The Dark Alliance: CIA and DARPA's Hidden War on Citizens (COMPILATION)

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[Music]. In the early days of the space race, the. Soviet Union racked up a lot of firsts. Sputnik, the first satellite. Leica, the. dog, the first animal in space. Yuri. Gagarin, the first man in space. Valentina Terishova, the first woman. ZH.

5, the first spacecraft to the moon. Meanwhile, America's space program. lagged, plagued by setback after. setback. There were some successes, but. not enough to keep pace with the. Soviets. America was still planning its. first satellite while Sputnik circled. the Earth. Then, Sputnik 2 went up. American citizens were terrified. What. if the Russians put weapons in space? Maybe they already have. Paranoia was. starting to become hysteria. President. Eisenhower was under pressure to act and.

to act fast. The United States. government knew what it had to do. Create an organization to develop the. most technologically advanced military. systems in the world. And just 3 months. after Sputnik 2 was launched, the. Advanced Research Project Agency or ARPA. was born. Later, ARPA became DARPA. The. D stands for defense. Because DARPA. would be both a sword and a shield, creating offensive weapons and defensive. systems. No project was too expensive,

and no program was too immoral. DARPA's. secret research would cost many lives. But sacrifices had to be made for the. sake of security. But after all these. years, it's time to ask, who are they. really protecting? [Music]. Here's the scene. You're driving. It's. late and the road ahead is dark. You. make a turn and then another. You.

finally realize you're lost. If this. were the not too distant past, you'd. pull over and grab your Thomas guide. >> Yeah, for you kids, that's a map. >> And if you didn't have a map, you'd try. to find a gas station or 7-Eleven to ask. for directions. Then your fate would be. in the hands of the guy working the. night shift. >> who may or may not be a serial killer, >> right? But now all the answers are in. your pocket. You tell your phone the. address and GPS guides the way. Some. cars will even drive for you while you.

sit back, relax, and listen to your. favorite podcast. >> Oh, you know the Y files is also a. podcast. >> No plugs yet. Please, we save those for. the end. >> Sorry. Sorry. I I I could sniff out a. plug opportunity like a trouble pig. [Music]. The technology I described that got you. to your destination, it was created by. DARPA. All of it. And there's a lot more. of DARPA in your pocket than you think. Your cell phone uses microprocessors. designed by DARPA. They also created the.

batteries to power those. microprocessors. Your phone uses. wireless technology made possible by. DARPA. The touchscreen and the. microphone came from DARPA. Voice. recognition and GPS come from DARPA. And of course, all this data transfer. happens using the internet, which was. created by DARPA. >> Excuse me if I may. >> Uh, is this going to be a highly. predictable and hacked joke about how Al. Gore said he created the internet? >> I I yield the rest of my time. Thank.

you. >> Mhm. >> Yes, DARPA created the internet. Well, technically they were still ARPA then. Remember the D was added in 1972. In the. 1960s, researchers were trying to figure. out a way to ensure reliable. communications in case of a nuclear. attack. Traditional telephone lines and. radio transmitters would be the first to. go. They came up with a radical idea. Packet. switching. Now, all of us speak nerd.

Some of us went to our prom instead of. staying home to write code on our Apple. 2. Well, packet switching is not as. complicated as it sounds. Here's how it. works. You want to send a message or. file from New York to LA. But what if. half the country's lines are down? So, you break that message into small chunks. called packets and send each one. independently over the network. On the. receiving end, the message waits for all. the packets to arrive and then. reassembles them back into the original.

message or file. Each packet will. independently try to find the most. efficient route through the network at. any given moment. The internet still. works this way. Most people didn't use. the internet until the late 1990s or. early 2000s. Some nerds like me were. using our phones to dial bulletin board. systems in the late 1970s and early 80s. But this new network called Arpanet was. conceived in 1966. >> Wow. You were online all the way back. then when you were like 12 or 13 years. old.

>> Yep. I was even younger than that when I. first got online. >> And you're proud of this? >> Well, yeah. Shouldn't I be proud? We. didn't know girls existed. >> Yes, I knew they existed. >> Nah, now I see. >> what. >> girls didn't know you existed. >> I was a late bloomer. >> Boomer? >> Bloomer? >> What' I say? >> Under DARPA's guidance, TCPIP became the. universal language for online computers. They also developed the concept of email. and invented domain names. DARPA worked. with UC Berkeley to create the BSD Unix.

operating system. BSD Unix heavily. influenced the operating system you're. using right now, no matter what OS it. is. It started with DARPA. Now, these. technologies may seem modern, but DARPA. sent the first internet message in 1969. Now, this shouldn't be surprising. DARPA. technology is said to be about 20 years. ahead of civilian tech. Like self-driving cars, DARPA built one. in 1984. DARPA had GPS in 1973.

microprocessors, motion sensors, and. wireless communication. DARPA had these. decades ago, but eventually these. innovations became available to the rest. of us. DARPA's technology has made our. lives so much better, it's easy to. forget that those innovations weren't. originally meant to improve lives. They. were meant to end them.

It's the middle of the night and you're. lying prone on top of a dusty building. in some far corner of the world. You hug. your 50 caliber Barrett sniper rifle. It's pitch dark, but your light. gathering high magnification scope gives. you full visibility of the alley 1,200. yd away. A door opens. It's your target. right on schedule. You hold your breath and put your finger. on the trigger. Suddenly, a van appears. Your target.

leaps in and speeds off. Years ago, he'd escaped. Mission failed. Not now. You fire confident in DARPA's. latest innovation, a self-guided bullet. With optical sensors and real-time. guidance, it maneuvers mid-flight locked. onto its target. Skilled snipers engaged. targets up to,300 yd away or more. The. farthest confirmed kill 2.2 m by. Canadian special forces in 2017.

Impressive. But DARPA's extreme accuracy. task ordinance or exacto bullet hits. targets five or six miles away, maybe. farther. DARPA keeps the details a. secret. Many DARPA projects seem like. science fiction, some like magic. Scepter lets you see through walls. The. Mojave project bends light, making. objects invisible. DARPA's engineering. living materials program uses living. fungus as a construction material. Structures will no longer be built.

They'll be grown. Instead of shipping finished materials, we can ship precursors and rapidly grow. them on site using local resources. And. since the materials will be alive, they'll be able to respond to changes in. their environment and heal themselves in. response to damage. DARPA likes fungus, but it loves bugs. Project Insect Allies modifies flying. insects to attack crops. These insects.

resist disease and repair each other's. injuries in the field. Then there's the. hybrid insect microelectrical mechanical. systems or highs. This project along. with project dragonfly creates miniature. flying cyborgs. Beetles, moths, and. dragonflies become undetectable spies. with cybernetic implants and solar. powered guidance systems. They could be. controlled remotely or operate. autonomously using AI. They've created. remote controlled rats. DARPA trains. bees to find landmines. They're.

developing cllaytronics, programmable. shape-shifting matter. They're. developing nuclearpowered spacecraft. Autonomous vehicles and weapons of all. kinds. DARPA's technology is meant to. keep people off the battlefield. Why. risk a battalion of human soldiers when. you can deploy a fleet of drones? But. sometimes you need boots on the ground, and that means people with guns. But. DARPA has a better idea. Don't give a. soldier a weapon, turn them into one.

The human body is an amazing machine. Our muscular skeletal system allows us. to do gymnastics, lift heavy weights, and walk long distances. Still, our. bodies have limitations. DARPA is. developing technology to overcome these. limitations. The goal is to increase. strength, endurance, alertness, and the. overall health of soldiers.

DARPA's Warrior Web project is one of. several exoskeleton programs in the. works. It's an exo suit, lightweight and. flexible, similar to a scuba suit, but. this is a smart suit. Using machine. learning and onboard sensors, the suit. knows when and where to firm up to. augment muscles. It performs its. function, then becomes flexible again. DARPA has also developed hard. exoskeletons, just like you've seen in. movies like Aliens and Edge of Tomorrow. These exoskeletons not only increase.

strength and endurance, but they're. modular. They can be equipped with all. kinds of weapons. There's even a jetpack. in development. The tallow suit turns a. soldier into a real life Iron Man. It's. bulletproof and weaponized. It increases. strength, speed, and endurance. It. monitors the user's vital signs and has. sensors that analyze the entire. environment around them. The tactical. augmented reality or TR project is a. headset that overlays information over.

your normal vision. This gives soldiers. real-time information like displaying. maps, enemy locations, and other vital. data right in their line of sight. Project Zman was inspired by geckos. DARPA is creating a material that would. let soldiers climb walls without ropes. or ladders. Now, everyone knows the Air. Force gives their pilots aiments. >> I feel the need. The Need for Speed. >> The Need for Speed. Yep. They literally. take illegal narcotics to stay alert.

But the Continuous Assisted Performance. or CAP program is focused on keeping. soldiers awake, alert, and effective for. up to 7 days straight without side. effects. DARPA's brain initiative. program connects soldiers brains to. computers. They can control drones and. other systems with thought. They can. truly multitask where one part of the. brain is operating a drone while the. other part of the brain is analyzing the. area looking for targets. In the early 2000s, DARPA started.

exploring ways of giving humans. superhuman abilities without equipment. This is DARPA's bio-revolution program. They studied how animals attack, defend. themselves, and regenerate from. injuries. DARPA felt that if they could find those. answers, these abilities could be. transferred to humans. They could give soldiers improved. senses, perfect eyesight, and limb. regeneration without external devices. Now, to do that, you'd have to alter.

human DNA. So, DARPA is exploring. crisper gene editing technology. Crisper can snip out unwanted genes and. insert new ones. Crisper could. accelerate healing. Injuries that might. have sidelined soldiers for weeks or. months could heal in days. Crisper. technology has already sparked a. revolution in medicine with the. potential to cure genetic disorders and. even combat aging. >> Link below and how crisp and AI are. about to end the whole world. >> Yeah, that episode is scary, but it's.

interesting and it's real. Now, some of. these projects have failed and some. haven't and some are still in. development. I have no doubt that DARPA. will turn soldiers into superhuman. weapons eventually, but they haven't. yet. So, how do you put boots on the. ground and keep humans off the. battlefield? DARPA's answer, killer. robots. [Music]. DARPA started working on robotics in the. 1960s. Its first project was Shaky, the.

first mobile robot to reason about its. actions. Shaky wasn't sleek or fast, but. it was a start. Ah, >> you know, I I feel like if you name your. project Shaky, you're kind of setting. yourself up to fail. >> Well, since then, DARPA's robotics has. come a long way. In the early 2000s, DARPA launched the Big Dog program. In. partnership with Boston Dynamics, these. four-legged robots can carry heavy loads. and navigate difficult terrain. They can. also be outfitted with weapons like.

sniper rifles or machine guns. The LS3. can follow soldiers autonomously and. carry up to 400 lb of gear. And then. there's the Atlas robot. And now we're. getting serious. Atlas was launched in 2013, and you've. probably seen various versions of this. robot over the years. Atlas could run, jump, and navigate obstacle courses. A. couple of years ago, Atlas used AI to. teach itself how to walk and then run. and then do gymnastics. Yeah, you humans.

realize it's only a matter of time. before these things take over and. enslave you, right? >> Uh, some of us realize it. >> Investigative journalist Annie Jacobson. has covered DARPA for years. She says. there's no doubt that the Pentagon is. investing heavily in robotics. >> DARPA's plan through 2038 states without. question that the Pentagon is moving. towards robotic warfare. They want to. have hunter killer drones that can swim,

crawl, walk, run. Drones that can fly. 13,000 m an hour, which is 22 times. faster than a commercial jet to get to a. target really quickly. Ballistic missiles have limitations. Speeds over Mach 20 require too much. power and make the rockets dangerously. hot. But thanks to DARPA, that's no. longer a problem. Missiles can now. travel at hypersonic speed without. overheating. A target 500 m away can be.

destroyed in 6 minutes. Weapons like. these certainly keep humans off the. battlefield. But DARPA is going to take. it one step further. It's creating the. technology to wage war without needing. humans at all. Remember. how DARPA is always about 20 years ahead. of civilian technology, maybe more? Well, as early as the 1960s, DARPA.

started developing computers that can. learn independently. In the 1980s, DARPA launched the. Strategic Computing Initiative or SEI. The goal of SEI was to create military. strategies by running simulations and. learning from them. >> You're describing war games. probably.

learn it. >> War Games was originally going to be a. science fiction story about a dying. scientist who's saved by a kid genius. But then the writers met Peter Schwarz. from the Stanford Research Institute or. SRRI. >> The SRI. I know those guys. >> You do? SRRI has been the launchpad for. many secret government programs. I've. talked about them a lot on this channel, and they've long been connected to the. CIA, NSA, and DARPA. Well, Schwarz was. fascinated by a new computer subculture. called hackers. He suggested that they.

make a movie about a kid hacking a. military supercomput. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What was it? It. was called The Big Mac. >> No, whopper. War operation plan. response. >> Oh, right. I'd still rather have a Big. Mac. >> Me, too. Well, the Whopper spends all its time. thinking about World War II. 24 hours a. day, 365 days a year, it plays an. endless series of war games using all.

available information on the state of. the world. >> At the very same time that this movie. came out, DARPA was working on its own. military supercomput. Here's how they. described it. The machine envisioned by SC would run. 10 billion instructions per second to. see, hear, speak, and think like a. human. The degree of integration. required would rival that achieved by. the human brain, the most complex. instrument known to man. If you haven't. caught on by now, we're talking about.

artificial intelligence. Today, AI is. everywhere and accessible to everyone. And it feels like it came out of. nowhere, but it didn't. It came out of. DARPA. As of today, 70% of DARPA's projects use. or are focused on AI and machine. learning. DARPA started working on AI in. the 1960s. They built their first AI. system, a speech recognition computer in. the 1970s. In 1983, the strategic. computing initiative project received.

billions for AI research. Then in the. 1990s, DARPA launched another. supercomputing project. It was and still. is highly secret. It's affecting you. right now. And once I tell you what it. is, you're not going to like it. Now, it's time to get this video. demonetized and censored. >> Yeah, boy. >> Yeah. If I'm not on a list by now, I I'm. about to be. >> No, they're watching you, human.

>> Yeah. I I really don't want to talk. about this. Honestly, I'm about to put. everything that I have at risk. >> Uh, you're actually scaring me right. now. I'm scared, too. Here we go. [Music]. >> Welcome. >> Like the steam engine which sparked the.

industrial revolution of the late 1700s, the internet is changing everything it. touches. And at the cutting edge of the. revolution is Wall Street. >> So we are now 6 and 3/4 points above. fair value. >> The early 1990s was the beginning of the. tech boom. Internet startups were. getting millions in investments. [Music]. of data, personal data. The intelligence.

community wanted to gather this data to. create a digital fingerprint of everyone. using the internet. If they could. identify bad actors, criminals, terrorists, whatever, they would compare. that fingerprint against others. They. called this the birds of a feather. approach. If Joe's a bad guy and Bob's a. bad guy, and they both go to certain. websites, then other people visiting. those same websites were potential bad. guys. So, let's track them. So, surveillance, >> yes. >> Of Americans, >> yes. >> Legal? >> No.

>> Well, officially illegal as of 2010, but. the law was murky in the 1990s. And for. the intelligence community, murky means. opportunity. [Music]. Still, the intelligence agencies didn't. have the ability to manage all this. data, but they knew people were out. there working on it, and they were all. looking for funding. But if you're the. NSA or CIA or DARPA, you can't drop by. an internet startup and ask them to. build you an illegal digital. surveillance program. >> Yeah, it's kind of a bad look.

>> It is, but it also gives away the game. Surveillance is only valuable if the. target doesn't know they're being. watched. So, this technology would need. to be funded privately and quietly. So, in 1994, the Highlands Forum was. founded. Ever hear of the Highlands. Forum? You probably haven't. and they. like it that way. The Highlands Forum or Highlands Group. was formed as a think tank, a bridge. between technology companies and the. Pentagon.

The Highlands Forum is an invitationonly. group of government officials, academics, and executives from tech and. defense companies. Their discussions are. private and off the record, operating. under the Chattam House rule, meaning. members can disclose information from. the meetings as long as it doesn't harm. anybody, but they can never reveal who. said it. Not ever. Although hardly anyone knows about the. Highlands Forum, the group is highly. influential on US defense policy, especially regarding technology. And.

they're a private organization. No. auditing, no oversight, no Freedom of. Information Act requirements. They're a. black box. The perfect conduit for. transactions you want to keep off the. books. So tech is booming, data is. flowing, and we've got our think tank to. connect us with the people capturing the. data. Now we need the money to fund. them. That same year, the massive digital data. systems or MDDS program was launched.

MTDS would fund scientists, researchers, and companies who worked with big data. sets. The Highlands Forum would help. identify, facilitate, and coordinate. these transactions. To keep these transactions private and. secret, the MDDS moved money through. unclassified mainstream agencies like. the National Science Foundation. Computer scientists were getting. millions in grants from the NSF. Totally. normal. They didn't know who was really. behind the money. And MDDS was highly. compartmentalized. It had tons of.

projects and departments. Nobody knew. what anyone else was doing or who was. even in charge. And this was by design, but the overall program was managed by. the CIA, NSA, and DARPA. So, we've got blackbudget money flowing. through the NSF, and we've got our. private organization, the Highlands. Forum, looking for opportunities. So, the word goes out to researchers in. academia. If you can handle big data, we'll give you big money. Then a promising project emerged. Two.

Stamford graduate students working on a. search engine made a breakthrough. In the early '90s, searching the. internet was difficult. Popular engines. like Alta Vista and LOS produced hit or. miss results. Searching hiking gear would show pages. mentioning hiking or gear, often. irrelevant blog posts or articles. Users. had to scroll through pages of useless.

results. It took forever and I remember. it well. Two Stamford students developed. a system that changed everything. Their automated webcwling system. identified a web page's context, not. just the text. Then pages were ranked. based on relevance to specific queries. Pages actually discussing hiking gear. would rank higher for that query. High. traffic pages and pages with lots of. incoming links ranked even higher. These.

were signals to the algorithm that a. page was a good match for that query. Using this search engine felt like. magic. Usually the first or second. result was exactly what you were looking. for. Somehow it knew. The system used an. optimization technique called. association rule mining or query flocks. This assumes birds of a feather stick. together, meaning people searching. specific keywords tended to click the. same result. Query flocks worked with. people, too. The search engine learned.

that people with similar online habits. search for similar things. If you. searched hiking gear, the system assumed. you liked outdoor activities and were. probably within a certain age group. And. the more you used the search engine, the. more it learned about you. So your. searches always gave you relevant. results. Using information you willingly. provided, these students had developed a. method to create your digital. fingerprint. Jackpot.

The CIA, NSA, and DARPA learned about. this project and through the National. Science Foundation, the NDDDS funded it. If you haven't guessed by now, those two. students were Sergey Brin and Larry. Page. And the search engine was Google. You won't find MDDS in Google's origin. story, but this is public unclassified. information. It's just hard to find. In.

Brennan Page's famous 1998 research. paper, the anatomy of a large-scale. hypertextual web search engine, they. thanked DARPA for their support. You can. see this for yourself. It's on page 16, section 7 under acknowledgements. Now, there's a lot more to this rabbit hole. The connection between intelligence. agencies and technology companies is so. hang on hang on. >> What? >> Pop quiz. >> Go ahead. >> How do you make your living? >> YouTube. >> And who owns YouTube?

Google. >> Right. Bye-bye channel. Now would be a. good time to ask for Patreon support. >> I don't do plugs until the end of the. episode. >> Make an exception. We're in the deep. water now. >> He might be right. Truly and honestly. I. won't know until it's too late. But. telling you the story might have been a. terrible mistake. So yes, please go to. patreon.com/theiles. I don't know if we will, but we might. need your help. Anyway, this video isn't. about Google. It's about DARPA,

specifically the dark side of DARPA. And. it's about to get a whole lot darker. When John F. Kennedy took office in. 1961, America had allies everywhere. Cuba, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran, Lebanon, and. many others. But the Soviet Union was. fueling insurrections against USfriendly.

governments. Kennedy promised to stop. the spread of communism, but the Soviets. were pouring billions into military. technology, rocket and missile systems, even space exploration. JFK was. committed to keeping pace. He wanted. more resources in science and. technology. He modernized the military. and doubled DARPA's budget. And the. timing couldn't be better. The global. cold war had evolved into regional proxy. wars with the Soviets. A new type of. warfare was being fought, guerilla.

warfare. Old military strategies. wouldn't work. The situation in Vietnam was especially. bad. The Vietkong were hidden under the. thick jungle canopy. You can't kill an. enemy that you can't see. DARPA proposed a solution, Project. Agile. It was pitched to Kennedy as both. a scientific and military endeavor. Kennedy signed off immediately. The first phase was called Operation. Ranchhand. Its purpose was to clear the. jungle. DARPA developed the rainbow.

herbicides, named for their container. colors to kill the foliage. Agent Purple. was first, then green, then pink. DARPA. was combining different herbicides, defoliants, and toxins, looking for the. perfect formula to destroy Vietkong. cover. Agent Orange was the winner. Millions of gallons of Agent Orange was. sprayed over miles of jungle every day. Leaves fell from trees almost. immediately. Another application and the. trees died.

Next, Project Agile targeted farms. Asian Orange could destroy miles of. crops in a day. They asked South. Vietnamese President DM if he knew which. farms were Vietkong and which belonged. to innocent civilians. He said yes, he. knew and he didn't care. If they weren't. traitors yet, they would be soon. Kill. them all. Now, the US didn't want to do this, but. it only had a few hundred military. advisers in Vietnam at this time. They. didn't want to send more. Better to. sacrifice North Vietnamese farmers than.

US Marines. So, it was done. Guilty or. innocent, friend or foe, if you were a. North Vietnamese farmer, you were. targeted. Your crops were destroyed and. your soil was poisoned. Replanting was. impossible. Ancient Orange's effects were instant. and devastating, and nobody knew it was. only the beginning.

As the Vietnam War escalated, so did the. use of Agent Orange under DARPA's. Project Agile. Project Agile used other. tactics. DARPA contractors included. social scientists and experts in human. psychology. Propaganda spread through. leaflets, loudspeakers, and media. control. Subliminal technology kept. people in heightened emotional states. from minor discomfort to absolute. terror. >> Subliminal warfare mind control link. down the alley. Sally.

>> psychological warfare teams targeted. villages, turning neighbor against. neighbor. Civilians were forced into. strategic hamlets for their safety. 4. million people were relocated against. their will. Meanwhile, soldiers. complained of headaches, nausea, stinging eyes, and rashes. Agent Orange. did more than clear jungle and kill. crops. It tortured people for life. Thousands exposed to Agent Orange. developed cancer. Children were born. with defects. Agent Orange caused.

reproductive problems like infertility. and miscarriages. Heart disease and. diabetes increased. Agent orange was. first used in 1962. In 1965, scientists. discovered it contained dioxin, a highly. toxic compound that causes cancer and. birth defects. They kept using it. In. 1967, a study proved dioxin causes birth. defects even at low concentrations. They. kept using it. In 1969, a Department of.

Defense report acknowledged Agent. Orange's severe health risks. They kept. using it. Public outcry forced President. Nixon to stop the use of Agent Orange in. 1970. They kept using it. They stopped. spraying the following year, 1971. [Music]. Now, even in war, there are rules. PS. must be treated humanely. Medical staff. and facilities are off limits. Humanitarian aid must be allowed. Breaking these rules is a war crime. In.

