The Craziest CIA Projects

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  • @Sideprojects
    @Sideprojects  ปีที่แล้ว +32

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    • @marcbeebee6969
      @marcbeebee6969 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wow Simon, the adds start sooner and sooner. Interesting strategy. Add is done before one really sat down to watch the video

    • @rexrocker1268
      @rexrocker1268 ปีที่แล้ว

      We all know what the CIA is and it’s not nice.

    • @LaurieAnnCurry
      @LaurieAnnCurry ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This right here👆🏻

    • @emaarredondo-librarian
      @emaarredondo-librarian ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow Don't you have any better sponsors than one presenting wars as ""fun""?

  • @MrSchmo
    @MrSchmo ปีที่แล้ว +130

    CIA - "Sure we did bad stuff in the 50s, 60s, 70s,80, and 90s. But were are only doing good stuff now. Trust me bro"

    • @jonpim2242
      @jonpim2242 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You want to know the real scary part? Some people actually do.

    • @Trollleben
      @Trollleben 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Sadly like the other guy said, there are people who do still trust the government or don't even know about any of this stuff

  • @bipolarminddroppings
    @bipolarminddroppings ปีที่แล้ว +372

    I love how when the CIA were told "No" about their plans to stage mass shootings of their own citizens, like a naughty child, they didn't take the no as a sign they had gone too far, instead they thought "Mummy said no, we'll wait and ask Daddy later"...

    • @pennywise___
      @pennywise___ ปีที่แล้ว +63

      We just need to kill Mummy first!

    • @rogerwilco1777
      @rogerwilco1777 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Big Brother enters the room

    • @Ivan_Berni
      @Ivan_Berni ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@pennywise___ dayum

    • @lostbutfreesoul
      @lostbutfreesoul ปีที่แล้ว +9

      To be fair, Northwood was the brain child of the Generals and not "spooks."
      And yes... the Department of Defense took that "No" very personally....

    • @auchucknorris
      @auchucknorris ปีที่แล้ว +26

      But would never do the same thing for 9/11... That's just a crazy conspiracy..

  • @mikeoleksa
    @mikeoleksa ปีที่แล้ว +208

    I think that's the most insane part of the Castro assassination attempts. The fact that he outlived everyone that tried to kill him.

    • @tonycowin
      @tonycowin ปีที่แล้ว +26

      He Rasputined them all.

    • @nurlindafsihotang49
      @nurlindafsihotang49 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      And he only died when Trump elected el presidente of unidos estados of america. With a smirk.

    • @low_vibration
      @low_vibration ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Selling your soul will do that

    • @gouthamkrishnap121
      @gouthamkrishnap121 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      ​@@low_vibrationreally? Is that why Mitch McConnell and Henry Kissinger are still alive?

    • @gregoryfoster7553
      @gregoryfoster7553 ปีที่แล้ว

      I can't believe that they had over 600 cracks at killing him and failed utterly...What a bunch of incompetent morons....🤣🤣🤣

  • @necrosapien1
    @necrosapien1 ปีที่แล้ว +983

    Let me fix that title for you. "The Craziest CIA Projects, That we know of so far."

    • @stephenhancock1578
      @stephenhancock1578 ปีที่แล้ว

      These are the "main" proven conspiracy lines that might be new to normies. There's plenty we know about that they've been busted doing that are open papers, but you look like a complete loonie if you say "look, they've been purposely poisoning us and releasing bioweapons on us."

    • @LocozillaYT
      @LocozillaYT ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Lol right! "Craziest CIA projects that they willingly shared", so u can just imagine the stuff that isn't allowed to be shared. It's scary to even think about tbh.

    • @Dexy83
      @Dexy83 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      💯 Well said... 😏

    • @cs1375
      @cs1375 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      ​@yaboi9349perfect reason why U.S. citizens should not give up their guns.

    • @tonycowin
      @tonycowin ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you Homer.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    0:20 - Mid roll ads
    2:15 - Chapter 1 - Operation Northwood
    5:50 - Chapter 2 - CIA assassination attempts on Castro
    9:10 - Chapter 3 - Operation PBSuccess
    12:10 - Chapter 4 - MKultra
    15:25 - Chapter 5 - Stargate project

  • @Jayjay-qe6um
    @Jayjay-qe6um ปีที่แล้ว +51

    The Stargate Project was featured in the 2004 book and 2009 film, both titled The Men Who Stare at Goats, although neither mentions it by name.

    • @felicitybywater8012
      @felicitybywater8012 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I saw The Men Who Stare at Goats. It was fun.

    • @adarmus4768
      @adarmus4768 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Big fan of Jon Ronson. The Men Who Stare at Goats is one of his best.

