Not too long ago, Reddit consumer sceneybeanie posed the query, “What are the craziest declassified CIA documents?” to the nice individuals of AskReddit. And, IDK why I am shocked, however their responses have been so wild, on the market, and surprising that they virtually sound faux (however aren’t!). Test it out:
1.The — “The plan after 9/11 was to make collectible figurines that appear to be Osama bin Laden and provides them to youngsters in South Asia. After being left within the solar for a sure period of time, its face would peel off to disclose a ‘demon-like visage with crimson pores and skin, inexperienced eyes, and black markings.’ The target was to scare youngsters and their mother and father so bin Laden and Al-Qaeda would lose assist.”
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2.The contents of Osama bin Laden’s — “You possibly can obtain most of bin Laden’s exhausting drive off the CIA’s web site. It is obtained a good few licensed motion pictures, anime, video games, that kind of factor. All free for anybody who desires to get it.”
3.The Chilly Battle — “One CIA operative drew up a plan to have packets of extra-large condoms, labeled ‘small’ dropped on USSR. The thought was to decrease their morale throughout the Chilly Battle.”
4.The — “They principally put a microphone and radio in a cat and tried to launch it into the Soviet Embassy to wander round eavesdropping since no person suspects a wandering cat.”
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5.Psychological warfare within the — “What occurred within the Nineteen Fifties involves thoughts. The CIA carried out analysis to determine which kind of myths and superstitions the Philippine individuals had. They found that they have been afraid of vampires. At one level they disrupted a bunch by snatching an area man, murdering him, and placing enamel marks on his neck. They then hung him the other way up for his buddies to seek out, which terrified the village. This was all a part of an effort to elect Ramon Magsaysay as president who principally acted as a puppet for the US. The CIA wrote his speeches and directed his coverage.”
6.The tons of of failed on Fidel Castro — “In keeping with Fabian Escalante, who labored for the Cuban counter intelligence, there have been 638 of them. Listed here are some highlights…”
“—In 1960 they tried to poison his cigars.
—They requested the Chicago Mob for assist, they usually stated poison drugs are the perfect. The Mobsters employed an area murderer, who gave them to an ice cream/milkshake parlor worker who was supposed to slide them into Castro’s ice cream. When he tried to get the poison drugs from the freezer, they have been frozen stable on the coils of the freezer.
—They deliberate to place explosives below a painted sea shell, as Castro liked scuba diving and gathering sea shells. The plan was discarded as impractical.
—In the identical yr they contaminated a scuba diving go well with for Castro with a fungus that ought to have given Castro a virulent disease. The particular person tasked with this, American Lawyer James Donovan, who was negotiating the discharge of hostages after the Bay of Pigs invasion, could not do it in the long run.
—They skilled his lover to poison him, however she obtained chilly ft.
—They’d a James Bond-like concept of poisoning him with a tiny needle connected to a ballpoint pen. The federal government official who was alleged to stab him with that needle, threw the pen away, as he was too afraid that the needle would possibly unintentionally poison himself as a substitute.
—Final, however not least, that they had the thought to assassinate his character by spraying an LSD-like chemical into the broadcasting studio the place he held his speeches. The thought was to make him look confused and unfit to rule. The plan was deserted because the chemical was unreliable.”
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7. — “Bringing former Nazi scientists from Germany to America to hopefully beat the Soviets within the area race.”
8. — “This was a 1950 US Navy secret organic warfare experiment during which Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii micro organism have been sprayed over the San Francisco Bay Space in California, to find out how susceptible a metropolis like San Francisco could also be to a bioweapon assault. Between 1949 and 1969, open-air assessments of organic brokers have been carried out 239 instances. In 80 of these experiments, the Military stated it used stay micro organism that its researchers on the time thought have been innocent.”
9.The American cover-up of — This was the pardon of the Japanese struggle criminals who ran Unit 731 in alternate for his or her findings. They carried out numerous experiments on stay human POWs. Reducing off limbs to check blood loss, injecting them with illnesses and seeing how they progressed when left untreated, vivisection of those similar people, and different actually fucking disgusting stuff that I don’t have the abdomen to sort out. You possibly can google the remaining. The US authorities felt it was extra vital to have that data in American palms than to let it go to the Russians, or be misplaced. You’d by no means have the ability to conduct these sorts of experiments once more, and for good cause, in order that they thought-about it the lesser of two evils.”
10.Venture — “The CIA’s unlawful thoughts management program that concerned human experimentation utilizing issues like psychoactive medication, electroshock, deprivation, and abuse. Sadly, the one paperwork we obtained from it are from an offsite space for storing that the officers within the CIA forgot about.”
(The picture above is of Allen W. Dulles, director of the CIA who oversaw applications together with Venture MK-Extremely.)