1907, the Hay Convention banned the use. of poison in war. The US signed the. treaty. Agent Orange was poison. That's. what herbicides are. So, was using Agent. Orange a war crime? No. The United. States said Agent Orange wasn't a. poison. It was an herbicide. The treaty. didn't specifically mention herbicides. Oh, that's some lawyer loophole. >> In 1925, the Geneva Protocol banned the. use of chemical weapons. The US signed.

this treaty, but Agent Orange was a. chemical. Of the 12 companies producing. Agent Orange, the primary manufacturer. was the DAO Chemical Company. The word. chemical is in the company's name. So, is using Agent Orange a war crime? Nope. The United States said Agent Orange. wasn't a chemical. It was an herbicide. >> Wait. How is that even possible? >> It's not. In 1949, the Geneva. Conventions established that civilians. and their property must not be.

intentionally targeted. Only combatants. and military targets were allowed. The. US signed this treaty. But civilians and. their farms were intentionally targeted. with Agent Orange. So, is using it a war. crime? No. The United States said the intent was to. disrupt the enemy's logistical support. and visibility, not cause direct harm to. people. In other words, it was an. accident. So, what about the destruction. of plants and trees on civilian land? Those weren't military targets. Isn't.

this a war crime? No. The United States. said it was a military necessity to. defoliate the area in order to deny the. enemy cover, which makes trees, any. trees anywhere, a military target. What about destroying civilian crops? Again, the US only intended to destroy. crops of the enemy, not civilians. It. was unintentional, so no war crime. In. 1977, the Geneva Conventions were. amended to specifically ban the use of. herbicides and reinforce civilian.

protection. The US signed this new. treaty, but still denied any liability. for the damage caused by Agent Orange. However, in 1984, US veterans sued the. chemical companies who settled for $180. million. But the settlement was to support. veterans, not an admission of guilt. In. 2004, Jill Montgomery speaking for the. Monsanto Company, one of the major. suppliers of Agent Orange, uh she set. the record straight.

We're sympathetic with people who. believe they've been injured and. understand their concern to find the. cause, but reliable scientific evidence. indicates that Agent Orange is not the. cause of serious long-term health. effects. In 1991, finally, the VA started providing. benefits to vets exposed to Agent. Orange. But the US still denies. liability. My father-in-law served in. Vietnam. He was exposed to Agent Orange.

He's watching, so I won't list his. illnesses, but he suffered almost all of. them. So, in 1991, he applied for his. benefits. And I'll admit, the government. kept its word. He did receive his. benefits. In 2021, it took 30 years. Like so many vets, when his country. needed him, he didn't hesitate. But when. he needed his country, they said, "Take. a number, get in line, and hope you're. still alive by the time we call your. name." Do I sound angry? That's because.

I am. [Music]. Between 1955 and 1975, 2.7 million. people were deployed to Vietnam. 58,000. dead, 300,000 wounded, 3,000 missing or. prisoners of war, 1500 still missing. That's tragic, but it's much worse. The. VA estimates 300,000 to 400,000 veterans.

may have died from illnesses caused by. the exposure to Agent Orange. May have. to this day. To this day, no single person, agency, company, or government has admitted any. wrongdoing or assumed any liability for. the millions of lives destroyed by Agent. Orange. Now, ordinary people like us. have so many rules we have to follow. Don't speed. Check grandma's shoes. before she gets on a plane. Pay your. taxes even though we're going to steal.

it and waste your money. Pick up a gun. Shoot at those people. Do what you're. told. If we break a law, the government. will take our money, seize our property, force us into labor, or lock us in a. cell. It all depends on the crime. So, we follow the law. But if you're a big. chemical company or a government agency, don't worry about the law. You can get. away with murder. [Music].

I needed a minute. The story of DARPA is. hard to debunk, and that's because most. of it's true. What we know about DARPA's. projects come from them. Their websites. and official YouTube channel openly. share information. They have a podcast. called Voices of DARPA. Even the experts. in covering DARPA, Annie Jacobson and. Sharon Weinberger, get their information. from the agency they're writing about. When Jacobson gives a speech, writes a. book, or appears in an interview about. DARPA, she's not sharing classified.

information. She's not speculating. She's reporting. She never claims to. know anything that we can't find out for. ourselves. But still, most information. is secret. What we know about DARPA is. what they want us to know. There's no. transparency. None. Also, DARPA is. exempt from laws that other government. agencies have to follow. Specifically. about hiring practices, managing. personnel, and managing budgets. They. can run the agency however they like. DARPA is only 220 people. That's it.

with a budget of almost $4 billion. Now, that's a lot of freedom and power, but. it's much more than that. DARPA is. allowed to fund projects through what's. called other transactions. No. congressional approval needed. No. reporting required. Choose the projects. you want to fund and fund them. So, who's choosing the projects? Annie. Jacobson gives us an unsettling answer. The real problem is that the individuals. who are responsible for deciding what. weapon systems are being financed and.

created in these classified DARPA. programs are the very CEOs of defense. contractors who stand to financially. benefit from these contracts. Annie Jacobson has said that DARPA is. the agency driving the. military-industrial complex. That agency. is run by the companies that profit from. the technology they create. This is. exactly what President Eisenhower said. would happen. If you make war. profitable, you'll always have war. But.

to be fair, DARPA's innovations have. made our lives better. Not just because. of cell phones and GPS. DARPA's. achievements in prosthetics have allowed. paralyzed children to walk again. They've created medical techniques to. diagnose illnesses earlier. They've. bio-engineered tissue and organs that. can be used for transplants. They've. developed machines that can stabilize. injured people in emergency situations. Advanced medical imaging such as. ultrasound, MRI, and brain imaging. All.

created by or alongside DARPA. Now, does. the good outweigh the bad? Do DARPA's. contributions offset the damage they've. done? I don't know. That's not for me to. judge. But this story reminds me of the. courtroom scene in A Few Good Men. You. can't handle the truth, >> right? When the colonel says, "My. existence, while grotesque and. incomprehensible to you, saves lives.". >> You don't want the truth because deep. down in places you don't talk about it, parties. You want me on that wall. You.

need me on that wall. >> Right. So, is DARPA a necessary evil? Is. evil even the right word? I don't know. When DARPA was formed in 1958, its. mission was to make sure the United. States was never again surprised by. advanced technology. And for 66 years, DARPA has succeeded in its mission. The. US has never been surprised by. technology, >> except for the UFOs. >> Okay. The US has never been surprised by. another country's technology.

>> Better. >> I can't forget all the suffering that. DARPA has caused. But DARPA's done so. much good. Can I forgive? I don't know. I'm disgusted by some of DARPA's. actions, by our government's corruption, by the fact that because of DARPA, bad. people get rich from war. But if I'm being honest, which I always. am with you, I have to acknowledge that. as an American, we need DARPA on that. wall.

3 + 1 5 plus 0 0. >> So, just to follow up on that Shawn Ryan. clip, the very day I did his show and. told him about that episode, he. connected me with someone to help my. father-in-law get all his benefits. That.

day, without me asking for help, just. suddenly got a text, you know, call this. number and you'll be taken care of. Cuz. Sean is about as good of a guy as you'll. find. And when I say good, I don't mean, yeah, he's a good guy. I mean he's a. force for good in the world. And look, I. know he's controversial for some people, but I met the man in person. I spent the. whole day with him and he and his whole. staff, his whole team, everybody there. was gracious, kind, very complimentary. They're all fans of the channel. Um, we.

had some great talks and debates about. the moon landing and flat earth and all. that stuff. I had a great day with the. whole crew. So Sean Ryan is the real. deal. Plus, I've been around shooters my. whole life. I never seen anyone shoot. like that. Anyway, checking the notes. Checking the notes. Okay. Oh, boy. We're. going to keep it going with the. dangerous topics. This next one is. another one that was uh I was. uncomfortable releasing. When I did the killer patents episode, I.

ended it with all the like the free. energy inventors that like the hydrogen. car guy. >> He got he said he was poisoned. He said. his to his he is having he's having like. lunch with investors to like finally. take his his car ran on water. This is. Stanley Meyer and uh he's not feeling. well and he runs outside. He's like. throwing up in the street and his his. brother was his partner and and his. brother what's going on. He's like I was. poisoned and then he dies and that was. the end of it. No more water car. Killer.

patents. The end of this one went viral. See you in a minute. For decades, we've heard about the. catastrophic effects of fossil fuel. pollution. And for just as long, I've. been hearing that global warming is a. myth. The two sides are constantly at. each other's throats. But it's a fight. that's completely unnecessary. The. technology to create unlimited, clean, free energy has existed for over a. 100red years. Dozens, perhaps hundreds.

of inventors have created machines that. pull energy out of thin air. Machines. that could defy gravity, levitate, and. fly. Machines that bend the fabric of. spaceime itself. These machines sound. not just like science fiction, they. sound like magic. So where are these. magical devices? Well, when the. inventors patented and publicized their. technology, they performed another magic. trick. They disappeared. [Music].

For years, certainly in my whole life, we've heard how fossil fuel pollution is. creating a runaway greenhouse effect. At. some point, the ice caps will melt, the. oceans will rise, and every coastline in. the world will be underwater. >> What now? >> When When does it happen? When do we go. underwater? Well, that's hard to. >> 5 years, 20, 50. >> You can't really quantify it.

>> Oh, you can't quantify it. >> Look, I don't want. >> Is Florida still here? >> What do you mean? >> Let me talk slowly so you can. understand. Is Florida still there? >> Last I checked, Florida is still there. >> Thank you. I rest my case. Global. warming is a myth. >> It's not a myth. >> Look, this isn't a video about climate. change. >> Oh, look. Global warming is not climate. change. >> My point is, >> how dare you?

>> Look, do you want clean air? >> Clean air? No. Who cares? >> Fine, but do you want clean water? >> Well, yeah, >> right. The point of this episode isn't. to argue one side of the climate debate. or the other. The point of this episode. is that debating, arguing, and fighting. about it isn't necessary and hasn't been. for over a hundred years. Since the 1920s and perhaps even. earlier, scientists have discovered many. different ways of making energy less. expensive and more efficient. However,

in every single case, their technology. was suppressed. And in many cases, the inventors died. under strange circumstances. >> Okay, you've got my attention now. >> Charles Pogue was a Canadian mechanic. and car tinkerer. In the early 1930s, he. started experimenting with carburetors, trying to improve fuel efficiency. Now, if you're not a gear head, a carburetor. is a part of a gas-powered engine that. mixes air and fuel for combustion. The.

mixture is then sent to the engine. cylinders where it's ignited to power. the engine. Now, unlike traditional. carburetors which mix air with liquid. gasoline, the PO carburetor fully. vaporized gas before it entered the. combustion chamber. This made the engine. more efficient, much more efficient. In 1936, Pogue was issued a patent for a. high mileage carburetor. This was his. third iteration of the invention and his. third patent.

In early 1936, the Breen Motor Company. tested the Pog carburetor on a Ford V8. coupe. It got 26.2 m on one pint of. gasoline. That's almost 220 m. Ford tested it. They got 200 m per. gallon. The Pogue carburetor was tested. for Canadian Automotive magazine. They. reported 218 miles per gallon. Now, that article created a lot of. excitement, but it wasn't good news for.

Charles Pogue. On the Toronto Stock Exchange, oil. company stock prices crashed. Brokers. were swamped with orders to dump all oil. stock immediately. Soon after that, Pog. shop was broken into. All carburetors, equipment, notes, and documents were. stolen. He never built another one. He. never spoke of the invention ever again. Someone got to him. >> That's the rumor. But carburetors aren't. complicated. If one man figures out how.

to make an engine more efficient, others. could do this, too. And they did. But. the oil companies did not forget about. Pogue and the damage he almost caused. Fuel efficient engines were not good for. business. So the oil companies lobbyed. the US government for help. And a few. years later in 1951, help arrived. [Music]. The concept of patents can be traced.

back to ancient times, but the formal. patent system that we know today came. from Renaissance Europe. The first known patent law was enacted. in Venice in 1474 and it was a. revolutionary idea designed to encourage. innovation. It offered inventors a. temporary monopoly in exchange for. sharing their inventions with society. But some inventions are legally patented. and hidden from society. In 1951, the United States passed the.

Invention Secrecy Act. This allows the. US government to keep certain. technologies and inventions secret. legally. If they decide something. threatens the country's economy or. security, it's stamped with a secrecy. order and classified. The inventor can't speak about it, export it, or sell it, unless it's to. the US military. >> Yeah, of course. >> If the inventor violates these orders, they face imprisonment or, as we're. about to see, consequences that are even. worse.

In the 1970s, Tom Ogle accidentally. discovered a way to make an engine run. on its own fumes. I was messing around with a lawn mower. when I accidentally knocked a hole in. its fuel tank. I put a vacuum line. running from the tank straight into the. carburetor inlet. I just let it run and. it kept running and running, but the. fuel level stayed the same. I got. excited. The lawn mower was running. without a carburetor and was getting.

tremendous efficiency. >> That mower ran for 96 straight hours. Wow. Now, after a few months of trial and. error, Ogle replicated his invention. with his own car. His 1970 Ford Galaxy. got 11 mp gallon, but after a few. modifications, it got 100 m per gallon. In April 1977, Ogle drove the 4,000lb. car 205 mi on just two gallons of gas.

Engineers inspected the car for hidden. gas tanks and other gimmicks, but. nothing was found. His technology. worked. Ogle made the internal combustion engine. do what it was designed to do, operate. on fumes. He accidentally invented a. version of Pog's carburetor. Almost overnight, 24year-old Tom Ogle. became an engineering sensation. Oil. companies, investors, and businessmen. approached him with offers. People. expected him to become a billionaire.

Shell Oil offered him $25 million cash. for the design. Ogle passed when he. found out they intended to hide the. invention forever. I've always wanted to be rich, and I. suspect I will be when this system gets. into distribution, but I'm not going to. have my system bought up and put on the. shelf. So Tom struck deals with investors who. would let him control the invention and. keep working. He filed for and received. a patent. He had attorneys, money, all.

kinds of resources. Then the United. States Air Force showed interest. >> Uh-oh. And that's when things went. downhill. >> Downhill? >> Yep. [Music]. Suddenly, the SEC was after him for. violating securities laws. The IRS was. after him for failing to pay back taxes. The next few months were a mess. Ogle's. wife left him and took their daughter. Legal battles were everywhere. Investors. were fighting for control of the patent.

Then on April 14th, 1978, Ogle was shot. by a stranger outside a bar. No suspect, but he survived. >> But not for long. >> No, not for long. On August 18th, he went to a friend's. apartment where he collapsed and died. His death, which involved painkillers. and alcohol, was ruled an accidental. overdose. Though Tom Ogle had no history. of drug use, Ogle's friends, family, and. attorney claimed this was a cover up for.

murder. But the damage was done. Tom Ogle was. gone, and his invention, despite the. overwhelming evidence that it worked, was conveniently forgotten. Later that. year, the US and Saudi Arabia negotiated. the United States Saudi Arabian Joint. Commission on Economic Cooperation. They. agreed to use US dollars for oil. contracts. The petro dollar became the. de facto currency of the world that day. This made the US government much more. powerful and made oil companies richer.

than ever. A few years later, Lieutenant. Colonel Charles Brown, a former member. of Project Blue Book, made a similar. invention. He created a device that. attached to the air intake of a vehicle, reducing emissions by 50 to 70%. And. increasing miles per gallon. >> I treat air and out of air. I make it. more than just providing oxygen for the. combustion process. There are combustion. stimulating molecules and radicals.

generated in this process. Thunderstorm in a bottle. Now, even. though the colonel's invention reduced. emissions and cleaned the air, the EPA. shut him down. >> Environmental Protection Agency is a bit. of a dictatorial police agency. They call themselves a protecting. agency, but they are police agency. EPA. cannot approve a fuels saving device. They put out reams of documentation.

stating that something will not work. Soon after he received bomb threats, his. lab was vandalized and everything was. stolen. He lost his life savings and his. work was stopped. Like Charles Pogue and. Tom Ogle, Colonel Brown took his. technology to his grave. These. inventions still used gasoline and oil. They didn't necessarily threaten the. fossil fuel industry, yet the government. or someone still shut them down. She can.

only imagine what happens when you. invent a car that doesn't need gas at. all. [Music]. The top news here at 6:00, an age-old. dream becoming a reality. A local. inventor has discovered a way, hear. this, to use water to run your car. >> Says the answer to dependence on foreign. oil lies all around us. A car that runs. on water instead of gasoline. The.

>> man who invented an engine that can run. on water. >> Any kind of H2O, he says, can power just. about every type. >> He's come up with a device that will. hook up to any engine and allow it to. run on good old H2O. >> Stanley Meyer. >> Stanley has been offered a billion. dollars in cash by oil producing. countries to sell his patent. So far, he. hasn't sold. Stanley Meyer did not keep his invention. secret. He went straight to the news. His announcement made headlines across.

the country and around the world. He had. invented a car that can run on nothing. but water. The technology is called. electrolysis. This is using electricity. to split water into oxygen and hydrogen. gas. Now, this isn't a new invention. In. 1789, Jan Rudolph Diamond used an. electrostatic machine to generate. electricity from water that was then. discharged to gold electrodes. And. throughout the 19th century, various. inventors and scientists created. machines that could split water into.

oxygen and hydrogen. But there are a few. problems. The process requires a lot of energy and. it requires perfectly pure water. No. minerals, no chemicals, nothing. It has. to be nothing but H2O. It's very hard to. produce pure water. Not only do you need. pure water for electrolysis, you need. lots of it. Stanley Meyer's engine. didn't require much water at all. Stan. estimated that if he took his water. powered car from coast to coast in the. US, it would use only 22 gall of water.

And the biggest breakthrough, it didn't. need pure water. It could run on. ordinary tap water. He called his. invention a water fuel cell injector. The injector breaks water molecules into. oxygen and hydrogen. The engine runs on. hydrogen gas. He took his car on tour. around the country. Engineers inspected. it and they said it worked. >> We recently took a scientific delegation. to witness Stan's work to really. evaluate it and came back saying this is.

one of the most important inventions of. the century. The century. >> Stan's tour got a lot of media coverage. This led to offers from investors and. oil companies and even the Pentagon. >> Pentagon? Well, let me guess. That's. when things went downhill. >> Yep. >> Oh, no. In 1998, Stan was at a restaurant with. his brother and a few Belgian investors. They were about to sign a multi-million. dollar deal, so they raised their.

glasses and made a toast to celebrate. Then, Stan suddenly became violently. ill. He ran out of the restaurant, fell. down in the street, and started. vomiting. His brother ran after him. Stan's final words were, "They poisoned. me.". But his death certificate doesn't. reflect that at all. It says he was at. lunch with officials from NATO and that. he died of a brain aneurysm. But if you read this statement, you can. kind of tell that the coroner was. already.

questioning whether he was actually. poisoned or not. and and and just. dismissed being poisoned as such a. blatant uh lie and not true. Um I think. a brain aneurysm is a very convenient. way for somebody to die and if they were. poisoned that can cause that can cause. that. >> Now lots of people have heard of Stanley. Meyer's water car. But what most people. don't know is that the water powered. engine wasn't the only disruptive. invention in Stan's garage. He also had. a tooid shaped. >> donut shaped.

>> He had a donut-shaped electromagnetic. device slapped with a national security. order. >> Even in my prior development of high. technology, I've had patents taken from. me. I learned from the school of hard. knocks to be very cautious to be very. cautious to be very cautious to be very. cautious. >> He was paranoid and rightfully so. And. that's why if you try to replicate the. technology in Stan Meyer's patent, it. won't work. He faked the voltage and. frequency numbers to prevent another. invention from being stolen or.

classified. But skeptics say it doesn't. matter what numbers you use, the engine. won't work. They say Stan's technology. broke the second law of thermodynamics. that states that every time you transfer. energy, energy is wasted. Stan's engine. didn't waste energy at all. It created. it. But that also violates the first law. of thermodynamics, the conservation of. energy that states that energy cannot be. created or destroyed. But what if those laws are completely. misunderstood? That with the right.

technology, the laws of thermodynamics. don't have to apply at all. Mainstream. science doesn't like that idea. >> Mainstream science can go pound. >> Well, turns out that Stan's water car. was his least important invention. That. doughnut-shaped device was another. invention that created energy. And the. reason it was classified, well, it. didn't run on gas. It didn't run on. water. It ran on nothing. [Music].

The vacuum of space is supposed to be. empty and at the temperature of absolute. zero, it should be perfectly still. But. quantum physicists discovered that empty. space is not empty or still at all. >> Is that uh so-called empty space isn't. really empty at all. It's actually full. of energy. So instead of being like kind. of a quiet empty lake, it's more like. the froth at the base of a waterfall or. something.

>> Now we've all been taught that in an. atom electrons orbit the nucleus like. planets orbit the sun. And in a vacuum with no resistance, the. orbits of electrons should be. predictable, but they're not. In 1955, Willis Lamb won the Nobel Prize for. discovering what's become known as the. Lamb shift. Now, in simple terms, Lamb. discovered that electrons and hydrogen. atoms were being disturbed by something. He discovered complex interactions. between the electron and the vacuum of.

space itself. Space is teeming with. quantum particles that blink in and out. of existence. And when they do that, they use and create energy, a lot of it. But when you go to look at the numbers, you find out that there's enough energy. in the volume of a coffee cup to. evaporate all the world's oceans that. you could get at all of it. >> Enough energy to boil and evaporate all. the oceans on Earth from a coffee cup of. empty space. This energy is called 0.

point energy. and it's generated from the 0 point. field. Nicola Tesla, Nikolai Kazerev and. other scientists called this field the. ether. The ether is a field in which. everything exists but it exists in a. dimension that our brains can't. perceive. Particles blinking in and out. of existence have to be coming from and. going somewhere. That place is the. ether, the base layer of reality. But. even though we can't see it, this layer.

can be disrupted with electromagnetism. Tesla famously said, "If you want to. find the secrets of the universe, think. in terms of energy, frequency, and. vibration.". He tried to harness energy from the. 0oint field using the tower he built on. Long Island. Tesla link below. Now, Tesla's Warden Cliff Tower tapped. into this endless supply of energy. The. tower was considered an overunity. device. And overunity is when something.

gives out more energy than is put in. Now mainstream science claims this is. impossible again because it breaks the. second law of thermodynamics. But for over a hundred years, scientists. and inventors have proved that claim. wrong. 0oint energy devices also violate. the conservation of energy. That energy. can't be created or destroyed. But those. inventors don't claim to be creating. energy from nothing. They are tapping. into the energy that already exists.

everywhere all around us. In the 1970s, Howard Johnson created the. magnetron motor. It used hydrogen. magnets, light rays, and fusion to. create electricity. Now, according to. practical physics, his invention was. impossible. But here's the thing. His. motor worked, and he proved it over and. over again. Still, he was denied a. patent. >> The dilemma facing Johnson is not really. his dilemma, but rather that of other.

scientists who have observed his. prototypes. The devices obviously do. work, but the textbooks say they. shouldn't. Johnson is saying to the. scientific community that this is a. phenomenon that seems to contradict some. of our traditional beliefs. For all our. sakes, let's not dismiss it outright, but take the time to understand the. complex forces at work here. >> Johnson didn't get his patent and was. shunned by the scientific community. Now, Howard Johnson wasn't a weekend.

garage tinkerer. He was a government. contractor. He worked on atomic energy. projects. He made equipment for the. military. He already had over 30 patents. for chemistry and physics devices. Science and physicists are especially. determined to protect the law of. conservation of energy. Thus, the physicists become game wardens. who tell us what laws we can't violate. In this case, they don't even know what. the game is. But they are so scared.

Johnson's motor would lose less than 2%. efficiency in almost 20 years of. continuous operation. But he stopped. working when someone broke into his shop. and stole his equipment. He got the. message. Thomas Morray also invented a device. that could tap into the zero point. field. His machine could generate 50,000. watts of power with no energy input. Another invention that broke the laws of. physics. Marray tried to patent his.

invention. He was denied. They told him. there's no such thing as free energy, but still the US government was. interested. >> Yeah. And that's when things go. downhill. >> Yep. >> Yeah. >> His lab was vandalized and robbed. He. and his family survived multiple. assassination attempts. It got so bad he. bulletproofed his own car. Now, despite. the ongoing threats, Marray publicly. demonstrated the success of his machine. in 1940. It continuously produced an.

output of 250,000. volts with no input. Well, that was the last straw. The next. day, someone broke into his lab and. attacked him. He only survived because. at this point, he was carrying a pistol. everywhere. But it didn't matter. Mar's assistant turned on him and. destroyed everything. Equipment that. would be worth millions today. Officially, Moray's assistant went. crazy. But it sounds like somebody got. to him. Moray died broke and he took his.

technology to the grave. Edwin Gray had a similar story. Gray. created an electromagnetic motor that. ran continuously on its own power. And. like all 0 point devices, it didn't. generate heat. The input was 26.8 W. The. output over 7,000 W. Gray's machine was. tested and verified by multiple. scientists. >> Gray started developing this idea 8. years ago. For the past year and a half, he's been trying to get someone in the.