    • @Karin_Allen
      @Karin_Allen ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@felicitybywater8012 Yeah, it was! My favorite part was Ewan McGregor, playing some character whose name I don't remember, declaring he wanted to be a Jedi. 😅 Then there was George Clooney killing goats just by staring at them (thus the title) and a hilarious final scene that I won't spoil for anyone who wants to see the movie. I definitely recommend it.

    • @Chestersinthecar
      @Chestersinthecar ปีที่แล้ว +3

      “I’m hungry”

  • @jjstewart4341
    @jjstewart4341 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    The cia succeeded only in making Castro seem like a rlly calm guy

  • @911jujitsujames
    @911jujitsujames 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My great uncle was actually a “participant” If you can call it that, in a government experiment. He was in prison for manslaughter serving 15 years. They gave him the option to participate in experiments or serve out the rest of his time. He decided to participate. I don’t know what they did to him exactly but he got really messed up. He was blind in one eye, all of his teeth were gone so he wore dentures, his hair was patchy, and his fingernails didn’t go beyond any of the nail beds. I’m sure he had more things wrong with him because he died in the early 90’s in his 60’s.

  • @chrisshorten4406
    @chrisshorten4406 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    On the scale of evil to weird, I'll take weird any day.

    • @aceundead4750
      @aceundead4750 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Weird gave us cartoon images of people with exploding cigars, evil gave us MK Ultra. I concur.

    • @paulputter8383
      @paulputter8383 ปีที่แล้ว

      Can't solve weird with a shotgun though.

    • @aceundead4750
      @aceundead4750 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@paulputter8383 tell that to Ash from Evil Dead

    • @project-unifiedfreepeoples
      @project-unifiedfreepeoples ปีที่แล้ว

      Sadly, weird is the first stage of evil. Once they find out what every possible outcome is and can be, it becomes applied to a militarized purpose.

    • @SugarandSarcasm
      @SugarandSarcasm 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@aceundead4750he also had a chainsaw for close up evil

  • @cosmokramer4585
    @cosmokramer4585 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Can you make a video talking about the other side of the pond? The crazy missions of MI6 and MI5. I’m sure they did just as crazy stuff that the CIA did.

  • @stephenhancock1578
    @stephenhancock1578 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    One CIA project "the Finders" was pretty silly. The best part was local police departments busting them, and then the FBI burying it for 50 years. Worth a look into.

    • @hottboie203
      @hottboie203 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Not that silly when it involved international child sex trafficking

    • @jaklegend3
      @jaklegend3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Never in my life did i post something like this but i think it is finaly time.
      Your comment sounds like a psyop. Go away CIA.
      That felt weird ngl

    • @tauepsilon4220
      @tauepsilon4220 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes. This The Finders a debunked conspiracy theory with no evidence like the satanic theories of the 80s and the pizzagate and Qanon shit. Conservatives selfprojecting. The Finders was s cult like so many crazy cults in US.

    • @stephenhancock1578
      @stephenhancock1578 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jaklegend3 I was blasting the CIA, why would that be a psyop, when I'm calling attention to how evil they are? I hate the federal agencies running this country.

    • @PoisondBacon
      @PoisondBacon ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jaklegend3right lmao, the writing just screams undercover cop selling drugs vibes😂

  • @maddog2020tt2
    @maddog2020tt2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    It absolutely kills me that you can tell us these crazy Cia shit but still be a massive skeptic when it comes to conspiracy theories involving the US government.

    • @taraarrington2285
      @taraarrington2285 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes it boggles my mind how people don't understand that the higher security clearances that these people have means that they have no oversight and no accountability so absolute power corrupts absolutely

    • @Talisguy
      @Talisguy ปีที่แล้ว

      There's definitive proof that these things actually happened. Modern US government conspiracy theories are unproven. Perfectly consistent.

    • @lunsmann
      @lunsmann 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You mean like the time a long retired CIA agent confessed on his death bed that he was part of the team who successfully assassinated Jimi Hendrix in London because of his friendship (read that as links) of a member of the Black Panthers group. The toxicology report supposedly found his stomach and lungs to be full of cheap wine. But no alcohol or heroin in his blood. The official cause of death is a supposed overdose on heroin.
      This info was revealed in a memoirs book that suddenly disappeared from the book shop shelves soon after publishing. Or so I am lead to believe.

    • @phantomechelon3628
      @phantomechelon3628 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Because the stuff in Simon's videos is crazy BUT VERIFIED BY THEIR OWN DECLASSIFIED (or leaked) RECORDS.
      Chem trails and cellphone masts spreading viruses or being used for mind control are just batshit insane conspiracy crap.

