The US Government has had A LOT of weird (and cruel) ideas over the years.
Recently, Reddit usersceneybeanieposed the question, “What are the craziest declassified CIA documents?”
to the good people ofAskReddit.
The objective was to scare kids and their parents so bin Laden and Al-Qaeda would lose support."
It’s got a fair few licensed movies, anime, games, that sort of thing.
All free for anyone who wants to get it."
The idea was to lower their morale during the Cold War."
5.Psychological warfare in thePhilippines “What happened in the 1950s comes to mind.
The CIA conducted research to figure out which sort of myths and superstitions the Philippine people had.
They discovered that they were afraid of vampires.
They then hung him upside down for his friends to find, which terrified the village.
The CIA wrote his speeches and directed his policy.”
Between 1949 and 1969, open-air tests of biological agents were conducted 239 times.
They performed countless experiments on live human POWs.
it’s possible for you to google the rest.
To do this the CIA would anonymously buy modern art pieces no matter how nonsensical for very high prices.
12.TheGateway Experience “Like, this shit is fucking bonkers.
Seriously, seriously, read this shit if you have a mind for the creepy/unexplained.”
They asked him to describe what he saw.
He described a dying planet where people had left to discover a new place they could populate.
It was revealed that the envelope contained coordinates on Mars in the distant past.
It gets much more in-depth when he describes large structures, etc.
Its not very long and very much worth the read."
Not the most shocking but worth a mention."
15.ThePentagon Papers “(These were technically leaked, not outright declassified.)
And the resultant Church Committee Report.
This was approved all the way up to, but not including, the President.”
It sank in the north Pacific while on patrol, resting about three miles down on the seafloor.
But the Soviets often patrolled the spot to prevent the Americans from doing exactly that.
18.CIAblack sites “Secret prisons where terrorist suspects were taken for interrogation/prison sentences and god knows what.
Some sites were in Europe, too, like Poland and Lithuania.”
A guide on how to do simple sabotage in the USSR.