US government interested. So far, he's. had a little luck. >> Yeah. After he contacted the government. Let me see. Uh, things went downhill, right? >> Yep. >> Uh-huh. >> Within a week, local authorities. performed an illegal raid on Gray's lab. They confiscated everything. Not long after that, Gray was found dead. in his home. All his records, inventions, and materials vanished. without a trace. Now, most of these inventions were from.

the turn of the 20th century, over a 100. years ago. Imagine the progress we could. have made if this technology survived. and the world had free energy this whole. time. But that's the thing. These. stories happened so long ago that it's. difficult to picture them as anything. more than stories. I know you want to. see video of one of these things. operating. You want to see light bulbs. and motors turning without wires and. without plugs. You want to see one of. these zero point machines for yourself, don't you? You got it.

Floyd was nicknamed Sparky because he. was fascinated with electricity. He. dreamed of a device that could take. energy from the vacuum of space. So, after retiring in the 1980s, he made. one. He called it a vacuum triode. amplifier or VTA. >> So we have a 120 volt fan. As you can.

see, it's turning at good power. It is. providing quite a breeze and it's real. usable power. >> Sparky's machine could do more than. operate a fan. He fed it 0.3 m and. produced almost 224,000. watts. This was continuous ondemand. power. If you attach more equipment, it. would simply harness more power. No. limit. >> And here is just coming into view. You see five 100 W lamps. Ordinary.

garden variety household lamps, brilliantly lit. So there's 500 watts of very real power. here. Again, coming right out of the. vacuum. 224,000 watts from a box about the size. of a deck of cards. That's enough to. power your house, recharge your electric. car, or light up a baseball field. It. doesn't matter what you connect. The. 0oint field will give you all the power.

you need. >> This is real usable power. It's stable. It is not transient. It is not noise. And it is not any other kind of spirious. effect. This is a real effect. It's all. coming from that little tiny box. sitting behind. the 500 watts of power behind the lamps.

That little box. is putting out all of that power, well over 500 watts, and yet it is receiving less than 1/3 of. a mill of input power. >> So, Sparky filed a patent. >> Uh-oh. >> Yep. You know how this goes. Well, at the grocery store, a. well-dressed man approached Sparky and. showed him a photograph. It was a. picture of Sparky and his wife in their. house taken from outside. Someone had.

been watching them. >> He walked me all the way to my building, telling me what would happen to me if I. didn't stop my research. How they took that picture through my. window, I'll never know. >> Sparky reported the incident to the FBI. >> Oh, that's like the hens calling the. wolf for help. >> It was. Things got worse. Sparky and his wife started getting. harassed. Their phone rang hundreds of. times a day from payoneses all over the.

country. The call stopped when someone. broke into Sparky's lab and stole his. notes. Then one night, two men stopped. by to speak to Sparky and his wife. The. men left and about an hour later, Sparky. collapsed. Frantic, his wife called an ambulance. But when they loaded Sparky, they. refused to let his wife in the. ambulance. 20 minutes later, she got a. call. Sparky was dead. Heart attack. Less than 24 hours later, a few black. vans showed up at the house. The FBI.

confiscated all Sparky's equipment and. research, and that's the last we've. heard about it. But Sparky's VTA did. more than create unlimited power. It. could levitate. A retired Army officer. and nuclear physicist named Tom Bearden. met with Sparky. He was intrigued by the. VTA's potential. Bearden asked Sparky to. do an anti-gravity experiment with it. and it worked. The VTA weighed about 6. lb. They reduced the weight of it by. 90%. According to Bearden's theory,

gravity can become a pushing force. rather than a pulling force. And that's. exactly what the VTA did. 0 point. energy, anti-gravity. Now, if this. sounds like UFO technology, that's. because it is. Richard Dodie says 0. point energy devices have been recovered. from UFOs and they operate a lot like. Sparky's VTA. >> What this was was an energy device that. uh that used the zero point energy. That's what they referred it to as 0. point energy. And it was connected in.

such a manner that this device could. power I mean from. very small uh flatch. up to a city and and the u uh power was. determined by what the demand on it was. >> So each and so each craft had one of. these. >> Anti-gravity technology is another. reality that's been suppressed for. years. And researching anti-gravity, even for the US government, is very,

very dangerous. According to multiple inventors, many of. which are now dead, alien technology. might not be so alien after all. Italian. researcher Johnny Doto created a large. ring to go around the human body. Its. purpose was to alter DNA to reverse. aging. Now made of heavy copper, the dot. ring manipulates the magnetic field. around a human body using gravity and.

frequency. It was inspired by the Hanza Valley in. Pakistan where people rarely get sick. and routinely live for over 100 years. Now most researchers say their longevity. is because of exercise and a healthy. diet. But do had a different theory. He said the extreme heat from the valley. and the cold from the nearby glacier. created a magnetic anomaly in the area. This protects DNA and slows the aging. process. The dot ring was even tested at.

Sloan Ketering Hospital. It successfully. lengthened the subject's telomeres, the. part of our DNA that shortens as we age. The ring worked and just like Sparky's. device, Doto's device could levitate. Then the FDA became involved. >> and everything went downhill. >> Yep. They shut down Doto's research. Not. long after that, Doto was hit by a car. that ran over him multiple times. The. levitating age reversing Doto ring.

vanished. Tons and Brown used a high voltage and. electromagnetic field to create a lift. effect. This allowed an object to move. at high speeds free of the force of. gravity. Brown made a flying saucer. >> As with many other promising inventions. developed during the Cold War years, the. National Secrecy Act prevented. scientists like Tettowns and Brown from. commercializing or even publicizing any. technology which could potentially be.

interpreted as having a military. application. >> Anti-gravity or anti-gravidic technology. was popular in the 1950s. The United. States and Canadian governments were. both working on anti-gravidic. technology. They farmed this work out to. well-known aerospace companies like. Loheed Martin, Convair, Bell, and Lear. The research was actually out in the. open and created a buzz. People were. excited about the new G engines and how. this technology would revolutionize. traveling. They talked about how. everyone could have a flying car.

Airplanes wouldn't need any fuel to fly. This is one of the last public mentions. of anti-gravity technology. >> Lawrence D. Bell, the famous builder of. the rocket research plane, says, "We're. already working with nuclear fuels and. equipment to cancel out gravity." And. William Lear, the autopilot wizard, is. already figuring out gravity control for. the weightless craft to come. According. to the gravity research engineers, the G.

engine will replace all other motors. After that, everything went dark. So, what happened? What happened was the. military contractors got anti-gravity to. work and they wanted the technology all. to themselves. After working at the center for space. plasma and aeronomic research, Dr. Ning. Lee started her own anti-gravity. research company, AC Gravity. In the.

early 1990s, she published research. papers on anti-gravity. This drew. attention from the US government. >> and then everything went downhill. >> Yep. In 2001, Ning Lee received a grant. from the US Department of Defense for. over $400,000 to continue anti-gravitic. research. Then Ning Lee disappeared. Now, some people think she returned to. China to work for them, but others say. she was caught up with her work at the. DoD. Some family members recall that she. seemed extremely stressed during that.

time. She used to love her research, but. she did not like working for the DoD. But in 2014, 13 years later, Ning Lee. reappeared out of nowhere. >> I didn't see that coming. >> And then she was hit by a car. >> Dad, I saw it coming. >> She suffered permanent brain damage. Ning Le's whereabouts during those. missing years is still a mystery, but my. guess is the Department of Defense knows. exactly where she was, but they'll never. tell, and nobody's going to ask.

[Music]. free, clean, unlimited energy, anti-gravity, science fiction technology. that some people claim is real. But is. it? Well, search Google and Wikipedia, and they'll list most of these inventors. as charlatans, liars, and frauds. >> Of course, that's what they say. They're. in the pocket of the shadow government. >> I can't argue with that. So, let's go. through a few. Stan Meyer, the man who.

invented the water- powered car, receives a lot of scrutiny, probably. because his story is so wellnown. Now, despite his claim of being poisoned, doctors said his cause of death was a. brain aneurysm. Now, some poisons can. cause an aneurysm, but his toxicology. report showed no poison. >> Fake report. >> Well, his family thought so. Morray, Gray, Sparky, Ogle, and Johnson. They. all had patented inventions that. garnered the attention of powerful.

people, and they were all victims of. violence. Some of them were no-name. backyard inventors who happened to be. good at electronics, but many were. engineers or physicists with impressive. credentials, and there's a lot of. evidence to support their stories. Honestly, I covered just the most. well-known inventors. There are many. many more and most of them also died. under mysterious circumstances and in. almost every case their technology was. seized and classified.

Now despite the evidence of these. inventions working and the reality of. quantum physics there's a tremendous. amount of push back about zero point or. alternate energy. Why? Mainstream. academia, elected officials, and even. the media say free energy is impossible. Any scientist who claims otherwise is. attacked sometimes professionally, but. sometimes they're attacked physically. Why? >> Money and power.

>> I was asking rhetorically, but yes, money and power. When Dr. Tom Falone was. working at the US patent office. He came. across inventions that could solve our. energy and pollution problems. Inventions that could literally change. the world and accelerate the progress of. humanity. He became frustrated when he. saw invention after invention slapped. with a secrecy order. >> Patent sequestering, which is actually. called secretizing. The public needs to. know at least that every major military.

agency has a representative at the. patent office. >> And when Voluone blew the whistle, they. fired him. >> Just fired. I'm surprised this guy. didn't get whacked. >> Oh yeah, he better be watching his back. patent office in its current approach is. it's actually breaking the law. It's. trying to make happy the uh physicists. who are with American Physical Society. to keep them in power with their ideas, you might say, and withhold from public. use good inventions that could solve our.

problems like the energy crisis. >> For over 100 years, these technologies. have been suppressed, keeping society in. a state of complacency, poverty, and. pollution. The Federation of American. Scientists spoke about suppression in. 2010, calculating that in that year. alone, 5,135. inventions were given a secrecy order. Most of these patents had to do with. clean energy, anti-gravity, and.

alternative methods of propulsion. Over. 5,000 in one year. So, how many in 10. years? How many in a 100? What. technology is being hidden from us? The. latest buzz phrase is green energy or. the green movement. That sounds nice. We. all want a clean environment. But green. energy, as currently defined, is a fad. No, that's not the right word. Green. energy is a scam.

Why suppress thousands, maybe tens of. thousands of inventions that could clean. our planet and provide free energy for. everyone on Earth? >> The money and power. >> Yep. There are literally hundreds of. trillions of dollars at stake. So, next. time you're arguing with a friend or. family member about climate change, remember the energy industry and the.

United States government want you to. hate each other. Don't play into their. hands. A declassified document made in the. 1970s lists categories of inventions. that are considered secret. One of those. categories is for energy systems that. are more than 70 to 80% efficient and. solar panels that are more than 20%. efficient. If you patent an efficient. energy or propulsion device, it gets. slapped with a secrecy order. You want.

proof? In 1971, over 50 years ago, someone patented a solar panel that was. 20% efficient. It was made secret. You. could have had solar panels on your. house for years, but you never knew they. existed. Today, solar panels are only. slightly better than 20% efficient. Imagine how much they could have. improved if the technology had not been. hidden for 40 years. So, what about. green energy? It's a scam.

Green energy is not designed to do. anything but line the pockets of. politicians and the CEOs of the green. energy companies that get billions of. dollars of your money in the form of. subsidies to research things like solar. panels and wind farms. And by the way, solar panels only last about 15 to 20. years. Then they go into a landfill to. decay, and that material is toxic. Solar. panels also produce tons of toxic waste. But even if we reduce this waste during.

manufacturing, solar panels eventually. stop working, especially if they're. poorly made in China. And when their. lifespan is over, they leave behind. toxic trash. Then it seeps into our. water supply. Scam. Wind farms barely. produce any power, but they destroy the. landscape, kill wildlife, and again. require an enormous amount of fossil. fuels to build. Scam. Nuclear energy. sounds great. No pollution. But when the.

nuclear material is discarded, it stays. radioactive and deadly for thousands of. years. Scam. Do you think your electric car is. protecting the environment? It's. actually making it worse. Over 80% of. electricity comes from coal, oil, and. natural gas. So yeah, your Tesla runs on. coal. Scam. The amount of fossil fuels. used to extract the raw materials to. build electric cars causes a lot of. pollution. And the lithium batteries.

that power them. Lithium mines are awful. for the environment. Not to mention, most of the extraction of these. materials is done with slave labor in. terrible working conditions. Scam. Now, don't get defensive. This isn't your. fault. The technology to fix this is. there and has been for 100 years. So, do. all these patents just sit on a shelf. gathering dust, never to see the light. of day? Oh, no.

A scientist named Salvatore Pace has. multiple patents strikingly similar to. allegedly impossible inventions. He's. patented devices that use. electromagnetic fields, vibrations, and. quantum field fluctuations to manipulate. gravity, mass, and energy. He has a. patent that allows for faster than light. speeded travel. He has a patent that can. change the course of asteroids through a. magnetic field. And my favorite.

Salvatore Pius invention, he has a. patent for a tiny solid state device. about the size of a deck of cards that. can generate unlimited clean energy from. the vacuum. So, how come his inventions. aren't suppressed? Well, because the. patents are owned by or have been. assigned to the United States Navy. Now, I'm sure that most clean energy. anti-gravity inventors are frauds, but. not all of them. I believe the. technology does exist and I believe it's.

being used right now by government. contractors. However, these contractors. don't work for the US government. They. work for the shadow.

We have the technology to eliminate. famine and heal the ecosystem, but that. would derail the shadow government's. agenda. >> There is the government, constitutional. government of the United States. And. then there's this other secret. government operation which has more. money, more power, more technology. It. is a criminal enterprise. It is not. sanctioned by the president and is not. sanctioned by Congress. And yet they're. using our tax dollars and are raping the.

planet and destroying the earth and. impoverishing half the planet. [Music]. We could live in a world of abundance. No more wars for energy. But the shadow. government becomes powerless in a world. of abundance. They derive their power. from scarcity because they control the. resources. Resources that could be made. completely free if we only had access to.

suppressed technology. So what's the. solution? Elect new leaders? No. Our. leaders are controlled by or in fear of. the shadow government. They only care. about being reelected and getting rich. All of them. And don't go to the media. They're in the pocket of the shadow. government whether they know it or not. So, do we repeal the Invention Secrecy. Act? Well, that will never happen. Nobody will risk their career voting for. it. They'll say some inventions need to.

be hidden for national security. And. whenever you hear that phrase national. security, remember it's not your. security they're protecting. It's. theirs. The solution is simple, but it's not one. inventors want to hear. If you create a. free energy device that you can prove. works, do not patent it. Publish your. invention anonymously on the internet. and make it freely available to. everyone. Don't be foolish and think you.

can use the patent system to become. rich. They will not allow it and most. likely they'll kill you. Instead, share. your technology first. You can change. the world. I promise the money will be. there. So to all you weekend tinkerers. and free energy hobbyists, keep. tinkering and keep inventing. But most. of all, keep quiet. >> 3 + 1 5 plus 0. Now, I thought Killer.

Patents volume 1 was controversial, but. volume two, which we're about to play, made a lot of people crazy. So, in this. coming episode, we cover forbidden. technology. So, that's that's not what. made people upset. It was what I. reported about, meaning what I exposed. about the American Medical Association. So, if you don't know this episode, let. me just say this. The AMA is not what. you think it is.

The history of medicine goes back to the. dawn of mankind when ancient healers use. special herbs to treat illnesses. Hypocrates, the father of medicine, laid. the foundation for modern medical. practice, observation, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. His work set. the stage for centuries of medical. progress. In the 19th century, Edward.

Jenner created a smallox vaccine and. Louis Pastor proved microorganisms cause. disease. The 20th century brought. antibiotics, medical imaging, and organ. transplants. In the past 400 years, the. human lifespan has doubled. But. something happened to medicine along the. way. It became an industry, a profitable. one. President Eisenhower warned against. creating a military-industrial complex.

because if you make war profitable, you'll always have war. And he was. right. >> The potential for the disastrous rise of. misplaced power exists and will persist. >> So here's a cynical question. If you. make illness profitable, will you always. have illness? Well, in recent years, trillions have been spent on cancer. research and therapies. Now, that's a. lot of people getting rich from a. disease that's already been cured.

[Music]. Royal Raymond Reich was born in Nebraska. in 1888. He was a good student and. wanted to be a doctor. Only 16 years. old, he was admitted to John's Hopkins. University, one of the best medical. institutions in the world. Refe became. fascinated by bacteriology and the. microscopic world, which led him to. optics. To study bacteria effectively, he needed to see them clearly. He took a.

job at Zeiss Works in New York and. trained under senior optics engineers. If you know anything about microscopes, telescopes, or cameras, or anything with. lenses, you've heard of Zeiss. And Reife. wasn't a bookworm researcher. He was. hands-on. He built his own equipment, including. one of the most powerful microscopes. ever made, the universal microscope. In. the 1920s, standard microscopes could. only magnify objects up to 2,000 times.

Refe could reach 60,000 times. magnification. He could see viruses and. bacteria that nobody had ever seen. before. Refe discovered what he called. Basillus X or the BX virus. He believed. cancer wasn't a disease. It was a virus. The BX virus. He wanted to destroy these. microorganisms without harming. surrounding tissue. Then he made another. amazing discovery. He found that exposing microorganisms to. specific frequencies caused them to.

explode. It's immediately paralyzed and. it starts disintegrating from within. >> All objects have a resonant frequency. When exposed to an external force. matching this frequency, an object. absorbs energy and vibrates more. intensely. Parts of the human body have. their own frequencies. This is useful in. an MRI, which uses frequencies to. produce diagnostic images, but it can. also be dangerous. If you resonate an. object for too long or with too much.

energy, it could be damaged or. destroyed. This is why singers can break. a glass by singing the right note. [Applause]. That's how you do it. >> So, Refe built the rife frequency. generator or rife machine which emitted. specific frequencies to target and. destroy specific microorganisms. He. called the frequency the mortal oscilly. rate. He found the frequencies to.

destroy tuberculosis, typhoid, pneumonia, anthrax and more all without. harming healthy tissue. Now you can see the disintegration on. the bacteria going into pieces. This is killing bacteria without harm to. the human cell. without drugs. >> He injected lab rats with cancer cells, creating golf ballsized tumors, then. used his machine to match the cancer's.

mortal oscilly rate. It worked. The lab. rats were completely cancer-free. Refe's work attracted interest from. other doctors. Dr. Milbank Johnson. arranged a study on 16 cancer patients. using Reich's machine. In 3 months, 14. of the 16 patients were completely. cured. Dr. Royal Raymond Reich. discovered the cure for cancer and it. ruined him.

Royal Raymond Reich's discovery was a. triumph. His clinical trial in 1934 was. a huge success. >> 16 cases were treated at the clinic for. many types of malignancy. After 3. months, 14 of these so-called hopeless. cases were signed off as clinically. cured by the staff of five medical. doctors and Dr. Alvin G. Ford, ND, pathologist for the group. At first, the. medical establishment rejected Reife's.

ideas. The notion that simple radio. waves could succeed where radiation and. surgery had failed. Well, that was. nonsense. They figured Reie's funding. would dry up and he'd disappear. But. that didn't happen. To get financed in medical research, you. need support from the pharmaceutical. industry. But Refe didn't need big. pharma. He was backed by a few private. investors, including William Timkin, who. owned a ball bearing company. >> Hey, it's all ball bearings nowadays.

>> Okay, >> now you uh prepare that fetcher valve. with some 3 in1 oil and gor pads. >> with I'm going to need about 10 quarts. of antifreeze. >> What? Fletch. >> I know it's Fletch. With no ties to the medical industry, Reife had the freedom to research. whatever and however he wanted. Doctors. around the country figured if this Reich. guy wasn't going away, they might as. well look at his work. Refe used his.

machine more than 400 times on animal. tumors. It worked every time, forcing. even the most hardened skeptics to take. notice. And there was no bigger skeptic. than Morris Fishbine. [Music]. Fishbine, head of the American Medical. Association, was known to be very. aggressive. Some critics called him the. medical Mussolini. At first, Fishbine offered to buy Reife.

out. But when Reife said no, Fishbine's. attitude changed. Refe kept working, but. progress became increasingly difficult. Mysterious people started showing up at. his lab. Some offered bribes and others. made threats. Other doctors had success using Reich's. technology but were pressured by the AMA. to stop or lose their licenses. >> Vigilant against cracker is Dr. Morris. Fishmine. >> There is no serum, drug or combination.

of drugs that we know that will. definitely cure cancer. >> Any doctor caught using a rife machine. was harassed and worse. Fishbine then launched a campaign of. character assassination against Reife. Articles appeared in medical journals. and newspapers calling Reie a quack and. a charlatan. Reife's lab was vandalized, his equipment destroyed, and his. research disappeared. His life was. unraveling. The final blow came in 1939.

Fishbine offered one of Reife's. investors legal assistance in an attempt. to steal the company from Refe and other. investors. Refe spent years fighting. lawsuits. He went bankrupt and the AMA. stopped his work from proceeding. Royal Raymond Refeired. Broke and broken, he turned to alcohol.

About 20 years later, renewed interest. in Reife's technology led John Crane and. John Marsh to convince him to build a. new machine. Refe agreed, but the. business didn't last long. In 1960, their labs were raided without. a warrant. All equipment and records. were seized. Refe stayed out of court, but his partners were charged with. medical fraud. Even though 14 patients. testified they were cured by the rife. machine, Crane and Marsh were sentenced.

to 3 years in prison. Oh, by the way, the fourwoman of the jury was an AMA. doctor. >> Oh, come on. >> Refe was again labeled a liar and a. quack and reduced to poverty and. despair. Many of Refe's associates faced. tragedies. Dr. Milbake Johnson died in. 1944, poisoned, and all his research. disappeared. Bernett Labs in New Jersey, building. rife machines to treat cancer, mysteriously burned to the ground in. 1939. All equipment and research were.

destroyed. And the owner of the lab, Dr. John Bernett, was related to William. Tinken, the ball bearing guy. >> Yep. Dr. Elmer Neis was a nuclear physicist, medical doctor, and microscope designer. He was trying to replicate Reife's work. in 1969. He died while staying at a hotel when. his bed suddenly caught fire. Two years later in 1971, Reife had a.

heart attack. While in the hospital, he. died after he was accidentally given a. lethal dose of Valium. >> Accidentally, my dorsal fin. >> But Reife's ideas didn't die with him. Other pioneers would seek out. alternative ways of curing diseases. The. medical mavericks were not going away, but neither were Morris Fishbine or the. AMA.

The medical establishment does not like. alternative medicine. In the 19th. century, there were two types of medical. practitioners in the US. Alipathic. doctors and alternative healers. Alopathic doctors diagnose and treat. illnesses with pharmaceuticals, surgery, and other conventional methods. Alternative healers used natural. remedies. Since anybody could claim to. be a healer, many did. Natural healers. were cheaper and plentiful, mainstream. doctors weren't making any money. So, in.

1847, they formed a trade union called. the American Medical Association, the. AMA. >> The AMA started out as a union? Yep. >> Isn't a union's job to protect the. interests of its members? >> It is. So, in 1901, the Journal of the. American Medical Association released a. statement. The growth of the profession. must be stemmed if individual members. are to find the practice of medicine a. lucrative profession.

