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Top 10 Conspiracy Theories Proven To Be True
Not all conspiracy theories are bogus and unfounded. Many of them tell the truth and nothing but it. In fact, they help us expose lies, corruption, dirty secrets and more. Here are ten conspiracytheory proven to be true. Most of these you already read about in books
10. The BCCI Scandal:
The Bank of Credit and Commerce International was founded by Pakistani businessman Agha Hasan Abedi. Abedi had envisioned a bank focused on the needs of the third world. It was set up in 1972 with financial backing from Abu Dhabi, where the ruling family, headed by the late Sheikh Zayed, was said to have a very close ties with the BCCI. The Bank itself was registered in Luxembourg. Within a decade, 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; ranked by their assets.
In the late 1980′s, BCCI’s name was being smeared amidst a two year undercover operationconducted by the US Customs Service. The operation came to a head with a fake wedding that was attended by BCCI officers and drug dealers from all across the globe who had established a personal friendship and working relationship with undercover Special Agent Robert Mazur. After a six month trial in Tampa, Florida key bank officers were convicted and received prison sentences. Bank officers began cooperating with law enforcement authorities and that cooperation caused BCCI’s illegal activity to become known to the public. Abedi died in 1995 in Pakistan having never faced trial despite charges against him in the UK. One of his alleged key allies in fraudulent activities was said to be Saudi Arabian businessman Ghaith Pahraon
9.Alcohol Poisoning During Prohibition Era:
For years The FBI was rumoured to have poisoned alcohol during the prohibition era. Despite the 18th Amendment to the constitution being signed in 1920, widespread bootlegging of alcohols was popular. Much of the alcohol made in private stills had health risks from heavy metals in the alcohol which could lead to illness and blindness. In order to stop the bootlegging, the government redesigned formulas used to make industrial alcohol undrinkable. The formula included kerosene, gasoline, benzene, iodine, zinc, mercury salt and more toxins. The government was hopping to scare people. 400 people died and 1200 became sick as a result. The truth came out after Medical Examiner Charles Norris and Missouri Senator James Reed publicly spoke out against it.
8. 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.
7. Manhattan Project:
The Manhattan Project was the code name for a project conducted during World War II – the development of the first ever atomic bomb. The project was led by the United States, and included Great Britain and Canada. It eventually employed more than 130,000 people and cost nearly US$2 billion. 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 conspiracy theories in world 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.
A 1945 Life article estimated that before the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings “[p]robably no more than a few dozen men in the entire country knew the full meaning of the Manhattan Project, and perhaps only a thousand others even were aware that work on atoms was involved.” The magazine wrote that the more than 100,000 others employed with the project “worked like moles in the dark”.
6. 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.
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