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11.Fashionable artwork as a CIA — “Through the ’60s the CIA seen that artists are likely to lean towards socialism and communism. They realized the easiest way to stop this or discredit these political positions was to make them rich so they’d be extra invested in capitalism. To do that the CIA would anonymously purchase trendy artwork items irrespective of how nonsensical for very excessive costs. This made the in any other case extremely area of interest and tough to entry trendy artwork style an elegant, trendy, and extremely worthwhile style and principally prevented distinguished members of the artwork group from turning to socialism or communism by changing them into rich members of the higher class.”
12.The — “Like, this shit is fucking bonkers. Declassified doc from 1983 detailing the CIA’s utilization of ‘harmonic resonance’ to realize entry to the astral airplane. It describes how the CIA used astral projection to create drive fields round navy bases, go to the long run, and even speak to literal God. They name God the ‘Absolute,’ which they declare is the entire universe compiled right into a single level for a single second in time, after which the universe re-expands. Significantly, severely, learn this shit if in case you have a thoughts for the creepy/unexplained.”
13.The papers describing — “They introduced a ‘psychic’ in and positioned an envelope with coordinates and a timeframe on it. They requested him to explain what he noticed. He described a dying planet the place individuals had left to find a brand new place they may populate. It was revealed that the envelope contained coordinates on Mars within the distant previous. It will get rather more in-depth when he describes massive constructions, and many others. It’s not very lengthy and really a lot well worth the learn.”
14. — “The ghost tapes with creepy noises that have been performed in Vietnam to attempt to scare the Vietcong have been fairly wild. Not probably the most surprising however value a point out.”
15.The — “(These have been technically leaked, not outright declassified.) And the resultant Church Committee Report. These are what made public the CIA’s actions in overthrowing governments and instigating/aiding coups everywhere in the world for many years main as much as the ’70s. Just about each unfavorable stereotype of the CIA we’ve got right now was created or knowledgeable by the Pentagon Papers and Church Committee Report.”
16. — “The Division of Protection proposed that CIA operatives plant bombs round the USA to commit staged terrorist acts after which blame them on Cuba. This was accepted all the way in which as much as, however not together with, the President.”
17. — “This was a CIA operation to retrieve the stays of the Soviet Golf-class ballistic missile submarine Okay-129. It sank within the north Pacific whereas on patrol, resting about three miles down on the seafloor. The CIA and DoD believed {that a} salvage operation had the potential to retrieve nuclear submarine-launched ballistic missiles, nuclear torpedoes, code books, and cryptographic gear from the wreck. However the Soviets usually patrolled the spot to stop the People from doing precisely that. Henry Kissinger ordered the CIA to collaborate with Howard Hughes to arrange a false flag deep-sea mining operation, which concerned the development of an enormous purpose-built ship referred to as the USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer.”
“It had the outward look of a deep-sea mining vessel, however hid inside was an unlimited moon pool with an enormous claw that may be lowered all the way down to seize the wreck and pull it as much as the floor. Allegedly, they did snag the wreck, however the claw suffered a malfunction midway up inflicting a portion of the hull to fall again all the way down to the seafloor.
The main points of the portion of the hull that was truly recovered and what precisely was discovered have by no means been formally disclosed. Kissinger licensed a second try, however earlier than that could possibly be affected, the LA Instances broke a narrative concerning the operation — allegedly sourced from a memo that was a part of a cache of paperwork stolen from a Hughes workplace some months prior. The operation was now being totally blown, the Soviet Navy stationed destroyers on the spot to stop the People from making an attempt once more, and Kissinger lastly nixed any plans for additional makes an attempt.”
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18.CIA — “Secret prisons the place terrorist suspects have been taken for interrogation/jail sentences and god is aware of what. Some websites have been in Europe, too, like Poland and Lithuania.”
19.Lastly, the — “Made by the Workplace of Strategic Providers, which was the CIA earlier than they got the title. A information on how you can do easy sabotage within the USSR. Humorous sufficient their information on how managers can sabotage work sounds so much like how a lot corporations work right now…”
“(1) Demand written orders.
(2) ‘Misunderstand’ orders. Ask limitless questions or have interaction in lengthy correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you may.
(3) Do all the things potential to delay the supply of orders. Despite the fact that components of an order could also be prepared beforehand, do not ship it till it’s fully prepared.
(4) Do not order new working supplies till your present shares have been nearly exhausted, in order that the slightest delay in filling your order will imply a shutdown.
(5) Order high-quality supplies that are exhausting to get. If you aren’t getting them argue about it. Warn that inferior supplies will imply inferior work.
(6) In making work assignments, at all times signal out the unimportant jobs first. See that the vital jobs are assigned to inefficient employees of poor machines.
(7) Insist on good work in comparatively unimportant merchandise; ship again for refinishing these which have the least flaw. Approve different faulty components whose flaws are usually not seen to the bare eye.
(8) Make errors in routing in order that components and supplies shall be despatched to the unsuitable place within the plant.
(9) When coaching new employees, give incomplete or deceptive directions.
(10) To decrease morale and with it, manufacturing, be nice to inefficient employees; give undeserved promotions. Discriminate in opposition to environment friendly employees; complain unjustly about their work.
(11) Maintain conferences when there may be extra essential work to be achieved.”
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