>> So, the AMA was created so doctors can. make more money. >> That's right. >> Isn't this corrupt? >> I'm not judging. I'm just telling you. what happened. The AMA brought in the. Carnegi Foundation to survey medical. schools. In 1910, they released a report. calling for standardizing medical. training and eliminating non-scientific. practices. >> And who determines what's scientific? >> The AMA does. >> Yeah, of course. >> Schools teaching alternative medicine. were forced to drop these courses or. lose funding and their ability to grant.

an MD. This led to a significant. reduction in medical schools. They offered tremendous amounts of money. to the schools that would agree to. cooperate with them. Almost overnight, all of the major universities received. large grants from these sources and also. accepted one, two, or three of these. people that I mentioned on their board. of directors. And the schools literally.

were taken over by the financial. interests that put up the money. In. 1904, there were 160 schools granting. MDs to more than 28,000 students. By. 1920, only 85 medical schools were left. By 1935, the number had dropped to just. 66. >> New awareness of past injustices in many. parts of our society. That's true in the. fields of science and medicine, which. are starting to look more carefully at. their own history. >> Most medical schools for blacks and all.

medical schools for women were now. closed. So, if you were black or a. woman, becoming an MD and getting into. the AMA was difficult. >> The American Medical Association is one. of the country's oldest, largest, and. best known associations of doctors. Its. voice has long been influential, but now. the AMA is finally beginning to come to. terms with racism in its own past. >> The doctor is the only one entitled by. training, by experience, and by law to.

take care of the sick. The AMA established alipathic medicine. as the only acceptable type of medicine. to practice. Alternative medicine was. marginalized and in some cases made. illegal. >> Even if the natural medicine worked. >> Yep. >> This is bad. >> It gets worse. >> It always does. >> The doctors from that point forward in. history would be taught pharmaceutical.

drugs. All of the great teaching institutions. in America were captured by the. pharmaceutical interests in this. fashion. And it's amazing how little. money it really took to do it. [Music]. Every time a new type of alternative. medicine was introduced, the AMA would. attack. George Doc Simmons was head of. the AMA from 1900 to 1924 and Morris. Fishbine from 1924 to 1949. They labeled.

alternative practitioners as quacks and. used the Journal of the American Medical. Association to ruin the reputations of. anyone they deemed a threat to. mainstream medicine. The FDA was formed. in 1906, but it wasn't until 1962 that. drug companies had to prove their. products worked and were safe. Before. then, pharmaceutical companies needed. the AMA seal of approval. >> And how did the drugs get approved? >> Yeah, I should have seen that coming.

If you were a drug company and wanted to. get into the journal of the AMA, you had. to pay. That was it. The AMA didn't test. drugs for safety or efficacy. They had. no labs or researchers. The AMA just. collected money. Oh, the AMA leaders would buy stock in. that drug company before endorsing the. drug, you know, so they can cash in when. the stock price went up. >> Oh, insider trading. Uh, like they do in. Congress. >> Yeah, kind of like that. Nice work if. you can get it. Huh? >> Sure is.

>> Dr. Max Gerson made a terrible mistake. when he made the claim that smoking. could cause cancer. He didn't realize. that at the time the single largest. contributor to the AMA was Philip. Morris. Morris Fishbine quickly launched. a campaign to imply that smoking was not. only safe but was recommended by. doctors. >> Yes. According to this survey, more. doctors smoke Camels than any other. cigarette. Pack after pack, week after.

week. See for yourself why camels are so. popular with the doctors of America. Simmons retired in 1924 as a wealthy man. and then Fishbine took over. By the way, Simmons was never a doctor. He got his. diploma from Rush Medical College by. mail. At least Fishbine went to medical. school, though he wasn't a good student. He never finished his internship. He. never received a diploma and never.

practiced medicine, never saw a patient. Not ever. In 1938, along with the AMA, Fishbine. was indicted for violating the Sherman. Antirust Act. The AMA was convicted and. fined, but Fishbine was acquitted. Still, he was lining his pockets. Under. Fishbine's leadership, the public grew. more critical of the AMA. It seemed like. the AMA was interested in making people. money, not making people healthy.

Fishbine was finally thrown out of the. AMA in 1949. >> And that was the end of the corruption. with the AMA and Big Farmer. >> Oh, I'm sure everything's on the level. now. >> Uhhuh. In 1924, Harry Hawky developed an. unconventional cancer treatment. A. self-taught healer from Illinois, he. claimed his herbal remedy came from his. great-grandfather. By the 1950s, the Hawky Clinic in Dallas.

was the world's largest private cancer. center with branches in 17 states. [Music]. And we now have in our files and our. records many many thousands of case. histories and records pathological proof. X-ray photographic studies that we do. positively cure cancer both internal and. external. >> Hawky reported very high success rates. which caught the eye of Morris Fishbine.

Hawky gave Fishbine and other AMA. members a demonstration of his product. and method. The next day Fishbine. offered to buy Hawky's formula. Hawky. was open to the idea but insisted on. providing treatment to those who. couldn't afford it as he did in his. clinics. Fishbine was offended. He. demanded full control of the business. and profits for 9 years. After that, Hawky would get 10% of the profits if. the AMA was satisfied the cure worked. >> Ah yeah, hard pass. >> Yeah. Oxy refused. And like Royal.

Raymond Refe, Hawky faced Fishbine's. wrath. [Music]. From 1926 to 1931, Hawky was arrested. 119 times for practicing medicine. without a license. Between 1937 and. 1939, he was arrested over a 100 times. in Texas. Fishbine labeled Hawky the. worst cancer quack of the century and. pressured the FDA to shut down his.

clinic. Patients were harassed, records. seized, and clinics closed. Hawky fought. back. He sued Fishbine and the AMA for. liel and slander and won. Fishbine was. forced to resign and admitted in court. that Hawky's treatment cured external. cancer. Hawky converted skeptics, including Al. Templeton, the assistant district. attorney of Dallas, who had arrested. Hawky almost 100 times. When Templeton's. brother's cancer was cured by Hawky,

Templeton became Hawky's lawyer. In 1939, Esquire journalist James Burke. came to Texas to expose the fraud. >> Why don't you go down to Texas. and let's expose this fell? He's getting. too big. And the American Medical. Association like to put him out of. business and said you go down and get. acquainted with him and says we'll do a. couple of pieces on him and put an end. to this. >> He stayed 6 weeks and wrote the quack.

who cures cancer and became Hawky's. publicist. Now, even though Fishbine resigned, he. was still powerful. In 1960, after 36. years of operation, Hawky's clinics were. closed. Even with the support of US. Senator Elmer Thomas, Hawky's herbal. treatment was never officially tested. because one senator is not enough. It. seems that the medical fraternity is. highly organized and that they have. decided to crush you and your.

institution. It seems that the public. officials are afraid that if they make. any move or say anything antagonistic to. the wishes of the medical organization, they will be pouted upon and destroyed. In other words, the public officials. seem to be afraid of their jobs and even. of their lives. In the next election, the AMA lobbyed. heavily against Senator Thomas. Even. though Thomas was very popular, he was. defeated in the primary by Mike Monron. The vote was a huge upset and a surprise.

to everyone, but it wasn't a surprise to. the AMA. [Music]. Anything that comes from nature. cannot be patented. They're not. interested in that. That and of course. the FDA says it's illegal to use unless. it's been tested for efficacy and. safety. Now, you see the the catch 22.

you're in there. Nothing from nature, regardless of how effective it might be, will ever be proven safe or effective. According to the FDA, it'll never be. So. therefore, everything from nature will. always be condemned by the FDA as. unproven. This was a difficult episode to write. Cancer affects almost everybody. Cancer's hit my family hard over the.

years. It took my dad two years ago. And. if it's affecting you right now, either. directly or indirectly, I'm sorry. I. really am. I know the pain you're going. through. So, here are the facts about. today's story. I'm going to work. backward. Harry Hawky's formula is still. around, but don't try it. Actually, don't do anything without talking to. your doctor. Hawky's formula has been. tested and there's no proof it cures. anything. In fact, it could even be. dangerous. Need more proof? Guess how.

Harry Hawky died. >> Don't tell me it was cancer. >> Cancer. Prostate cancer. He used his. formula on himself and it didn't work. He secretly had surgery and died 7 years. later. Seven hard years. So, don't mess. with his formula. Listen to your doctor. Morris Fishbine and all that nasty stuff. about the AMA. Well, that's pretty much. all true. Fishbine was sleazy. Whether. he admitted that Hawky's formula worked, I couldn't find any proof. I think it's. just part of the legend. But in.

Fishbine's defense, he did expose a few. frauds. The AMA really did start as an. organization to crush healers using. natural remedies so doctors could make. more money. But the real history of. Fishbine and the AMA is hard to find. There's not a lot of that on the. internet. You have to dig. Now, Royal. Raymond Refe, he wasn't a doctor. That. was an honorary degree. He probably. wasn't killed in the hospital with. Valium. He was most likely taking it. himself. Was he a genius? Yes. Did he.

find the cure for cancer? I don't know. There's no evidence that his machine. worked. But some people have tried to. build it and got hurt or killed. So. again, don't try it. And if you see one. for sale, it's a fraud. Don't buy it. But you really can destroy things if you. expose them to the right frequency. So. what about cancer cells? Well, I. stumbled across this TED talk by Anthony. Holland from about 10 years ago. He's a. music professor, but he was working with. a lab using sound to attack cancer.

cells. >> We now know that cancer is vulnerable. between the frequencies of 100,000 hertz. and 300,000 hertz. So now we attack. leukemia cells. Leukemia cell number one tries to grow a. copy of itself, but the new cell is shattered into. dozens of fragments and scattered across. the slide. >> And then 7 years ago, a TED talk by. Christine Gibbons. Now by arranging an.

array of these elements in a concave. formation, the transducer then becomes. capable of transmitting ultrasonic waves. that then increase sharply in strength. at the focus. By by pulsing those waves, we create the histatrixy effect to. destroy tissue at the cellular level. Sounds promising, but does it work? We. don't know. A bigger, darker question. Is big pharma suppressing cures because. more sick people means more profit?

Honestly, I don't think so. Really, I don't. I think the companies, generally speaking, are evil, but that's. mostly a judgment of the people who run. them. They're greedy, but that's their. job. They're supposed to make money for. the people who own the pharmaceutical. companies. Now, who owns them? Well, mostly bankers and hedge funds. But if. you have a 401k, a pension, or some kind. of managed investment account, you. probably own a little of them, too. Now, the doctors, scientists, and researchers.

at these pharmaceutical companies aren't. evil. They're the opposite of evil. Those men and women in lab coats going. to a lab every day, thank God for them. And if you're one of those people, thank. you. Truly, if you work in healthcare in. any capacity, if you're an EMT or you're. a nurse working night shifts or caring. for the elderly or working hospice, thank you. Be angry at the corporations. Be angry at the greed in the boardroom, but don't be angry at someone who spent. half their life in school to sit in.

front of a microscope for 60 hours a. week. Those are good people down in the. labs. If there was a cure for cancer or. any disease, it couldn't be kept secret. Why? because those are good people down. in the labs. Besides, if there's a. secret cure for cancer, who's using it? Billionaire elites. Steve Jobs was a. billionaire elite. He was diagnosed with. cancer at age 49. He had the resources. for any treatment he wanted, conventional or otherwise. In fact,

Steve Jobs spent the first 9 months. after his diagnosis trying nothing but. alternative treatments against his. doctor's wishes. Steve Jobs had. unlimited resources and he's still lost. Look, I understand why people are drawn. to the theories about secret cures and. alternative medicine. When you or a. loved one is suffering and traditional. medicine isn't working, you'll try. anything. That's why we call it fighting. or surviving cancer. It's about. reclaiming control over your health,

exploring every possibility, and. refusing to give up. Now, true or not, these are stories of resilience and the. belief that answers might exist outside. mainstream thinking. A miracle cure. didn't arrive in time to save my dad, but it might arrive in time to save. yours. And if it does, I don't want any. agency or bureaucracy getting in the. way. That's why it was so hard on the. AMA today, because they have a history. of shutting down ideas that aren't.

mainstream. We can't let that happen. again. One day, another maverick will. come along with a cure that defies. mainstream medicine. And so-called. experts will try to silence them because. they can't understand anything outside. mainstream thinking. So, here's a. message to those experts. If you're not. going to help, get out of the way. Like. things just freak me out like this and. reach back and find the likes memory a. whole lot.

3 + 1 5 plus 0 0. >> The next episode is a story that I. always liked, but I wasn't sure how it. would perform on the channel. This one. is about Operation Gladadio. They trained a secret army, a civilian. army in Italy to bomb civilians and then. blame it on the communists. The. communists at that time were the most. popular party in Italy, you know, post. war because they had just went through.

fascism, right, with Mussolini. So you. just it always swings too far the other. way. >> So we swing way the other way. Communism. very popular can't have that. >> So. >> civilians were killed in bombings by the. CIA trained guerilla army and they were. trained by a a Nazi general who was. tight with Allan Dulles. And it was and. this was planned during the during the. war. Um, you know, while while American. GIS were being killed fighting the.

Nazis, they were already planning this. next phase. [Music]. In 1948, the streets of every major city. in America saw a huge and sudden rise in. the heroin supply. Harry Enslinger was. the commissioner of federal narcotics. and he wanted answers. A confidential.

informant drops a bombshell. The man. bringing in the heroin is the head of. the mafia's national crime syndicate, Lucky Luchiano. That was a surprise. The. mob didn't deal drugs, but maybe things. changed. Anslinger sent agents to Sicily. where they caught Luchiano preparing a. half-tonon shipment of heroin heading to. New York City by way of Havana. Now, the. US government didn't have jurisdiction. in Sicily, so they brought in the local. police. They refused to make an arrest. Anslinger called the State Department. for help. After a few transfers, his.

call is finally connected to the US. embassy in Polarmo. A young man picks up. the phone and says, "Sorry, commissioner. Have your agent stand. down. Ly's with us." Anslinger was. confused. He asks, "What do you mean. us?" The response was the last thing. Harry Anslinger expected to hear. Lucky. Luchano, one of the world's most. notorious crime bosses, was working for. the CIA. [Music].

After World War II, Europe was divided. The Western Allies controlled West. Germany while the Soviets held the East. As former allies became enemies, the. Cold War began. The Soviet Union suffered massive losses. liberating countries as it marched to. Berlin. And those liberated countries, they weren't giving them back. Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, they became. Soviet satellite states. And the Soviets.

wanted more. How much more? Nobody knew. Europe was in ruins. But the Russian. army was still strong. If they pushed. west, they would be hard to stop. The. Allies needed a plan to contain the. Soviets. So they turned to Alan Dulles. of the CIA, America's new intelligence. agency. During the war, the Office of Strategic. Services, or the OSS, coordinated. espionage and covert operations. Alan. Dulles was the OSS station chief in. Switzerland.

He watched the Soviet Union closely, and. he didn't trust them. They may be. temporary allies, but they were. communists. Dulles believed in using. every tool available to fight communism. A radical plan to stop Soviet expansion. landed on his desk. It focused on. training small groups of citizen. soldiers in sabotage, supply raids, propaganda, and guerrilla warfare. These. staybehind soldiers would resist Soviet. influence, even if their governments. fell.

The White House loved the idea. The only. question was, who would lead this secret. army? Alan Dulles had the answer. Nazis. >> How great. What could possibly go wrong? [Music]. Operation Paperclip was a covert US. intelligence program that brought Nazi. scientists, engineers, and technicians. to America after World War II. Many of.

these scientists had been implicated in. war crimes and human rights abuses. But. the US looked the other way. Dr. Kurt Blom was one of the Nazis. leading experts in biowarfare. He. conducted horrible experiments on. concentration camp inmates. After the. war, Blom was arrested and would have. been hanged, but America intervened and. he went to work for the CIA. >> Yeah. As a Nazi, he used chemicals on. people against their will. Uh, what did. he do for the CIA? >> Well, he worked for the MK Ultra. program.

>> Using chemicals on people against their. will. >> Yep. >> Ah, at least he was consistent. [Music]. >> Dr. Eric Trab was a top Nazi bioweapons. designer. After the war, he worked for. the US Army and helped launch the germ. warfare lab on Plum Island in New York. And what happened there was bad. >> How is a Plum Island link down in a. place with all this stuff? >> Arthur Rudolph, Walter Dornberger, and. Verer von Braun developed the V2 rocket.

that killed thousands of people in. London. V2 rockets were built using. forced labor from concentration camps. They later worked for NASA and built the. rockets that went to the moon. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Let me fix that for. you. They later worked for NASA and. built rockets that never went to the. moon. Fake moon landing link down there, too. By the way, about 1,600 Nazi scientists were. recruited by the United States. A lot of. them were connected to war crimes and. unethical experiments, but their. backgrounds were sanitized to avoid.

public backlash. Yes, Nazis were evil, but to the. Americans, they were a necessary evil. used to prevent Soviet expansion. General Reinhardt Gellan was Hitler's. intelligence chief for the Eastern. Front. He had a reputation for abusing. Soviet PS to extract information. After. the war, the Soviets wanted him charged. with war crimes. Gellen offered the. United States all of his Soviet. intelligence files, and in exchange, he. wanted protection and a role in future. operations. The US agreed.

Under Operation Paperclip, Gellen became. an American asset. All war crimes were. forgiven. Gellen worked with the CIA to. stop Soviet aggression. The CIA was a. civilian organization. It wasn't armed. or militarized. It only gathered. intelligence. Gellen needed something. with more teeth. He built a new. organization focused on the Soviet. Union. It was more than just for intelligence. gathering. They would be a paramilitary.

organization trained in guerrilla. warfare and sabotage. Gellen's first. recruits were Hitler youth and former. Nazi soldiers. He called them. werewolves. They were ordinary citizens. by day and communist killers by night. Alan Dulles loved it. Gellan's. werewolves would be the secret army the. CIA didn't have. Resources poured in. from the US and the UK and Gellen set up. a network of secret supply caches all. over Germany.

The new German government didn't know. these secret staybehind armies existed. until a former Nazi officer exposed the. operation. The Americans were caught. funding a secret Nazi army led by the. brutal General Reinhard Gellen. This was. horrifying news. The new German. government ordered a full investigation, but that never happened. The CIA had the. investigation closed and covered up. It. didn't matter that the operation was. illegal. The werewolves were necessary.

The Soviet Union was strong and getting. stronger. Then a new threat emerged. In. 1947, communists were winning local. elections all over Italy. National. elections were coming up. Italy was. becoming the first communist country in. Western Europe. [Music]. This was unacceptable. It would. undermine America's position in Europe. and increase Soviet influence. The CIA. wanted Gellan's guerrilla warfare plan. expanded and brought to Italy. They.

would recruit hundreds of paramilitary. soldiers starting in Rome. This new army. would be called Operation Gladadio, named for the Gladius, the sword used by. Roman soldiers. Recruits would be. trained by US and British special forces. and given all the tools and tactics. needed to fight communism in Italy. The. CIA just needed one last thing to get. Gladadio running. A lot of cocaine.

The CIA would use Operation Gladadio to. create fear and instability in Italy. They would spread propaganda, infiltrate. political events, bribe police, politicians, and disrupt demonstrations. They had to convince citizens that the. Italian Communist Party was a dangerous. threat. A secret agreement was made with Italian. military intelligence. If Gladio needed. to escalate, they would commit acts of. violence and pin the blame on Italian.

communists. The 1948 national election was. approaching. Gladadio had to act fast. This operation needed planning and a lot. of money. Small problem. Congress. controlled the money and wasn't aware of. Operation Gladadio. Asking for funding. would reveal its existence, defeating. its purpose. The money had to come from. somewhere else, and it had to be kept. secret. CIA officer Colonel Paul Helwell. had a solution. He worked with the. Chinese National Army fighting Ma Dong's.

communists. Shanghai Czech funded the Chinese. National Army by selling opium. Hell. smuggled opium into China using Civil. Air Transport, an airline owned by. Chinese nationalists. That airline was. sold to the Airdell Corporation, a quiet. little American company running out of a. fake address in Delaware. >> Oh, so the CIA bought the planes? >> They did. >> The planes joined the CIA's secret. fleet, the infamous Air America, that. ran drugs to war zones for decades.

Alan Dulles loved the idea of funding. Gladadio with untraceable drug money. But Gladadio needed a lot of money. They'd have to flood American cities. with drugs. Getting the product wasn't. the problem. The CIA had all the cocaine. and heroin it needed. The problem was. distribution. They'd need a small army. of drug dealers to cover the entire. country. Luckily, a network was already in place. It was organized, had logistics, had. security, and they already had plenty of. customers. The CIA found its perfect.

partner in crime. They'd use the mafia. [Music]. The relationship between the mafia and. the CIA began a long time ago. During. World War II, German submarines were. threatening the American coastline. The. military couldn't monitor every dock and. waterfront, so it got help from the one. organization that could, the mafia. US intelligence cut a deal with mob boss. Charles Lucky Luchiano, who was in.

prison. In exchange for his cooperation, Lucky received a reduced sentence and. other perks. >> What? >> He broke. >> He did. Omea is the mafia code of. silence. You don't talk to authorities. >> Snitches get snitches. >> I know what it means. >> Oh, hey. Why are you so upset? >> Well, I used to run with a crew in. Jersey. I don't like a rat.

You were an organized crime. Yeah, >> we prefer the term family business. Thank you very much. Uh, but yeah, I was. with the Pes family. Wait, wait, wait. >> It's a story for another time. Oh, maybe. our next sponsor, perhaps. >> Good idea. So, when the CIA needed to. move heroin, they knew who to call. Lucky Luchiano and his mafia syndicate. >> Death. [Music]. At the time, the mafia avoided drugs. Well, they used heroin to keep. prostitutes in line, but they didn't. sell drugs. It was considered. dishonorable. But when the CIA came. calling, Lucky Luchiano made an.

exception. The money was just too big. >> They made him an offer he couldn't. refuse. >> Right. Besides, the mafia didn't want. communists in power either. >> Commies are bad for family business. >> They are. Organized crime would become a target in. a communist state. The mafia and the CIA. like things the way they were. So, business fronts were set up in Sicily. and Italy. Heroin was smuggled into the. US, hidden in everyday items like. sardine cans, wheels of cheese, and. barrels of olive oil. Jimmy Hafa and the.

teamsters moved the drugs around the. country. The operation instantly. generated a ton of cash. >> A lot of people chase that dragon. >> Yep. Heroin was good business. Operation. Gladadio now had its funding. But. there's still a problem. Cash couldn't. be paid directly to the CIA or the. mafia. It had to be laundered through a. legitimate financial institution. But. walking into a bank with millions in. cash sets off a red flag or two. They. needed a bank that could handle cash.

without scrutiny from US Treasury. agents, Italian bank examiners, or the. international monitors. Only one bank on. the planet could do this. the Vatican. The Institute for Works of Religion or. Vatican Bank was founded in 1942 to. safeguard property for religious work or. for charity. It only accepts deposits.

from top church officials. Five. cardinals oversee transactions and. report to the Pope, and that's all we. know. It's the most secret bank in the. world. Exactly what the CIA needed. >> Yeah. You know what else the CIA needed. that bank for? >> I'd rather just keep going. >> Two words. Alien bodies. >> The Vatican bank is hiding alien bodies. >> Yep. They grab him, bag him, tag him, and store them in the basement archives. >> You know, there is something suspicious. about the Vatican secret archives. >> Now you're starting to see. >> Come swim with me, human. Swim with me.

and open thine eyes that thou mayest. behold the world in its true form. The Vatican Bank isn't subject to. international law. It doesn't report to. any agency or government, only to the. Pope. It was perfect for laundering drug. money. And of course, the church would. get a cut. >> Yeah, the family business. Everybody wet. their beak. >> The Vatican was familiar with black. money from the United States. The church. helped the OSS create rat lines to move.

the important Nazis out of Europe. Plus, the church was anti-communist. Communism. threatened the power of the United. States, threatened the power of the. mafia, and threatened the power of the. church. So, this unlikely partnership was. formed, and the CIA started sending. millions of dollars in cash to the. Vatican. Operation Gladadio launched in. 1948, just in time for Italy's national. election. The CIA, with help from the. church, used psychological warfare to. create fear of a communist takeover.

Communism would bring violence, economic. collapse, and the loss of religious. freedoms. It worked. The Communist Party. was defeated. The CIA was thrilled. They. were able to change the outcome of a. sovereign country's democratic election, and they didn't have to use the secret. Gladio Army. But what good is an army if. you don't use it? So, the CIA sent word. to the Gladadio soldiers, "Prepare for. war." It would take a few years to. organize, but Gladadio was finally ready. to enter its second phase, terrorism.

[Music]. Italian politics stabilized briefly, but. the Cold War intensified and Italy was. on the front line. The Italian Communist. Party, though defeated, remained a. force. Violence was coming. On December 12th, 1969, a bomb in. Milan's National Agrarian Bank killed 17. and injured 88. Anarchists were blamed.

In 1972, the Red Brigades, a communist. group, rigged a car bomb in Pano. It. killed three police officers. Italy had entered the years of lead. Far-left and far-right groups committed. acts of violence. Bombings, assassinations, and kidnappings plagued. the entire country. Something had to be. done. Prime Minister Julia Andreatti proposed.

a new, more stable government, but it. was up to Parliament to decide. So, a. vote was set for March 16th, 1978. Meanwhile, Aldorro, a five-term prime. minister, supported the historic. compromise. This plan would give the Italian. Communist Party a larger role in the. government. Now, Morrow wasn't a communist, but the. Communist Party had a lot of public. support. He feared excluding the party. would lead to more violence. So, Morrow. would present his historic compromise.

plan to Parliament just before the vote. >> The CIA wouldn't like that. >> Well, it didn't matter. Morrow never. made it to Parliament. The red brigades kidnapped him that. morning and murdered him weeks later. Mororrow's death killed the historic. compromise. And Riotti's new government. proceeded without the communist party. >> I don't believe in coincidences. >> Well, neither did journalist Mino. Picarelli. He published an article with a really. provocative theory about what really. happened to Alamorro. Pegarelli had.

discovered Prime Minister Andriotti's. connections to the Sicilian mafia, and. he openly wondered if Andreati ordered. or was complicit in Amoro's death. Pearli thought Italian intelligence. might have aided the Red Brigades. He. implied Operation Gladadio members and. foreign intelligence agencies like the. CIA could be involved. Now, Pearli. didn't have hard evidence, but he. believed there was a conspiracy between. Andriyotti, the mafia, and CIA. He knew. if he kept digging, he'd find proof.

>> Oh boy. This is the kind of thing. that'll get you whacked. Uh, what. happened? >> Pecarelli was found dead in his car on. March 20th, 1979. Shot four times. >> And there it is. [Music]. >> Through the 1970s and 80s, the years of. lead continued in Italy. More bombings. and assassinations. The bodies were. piling up. In 1984, Judge Feliche Cassone, a young.

ambitious magistrate, investigated these. attacks and saw a disturbing pattern. Military explosives like C4 were often. used. Communist groups were usually. blamed, but few arrests were made. His. breakthrough came when Vincenzo Vincigua. confessed to the Pettato bombing. He. said his group was armed and trained by. Italian military intelligence. That's. where they got the C4. Their orders were. to cause disruption and violence and. frame communists. This was state. sponsored terrorism. Then things got.

worse. Cassone got a call from the local. police. They had confiscated a briefcase. from a local politician. It contained. documents describing a plan to take over. the Italian government. Cassone couldn't. believe it. The officer said, "There's. more." The suitcase had a false bottom. with more hidden documents. Cassone. asked what they found. The officer. sounded nervous and said, "Sir, we can't. tell you over the phone.". Casson went to the police station to.

read the documents and was speechless. The documents confirmed hundreds of. innocent people were killed in bombings. by groups working for Italian military. intelligence. Person followed the lead. He gained access to Italy's military. intelligence archives. That's when he. learned these attacks were connected to. Operation Gladadio launched by the CIA. Kasone now had evidence that a secret. unit in military intelligence was. conducting guerilla operations against. its own people. Even more shocking, it. wasn't just Italy. Operation Gladadio.

was conceived in Germany by former. Nazis, expanded in Italy, and then. spread across NATO. Cassone uncovered. attacks all over Europe. Germany, France, a few in Belgium. All were false. flag operations where civilians were. killed intentionally and communists were. blamed. Cassone then realized Gladio was. far bigger than he thought. He felt his. life was in danger. >> From July until October of 1990, I was. the only one who knew about Operation. Gladadio, who was not already part of.

the conspiracy. >> Prime Minister Andriotti initially. denied knowing anything about Gladadio, but in 1990, under political pressure, he confirmed Operation Gladadio was real. and had operations throughout Europe. Now, most countries denied involvement. at first, but there was too much. evidence. Finally, NATO said that these. stay behind armies were real, but only. for defense. The US and UK continued to. maintain a no comment policy on. Gladadio. The truth coming out put Prime.

Minister Andreati under tremendous. scrutiny. Eventually, he was arrested. and charged with being complicit in the. murders of Pecarelli and Morrow. After. multiple trials and appeals, he was. acquitted for lack of evidence and. cleared of all charges. Yeah, he had. friends in right places. Eh, >> he did. He was important to the cause. Andriotti oversaw operation Gladadio in. Italy. About 30 acts of violence were. directly linked to Gladadio with 150. more suspected. Around 600 innocent.

people died from Gladadio bombs with. twice as many injured. If all suspected. attacks are proven to be Gladiore. related, the death toll is in the. thousands. No one has answered for these. crimes. Over the years, as more innocent. bodies piled up, the CIA said it needed. more money and power. Communism was. taking root all over the world. So, they. got more money and power. The agency. became militarized. It now had its own. secret army that it could deploy. anywhere there was a Soviet threat. Small problem. It was all a lie.

From the 1950s through the 1980s, the. USSR was an existential threat to. America. The CIA was constantly warning. us of Soviet strength, fueling massive. military spending. But was the threat. real? In the 1960s, Americans were terrified. of the Soviets. >> Let us face without panic the reality of.

our times. The fact that atom bombs may. someday be dropped on our cities. >> Sputnik launched. Yuri Gagarin went to. space. Americans panicked. The Soviets. seemed unstoppable. NASA had to be. created. More military spending was. needed. But was it? The CIA said yes. The Cuban missile crisis in 1962 almost. started a nuclear war. It shall be the. policy of this nation to regard any.

nuclear missile launched from Cuba. against any nation in the Western. Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet. Union on the United States, requiring a. full retaliatory response upon the. Soviet Union. >> Clearly, war with the Soviet Union was. coming. More military spending was. needed. But was it? The CIA said yes. I. grew up in the 1980s when military. budgets exploded. Generation Xers like. me believed that war was going to break.

out at any second. [Music]. >> We were in an arms race that we couldn't. afford to lose. It was a race for. survival. But was it? The CIA's job is. to gather intelligence so the US. government can make informed decisions. Somehow these decisions always led to. more military funding and more power for. intelligence agencies. But the CIA knows. best. Or does it?

While the Soviets puffed out their chest. in Cuba, their people back home were. starving. From 1953 to 1964, they. couldn't produce enough food to feed. their population. The CIA didn't know. In the 60s, Americans were told more. military spending was the only way to. stop Soviet world domination. In. reality, 1964 started 20 years of the. Soviet era of stagnation, not.

domination. Their economy was falling. apart. The CIA didn't know. Yes, in the. 1960s, the Soviets poured resources into. their space program and their military, but at the expense of everything else. The state-run system was failing. Productivity was low. Their technology. was outdated. There's no incentives for. innovation. Their scientists and. engineers were fleeing. It was called a. brain drain. The CIA didn't know. In 1985, Soviet President Gorbachoff.

tried to revitalize the Soviet system. Part of his plan was glasnost, which. means openness. He allowed Soviet. citizens more freedom to express. themselves. What the people expressed. was they were miserable. We finally. learned the truth. Defending against. Soviet aggression wasn't a strategy. It. was a sales pitch. Throughout the entire Cold War, American. military contractors got wealthy and. intelligence agencies grew powerful,

protecting us from a country that was. going bankrupt and whose citizens were. sick and starving. When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, the Soviet Union had already been in. ruins for years. The whole world saw it. Somehow the CIA didn't know. Gladadio. was funded right up until it was exposed. in 1990. Gladadio still had armies ready. to repel the expansion of the Soviet. Union. But by then there was no Soviet. Union. The Baltic states left. Ukraine, Bellarus, the Central Asian republics.

They were on their way out. The CIA. didn't know. In 1991, the USSR was. officially dissolved. How did the US. respond to its greatest enemy being. defeated? It increased its military. spending by 12%. Why? The Cold War was over. The Soviets. lost. But I guess the CIA didn't know. [Music]. Operation Gladadio was real, but is.

still controversial and classified. The. version I've told today isn't official. because nobody knows the whole truth. >> The CIA does. >> Well, they do, but they won't tell us. The CIA can't confirm or deny its. participation in any covert operations. >> Now, the CIA claims it was never. involved in drug trafficking. They admit. Air America existed for intelligence. gathering and transporting supplies. >> Yeah, supplies are smack.

>> Smack. >> Yeah, you know, scag, horse, brown. sugar, China white, >> heroin. >> What' I say? >> The CIA said it never happened. In 1996, journalist Gary Webb linked the CIA to. Nicaraguan Contras trafficking cocaine. into the US to fund rebels. >> Yeah, it sounds familiar, >> doesn't it? >> Did the CIA put drugs into black. community? >> We don't have any evidence so far that. they did it directly. What we have. evidence of is that men working for a. CIA run army did do that.

>> I will get to the bottom of it and I. will let you know the results of what I. found. An official 1998 report. investigated Web's claims and finally. put the issue to bed. The reports. acknowledged that the CIA had worked. with individuals known to be involved in. drug trafficking but did not find. conclusive evidence that the CIA itself. had facilitated or condoned these. activities. >> Who conducted that investigation?

>> Uh the CIA did. >> Oh, they investigated themselves. >> Yep. Because you know as well as everyone. else that the CIA has been dealing drugs. throughout the world and bringing drugs. into this country since Vietnam's war. You brought them in here in body bags. You wearing the golden triangle. So. you're going to come in this community. and insult us and tell us that you're. going to investigate yourself. You got. to be crazy. >> Whistleblowers, including federal. agents, said they witnessed CIA.

involvement in moving drugs. The head of. the DEA at the time, Robert Bonner, said. that a ton of pure cocaine worth. hundreds of millions of dollars had been. smuggled into the United States. And he. blamed the CIA. We understand what. you're saying. A ton of cocaine was. smuggled into the United States of. America. Well, they in cooperation with. the CIA. That's what that's exactly what appears. to have happened. Declassified documents. show the US government, including CIA,

associated with known drug traffickers. They overlook these activities to start. communism. >> Yep. If you ask the question, uh, did the CIA. sell drugs in the black neighborhoods of. Los Angeles to finance the Contra War? The answer will be a categorical no. Now. having said that and what is true is the. policymakers absolutely closed their. eyes to the criminal behavior of our.

allies and supporters in that war. The. policy makers ignored their drug. dealing, their stealing and their human. rights violations. The CIA didn't admit to working with. organized crime, but investigations and. declassified documents show they did. The Vatican and CIA haven't confirmed. any financial arrangement. But there's a.

lot of indirect evidence of Vatican. support for anti-communist activities, but no hard proof. >> That's why they use that bank, >> right? So, what's the truth? We don't. know. All I can do is give you my. opinion. I know we need a strong. military and intelligence agencies. And. this episode isn't about communism or. the military. This episode is about the. lies we've been told for years by the. people who swore to protect us. Now, do. I believe that the Soviet threat was. exaggerated in order to line the pockets. of military contractors and expand the.

power of the CIA? Come on. Of course, we. were told this would happen. President. Eisenhower warned us about the. military-industrial complex. He said, "If we let the defense companies become. too powerful, they'll undermine. democracy and influence policy to serve. their own financial interests." Ike. nailed it. That's what happened. CIA. operations like overthrowing governments. concerned Eisenhower. He knew. intelligence agencies were necessary, but stressed the need for transparency.

and oversight, otherwise the agencies. would become a law unto themselves. Ike. nailed it again. That's what happened. JFK often asked Eisenhower for advice. Ike told him, "Don't let the. intelligence agencies have too much. power." At first, JFK trusted them, but. then in 1961, he signed off on the CIA's. plan to overthrow Cuba's government. The. Bay of Pigs invasion was a disaster. The. CIA botched it. It embarrassed America. and solidified the relationship between.

Cuba and the Soviet Union. JFK started. to believe that maybe the CIA was doing. more harm than good and needed to be. reformed or even dismantled and rebuilt. Their growing power was undermining. democracy, just as Eisenhower warned. During the 1960s, there was another. serious threat to democracy, organized. crime. The mob ran the labor unions and. important businesses. They could buy. judges, influence politicians. They were. powerful enough to change the outcome of.

elections. Some say the mafia helped JFK. get elected, which would be ironic. because JFK's victory brought the mafia. a big problem, his brother Robert. As. attorney general, RFK prioritized. fighting organized crime. >> I think what in the world of organized. crime, I think it's in a very nefarious. situation is facing the country at the. frozen time. >> John F. Kennedy was assassinated on. November 22nd, 1963. Robert F. Kennedy. about to run for president was. assassinated 5 years later in 1968. As.

JFK's attorney general and confidant, RFK would have continued his brother's. policies. He also pledged to reopen the. investigation into JFK's murder if he. was elected. Now, why reopen an. investigation? I thought this was all. solved. A president on a crusade against the CIA. killed. A potential president on a. crusade against the mafia killed. Now, we know the official stories. JFK, Lee. Harvey Oswald, a lone gunman, case. closed. RFK, Sirhan, Sirhan, lone.

gunman, case closed. But there are other. theories with real evidence that place. the blame not on lone gunmen, but on two. powerful organizations. Two. organizations with the motive, opportunity, and means. The CIA and the. mafia. Now, whether the CIA and the. mafia were involved in the. assassinations, I'm not sure. But I am. sure of one thing. They've both mastered. organized crime.

>> 5 plus 0. >> Now, I love World War II history, so it. made me happy that the episode performed. well. So, we're going to stay with World. War II for a few more minutes. This next. one is it's one of the strangest. intelligence operations of the war. Now, if you haven't seen it, my notes are. down here. If you haven't seen it, I. won't spoil it, but here's a hint. Oh, sorry. That's not professional. This is. about how a crazy race car driver, a. submarine, and a dead body fooled Hitler.

and led to the creation of James Bond. On April 30th, 1943, in the middle of. World War II, a body washed up on the. shore of Welva, Spain. The deceased man. was wearing a British military uniform. There was a briefcase strapped to his. body containing British and American. military secrets. The man was Major. William Martin, a Royal Marine who was. the single victim of a fatal plane crash. at sea. He had just returned from.

temporary leave in London where he had. gone to the theater and purchased an. engagement ring for his fianceé Pam. But. there was something very strange about. Major William Martin. He didn't exist. It was the winter of 1942 and the Allies. needed a win. Hitler's Nazi war machine. had steamrolled all of Europe and. everybody knew England was next. The. United States had just been dragged into. the war by the attack on Pearl Harbor.

and American bodies were piling up by. the thousands. >> Inside job. >> What? >> Pearl Harbor was an inside job. Didn't. you see that image that was going. around? >> Show me. >> See, look at that. How could the planes. fly this distance in 1931? >> Uh, you know, that was meant as a joke. >> Yeah, maybe. >> And you know, the Earth is round, right? >> Allegedly. >> No, it really is. >> Could be round, could be flat. You know. who's to say? >> Uh, science is to say. >> Oh, right. Science. I tried to make air.

quotes, but my fins wouldn't bend. >> Anyway, German forces were better. trained, better equipped, and of. singular purpose. But Germany did have a. weakness. It's not a country rich in. natural resources. To wage war in the. 1940s, you need iron, oil, rubber, and. food. Germany had to import all of. these. If the Allies could disrupt. Germany's supply lines, the Germans. would no longer have the ability to. fight, and the war could come to a quick. close. But that was easier said than.

done. German engineers were among the. best in the world. Every time the German. army seized an inch of land, it was. quickly fortified. Any Allied advance on. mainland Europe would be repelled and. would result in catastrophic losses. But. the coastline of the Mediterranean was. not as heavily fortified. UK Prime. Minister Winston Churchill called this. the soft underbelly of Europe. The key. to taking back Europe was Italy and the. key to taking Italy was Sicily. Unfortunately, the Germans understood. the strategic importance of Sicily as.

well. They were fully expecting the. Allies to attack it. And if the Allies. had any hope of winning, they'd need the. element of surprise. MI5, Britain's. intelligence agency, was tasked with. tricking the Germans into thinking the. Allies would attack Greece instead. If. the Germans bought the ruse, they would. divert forces from Sicily to Greece, leaving Sicily unprotected and ensuring. an easy win for the Allies. One of the. British intelligence officers working on. crafting this deception was Charles. Chumley. >> Hang on.

>> What? >> Chumley? That that's not what it says on. the screen. Yeah, I know. That's how he. pronounced his name. >> Well, he pronounced it wrong. >> Chumley's primary role in the war effort. was an ideas guy. Charles Chumley. remembered a top secret memo distributed. to British wartime intelligence at the. beginning of the war. It became known as. the trout memo because it compared. intelligence to fly fishing. >> Why would anyone want to catch flies? >> No. No. Fly fishermen try to catch fish. >> Those fishermen. The Trout memo listed.

51 specific ideas for fooling the. Germans. The list was pretty wacky. It. included dropping glow-in-the-dark. footballs in the water to attract. submarines. There was one about a fake. treasure ship, and there was another. about explosives being disguised as. food. But the craziest idea in the Trout. memo was number 28. It involved loading. up a corpse with phony documents, then. dropping the corpse from a plane behind. enemy lines. And when you read the. entire Trout Memo, you can't help but. think whoever thought of this stuff.

would be great at writing spy novels. The Trout Memo officially was written by. Rear Admiral John Godfrey, but it was. actually written by Godfreyy's. assistant, Lieutenant Commander Ian. Fleming. The same Ian Fleming who went. on to become a novelist best known for a. series featuring the character. >> Bond James Bond. Idea number 28 on Ian. Fleming's trout memo was titled a. suggestion and not a very nice one. >> The following suggestion is used in a.

book by Basil Thompson. A corpse dressed. as an airman with dispatches in his. pockets could be dropped on the coast. supposedly from a parachute that had. failed. I understand there is no. difficulty in obtaining corpses at the. naval hospital, but of course it would. have to be a fresh one. The idea was so crazy that Chumley. thought it might be just the way to fool. the Germans into believing the Allies. were planning to attack Greece instead. of Sicily. He presented it to his. superiors and they assigned a naval.

officer named Euan Montigue to help him. develop the plan. Before the war, Euan. Montigue was a lawyer. He came from an. extremely wealthy family of bankers and. when the war broke out, he was too old. for active service but found himself. rising through the ranks of naval. intelligence. Uh, you know, I noticed. that people from wealthy families tend. to rise through the ranks rather. quickly. >> Yeah, that does seem to be the case. As. it turned out, an inclination for. wartime intelligence work ran in the. family. Euan didn't know it at the time, but his own brother, Ivor Montigue, was.

actually a spy for the Soviet Union. >> Uh-oh. >> Well, luckily, the Soviet Union and the. United Kingdom were fighting this war on. the same side. >> A that's true. Uh, so did this. Uh, I. >> Ivor. >> Ivor. >> Ivor. >> Uh, did he stop spying for the Russians. after the war? >> Uh-huh. >> The Montigus were also Jewish, so Euan's. wife and children spent the war in. America for safety reasons. Euan wanted. in on this unique operation. To serve. his country, of course, but also to keep.

his mind off how much he missed his. wife. Chumbli and Montigue fleshed out. the plan for their mission. They would. deliver a dead body via a submarine just. off the coast of Spain. The body would. be carrying information identifying him. as a Royal Marine and most importantly. falsified documents regarding an. upcoming military offensive in Greece. Spain was the ideal country to find the. body because though they were officially. neutral, they were in close. communication with the Germans. And if. military secrets washed up on the. Spanish shores, there was a good chance.

those secrets would end up in the hands. of the Germans. Chumla and Montigue had. the plan. Now they just needed a dead. body. But not just any dead body. It had. to be male and of military age. The. cause of death needed to line up with. the story of a plane crash at sea. So. drowning, exposure, shock, or traumatic. injury. And the man shouldn't have any. pesky family members who might not. appreciate their loved ones corpse being. dressed up as someone else and taken out. of the country. E. Montigue was friendly. with a local coroner who agreed to keep.

an eye out for just such a body. >> Yeah, it's good to have a corpse guy. >> It is. And on January 26th, 1943, the. coroner called Montigue and told him, "I. got one.". Glender Michael had a hard life. His. father attempted suicide by stabbing. himself in the neck with a knife. He was. taken to a mental hospital where he. caught influenza and later died. His. mother struggled to care for the family. on her own. They were often homeless and.

there was never enough food. Shortly. before the war, she died of a heart. attack. Glender was declared ineligible. for military service, though it's not. clear why. It could have been for poor. physical health, poor mental health, or. both. He eventually became homeless and. wandered the streets of London. On. January 26th, 1943, Glender Michael. consumed rat poison in an abandoned. warehouse. It could have been suicide, but most likely he was starving and. found some bread. The bread had been. laced with rat poison, and Glender died. 2 days later. Death by rat poison is a.

rough way to go, but considering the. forensic technology available at the. time, dying from rat poisoning could. pass for drowning. Chumla Montigue now. had a body. Not for long, though. Montigue's coroner buddy, >> corpse guy, >> his corpse guy stressed that Glender's. body was already starting to decompose. He could keep him on ice, but he needed. to be deployed within the next 3 months. At this point, Chumla Montigu's mission. had also been given an official code. name, Operation Mincemeat. And this was.

a dark joke. Mince meat is a recipe. combining chopped meat or animal fat. with fruit and spices and whatever. you've got lying around. And when those. things you've got lying around include. sugar and alcohol, it's a good way to. preserve meat. At this time in the UK, people needed to preserve meat to make. their rations last longer. But this. time, the meat was a man. It turned out that acquiring a highly. specific dead body was the easy part.

>> It's good to have a corpse guy. >> Now, Montigu and Chumley needed to. create a new identity from thin air, and. it had to stand up to German scrutiny. He needed to be a military officer if it. was going to be believable that he had. possession of sensitive documents. They. chose the Royal Marines because it was a. common uniform and easy to get. To avoid. the uniform looking too new, Chumley. wore it everyday for the next 3 months. Now they needed a name. Montigu and. Chumley looked through the list of. servicemen and found several Royal. Marines named William Martin who were.

around the rank of captain. The Germans. likely had access to the same list of. names but not their postings. So Montigu. and Chumley borrowed the name. The. fictional William Martin also needed. identification. Royal Marines carried ID. cards on them at all times that included. a picture. Montigue and Chumley. attempted to photograph the dead body, but this was unsuccessful. >> Oh, they couldn't pull a weekend at. Bernie's. >> Well, they tried, but the body was in. rough shape and getting worse. The. pictures were frightening. But working. in another department was a man who.

looked similar to Glender Michael, and. he was willing to be photographed. Montigu and Chumley barred his face. There was one more thing they needed, but this one they wouldn't be able to. give back. Underwear. A British military. officer at the time would have been. wearing underwear. Underwear was. rationed in the UK at the time, meaning. you couldn't find it in a store and no. one was giving theirs up. Ah, >> and this is where the expression go. commando comes from. >> Uh, I don't think that's right. >> Well, Montyu presented this predicament.

to one of his superiors. And it just so. happened that one of his superiors. academic enemies had recently been run. over by a truck. He was delighted to. acquire his former colleagues underwear. for operation mincemeat. Montigue and. Chumley now turned their attention from. the physical to the fictional. They. needed a backstory for Major William. Martin. Every night they would go out. with a few of their colleagues and fill. in details on William Martin's. backstory. He liked fishing and was bad. with money. He was romantic and secretly. wanted to be a writer. The team came to. view Major William Martin as a friend.

The backstory they created would be told. to the Spanish who found the body and. hopefully the Germans they showed it to. in the form of pocket litter. Pocket. litter is the term for the random stuff. people carry in their pockets. For the. fictional William Martin, that included. his falsified military ID card, the. military documents hinting at the Allied. plans to invade Greece, ticket stubs. from the theater, a receipt for an. engagement ring, an overdraft letter. from the bank, and a photograph and love. letter from his fianceé Pam. Gene.

