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.
..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.
..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. ..Manhattan Project: 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
Oppenheimer. 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 on the 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:
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..12. ..The Iran-Contra Affair: In 1985 and '86, the White House authorized government officials to secretly trade
weapons with the Israeli government in exchange for the release of U.S. hostages in Iran. The plot was uncovered by Congress
in 1987.
..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. ..Gulf of 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)
..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 (assassinated) 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:
..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.
..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 authoritarianis......m
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:
