These Bizarre CIA Documents Expose The Most Horrifying Secrets
Last updated: May 22, 2023
The video by A Day In History discusses declassified CIA documents that reveal plans for political assassinations, mind control, torture, and inciting international wars.
The video discusses declassified documents that reveal the CIA's involvement in unethical and illegal conduct, including plans for political assassinations, mind control, torture, and inciting international wars.
The video highlights some of the most bizarre and gruesome secrets of the CIA, such as their numerous assassination plots against Fidel Castro and Patrice Lumumba, and their proposed use of an artificial lightning weapon to assassinate targets without leaving any evidence.
The video also touches on the infamous MK Ultra project, which involved non-consensual drug experiments on American citizens.
The CIA has a long-standing reputation for being involved in assassination and targeted killings of its enemies.
The Family Jewels documents revealed the CIA's involvement in numerous assassination plots throughout the Cold War.
The first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba, was suspected of having pro-communist views.
The CIA hypothesized an artificial lightning weapon in a document dating from the 1960s.
MK Ultra is one of the most infamous and terrifying CIA projects.
Experiments were deeply unethical and subjects could be left physically or mentally damaged by the experience.
MK Ultra came to an end in the early 1970s due to a lack of results and changing leadership in the CIA.
The CIA employed illegal torture techniques, including waterboarding, to extract confessions and evidence from prisoners.
Operation Northwoods was a multi-department proposal involving the CIA and The Joint Chiefs of Staff, which aimed to create a pretext for war with Cuba.
The CIA has a long-standing reputation for being involved in assassination and targeted killings of its enemies.
The Family Jewels documents revealed the CIA's involvement in numerous assassination plots throughout the Cold War.
Fidel Castro was the single most targeted person by the CIA, with countless plots to kill him in ever more elaborate ways.
Plans included lacing a box of Castro's favorite brand of cigars with a powerful toxin and introducing poison pills to his food.
Other plans to kill him with a hypodermic needle hidden in a pen and hiding a bomb in a seashell were also considered.
Assassination of Patrice Lumumba
The first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba, was suspected of having pro-communist views.
The CIA suggested several plans to kill Lumumba, including poisoning his toothbrush.
Later allegations from former CIA operatives claim that the CIA was involved in his eventual deposition and execution by rival Congolese groups.
Concrete evidence for these claims has yet to be found.
Artificial Lightning Weapon
The CIA hypothesized an artificial lightning weapon in a document dating from the 1960s.
The plan was to use long thin wires suspended from a plane or a rocket that would fly into storms and conduct the electrical charge towards targets of interest.
The weapon would allow the CIA to assassinate targets without leaving any evidence of their involvement.
The plan was never implemented, but it shows the lengths the CIA went to in order to find new ways to kill people.
MK Ultra is one of the most infamous and terrifying CIA projects.
The CIA had been running non-consensual drug experiments on American citizens.
The Rockefeller commission was launched to investigate these claims.
The project involved mind control experiments, torture, and other unethical practices.
The project was eventually exposed and shut down, but the full extent of its activities remains unknown.
MK Ultra: CIA's Mind Control Program
MK Ultra was the code name for CIA research into mind control techniques in the 1950s and 1960s.
The CIA believed that the Soviets had developed a method of mind control, so they insisted on developing their own program.
Sydney Gottlieb was given immense resources and minimal oversight to lead the project.
The project used drugs, physical violence, and electroshock torture to break and remake the human mind.
Subjects were given drugs often against their consent or full knowledge to measure the effects.
Many of those subjected to these experiments would suffer life-changing consequences.
Unethical Experiments and Victims
Experiments were deeply unethical and subjects could be left physically or mentally damaged by the experience.
American prisoners or even captured Soviet agents were experimented on.
Prostitutes were used to lure men so that they could be forcibly drugged to measure the effects of the substances.
James Whitey Bulger, an infamous Boston mob boss, revealed that he had been subject to LSD experiments against his consent from the CIA during the Cold War.
Theodore Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, was also a victim of the MK Ultra experiments.