Leslie, a secretary working at the. agency, agreed to provide a photograph. Gan now became Major Martin's fianceé, Pam. And here's where things get a. little awkward. Ewan and Jean began. spending a lot of time together. They. went dancing. They went to the movies, but not as themselves, not as Euan and. Jean, as William and Pam. They may have. been playing characters, but the romance. was real enough that Montigu's own. mother wrote to his wife suggesting she. come back to the UK as soon as she. could, but there was one last very.

important letter to be written. The. military communication from a general. revealing the supposed joint American. and British attack on Greece. The work. on this letter took over a month and. after many drafts were written by an. increasingly frustrated you and. Montigue, they just had the general. write the letter himself. >> Nobody likes getting notes. >> That's true. And in the letter was. placed a single eyelash. >> Eyelash. >> Yep. The British needed to know if the. letter was opened. If the plan worked, they'd have the documents returned to.

them. If the eyelash was missing, that. means someone opened the letter. >> Oh, >> but the month of rewrites was a problem. considering the three-month window given. to Operation Minsmeat by the coroner. >> Hello, Skye. >> They needed to get Glinder Michael, the. photo of Jean, the worn uniform, the. love letters, the dead academics. underwear, the allimportant military. document, and the pocket litter to. Spain. And they needed to do it fast. because acting major William Martin was. starting to rot.

At this time, MI5 employed one of the. UK's most famous race car drivers. During the war, Jack Horsefall had been. recruited by British intelligence to. provide transportation for its agents. when they needed to get somewhere and. get out of somewhere fast. In this case, he needed to transport Euan Montigue, Charles Chumley, and a secret package. from England to Scotland, where Euan and. Charles would meet a submarine that. would deliver Major William Martin to a. specific location off the coast of. Spain. Glender Michael's body had been.

placed in a special container that was. created for this exact purpose. It was. essentially a thin coffin packed with. dry ice. This would help keep the body. cold, to slow down the decomposition. process, and help keep it secret. It. would also save the submarine's crew. from being trapped in a small space with. a very bad smell. They decided to travel. overnight to risk being seen, but the UK. was under a strict blackout at the time. Every night, entire cities went dark to. make them harder for German bombers to.

identify from overhead. This meant all. street lights were out and all vehicle. headlights had to be covered. So, Montigue and Chumley were going to be. driven at high speed by a race car. driver in pitch darkness. And by the. way, Jack Horsefall was legally blind. and refused to wear glasses. >> Kind of badass. >> Well, maybe or stupid. Horsefall. wouldn't wear glasses because he was. always very well-dressed. He liked. martinis and was famous for driving an. Aston Martin. >> Who just like. >> James Bond? >> You'll be using this Aston Martin DB5.

with modifications. Now, pay attention, please. [Music]. James Bomb was a composite character. based on real people that Ian Fleming. knew, including Jack Horsefall. The. overnight road trip from England to. Scotland was crazy and included a couple. of close calls, but they made it to. Scotland on time. In Scotland, they met. the crew of the submarine HMS Serif and. loaded in their suspiciously large.

container, which was labeled optical. instruments. In the early morning hours. of April 30th, 1943, the submarine. reached its destination. The officers. aboard the HMS Serif performed a brief. funeral service for Glender Michael, then placed his body with the briefcase. attached into the water. Then the sub. was positioned in a way that the. propellers could be used to propel the. body toward the shore. They gun the. engine and the body was on its way. Their final task was to sink the body's. container. And this turned out to be one.

of the biggest hurdles Operation Minsme. faced. Part of the special container's. cooling system included air pockets. And. so when placed in the water, it floated. They tried shooting at it, but it still. wouldn't sink. And if they couldn't sink. it, this would be a big problem. Imagine. a strange coffin riddled with bullet. holes washing up on shore just after. Major William Martin's body. The Spanish. would know things were not as they. seemed, so the Serif crew decided to. blow it up. The explosion was loud, but. the container did finally sink. And.

Major Martin, he ended up on the beach. At around 9:30 on the morning of April. 30th, 1943, the body of Royal Marine. Acting Major William Martin was. discovered by a fisherman in Welva, Spain. This was chosen as the dropoff. site because of one specific Welva. resident, Adolf Claus. >> That's the most German name I ever. heard. Klouse was a notorious German spy. who was the key to making sure the.

falsified documents were seen by the. Germans. The fisherman who found the. body notified the Spanish authorities. who informed the British consulate in. Spain and now began a delicate. diplomatic dance. After enough time had. passed for news of Major William. Martin's death to travel through. official British channels, the British. needed to start requesting Martin's. briefcase. And by pushing for the return. of the briefcase, it would alert the. Spanish and hopefully the Germans that. there was something juicy inside. But. they couldn't push too hard where the. Spanish might return the briefcase.

before the Germans could get a peak. But. they did eventually need to get the. documents back if this thing was going. to work. Cuz look, if the Germans. believed that the British believed that. their documents had been lost and the. Germans had possibly gained possession. of them, they would likely cancel the. planned Greek attack. No reason to. attack if the Germans know it's coming. And that couldn't be allowed to happen. The Germans had to read the letter and. have it returned unopened. So, a. delicate dance. Less delicate was the. matter of the autopsy. Glender Michael.

had of course not died by drowning or. blunt trauma or shock or exposure. He. ate rat poison. A detailed autopsy would. almost certainly have revealed that. something was off. But by this time, the. stench of the body was so foul that the. British vice consul, who was aware of. Operation Minsmeat, was able to cut the. autopsy short. He told the staff in the. coroner's office, "It's hot. This place. stinks. Let's go grab lunch instead. I'm. buying." And that was the end of the. autopsy. A few days later, a funeral was.

held for Major William Martin. He was. buried in Spain with full military. honors. Among the crowd of mourners was. the German spy Adolf Klaus. Adolf knew. about Major William Martin's arrival in. Spain and was already working on. obtaining a copy of the documents. Now, it took a week and a half, but the. documents did make their way into the. hands of the Germans before finally. being returned. >> No eyelash. >> No eyelash. To get the letter out of the. envelope, the Germans inserted a thin. wire and actually wound the letter into.

a tight scroll. The scroll was carefully. pulled from a small fold in the. envelope. It was dried, copied, twisted. around the wire again, and put back in. the envelope without breaking the wax. seal. It was then soaked in seawater and. returned. Even if the eyelash was there, the British would have known the letter. was read because when they dried it out, it curled up like a potato chip. And. then the information from the falsified. documents made it all the way to Hitler.

On July 9th, 1943, the joint American. and British invasion of Sicily, cenamed. Operation Husky, began. The Allies were. met with stormy weather, but little. German resistance. The enemy was too. busy planning for the invasion of. Greece. Hitler had bought the operation. mincemeat deception completely. The. British had expected 10,000 killed or. wounded in the first week of fighting, but only suffered 1,400 losses. The Navy. expected 300 ships would be sunk in the. action, but they lost only 12. The.

predicted 90-day campaign was over in 38. days. Operation Mincemeat is now. considered one of the greatest episodes. of wartime deception in history, and. it's broadly credited with one of the. turning points of World War II. But this. successful operation had a dark side. effect. It ushered in a new era of. espionage. It opened a Pandora's box of. intelligence operations focused on. deception. But the targets of the. deception were no longer military. The. targets were now civilians. In 1942, the. United States military created the OSS,

the Office of Strategic Services. This. was an intelligence agency modeled after. Britain's MI6. After the war, the OSS. was dissolved, but in 1947, a new. intelligence agency was created, the. CIA. Technically, the CIA is a civilian. agency tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national. security information from around the. world. But CIA operations are much more. creative and devious than simple.

intelligence gathering. In 1953, the CIA. helped overthrow Iran's government via. Operation Ajax. In 1954, Operation PB. Success overthrew the president of. Guatemala, a democratically elected. president. Syria, Indonesia, Brazil, Nicaragua, Haiti, Uruguay, Panama. In. these countries and many others, the CIA. attempted coups, attempted to remove. elected leaders, and in some cases. assassinate those leaders. The 1962.

Cuban missile crisis is taught in every. American school. It's a story about. Soviet aggression and the bravery of. President JFK. What's not taught is that. in the years leading up to the crisis, the CIA established a base of operations. in Miami. The only place that had more. CIA officers in the world was. headquarters in Langley. >> These men belong to a terrorist. organization responsible for a recent. wave of bombings, kidnappings, and. assassinations. They are Cuban exiles. waging a terrorist war against Fidel.

Castro. And their base of operations is. an American city. From the Miami base, Operation JM Wave was launched. Cuban. exiles were recruited and trained by the. CIA to operate as agents. Those agents. then spent years engaging in an. extensive campaign of terrorism on. economic and civilian targets. A lot of. civilians were killed and this was a. major factor in the Soviet decision to. place missiles on Cuba. These terrorist. attacks continued for years. In 1976,

Kubana flight 455 was destroyed by a. bomb, killing all 73 people aboard. The. CIA was immediately suspected, but. naturally they denied it. But in 2007, independent research connected the. bombing to a CIA asset. During the. Vietnam War, the CIA spun up the Phoenix. program. This program was designed to. identify and destroy the Vietkong, the. VC, via infiltration, assassination, terrorism, and torture. Phoenix was shut.

down after the abuse, torture, and. murder were exposed. In the 1970s, back. home, the CIA's Operation Chaos targeted. anti-war protesters. I thought the CIA. only operates overseas and doesn't spy. on Americans. Yeah. Yeah. I realized how. stupid I sounded when I said it. Hey, it's a good thing that the CIA, FBI, and. other agencies aren't being weaponized. and used against American citizens, huh? Sarasm.

Operation Condor ran for over 20 years. and was a program of terrorism, assassination, and overthrow attempts of. every socialist leader in South America. There's compelling evidence to show that. for over 30 years, the CIA helped. organize, train, and fund death squads. in El Salvador. During the US inspired. civil war, at least 75,000 civilians. were killed. MK Ultra was an illegal. human experimentation program. The CIA. was testing drugs that could be used to.

force confessions through brainwashing. and psychological torture. The program. ran for 20 years before being exposed. Through the 80s and 90s, the CIA was the. biggest illegal drug trafficking and. money laundering operation in the world, though this is only alleged. Operation. Minsmeat is hailed as a great success, a. major turning point in World War II that. led to the Allied victory and probably. saved millions of lives. And I believe. that's true. But out of the ashes of the. war and emboldened by the success of the.

OSS emerged the CIA. Now the CIA and its defenders will say. that yes, mistakes were made, but the. ultimate goal of the agency is to. protect American lives and America's. interests overseas. And that's what. we're taught here in the US and that's. what we're shown in every movie about. the CIA, which all have to be approved. by the CIA. But there are people around. the world and throughout history that. view the CIA as an instrument of evil.

Thousands, perhaps millions of people. would say the CIA is the most villainous. organization ever conceived by man. And. I'm not saying it is. I'm just saying. every story has two sides. So, is the. CIA a hero or a villain? Well, it all. depends on which side of the table. you're sitting, on which end of the gun. you are, on which end of the needle, on. whether you are the tortured or the. torturer. Now, given the nightmarish abuses and. atrocities it's committed, and given the.

political weaponization of the agency. that exists today, the CIA, at least the. way it's currently structured, might be. doing more harm than good. But if. America is going to have a powerful. intelligence agency like the CIA, and I. think it should, that agency needs to do. better. And we the people, we need to. demand it. >> 3 + 1 5 plus 0. >> The next one is a dark one. This was the. first case that I could find where the.

US government actually publicly. compensated someone who died in a. strange way. Oh, look. He's got he had a heart. attack. Whoops. He's. >> He fell out of a hotel window. The Frank. Olsson murder is is is taught by in. Israeli intelligence is the perfect. murder. Frank Olsson was part of MK. Ultra and was starting to have second. doubts about it. So, they sent him to a. psychiatrist who he didn't know was. actually worked for Sydney Gotley and.

was, you know, into programming and he. was freaking out. and he's up in a hotel. room with with someone else from MK and. he falls out the window. But if you look. at the window where he fell, it's like, you know, two feet by two feet. There's. you can't just jump out the window. So, he was found on the sidewalk by the. doorman. That's Frank Olsen. Worth. looking up. >> This is an older episode. This goes back. to number 76. It's about MK Ultra and. the Frank Olsen murder.

November 28th, 1953, New York City. At. 2:30 a.m., the body hit the sidewalk. A. few seconds later, a shower of glass. The dorman of the Statatler Hotel yelled. to the lobby that there was a jumper. The night manager rushed out and saw. him. A man about 40 years old lying on. the pavement. He was on his back wearing. only his underwear and blood started to. pull around him. 13 stories up, a single.

window is open. its curtain flapping. through broken glass. The night manager. knelt beside the man whose eyes were. open and was somehow still alive. He. desperately tried to speak but was. choking on blood and couldn't be. understood. After a minute or two of. trying to communicate, the man took a. final deep breath and was gone. Nobody. knows for sure what he was trying to say. before he died, but one thing is for. certain, it was something about the CIA.

Room 1018A was registered to Robert. Lashbrook and Frank Olsen. The police. burst in, guns raised, but it was empty. Cold November air was blowing through. the broken window. In the bathroom was a. man sitting on the toilet, resting his. head in his hands. He told the police. he'd been sleeping, heard a noise, and. woke up. One officer asked the name of. the man who went out the window. The man. in the bathroom said, "Lolsen, rank. Olsen." The responding officers figured.

this was an openand-shut case. A. middle-aged man is depressed or. distraught and ends it all by jumping. Just another night in the big city. But. the night manager, Armen Pastori, wasn't. convinced. He said it didn't make sense. that someone would get up in the middle. of the night, run across a dark room in. his underwear, avoid two beds, and dive. through a closed window that had the. shade and curtains closed. Pastori. checked with the hotel operator to see. if any calls were made from the room. The operator said yes, a call was just.

made a few minutes ago and because it. ran through a switchboard, she heard the. whole thing. The caller, Robert. Lashbrook, who was the man in the. bathroom, called a number on Long Island. which belonged to a Dr. Harold Abramson. The call lasted only a few seconds. "Well, he's gone," Lashbrook said. "Well, that's too bad," was Abramson's. reply. A few hours later, Frank Olsen's. family was notified. They were told. there was an accident. Frank had either. fallen or jumped from his 10th floor.

room. Frank's body was so badly damaged. that the funeral was held with a closed. casket. And the Olsen family tried to. move on. Having trouble coping with. losing his father, Eric Olsen would ask. his mother about Frank from time to. time, and she would always say the same. thing. You're never going to know what. happened in the room that night. But 20. years later, that would change. In 1975, the Rockefeller Commission. released information to the public about.

its investigation into CIA activities. The report mentioned a civilian. scientist working for the Department of. the Navy. He was given LSD without his. knowledge as part of a CIA experiment. That scientist experienced side effects. and was sent to New York for a. psychiatric care. A few days later, he. jumped from a 10th floor window of his. hotel and died. This report was in the. New York Times and Washington Post and. made its way to the Olsen family. The. government confirmed the scientist was.

Frank Olsen. And just 10 days later, the. family was invited to the White House. and President Ford gave them a formal. apology. The director of the CIA also. apologized. The United States government. agreed this was a wrongful death and. offered the family a $750,000. settlement if they agreed not to sue. The Olsen family agreed to the terms. Alice Olsen never wanted to talk about. Frank's death or his job. Frank's. children, now in their 20s and 30s,

always knew their father was a. scientist. But what scientist family. gets a personal invitation to the Oval. Office? Alice Olsen only knew a few. things about her husband's job. She knew. he was a scientist doing important work. for the US government. She knew he. traveled for work all the time. And she. knew he was unhappy. One of the last. things Frank said to his wife was that. he had made a terrible mistake. But for. Frank's children, this information was. entirely new. And because of the. investigations and media coverage, they. now learned for the first time what.

their father actually did for a living. He was no ordinary scientist. During World War II, Frank Olsen was one. of the first Army scientists assigned to. the top secret biological warfare lab at. Fort Dietrich, Maryland. Frank's. specialty was aerosolizing living. biological agents and munitions. In. other words, he created biological. weapons of mass destruction. Now, this. time in history, the CIA was part of the.

army. And after becoming a civilian, Frank continued his research in. bioweapons. He was lead scientist for. operation harness where animals in the. Caribbean were exposed to anthrax to. luremia and brucillaa. He was part of. operation sea spray where different. strains of bacteria were sprayed over. the San Francisco Bay area to test the. city's vulnerability to a boweapon. attack. And as Frank moved up the ranks. of the CIA, he spent a lot of time at. Fort Terry, which was a secret. installation on Plum Island in the Long.

Island Sound. Plum Island is only. reachable by boat or by air. The toxins. tested there are considered too. dangerous to be on the mainland. Olsen. developed delivery devices for these. bioweapons. Canisters disguised as. shaving cream cans that could disperse. anthrax in a concentrated area. A. cigarette lighter that emitted a deadly. gas. Lipstick that killed instantly. >> Hey, when did they make biological. weapons a war crime? >> The Geneva Conventions in 1925. So all.

this research was. >> illegal, >> right? >> In early 1953, the same year he died, Frank Olsen stepped down as chief of the. special operations division. He said the. job was too stressful and was causing. his ulcers to flare up. >> You think suck? Try anthrax. >> Oh, no sympathy for CIA scientists, huh? >> Not even a little bit. >> So Frank stepped down, but he stayed. with the CIA. And that's when he met. Sydney Gotautle and Robert Lashbrook. Gotautle. Gotautle. Where do I know that name from?

>> Well, Sydney Gotautle ran the CIA's. Project Bluebird, which became Project. Artichoke, which became. >> NK Ultra. >> Bingo. During the Cold War, the CIA, specifically Sydney Gotautle, was. obsessed with mind control and. brainwashing. There was a fear that the. Soviet Union was also working on this. capability, and the United States was. determined to get there first. Project. MK Ultra was the program intended to. accomplish this. MK Ultra was brutal and.

illegal. Over time, the experiments. Frank Olsen conducted and witnessed. started to weigh on him. During one. study, Frank Olsen observed. interrogations at CIA black sites in. Germany. Detainees were called. Expendables. >> I'm assuming these Expendables were not. aging action stars. >> They were not. They were mostly. suspected spies and security leaks. >> Suspected. So, uh, not proven. >> Nope, just suspected. >> Freaking spooks. >> The Expendables were subject to drug.

experiments, hypnosis, electric shocks, isolation, sexual abuse, and all kinds. of torture. This was an effort to study. not just the effects of extreme torture, but also brainwashing techniques and. memory deletion. Many of these people. were interrogated to death. In other. instances, Frank Olsen saw the results. of his own weapons that were used on. expendables. Some of those people died. slowly and in agony. And even though. Frank's wife didn't know any of the. specifics, it was clear that Frank's.

work was becoming too much for him to. bear. In November 1953, Frank Olsen. received an invitation for a. pre-Thanksgiving retreat at a cabin on. Deep Creek Lake. Gotautle ran these. retreats for scientists and staff pretty. often. Deep Creek was a convenient place. for God. This was one of the locations. where Americans were subjected to MK. Ultra techniques against their will for. decades. Frank Olsen was there with 10. other scientists. The first day of the. gathering was fine. Nothing out of the.

ordinary. On the second day, after. dinner, the men kicked back for a. postmeal drink. Lashbrook got Leap's. second in command, pulled a bunch of. glasses, and poured everyone a generous. portion of Quantro, which is. >> an excellent orange triple secloola from. France. Right. 20 minutes later, God. asked if anyone was feeling odd. A few. of the men said they were. Got then told. him that their drinks were spiked with a. heavy dose of LSD. >> Son of a. Frank Olsen was aware that the CIA had.

dosed entire villages in Europe to. observe the results. Many innocent. people died from these experiments, but. he was surprised that he would be the. unwitting subject of an experiment. And. Frank didn't react well. A few days. later, he submitted his resignation, but. he was talked into staying. It was. suggested that he see a psychiatrist to. help him cope with the effects of the. experiment and the stress of his work. Frank agreed. Lashbrook drove Frank. Olsen to New York to meet with Dr. Harold Abramson.

>> Yeah. Yeah. This is the guy he called. after the jump, right? >> Yep. Dr. Abramson was actually an. allergist that worked for the CIA. He. pretended to be a psychiatrist, but. Frank didn't know this. After a couple. of sessions, Dr. Abramson convinced. Frank to check himself into a hospital. so he could recover from stress and. exhaustion. Frank was actually fine with. this. He was looking forward to the time. off and was already picking out what. books to bring with him. And that night, he and Lashbrook signed into the. Statatler Hotel, room 1018A. Frank had a.

nice conversation with his wife. She. remembered him sounding more peaceful. than he'd been in a long time. He. watched a little TV and went to bed. At. 2:30 a.m., he was dead on the street. below the window. Over the next 12. hours, a cleanup and a cover up by the. CIA ensued. The police investigation was. quickly closed. Frank Olsen's family was. told he died from jumping or falling out. a window. About 20 years later, more. details about MK Ultra emerged and the. Olsen family received a settlement. And.

almost 20 years after that, the case. would take another turn. Frank Olsen's wife, Alice, passed away. in 1993. Their children decided to have. Frank's body exumed and reburied next to. his wife. But Frank's children had an. additional plan. They had James Star, a. medical examiner professor, conduct a. second autopsy. Star said there were no. cuts on Frank's body and no shards of. glass, which would have been expected by. jumping through a window. And even. though Frank landed on his back, his.

skull above his left eye had a blunt. force trauma injury. He had another. serious wound on his chest. Star said of. his findings, >> "I think Frank Olsen was intentionally, deliberately with malice of forethought. thrown out of the window.". >> Frank's son sued the CIA again, but. because of the agreement they signed in. 1975, the judge had to dismiss the case. But the judge did say even though the. case couldn't proceed as a matter of. law, the allegations made by the family.

against the CIA, though they sounded. far-fetched, appeared to be the truth. Since the lawsuit couldn't proceed, Frank Olsen's sons went to the press. They flat out said the CIA murdered. their father and covered it up. They. also produced interesting documents. In. 1954, just a few months after Frank. Olsen's death, the CIA executed a. document with the Department of Justice. that gave the CIA authority to grant CIA. employees immunity from any crime,

including murder. >> A license to kill. >> Exactly. And there's a handbook released. in 1953, the year of Frank's death, called the CIA Study of Assassination. It's fascinating, and I'll link it. below. It describes that the best way to. assassinate a target is to drop them. from at least 75 ft onto a hard surface. The manual says when successfully. executed, it causes little excitement. and is only casually investigated. In. fact, the MSAD, the Israeli intelligence.

organization, used Frank Olsen's death. as an example of a perfect murder due to. the skill with which it was executed. Now, while there is still no official. admission of guilt from the CIA, I think. it's pretty obvious what happened. Frank. Olsen was one of only a few scientists. who could confirm that the United States. used chemical weapons in the Korean War. This is something that's still only. alleged, but there's a lot of evidence. it happened. Korean and Chinese soldiers. were suddenly coming down with cases of. chalera, menitis, and even plague. It's.

possible Frank Olsen was directly. involved in deploying these illegal. weapons. Frank Olsen was one of only a. dozen or so people on Earth who knew the. extent of MK Ultra and other secret and. illegal CIA operations. Frank Olsen was. a man who committed or at least was part. of projects that committed atrocities. around the world. And he was dealing. with a moral crisis and started voicing. his concerns. He even quit, but the CIA. wouldn't allow it. When he was dosed.

with LSD that night in November, it was. a loyalty test to see what scientists. would say if they were exposed to the. drug. Frank Olsen failed that test and. paid the ultimate price. But because of. his death and the diligence of his. family, many illegal CIA activities were. exposed and MK Ultra was almost. destroyed. Almost. It continued for. another 20 years before finally shutting. down in 1973. At least as far as we.

know, all the records were illegally. destroyed. And not Sydney Gotautle, Robert Lashbrook, or any of the senior. scientists from MK Ultra were ever. brought to justice. In fact, they all. lived out their lives on fat pensions. paid for by you and me. But the CIA. promises that MK Ultra was the last time. drug experiments were done on people. against their will. And such atrocities. absolutely could not and would not. happen today. Why would they lie? 3 + 1 5 plus 0 0.

