all of the states.  Although the bank had vocal and 
harsh  skeptics, it only controlled about 20% of the nation's money supply.
Compared to today's central bank, it was nothing.Thomas Jefferson  argued 
vocally against the institution of the bank, mostly citing  constitutional 
concerns and the limitations of government found in the  10th amendment.  There 
was one additional quote that hints at the deeper  structural flaw of a central 
bank in a supposedly free capitalist  economy."the existing banks will, without 
a doubt, enter into  arrangements for lending their agency, and the more 
favorable, as there  will be a competition among them for it; whereas the bill 
delivers us up  bound to the national bank, who are free to refuse all 
arrangement, but  on their own terms, and the public not free, on such refusal, 
to employ  any other bank" –Thomas Jefferson.Basically, the existing banks will  
fight over gaining favor with the central bank - rather than improving  their 
performance relative to a free market.
The profit margins associated with collusion would obviously outweigh  the 
potential profits gained from legitimate business.The Second Bank  of the United   
States was passed five years after the first bank's  charter expired.  An early 
enemy of central banking, President James  Madison, was looking for a way to 
stabilize the currency in 1816.  This  bank was also quite temporary - it would 
only stay in operation until  1833 when President Andrew Jackson would end 
federal deposits at the  institution.
The charter expired in 1836 and the private corporation was bankrupt  and 
liquidated by 1841.While the South had been the major opponent of  central 
banking systems, the end of the Civil War allowed for (and also  made necessary) 
the system of national banks that would dominate the  next fifty years.The 
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)  says that this post-war period 
of a unified national currency and system  of national banks "worked well." [3]  
Taxes on state banks were imposed  to encourage people to use the national banks 
- but liquidity problems  persisted as the money supply did not match the 
economic cycles.Overall,  the American economy continued to grow faster than 
Europe, but the  period did not bring economic stability by any stretch of the  
imagination.  Several panics and runs on the bank - and it became a fact  of 
life under this system of competing nationalized banks.  In 1873,  1893, 1901, 
and 1907 significant panics caused a series of bank  failures.
The new system wasn't stable at all, in fact, many suspected it was  wraught 
with fraud and manipulation.The Federal Reserve Bank of  Minneapolis is not shy 
about attributing the causes of the Panic of 1907  to financial manipulation 
from the existing banking establishment.  "If  Knickerbocker Trust would falter, 
then Congress and the public would  lose faith in all trust companies and banks 
would stand to gain, the  bankers reasoned."In timing with natural economic 
cycles, major banks  including J.P. Morgan and Chase launched an all-out assault 
on Heinze's  Knickerbocker Trust.  Financial institutions on the inside started  
silently selling off assets in the competitor, and headlines about a few  bad 
loans started making top spots in the newspapers.
The run on Knickerbocker turned into a general panic - and the  Federal 
Government would come to the rescue of its privately owned  "National 
Banks."During the Panic of 1907, "Depositors 'run' on the  Knickerbocker Bank. 
J.P. Morgan and James Stillman of First National  City Bank (Citibank) act as a 
"central bank," providing liquidity ...  [to stop the bank run]President 
Theodore Roosevelt provides Morgan with  $25 million in government funds ... to 
control the panic. Morgan, acting  as a one-man central bank, decides which 
firms will fail and which  firms will survive."How did JP Morgan get so powerful 
that the  government would provide them with funding to increase their 
power?They  had key influence with positions inside the Administrations. 

They had senators, congressmen, lobbyists, media moguls all working  for them.In 
1886, a group of millionaires purchased Jekyll Island and  converted it into a 
winter retreat and hunting ground, the USA's most  exclusive club. By 1900, the 
club's roster represented 1/6th of the  world's wealth. Names like Astor, 
Vanderbilt, Morgan, Pulitzer and Gould  filled the club's register. Non- 
members, regardless of stature, were  not allowed. Dignitaries like Winston 
Churchill and President McKinley  were refused admission.In 1908, the year after 
a national money panic  purportedly created by J. P. Morgan, Congress 
established, in 1908, a  National Monetary Authority. In 1910 another, more 
secretive, group was  formed consisting of the chiefs of major corporations and 
banks in this  country. The group left secretly by rail from Hoboken, New 
Jersey, and  traveled anonymously to the hunting lodge on Jekyll Island.In fact, 
the  Clubhouse/hotel on the island has two conference rooms named for the  
"Federal Reserve."The meeting was so secret that none referred to the  other by 
his last name. Why the need for secrecy?