CIA scientist Frank Olson was secretly dosed with LSD by Gottlieb personally at a party in 1953. Several days later, he committed suicide by throwing himself from a window at his New York hotel room.
The End of MK Ultra
MK Ultra came to an end in the early 1970s due to a lack of results and changing leadership in the CIA.
Gottlieb attempted to destroy many of the records relating to the project and succeeded in destroying thousands of records.
The Rockefeller commission and the church committee uncovered the crimes committed by the project.
Gottlieb never faced any consequences for his actions, and to this day, no one involved with MK Ultra was ever held accountable for their actions.
CIA's lack of accountability
MK Ultra was a horrific program that involved unethical experiments and victims.
The CIA's lack of accountability for their actions is concerning.
Declassified CIA documents reveal plans for political assassinations, mind control, torture, and inciting international wars.
It is important to hold those in power accountable for their actions and to ensure that such programs are never repeated.
CIA Torture Techniques
The CIA employed illegal torture techniques, including waterboarding, to extract confessions and evidence from prisoners.
Waterboarding involves pouring water over a restrained captive's mouth, inducing terror and oxygen deprivation.
Other unethical methods used by CIA agents included threatening prisoners with firearms and power tools, sleep deprivation, and leaving prisoners in freezing cold rooms.
The report also mentions psychological torture techniques, such as threatening to kill a prisoner's family members.
These revelations caused significant backlash domestically and internationally, and Barack Obama made the reports a central argument for his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center.
Operation Northwoods
Operation Northwoods was a multi-department proposal involving the CIA and The Joint Chiefs of Staff, which was put before President Kennedy in 1962.
Its goal was to place the United States in the apparent position of suffering defensible grievances against Cuba that could be used as a justification for war.
The proposal called for CIA operatives to take the lead in staging false flag attacks on American and Cuban citizens in order to frame the Cuban government and create a pretext for war.
These included bombings, assassinations, and sabotage against civilian populations.
The U.S also suggested launching a campaign of terrorist attacks targeting Cuban Refugee communities across the U.S.
The Northwoods documents contain elaborate plans to stage a false flag attack on Guantanamo Bay with fake rioters and saboteurs.
Backlash and Legal Consequences
Many condemned the CIA's torture techniques as barbaric, while others claimed that they were justified given the nature of the prisoners in the wake of 9/11 and wars in the Middle East.
Barack Obama made the reports a central argument for his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, but he never went through with the plan to shut it down.
No one has ever faced legal consequences for the actions in the published documents, and it's unlikely that anyone ever will.
Declassified CIA documents
The declassified CIA documents reveal plans for political assassinations, mind control, torture, and inciting international wars.
The CIA's use of illegal torture techniques, such as waterboarding, caused significant backlash domestically and internationally.
Operation Northwoods was a multi-department proposal involving the CIA and The Joint Chiefs of Staff, which aimed to create a pretext for war with Cuba.
No one has ever faced legal consequences for the actions in the published documents, and it's unlikely that anyone ever will.
Plans for Political Assassinations, Mind Control, and Torture
The declassified CIA documents reveal plans for political assassinations, mind control, and torture.
The documents suggest staging the destruction of a U.S ship in or near the harbor to incite public outrage and justify war.
One plan proposed registering a civilian aircraft and filling it with agents pretending to be a group of college students off on a holiday to stage the destruction of aircraft to be blamed on Cuba.
The Northwoods plan suggested downing a military aircraft and faking a stress signal before landing at a secret base.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff for the JFK Administration all approved this plan, but JFK vetoed it.
JFK's assassination in November 1963 cut short his rift with military and intelligence officials.
Inciting International Wars
The declassified CIA documents reveal plans for inciting international wars.
The documents suggest staging the destruction of a U.S ship in or near the harbor to incite public outrage and justify war.
The plan proposed staging a fake evacuation of a non-existent crew with U.S Fighters and publishing fake casualty lists in newspapers to generate public outrage.
The documents also contained a number of suggestions for staging the destruction of aircraft to be blamed on Cuba.
The Northwoods plan suggested downing a military aircraft and faking a stress signal before landing at a secret base.
JFK's assassination in November 1963 cut short his rift with military and intelligence officials.