>> So everybody knows that after World War. II, the United States imported about. 1,200 Nazi war criminals. I mean. scientists under Operation Paperclip. And the scientists who get the most. attention are Veron Brown and his team. of rocket engineers/war. criminals. But one scientist who doesn't. get a lot of attention, and you're going. to find out why, is Dr. Eric Trout. He. was the top bioweapon scientist for the. Nazis. And after the war, US Army. brought him over to set up or improve.

the bioweapons program for the US. But whenever I get into Operation. Paperclip, I always hammer home, these. are Nazis. We, you know, Verer von Brown. is not a hero. He's a hero, but he's not. a hero. You know, a lot of these guy, these is all evil dudes. And most of the. Operation Paperclip was just bringing. over intelligence assets. They don't. like talking about that. It's the,200. scientists that we learn about. It's not. the 6,000 intelligence agents that just. lived here until the 70s and 80s.

Now, keep in mind that bioweapons were. made illegal under the 1925 Geneva. protocol. So, the US is bringing over a. war criminal to help with a program that. is by definition a war crime. Anyway, Dr. Trab helped set up the infamous Plum. Island facility in New York near where I. grew up. I saw this thing all the time. Now, the goal there was to weaponize. biting insects like ticks. And if we. learned anything from Jurassic Park, when you mess with nature, nature fights.

back. In July 2008, the carcass of an animal. washed up on the beach at Montalk Point, Long Island. Local beach comrs are used. to seeing dead animals, seagulls, fish, crabs, even the occasional whale. But. they had never seen anything like this. Animal experts were brought in to. identify it. They were stumped. It. looked like part dog, part reptile, and. part rodent with the beak of a bird. This animal, whatever it was, became. known as the Montalk monster. But where.

did the monster come from? There could. be only one answer: Plum Island. Plum. Island is just a few miles from where. the monster was found. Locals heard. rumors that this was a top secret. government facility that created. boweapons, engineered animal hybrids, and maybe even experimented on people. Sounds like a wild theory. But then. another animal washed up on the beach. Again, it couldn't be identified. And. then another animal, and then two more. In 2010, the rumors about Plum Island.

seemed to be true when something else. was found on the beach. This time, it. wasn't a strange animal. It was a body. A human body. Well, almost human. [Music]. Less than 2 mi off the coast of Long. Island and about 85 mi from New York. City is a small island owned by the US. government and unidentified on most. maps. It's only accessible by ferry or.

by helicopter. But don't try visiting. Even if you have top secret clearance, access to Plum Island is invitation. only. Boats that wander too close are. quickly chased away by armed military. personnel. Officially, the island is. home to the Plum Island Animal Disease. Center, a federal research facility that. studies livestock related diseases, specifically foot and mouth disease and. African swine fever. These are highly. contagious diseases that affect cows, pigs, sheep, and goats. The Plum Island.

Animal Disease Center is the only lab in. the US authorized to work with live FMD. samples. If these samples escape the. island, it could devastate the country's. food supply in a matter of weeks. Foot. and mouth is so contagious that if a. single case is found in imported meat, all meat imports from that country are. instantly banned. In 2001, the UK had an. outbreak of foot and mouth disease that. resulted in a loss of almost $10 billion. and the slaughter of more than 6 million. animals, whether they were infected or.

not. The center also studies African and. classical swine fevers as well as aven. flu. Now, there's no question that since. the 1950s, Plum Island has studied. diseases that affect livestock. But Plum. Island's true history is much darker. For years, stories circulated that Plum. Island was conducting genetic. experiments on animals and possibly on. people. So, when the bodies of strange. animals began washing up on beaches. around the Long Island Sound, it could. mean only one thing. The rumors about.

Plum Island were true. The Manhattan. monster was found along the East River. Then another creature washed up, and. this one kind of looked like a pig, but. you don't see a lot of those running. around New York City. Besides, pigs have. four toes on each foot that ends in a. hoof. The Manhattan monster's feet had. five toes that ended in what look like. claws. >> Oh, did it have the body of a crab and. the head of a cat? >> No, it had. >> It would be a crab cat. >> I know, but a crab cat. Some thought it. could be a huge rat. Now, I'm from New.

York and I've seen some huge rats. Especially under the F train at West. Fourth Street, huh? They get big down there, but not this. big. Plus, rats have four toes on their. back feet. Again, this thing had five. Then, another unrecognizable animal. appeared. Then, another. And another. Plum Island is supposed to be a medical.

research facility originally under the. purview of the Department of. Agriculture, but Plum Island is actually. part of Homeland Security. Why? In 2008, an al-Qaeda operative named Aifa Sadiki. was captured. She was in possession of. handwritten notes with possible sites. for a mass casualty attack in the United. States. One of the sites listed was Plum. Island. Again, why? Well, Plum Island. research wasn't always about curing. diseases. When it opened, Plum Island.

was about creating them. In 1952, Plum. Island was used to research anti-animal. biological warfare. Specifically, it. focused on weaponizing foot and mouth. disease against enemy livestock to. disrupt their food supply. But there's. evidence that the bioweapons developed. on Plum Island weren't only targeting. animals, but targeting humans. In January 2010, a human body was found. on Plum Island by a local security. guard. It was described as a 6-ft tall. black male with no obvious signs of.

trauma. But there were a few strange. details about this man. One is that his. fingers were described as abnormally. large. Some news agencies reported that. his hands seemed mutated. But the. scariest detail of all, his skull had. five holes drilled into it, indicating. invasive brain surgery or. experimentation. And that's where Plum. Island's dark history becomes even. darker. Because when the United States wanted to. create one of the deadliest germ labs on. Earth, it brought in elite personnel to.

build it. To build Plum Island, the US. brought in bioweapon scientists with. experience in human experimentation. to. build Plum Island. The US brought in the. Nazis. >> Why couldn't the MOK monster be some. some critter that they were tinkering. with that somehow uh went into the water. and got swept by that outgoing tide? Mtok is uh is south and east of Plum. Island. Not that far, maybe 10 miles uh.

as the crow flies, maybe less even. Uh, why couldn't it be that? >> Resams Island, Germany is home to the. oldest bureological institution in the. world. REMS was founded in 1910 to. research foot and mouth disease. But. during World War II, it became ground. zero for Hitler's bowarfare program. RES. was run by scientist Eric Trout, who. reported directly to Hinrich Himmler, who reported directly to Hitler. Trout. experimented with unique forms of.

biological warfare. He specialized in. biting and stinging insects. He. discovered that if you infect beetles. and ticks with a deadly disease, you can. drop them on enemy troops and their food. supplies. You can devastate an entire. army without firing a single shot. Ticks. were considered an ideal weapon for. biological warfare. They're small, making them hard to detect. They're. resilient, making them hard to kill. And. they feed on human blood, making them. motivated to spread disease. The tick is the perfect germ vector,

which is why it has long been fancied as. a germ weapon by early bowarriors from. Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan to. the Soviet Union and the United States. After the war, there was no Nazi. Germany. There was no Empire of Japan. But the Soviet Union and the United. States were still very interested in. using poison ticks in warfare. Except. now they would be used on each other. So. now the two allies became enemies and. competition for German technology was. fierce. The United States launched.

Operation Paperclip, a secret program. that recruited German scientists, engineers, and technicians. The US gave. German scientists a choice. Work for us. and your war crimes are forgiven. Not a. difficult decision for most. Even if. German scientists refused to work for. the US, they could still find themselves. swept up in operation osuyakim. This was. the Soviet counterpart to Operation. Paperclip. But where the US gave. scientists a choice, the Soviets took. them by force. Eric Trout was one of the.

scientists forced to work for the. Soviets from his lab on Ree Island. But. in 1948, British intelligence got him. out and brought him to the States. Soon. he was working at Fort Dietrich, the. Army's biological warfare headquarters. And based on the design of Trrow Island. in Germany, the United States built. their own lab off the coast of New York. So, the Plum Island Animal Disease. Laboratory opened its doors in 1954. >> A source who worked on Plum Island in. the 1950s recalls that animal handlers.

and a scientist released ticks outdoors. on the island. They called him the Nazi. scientist. In 1951, they were. inoculating these ticks. >> It would take years before residents in. the area would learn what was happening. on Plum Island. And when locals found. out, tensions were high. Nobody wanted a. bioweapons lab in their backyard. Moral. issues aside, what if some disease made. it to the mainland? After all, about 10. million people live within 100 miles of. the island. A lab leak would be.

catastrophic. But even when the. government finally acknowledged the. facility, they said that one, it wasn't. researching bioweapons, and two, there's. no way anything could escape the island. But here's the thing, those were both. lies. this this animal facility since 1954. when it was actually inaugurated as a. biological warfare facility uh by Nazi. Germany's top germware officer uh. warfare officer that we secretly. imported to the United States. The goal.

was germ warfare. >> Is that true? It really was a a Nazi a. Nazi ran the place an ex-Nazi. >> Yeah. His name his name was Eric Trout. We can find him in the depths of the. National Archives and Record. Administration where I found him. In 1971, a mysterious virus began. decimating Cuba's pig population, threatening a major food source. Within. 2 years, over 500,000 pigs had died or. been slaughtered. The cause was African.

swine fever, a highly contagious and. usually fatal virus. This was the first. and only outbreak of swine fever in the. Western Hemisphere. As a result of the. epidemic, Cuba was forced to slaughter. every pig on the island. How African. swine flu got onto the island was a. mystery. Well, a mystery to everyone. except the Cubans. The Cuban government blamed the United. States, specifically the CIA. After all, Operation Mongoose was well known to the. Cubans. This was a covert operation.

initiated by the CIA in the early 1960s. Its primary objective was to remove. Fidel Castro from power. And although. they were never implemented, biological. weapons were a part of this plan. The. CIA had planned to spray bachulinum. toxin on the island. The justification. for this is that it would save the lives. of thousands of American soldiers. Cuban. civilians wouldn't be so lucky. Bachulinum toxin is one of the most. potent toxins on Earth. Estimates put. the casualty count at somewhere between.

1 and 2% of the Cuban civilian. population. We're talking hundreds of. thousands dead. Now, luckily, Operation. Mongoose ended and this never came to. pass. But when a disease landed on Cuba. out of nowhere, all signs pointed to the. CIA. [Music]. In 1977, Long Island newspaper News Day. reported two Cuban exiles admitted they. were part of the plot. They said in. early 1971, they were given the virus at.

Fort Gulik in Panama. They then traveled. to Nasa Island near Cuba and smuggled. the virus to the island. Now, there is. proof that the US Navy was on NASA. Island in early 1971, but they claim. this was a scientific mission, though. the science they were researching was. looking for animal diseases that could. jump to humans. Now, that might be a. coincidence, but there's only one place. in the Western Hemisphere that has live. African swine flu. That's Plum Island. And the way African swine flu is.

transmitted through ticks. This was the. exact method of biological attack that. Eric Trab specialized in. Of course, the. CIA denied all of this and still does, but it has to. >> Why does the CIA have to deny this? >> Well, this attack happened in 1971. President Richard Nixon ordered all. bioweapon research to stop in 1969. So, there's no way the CIA could have been. involved, right? >> Oh, I know where this is going. But in. 1975, a congressional report revealed.

that the CIA continued to maintain a. stockpile of biological weapons. Lots of. them in violation of the order. >> The CIA doesn't like to follow orders. >> No, they don't. And this was a. terrifying prospect. Who is in charge of. these dangerous bioweapons? With no. oversight, there's a high risk that one. of these diseases could infect the. population and we'd never see it coming. Turns out that's exactly what happened.

In 1975, Ronnie was working a security. detail for a warehouse in Connecticut. During his shift, he walked the. building, the parking lot, and the fence. around the property. During one of his. rounds, he felt a pinch on his ankle. He. was breaking in a new pair of boots, and. he knew he'd spend the next few nights. nursing sore feet. When he got home, the. first thing he did was strip off those. damn boots, and sure enough, he had a. small red welt on his ankle. When he. woke up the next morning, the small red. welt had ballooned into a painful. blister shaped like a bullseye. When he.

rubbed it, he felt a bump. He looked. more closely. The bump was a bug, and it. was alive. Ronnie grabbed a pair of. tweezers, and when he pulled the bug. out, it broke apart. A few days later, his joints started to ache, and he felt. sick. He thought he had caught the flu, but it wasn't the flu. In 1975, the small town of Old Lime, Connecticut, experienced an outbreak of. a devastating new disease. Some people. got rashes, some ran high fevers, others. had painful swollen joints. Some people.

had all these symptoms as well as. headaches, dizziness, and shortness of. breath. In severe cases, people were. becoming delusional, experiencing. psychosis, and becoming paralyzed. At. first, doctors misdiagnosed the. condition as a type of arthritis. They. named it Lyme arthritis after the town. that had the first outbreak. 2 years. later, scientists finally connected Lyme. arthritis to the bite of a deer tick. A. type of single cell bacteria called. Burellia was to blame for what's now.

known as Lyme disease. As the reports of. symptoms came in, these cases were. placed on a map. A disturbing picture. started to appear. Ground zero was Plum. Island. This was another disease spread. by ticks. This also has Eric Trab's. fingerprints all over it. But was the. outbreak an accident? Or is the. government conducting a test on the. population without their knowledge? If. it was a test, it wouldn't be the first. time. In the 1930s, the Tuskegee. experiment infected 400 men with.

syphilis to see how the disease affected. black males. They were denied treatment. The US government has infected prisoners. with cow blood and exposed people to. plutonium. It really was the Kmart of. human experimentation from 1951 to 1974. >> Operation Sea Spray was a secret test in. 1950 where the government dropped. bacteria on the entire city of San. Francisco. In 1966, the Army released. bacteria into the New York subway to.

simulate a biological attack. >> Hey, if you can make it there, uh, you. can make it anywhere. Project 112 and. Project Shad infected thousands of. military personnel with biological. agents like BZ and nerve toxins like. sarin gas. >> The tests themselves were uh a lot of. smoke. The planes would uh let out a uh. like a smoke or gas type thing and it. would it would also cover the ship. >> The crew was given gas mess and told not.

to worry. >> They were exposed to toxic nerve gas at. least 46 times. Nobody knows how many. people were killed. The records are. still mostly classified. And there are. more. Lots more. Tests without consent. have been conducted as recently as the. 1990s, many involving children. And. that's just what's been exposed. Who. knows how many more tests are still. classified or if tests are still taking. place. We do know that some civilians. were exposed uh in tests that uh. occurred in Hawaii.

uh possibly in Alaska and possibly in. Florida. >> The military and intelligence community. of course continue to deny any. wrongdoing. They deny that bioweapon. research was done at Plum Island and. they deny that Lyme disease was. artificially created and released to the. public. But denial is not good enough. We know the CIA and military violate. orders time and time again, and we know. they lie when they do it. So, in 2019,

Congressman Christopher Smith from New. Jersey proposed an amendment to the 2020. defense bill. >> For years, Mr. Speaker, books and. articles have been written credibly. asserting that significant research at. Fort Dietrich and Plum Island and. elsewhere was conducted to turn ticks. into bioweapons. Mr. Speaker, with Lyme. disease and other tickborne diseases. exploding in the United States, an. estimated 300,000 to 427,000. cases new cases each year. And 10 to 20%. of those people with chronic lime.

Americans have a right to know whether. or not any of this is true. >> But what prompted this? Well, the. bacteria that causes Lyme disease is. called Borrellia Burgdorfery after. Willie Bergdorfer who discovered it. Now, Burgdorfer was widely known as a. leading researcher in the scientific. study of insects and his discovery of. Lyme disease was historic. But what's. not widely known about Burgdorfer is. that early in his career, he developed. biological weapons for the US military.

Specifically, he weaponized ticks. And. between 1966 and 1969, almost 300,000. research ticks, they got out. >> Dr. Willie Bergdoffer, the researcher. who was credited with discovering Lyme. disease. Turns out Dr. Bergdoffer was a. bioweapons specialist. The interviews. combined with access to Dr. Bergdorfer's. files reveals that he and other. bioweapons specialists stuffed ticks.

with pathogens in a quest to cause. disability disease and death. Between 1966 and 1969, government. researchers released 300,000 ticks into. the wild. The ticks were irradiated so. they could be tracked. >> 300,000 irradiated ticks. Oh, what could. possibly go wrong? >> Oh, plenty. One of the species released. were Lonear ticks. Lonear ticks are. especially aggressive. Most tick species.

wait for prey by attaching to a blade of. grass. When an animal brushes against. it, the tick latches on. This is called. questing. Lonear ticks are different. They don't wait. They actively hunt. They can smell the ammonia in sweat and. the carbon dioxide from breath. They're. the only ticks with eyes. Unlike other. ticks, the lonear can bite multiple. times. Even their young, called nymphs, can feed on humans. Lone star ticks can. go months without food. They can absorb.

water from the air. They can survive. underwater. They can be frozen. Female. lonear ticks lay hundreds of thousands. of eggs at a time. And scariest of all, lonear ticks swarm. They'll ball. themselves up in groups of almost 10,000. ticks. And when an animal or person. brushes up against a group, it means. thousands of tick bites. And these ticks. carry a lot of diseases. Rocky Mountain. spotted fever, ericchiosis, tarmia, heartland virus, and on and on. A bite.

from a lonear tick can even trigger a. delayed allergic reaction to meat. >> That tick bite leads to an allergic. response to the alpha gal sugar that's. found in red meat. >> I wish they would invent a tick that. gives you an allergic reaction to fish. Huh? >> Now, forever the Lonear tick was. confined to the southeast United States, but thousands were released in Virginia. in the late 1960s. Since then, they've. expanded to the entire eastern half of. the United States, from Minnesota to.

Maine, down to Florida, and all the way. across Texas, and they're still moving. I was called to investigate an outbreak, and I was horrified. I've studied ticks. for 10 years, and the number of Lonear. Lari I found was just astonishing. They're everywhere. Every property that. we have gone to, we've found Lonear. ticks. They're literally every place. I. hope this isn't the new normal, but I. fear that they're exploding in numbers. >> The CDC says alpha gal syndrome, traditionally found in mid-Atlantic.

states, is spreading. 110,000 suspected. cases have been identified since 2010. But experts estimate the true number. affected is closer to 450,000. Plum Island boasted how it was. considered the safest virus lab in the. world until it wasn't. In 1978, foot and. mouth disease did get out. Every animal. on the island had to be cremated, but. not before lunch. >> Wait, wait, wait. Did you just say. lunch?

>> Well, hey, even scientists working at a. top secret government germ lab got to. eat. >> On kill day, the guys upstairs would. carve up steaks from sirloins to pork. chops. Not USDA grade A, but USDA grade. V for virus. Everyone to a man would. deny it. But we did it. We ate the meat. Ugh, I don't feel well. >> Yeah, not only is it gross to eat meat. infected with foot and mouth disease, it's a little irresponsible. Now, FMD. isn't dangerous to humans, but this.

speaks to shoddy conditions at Plum. Island. After the foot and mouth. breakout, the USDA inspected the. facility. They wrote 190 page report. detailing how mismanaged it was. They. found leaking roofs, leaking walls, steel beams rusted through. They found. an incinerator lying in a ditch half. filled with dirty water. And soon after. this, there was an outbreak of Rift. Valley fever on the island. Weaponized. RVF was being tested by infecting. mosquitoes. Some mosquitoes got out and.

bit the scientists. Now, luckily, they. knew how to treat it. But if those. mosquitoes got off the island and made. it to shore, Rift Valley fever presents. like the flu, but if you don't treat it, it kills you. In 2002, 76 Plum Island. workers went on strike. Scabs were. brought in to replace them, and it did. not go well. The FBI conducted an. investigation and found all kinds of. issues. A 600-gallon container of liquid. nitrogen somehow fell off one of the. island's berries. Hundreds of gallons of. oil and chemicals were spilled all over.

the island. Two workers drove off with a. minivan and didn't come back. The van. was later found, but whatever was in it. was gone. and failing to learn from. their mistakes. Two years later, there. were two more outbreaks of foot and. mouth disease on Plum Island. In New. Haven, Connecticut, a worker at Yale. University's Arbo virus lab became. infected with seabilla virus. This virus. causes extremely high fevers and. internal bleeding. So, he got infected, went home, and took a trip to Boston. If. anyone got sick, that information is not.

public. More recently, a Fort Dietrich. researcher accidentally stuck herself. with a needle containing Ebola. These. breakdowns in security of facilities. like Plum Island prompted a nationwide. investigation. But a 2007 report. revealed that 113 bioweapon capable labs. around the United States refused to. comply with inspections. And this is not. just a violation of federal law. It's a. violation of the Geneva Conventions. But. President George W. Bush granted the.

facilities amnesty from inspections and. Congress agreed. >> Wait, wait, wait, wait. The United. States can decide when it doesn't want. to follow the Geneva Conventions. >> No, >> but it decides anyway. >> Yes. >> And other countries don't complain. >> Oh, they complain. But. >> but if you want those billions of. financial aid to keep flowing, shut your. yap. >> Bingo. Biological weapons were banned in. 1925 by the Geneva Protocol. But the. United States refused to sign it. It. wasn't until Richard Nixon banned. bioweapons research that the US agreed.

to a worldwide ban. The US finally. signed the Geneva Protocol in 1975. >> Somebody let the CIA know. >> These scary events happened in. relatively small labs around the country. with maybe a few dozen to a few hundred. employees. Can you imagine what would. happen if there was a leak at the CDC. with 10,000 employees? >> Whoa, whoa, whoa. The CDC had a leak. >> A leak? No. >> Oh, thank God. >> They've had dozens. >> Oh, no.

In May 2012, 24year-old Amy Copeland and. a few friends were ziplining near the. Talapusa River in Georgia. During one of. Amy's runs, she heard a snap. The. zipline broke and she fell into the. creek below. She landed on sharp rocks. and cut her leg pretty badly. She went. through routine surgery, but over the. next 2 days developed a fever and severe. pain. Amy was infected with arommonous. hydrophila, a rare type of flesheating. bacteria. This bacteria moves faster. than antibiotics can work. So, the only. way to remove it is to remove the limbs.

it infects. So, you have to move fast. Amy survived but lost both hands, both. feet, and her entire left leg. But. suddenly, more cases of this rare. disease were popping up. Georgia, South. Carolina, Northern Florida. When looking. at these cases on a map, people started. asking, "How secure is the CDC building. in Atlanta?" Well, not as secure as. you'd hope. In June of 2012, just weeks. after Amy Copelan's accident, it was. reported that the CDC building in.

Atlanta had an airflow problem. Rather. than drawing clean air into a. contaminated lab, it was blowing. contaminated air out. >> Dirty germy air. >> Yep. In that building, they study SARS, monkey pox, and anthrax. >> Oh, the heavy metal band. >> The disease. >> Ah, that makes more sense. While transporting samples, about 80. employees in Atlanta may have been. exposed to live anthrax. >> Live anthrax? So you mean like in. constant? >> Still the disease. >> Ah, right.

>> About a year later, it was found that. the CDC was storing anthrax in unlocked. refrigerators in unrestricted areas. At. least five times the CDC improperly. handled and shipped deadly pathogens to. different labs around the country. Anthrax, bachulism, and bird flu. About. a week after this report, old vials of. smallox were discovered in a building on. the Bethesda campus of the National. Institutes of Health. And this was after. the NIH promised to do better. >> Better than what?