Frank Vanderlip wrote later in the Saturday Evening Post, "...it  would have 
been fatal to Senator Aldrich's plan to have it known that he  was calling on 
anybody from Wall Street to help him in preparing his  bill...I do not feel it 
is any exaggeration to speak of our secret  expedition to Jekyll Island as the 
occasion of the actual conception of  what eventually became the Federal Reserve 
System."At Jekyll  Island,  the true draftsman for the Federal Reserve was Paul 
Warburg. The plan  was simple.
The new central bank could not be called a central bank because  America did not 
want one, so it had to be given a deceptive name.  Ostensibly, the bank was to 
be controlled by Congress, but a majority of  its members were to be selected by 
the private banks that would own its  stock.To keep the public from thinking 
that the Federal Reserve would  be controlled from New York, a system of twelve 
regional banks was  designed. Given the concentration of money and credit in New 
York, the  Federal Reserve Bank of New York controlled the system, making the  
regional concept initially nothing but a ruse.
The board and chairman were to be selected by the President, but in  the words 
of Colonel Edward House, the board would serve such a term as  to "put them out 
of the power of the President." The power over the  creation of money was to be 
taken from the people and placed in the  hands of private bankers who could 
expand or contract credit as they  felt best suited their needs.Why the 
opposition to a central  bank?Americans at the time knew of the destruction to 
the economy the  European central banks had caused to their respective countries 
and to  countries who became their debtors. They saw the large- scale government  
deficit spending and debt creation that occurred in Europe.But European  
financial moguls didn't rest until the New World was within their  orbit. In 
1902, Paul Warburg, a friend and associate of the Rothschilds  and an expert on 
European central banking, came to this country as a  partner in Kuhn, Loeb and 
Company.
He married the daughter of Solomon Loeb, one of the founders of the  firm. The 
head of Kuhn, Loeb was Jacob Schiff, whose gift of $20 million  in gold to the 
struggling Russian communists in 1917 no doubt saved  their revolution.The Fed 
controls the banking system in the USA, not the  Congress nor the people 
indirectly (as the Constitution dictates). The  U.S. central bank strategy is a 
product of European banking  interests.Government interventionists got their 
wish in 1913 with the  Federal Reserve (and income tax amendment).  Just in 
time, too, because  the nation needed a new source of unlimited cash to finance 
both sides  of WW1 and eventually our own entry to the war.
After the war, with both sides owing us debt through the federal  reserve backed 
banks, the center of finance moved from London to New  York.But did the Federal 
Reserve reign in the money trusts and  interlocking directorates?  Not by a long 
shot.  If anything, the  Federal Reserve granted new powers to the National 
Banks by permitting  overseas branches and new types of banking services.  The 
greatest gift  to the bankers, was a virtually unlimited supply of loans when 
they  experience liquidity problems.
From the early 1920s to 1929, the monetary supply expanded at a rapid  pace and 
the nation experienced wild economic growth.  Curiously,  however, the number of 
banks started to decline for the first time in  American history.Toward the end 
of the period, speculation and loose  money had propelled asset and equity 
prices to unreal levels.  The stock  market crashed, and as the banks struggled 
with liquidity problems, the  Federal Reserve actually cut the money supply.  
Without a doubt, this  is the greatest financial panic and economic collapse in 
American  history - and it never could have happened  on this scale without the  
Fed's intervention.  The number of banks crashed and a few of the old  robber 
barons' banks managed to swoop in and grab up thousands of  competitors for 
pennies on the dollar.
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