>> Well, about a year before, a deadly. bacteria got out and 12 people died. In 2016, investigations show more CDC. safety lapses with storing and handling. anthrax and Ebola. From software errors. to power outages to sealing doors with. duct tape. Uh uh did you just say they. use duct tape to keep in deadly viruses? >> Yep. And this goes on and on. And these. are just the instances we know about. It's not like the CDC issues a press. release every time there's a security. failure. Most of these discoveries were.

made with freedom of information. requests from citizens. These types of leaks and failures do. happen and they happen more frequently. than most people think. These safety. problems are at the CDC in Atlanta, one. of the most secure facilities on the. planet. If a leak can happen there, they. can happen in other places. >> Yeah, Chinese places. >> Well, let's not single out any specific. country. >> Sheep. >> Look, just because that rare flesheating. bacteria is not so rare anymore, I'm not. saying it came from the CDC. And Lyme.

disease probably wasn't created on Plum. Island because there's evidence it. existed for a long time. You know, AI, the 5,000-year-old mummy who was found. in the Alps, well, his DNA showed. evidence of Lyme disease. But the outbreak of Lyme disease does. coincide with research into weaponizing. ticks. And the expansion of Lonear ticks. does coincide with the uncontrolled. releases of thousands of them in the. late 1960s. Dr. Willie Bergdorfer before. he died did kind of say that Lyme.

disease was a research experiment gone. wrong. Maybe he had advanced Parkinson's. so it's really hard to tell what he was. saying, but there are people who believe. that there's no question about it. Books. like Lab 257 by Michael Christopher. Carroll and Bitten by Chris Newbie lay. out a very convincing case. Now, there's. plenty of evidence, but evidence isn't. proof. And researching this episode was. stressful. The idea that the government. has tested bioweapons on its citizens is.

upsetting enough, but what's really. scary is how sloppy the security is in. our labs. I had no idea it was this bad. And given what's happened over the past. couple of years, we need to pay. attention. If you have one of these labs. near you, get to know your congressman. Demand that lab safety protocols are. made public. Demand to know the result. of any safety investigations. Now, they're not going to tell you any of. that, but if they know we're watching, they'll pay closer attention to safety. procedures. We hope. And look, if you're. in the New York or Boston area, you can.

stop worrying about Plum Island. It's. scheduled to be closed at the end of. this year. But the work currently being. performed there will continue. It'll. just take place at a new facility in. Kansas, in the middle of the country, in. the middle of America's food supply. Bonapetit. 3 + 1 5 plus 0. >> It's controversial to say, but I'm. pretty sure Lyme disease was a military. experiment gone wrong. And I'm not the.

only one who feels this way. There have. been quite a few books published exactly. on that subject laying out the proof. In. fact, I use those books in the episode. But I never in a million years expect. the US government to admit that they did. this. But what about the crimes that the. government has admitted to? This. happened in 2007 with a huge CIA. document dump. And buried in those pages. are some of the darkest and most heinous. crimes in history. This is episode 189, the CIA family jewels.

[Music]. On June 25th, 2007, the CIA quietly. released 693 pages of their darkest. secrets to the website. No announcement, no press conference, just a document. dump of operations so illegal they've. been hidden since 1973.

The CIA called this collection their. family jewels. Assassination plots, mind. control experiments, journalists on CIA. payroll, surveillance of hundreds of. thousands of Americans who'd committed. no crimes. These weren't conspiracy. theories. These were real. Each page of. the family jewels revealed operations. approved at the highest levels. Operations that violated every law meant. to constrain the CIA. And taken.

together, they revealed something darker. than isolated crimes. They told a story. The story of the family jewels is the. story of the real CIA. [Music]. The story of the family jewels didn't. start in 2007. It starts in 1973 when. the walls started closing in on the CIA. On May 9th, James Slesinger had been CIA.

director for only three months, and his. timing couldn't have been worse. The. Watergate break-in scandal was. spreading. The five intruders were all. connected to the CIA, some as officers, some as assets. The planners of the. break-in were E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Litty. Hunt was former CIA. Litty. was former FBI with a background in. intelligence. Congress and the press. were asking questions the CIA didn't. want to answer. But the director had a. problem. He didn't know what his own. agency had done. He knew there were.

secrets buried that could destroy them. if ever discovered. So he issued an. order to every department head. Report. any activity that may have violated the. CIA's charter. This was supposed to be a. routine investigation, a way to get the. agency out of the headlines. The rumors. were bad. He had no idea that the truth. was much worse. One department admitted to opening mail. between the US and Soviet Union. 28. million letters over 20 years were. illegally opened and scanned. The Office.

of Security confessed to wiretapping. American journalists who'd been asking. too many questions. Every department. submitted reports. Every report was. worse than the last. There were. disclosures of surveillance operations, not against foreign spies, against. Americans. Anyone who questioned. authority was a CIA target. Some. programs were classified secret, then. top secret. But operations classified. eyes only were so secret details. couldn't be written down. They were.

labeled sensitive operation details. available orally only. Others had code. names that revealed nothing. MH Chaos, HT Lingual, MK often. Week after week, the secrets poured in. Programs everyone. thought were conspiracy theories. The. binder was getting heavy. By summary, it. was several inches thick. Almost 700. pages of CIA misconduct. But these. weren't occasional mistakes. They were. approved, funded, and executed. In other. words, decades of illegal CIA operation.

was official policy. This was a report. that could destroy the agency. And then. it leaked, not from a spy, but from a. journalist who believed in transparency. But he had no idea he was about to. expose the biggest intelligence scandal. in American history. And as soon as the. CIA caught wind of his investigation, he. became the AY's biggest threat and knew. his target.

The journalist who would expose it all. was no stranger to government lies. Seymour Hirs had already won a Puliter. Prize in 1969 for exposing the Myai. massacre where American soldiers. slaughtered hundreds of Vietnamese. civilians. The Pentagon tried to bury. that story. Hirs dragged it into the. light. By December 1974, Hirs was at the New. York Times, and he'd been hearing. whispers from former CIA officers about. domestic surveillance programs, programs. that weren't supposed to exist. The.

CIA's charter was crystal clear. No. domestic operations, no spying on. American citizens, period. But his. sources were telling him the opposite, that the CIA was running a massive. operation against Americans. On December. 22nd, 1974, The Times ran Hersh's story. on the front page. The article detailed a massive. intelligence operation with files on. 10,000 American citizens. Not foreign. agents, not terrorists, Americans,

anti-war activists, civil rights. leaders, journalists, even members of. Congress. The backlash was instant. The. public was outraged, and the press. wouldn't let it go. The next morning, the Department of Justice announced an. investigation and CIA Director William. Colby was summoned to Air Force One to. brief President Ford personally. President Ford's solution was damage. control. Control the narrative. Vice. President Nelson Rockefeller would lead.

a commission to investigate. Quick, clean, controlled. The scandal would. finally be contained. But it backfired. The commission not only confirmed. everything Hirs reported, they found. more. The CIA had conducted break-ins. against American citizens, bugged their. homes, opened their mail, tapped their. phones, even tested biological weapons. on Americans without their knowledge. The agency wasn't just violating its. charter, it was breaking the law. And. every target was an American citizen on.

American soil. the uh agency uh does monitor foreign. communications. >> How do you define foreign. communications? >> I think it is uh communications that uh. go abroad or are abroad. I think uh they. does it involve a United States citizen. at one end. >> on some occasions that cannot be. separated from the uh from the traffic.

that is being monitored. I believe. >> these operations weren't the work of. rogue agents. They were approved at the. highest levels by CIA directors, by the. Pentagon, by former presidents and vice. presidents. >> It turned out that most of these abuses. really could be trailed back to the. president and the NS. They initiated. them. They knew about them. In some. cases, for example, assassinations. Eisenhower was the first to suggest it.

And so this was this was really not a. rogue uh president, I mean rogue agency. This was in some respects a rogue. presidency. >> Congress knew they needed their own. investigation. Senator Frank Church was. chosen to lead what would become the. most extensive investigation of. intelligence activities ever conducted. And the Church Committee had something. the president's commission didn't. Subpoena power. The power to force. anyone involved to testify.

Noah hiding behind national security. No. I can neither confirm nor deny. Tell the. truth or go to jail. For the first time. in history, the CIA would have to reveal. their covert operations under oath and. on the record. And what they revealed. shocked everyone because any American. could be a target. And as the. investigation continued, that list of. American targets kept getting longer and. longer.

The Church Committee's first major. discovery was Operation Chaos, known by. its cryptonym Chaos. Started in 1967. under President Johnson and expanded. under Nixon. The mission was simple. Find foreign influence in the anti-war. movement. proved that Moscow or Beijing. were behind the protests. They never. found any foreign influence, not one. case. The anti-war movement was made up. of Americans, but they kept looking for. communists, and the program kept.

growing. By 1973, chaos had indexed. 300,000 Americans in its computer. system. Not suspected spies, not foreign. agents. Americans exercising their First. Amendment rights, college students, clergy, professors, journalists, anyone. who questioned the Vietnam War was a. potential target. Richard Ober ran the. operation. He worked under James Jesus. Angleton, the CIA's counter intelligence. chief. Angleton had built his own empire.

within the CIA. He was brilliant, paranoid, and convinced that enemies. were everywhere. The CIA was designed to. protect America from foreign threats. But Angleton had turned those weapons. inward against his own citizens. They. used a sophisticated computer system to. track everyone. It cross referenced. every name mentioned in every. intelligence report, feed in one name, get connections to dozens more, like a. spiderweb expanding outward. 7,200. Americans had dedicated files. Their.

mail was opened and their phones were. tapped without a warrant. Their trash. was searched. CIA agents infiltrated. their organizations, attended their. meetings, recorded their conversations. The documents described domestic spying, opening of private mail, and the. investigation of journalists. Agents. watched former Washington Post reporter. Michael Gler for 3 months in 1971. >> They were watching who I was talking to. They were they they took pictures of who. I was having lunch with. They actually. took pictures um through the picture.

window of our home. CIA employees have. nicknamed the documents the family. jewels. >> Over 1,000 organizations were monitored, not just protest groups. The CIA watched. Jewish organizations. The Israeli. embassy was watched. When asked why, one. CIA officer said they were looking for. radical Jewish elements. American Jews. practicing their faith, supporting. Israel, were watched by their own. government. And Chaos wasn't alone. Mary.

Mack infiltrated protest groups around. Washington DC. Operation Resistance. collected information on draft. resistors. HTing, an earlier operation, was still running, and that was opening. and photographing mail between Americans. and foreign countries. The CIA didn't. just target protesters. It also watched. members of Congress. Bella Absug from. New York, Paty Mink from Hawaii. A total. of 14 members of Congress were on the. CIA's watch list for being vocal critics. of the Vietnam War.

The violations were systemic. Every. person who spoke out against the war, every group that organized a protest, every publication that questioned. policy, all of them ended up in the. computer system. Names, addresses, associates, activities, everything. cataloged and cross-referenced. They. turned spying into a science. But. sometimes watching isn't enough. Sometimes they needed boots on the. ground. Sometimes direct action had to. be used against American citizens. The. CIA needed an agency willing to get.

their hands dirty. And they found the. perfect partner, the FBI. [Music]. When it came to crushing Americans First. Amendment rights, the CIA and the FBI. were perfect partners. The CIA surveiled. descent and the FBI dismantled it. The. program was called Quintel PRO, short. for Counter Intelligence Program. Officially, it targeted domestic.

subversives. Unofficially, it was a war. on the First Amendment. Civil rights leaders were tracked. Activists were harassed. Some were. imprisoned. Some were killed. One of the. FBI's favorite targets was Martin Luther. King Jr. J. Edgar Hoover had been watching Dr. King since December 1955. The Montgomery. bus boycott had just started. The young. minister was making headlines. Hoover. ordered surveillance and that. surveillance would continue for the next.

12 years. Right up until Dr. King was. assassinated in Memphis. The FBI didn't just tap his phones. They. bugged his home, his offices, every. hotel room he stayed in. They had agents. follow him 24 hours a day. They knew. where he was every minute, who he talked. to, what he said. They recorded. everything. The FBI tried to prove he. was a communist. They couldn't. They. tried to link him to foreign agents. There was no evidence. What they found. was a man who loved his country and.

believed in its founding principles. Justice, equality, the promises America. made but hadn't kept. >> Cuz I have a dream. >> that my four little children. >> will one day live in a nation where they. will not be judged by the color of their. skin, but by the content of their. character. I have a dream today. And I consider Dr. Martin Luther King. one of the greatest Americans who ever.

lived. But greatness doesn't equal. perfection. Dr. King struggled with. infidelity. So Jaggar Hoover got. personal. [Music]. On November 21st, 1964, an unmarked. package arrived at King's home. His. wife, Ketta, opened it. Inside was a. tape and a letter. The tape contained. the hotel recordings. The letter was. unsigned. It called Dr. King names that. I won't repeat here, but the final.

paragraph was clear. King, there is only. one thing left for you to do. You know. what it is? You have 34 days. 34 days. Dr. King was scheduled to receive the. Nobel Peace Prize in 35 days. The letter. was telling him to kill himself or the. FBI would destroy him publicly. The. letter was likely written by William. Sullivan, the FBI's assistant director, but the government has never admitted. this. But the church committee found the. evidence. A draft was in Sullivan's. files.

COINTEL Pro conducted over 2,000. documented actions. They forged letters. to create conflicts, planted negative. stories in newspapers, sent people to. prison on false charges, incited. violence between groups, destroyed. marriages, ruined careers, drove people. to suicide. The CIA watched the FBI. destroyed. But controlling people. through force wasn't enough. They wanted. to control people without realizing they. were being manipulated. To do that, they. deployed an even more powerful weapon,

the media. [Music]. There's a reason that protecting the. press shows up right in the first. amendment. The founding fathers knew. that democracy needs watchd dogs. The. press was supposed to hold the powerful. accountable. Instead, the press became. their mouthpiece. The CIA had been. manipulating journalists since the early. 1950s. Now, we know this as Operation. Mockingbird, but there was no official. name for it. Inside the agency, Frank.

Wisner, who ran covert operations, called it his mighty woriter, a massive. organ that would play any tune he. wanted. It started in the early days of. the Cold War under Allen Dulles. The CIA. needed to influence public opinion. against the Soviets and major news. organizations were more than happy to. help. Publishers, editors, reporters, a. fewer patriots who thought they were. serving their country. Some enjoyed. playing spy and some journalists had no. agenda at all. They just they just like.

the money. Do you have any people being paid. by the CIA. who are contributing. to a major circulation American journal? >> We do have people who submit pieces to. other to American journals. More than. 400 American journalists had secretly. carried out assignments for the CIA for. 25 years. And not small town papers.

These were reporters at the New York. Times, CBS, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The. AP, Reuters, Washington Post, the. biggest names in American media. Some. journalists were full CIA employees. using journalism as cover. And the. publishers knew. Arthur Hayes Salsberg. of the New York Times, William Paley at. CBS, they cooperated directly with the. CIA. When the agency needed a story. planted, they'd make a call. The story. would run. When they needed a story. killed, another call. The story would go.

away. >> We extremely proud of the quality, balanced journalism that CBS4 News. produces. >> But we are concerned about irresponsible. one-sided news stories plaging our. country. >> Plaguing our country. The New York Times gave CIA employees. press credentials. They posed as. reporters while conducting intelligence. operations. Journalists spied on foreign leaders. They carried money to CIA assets. They. provided their hotel rooms for secret.

meetings. When the CIA overthrew governments in. Iran and Guatemala, the American press. explained why it was necessary. When the. agency needed support for the Vietnam. War, headlines appeared. The American. people thought they were reading news. They were reading CIA propaganda. >> The sharing of biased and false news has. become all too common on social media. More alarming, some media outlets. publish these same fake stories without. checking facts first. >> The sharing of biased and false news has.

become all too common on social media. repeatedly are true without checking. facts first. Unfortunately, some of the. use. control exactly what people think and. this is extremely dangerous to our. democracy. >> This is extremely dangerous to our. democracy. >> The church committee exposed this. collaboration. Bernstein documented it,

but nothing really changed because once. you control the news, you control the. narrative. You control what people. think. And that power is too valuable to. give up. But even total control of. information has limits. To truly control. a population, you need to control their. minds directly. And one CIA scientist. believed he'd found the way. Controlling the news wasn't enough. The. CIA wanted to control minds directly,

not through propaganda or manipulation. through chemistry, through torture, through techniques that would break a. person's mind so they could rebuild it. The program was called MK Ultra, run by. Sydney Gotautle, the CIA's chief. chemist. His colleagues called him the. black sorcerer. From 1953 to 1973, Gotautle had unlimited funds and zero. oversight. His mission, develop mind. control techniques for the CIA. MK Ultra. wasn't one program. It was 149 sub.

projects, 80 institutions were involved, 44 colleges and universities, 15. research foundations, 12 hospitals, 185. private researchers. Georgetown University Hospital got. $375,000. to run a hospital safe house. The CIA. would bring subjects there, dose them. with LSD, watch them for days, record. everything. One mental patient was given. LSD for 174 consecutive days. His name.

was never recorded. What happened to him. was never documented. He was just one. test subject among thousands. >> Between the years of 1957 and 1984, I. became a pawn in a government scheme. whose ultimate goal was mind control and. to create the perfect spy. All through. the use of chemicals, radiation, drugs, hypnosis, electric shock, isolation in. tubs of water, sleep deprivation, brainwashing, verbal, physical,

emotional, and sexual abuse. >> Operation Midnight Climax was an. interesting sub project. The CIA set up. brothel in San Francisco and New York, two-way mirrors in every room. Prostitutes on CIA payroll would bring. men back, slip LSD into their drinks, and CIA officers would watch from behind. the mirrors. They photographed. everything. The men never knew they'd. been drugged. They went home to their. families thinking they'd lost their. minds. Dr. Euan Cameron ran experiments. at Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal.

He called it depatterning, erasing minds. through torture. Patients were put in. drug-induced comas for weeks, given. electric shock at 30 times normal. intensity, and forced to listen to. recorded messages for 16 hours a day. Some victims forgot their families. They. forgot their names. Their entire lives. were erased. >> I was exploited unwittingly for nearly. three decades of my life. And the only. explanations given to me were that.

quote, "The end justifies the means.". and quote, "I was serving my country in. their bold effort to fight communism.". I can only summarize my circumstances by. saying they took an already abused. 7-year-old child and compounded my. suffering beyond belief. The saddest. part is I know for a fact that I was not. alone. There were countless other. children in my same situation and there. was no one to help us. I know for a fact. that I was not alone.

Then there was Frank Olsen, a scientist. working in MK Ultra. He expressed. ethical concerns about the CIA's. methods. He told a supervisor he wanted. to resign. A few days later, Gotley's. team slipped LSD into Olsson's drink at. a CIA retreat. On November 28th, 1953, 9. days after being dosed, Olsen went. through a 10th floor hotel window. The. CIA said he jumped. Suicide. Case. closed. For 20 years, Gotley ran MK.

Ultra with very little oversight and a. tremendous amount of power. But now, Congress was asking questions. If MK. Ultra got exposed, it would be a huge. problem. So, Sydney Gotautle came up. with a solution. He ordered all MK Ultra. records destroyed. Thousands of. documents, 20 years of experiments into. the fire. Well, most of them anyway. This is usually the part of the story.

where I debunk whatever myth or legend. we've explored today. Except everything. in this episode is true. Sorry if it. wasn't super fun, but I think these. episodes are important to do from time. to time. And this Family Jewels episode. is just one in a series. So before you. ask, yes, I am uncomfortable doing this. >> Are the most problematic? Uh most. problematic for me are probably this the. um the CIA ones. I the one I did that.

ended with the Agent Orange kind of. expose was a kind of a dangerous one. I. it was the dark history of DARPA and all. the bad stuff that DARPA's done since uh. since its founding. It's done some. horrible horrible horrible stuff. And. that was an episode I was afraid to. release. There's been a couple of those. You know MK Ultra is kind of afraid to. cuz I name names. All of these CIA operations deserve. their own episode, and I've covered some. of them if you want more detail. Links. are below, and there's plenty more to.

cover, but there's one I stay away from. Operation Mockingbird. Mockingbird. exposed how tight the media is with the. intelligence community. I haven't. covered this because it's clearly still. going on. Twitter, Facebook, and other. social media platforms have already been. exposed as either working with or being. coerced by the FBI and other government. agencies. This is fact. And if you follow TV news personalities. closely, you'll see that a few are still. on the CIA's payroll. I know their.

names, but I won't say them here. You'll. know who I mean if you pay attention. Now, Chaos really did index 300,000. Americans. That's also a fact. Fred. Hampton was drugged by the FBI and. murdered in his bed by local police, coordinated by the FBI. That's a fact. Frank Olsen didn't jump from that hotel. window. He had blunt force trauma to his. head before he fell. No cuts from window. glass. His family received $750,000. in hush money. The CIA admitted drugging. him with LSD 9 days before his death,

but that's about it. There's a link. below to the full story. The Family. Jewels documents expose a lot of CIA. secrets, but some mysteries are still. unexplained. Item one in the Family. Jewels is completely redacted. The whole. thing is blacked out. And after. everything else they revealed, assassinations, mind control, surveillance, what could be worse? What could be in. there? I'm not sure we'll ever find out. I'm not sure we even want to know.

[Music]. Sydney Gotley destroyed most MK Ultra. records in 1973. We only know what. survived because of budget files. How. many subjects? How many people died? What techniques actually worked? We'll. never know. The CIA made sure of that. And by the way, Gotle was never held. accountable for any of it. Links below. to more. And programs like these don't. disappear. They evolve. They even get. legalized. After 9/11, Congress passed.

the Patriot Act. Suddenly, what got the. CIA in trouble in the 1970s became. standard procedure. Mass surveillance. legal. Collecting data on Americans. without warrants legal with a FISA court. rubber stamp. Those secret courts. approve 99.97%. of government surveillance requests. That's not oversight. That's theater. Both parties voted for it. Both parties. renewed it. Republicans championed it.

under Bush. Democrats expanded it under. Obama. Trump reauthorized it. Biden. extended it again. Every few years they. pretend to debate it. Then they quietly. renew it because once government gets a. power, it never gives it back. What took. Operation Chaos years to collect on. 300,000 Americans, the NSA now collects. on everyone in minutes. Phone records, email metadata, internet searches, financial transactions. >> Does the NSA collect any type of data at.

all on millions or hundreds of millions. of Americans? >> No, sir. Verizon offers its telephone. customers what's called the Share. Everything Plan. Well, the irony of that. did not escape a lot of folks today when. it was revealed that Verizon has been. sharing the phone records of millions. with US intelligence. And sources tell. us this evening that surveillance. extended to the internet as well. The. government is spying on even more of our.

online activities than anyone imagined. New leaks describe a program allowing. the government to snoop into a wide. range of activity most Americans believe. should be protected. The National. Security Agency is operating a massive. database system that allows analysts to. scour individuals emails, Facebook. chats, and internet browsing histories. at will. Exposing the CIA's family jewels should. have been a cautionary tale, a warning. Instead, the intelligence community.

turned this into a series of tests. They. tested the American people to see how. many laws they would be allowed to. break. They tested us to see what. freedoms we would surrender. They tested. us to see if we would hold anyone. accountable. The CIA, FBI, and our entire. intelligence apparatus has been testing. us for 50 years. And for 50 years, we. the people have failed every test. So, what can we do? Probably nothing. The.

last person to openly say the CIA needed. an overhaul was John F. Kennedy. How'd. that work out? President Kennedy died at. 100 p.m. Central Standard Time. >> Thank you so much for hanging out with. me today. My name is AJ. There's. Hecklefish. >> Hi there. Hello. >> You're quiet today. >> Well, I wanted to see if you can carry. things on your own for once. >> Oh, yeah. How'd I do? >> Solid C plus. >> High praise. This has been the Y Files. Get fun or learn anything. Do us a. favor. Hit like, subscribe, comment,

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[Music]. Oh. yeah, I played Philippia in Area 51. A secret. code inside the Bible said I would. I love my UFOs and paranormal fun as. well as music. So I'm singing the like I.

should. then another conspiracy theory becomes. the truth my friends. and it never ends. No it never ends. [Music]. I feel the crap guy. I got stuck inside. Mel's home with MK out. I feel only two. unaware.

Did Stanley Cubrick fake the moon. landing alone on a film set of shadow. people there? The well just fought the smiling man, I'm told, and his name was cold. But I. can't breathe. I'm catch up with the. fish. on Thursday night. and. all through the night.

All I ever wanted was to be the truth. to the world. through the night. [Music]. The math man silence and the solar storm.

still come to a gather the secret city. underground. Mysterious. number stations, planet circle to. project star gate and what the dark. watchers found. in a simulation. Don't you worry though. The black nights at a light. so I can't believe I'm dancing with the. fish and your fish on Thursday nights.

when they chase you and me all through. the night. All I ever wanted was to hear the truth. all through the night. on Thursday. That's when they. all. wanted to hear the truth.

[Music]. loves to dance. Girl loves to dance on the dance floor. because she is a camel. Camels love to. dance when the feeling is right.

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