  • @GerSanRiv
    @GerSanRiv ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I love American Dad! It doesn't get enough love.

  • @FrankP846
    @FrankP846 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I find it amazing that in the fall of 1965, the Navy was giving Marine Recruits a daily drug dose of a drug at Parris Island, taking nightly blood samples from those recruits, that were supposedly to reduce colds in those recruits, but nothing shows in those recruits military records about any such tests.

    • @douggaudiosi14
      @douggaudiosi14 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What drugs did they dose them with

  • @cotati76
    @cotati76 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The star gate segment reminds me of the movie The Men Who Stare at Goats. Great flick.

  • @cwang6951
    @cwang6951 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The Guatamala story is most impressive - the CIA managed to hatch a plan and successfully saw to it.

    • @douggaudiosi14
      @douggaudiosi14 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Most of their plans are successful. We just don't hear about them. Do you think the wealthiest nations most highly paid and trained agency is incompetent? Your out of your mind

    • @cwang6951
      @cwang6951 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@douggaudiosi14 yes. Famously so.

    • @AEsdadsvaL25230
      @AEsdadsvaL25230 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@cwang6951underestimating enemies is way worse than fear mongering…
      CIA stupid is funny rhetoric, but whether plan is successful or not they still occur and can have sweeping effects. Hell imagine all the things they’ve played a part in without us knowjng

  • @joelb8653
    @joelb8653 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Ted Kaziinski was a victim of MK Ultra so I guess it kind of worked.

    • @justamom4902
      @justamom4902 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Seems like it. Not to mention Charles Manson who was also a victim of mkultra and so many others. Still to this day, not only did it obviously work, it's still working. Mass shooters, bombers, these lone wolf people are not lone wolves acting on their own. From my experience and observation it also leads back to the CIA and military.

    • @douggaudiosi14
      @douggaudiosi14 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      So was Manson

    • @jordieg-us4ee
      @jordieg-us4ee ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Lee Harvey Oswald too?

    • @taraarrington2285
      @taraarrington2285 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sirhan sirhan, John Wilkes Booth, all mk ultra

    • @taraarrington2285
      @taraarrington2285 ปีที่แล้ว

      And don't forget the Jim Jones was CIA. It's like social experiments that they do they get these cult leaders to see how they can pull people into these cults and then get them to do whatever they want

  • @Crudusum
    @Crudusum ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Of course the best way to hide results (of ESP/etc) would be to publicly claim that there weren't any and quietly bury the program.

    • @douggaudiosi14
      @douggaudiosi14 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That is entirely true, I haven't thought of that. Unfortunately I think it was a dud. With all the technology we have today surely the public would have some evidence

    • @CptH0vvDy
      @CptH0vvDy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @douggaudiosi14
      There is, do some research. A simple search for remote viewing, or for notable individuals of the subject such as Ingo Swann, Joseph McMoneagle, Pat Price, and Russell Targ, will bring up plenty of legitimate sources citing empirically validated test results over the decades.

  • @drgonzo305
    @drgonzo305 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    On a scale of ambitious mess I think Facebook is obviously the CIA’s masterpiece

    • @laingadaing
      @laingadaing ปีที่แล้ว +5

      DARPA called it lifelog and was "shut down" the year facebook released.

    • @taraarrington2285
      @taraarrington2285 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes I like the fictional story that they came up within the movie😂

    • @SugarandSarcasm
      @SugarandSarcasm 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not Twitter?

  • @WormholeJim
    @WormholeJim ปีที่แล้ว +22

    They're still doing crazy stuff, they just learned to keep the various projects at a low profile budgetwise. But every once in a while something surfaces that let's on ever so slightly at the magnitude of some of these projects. Like how the Hubble telescope is build using an auxillary telescope frame donated to NASA by CIA because it had become obsolete and they had gotten themselves a better one.

    • @douggaudiosi14
      @douggaudiosi14 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Wait what!?! The hubble telescope was surplus from the CIA?! WHY DO THEY NEED THAT

    • @rexxer2792
      @rexxer2792 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@douggaudiosi14 Which way do you think they were looking...

    • @99EKjohn
      @99EKjohn ปีที่แล้ว

      @@douggaudiosi14 He's misremembering the facts. NASA got donated 2 mirrors from the National Reconnaissance Office back in 2012. They have a mission planned with those but it wasn't first priority so hasn't launched yet that I'm aware. NASA is not allowed to point them at the earth, it would reveal too much, they are being repurposed to act like other Hubbles.

  • @HexLabz
    @HexLabz ปีที่แล้ว +7

    CIA v. Castro draws up images of Wile E. Coyote v. Roadrunner in my mind.

  • @felicitybywater8012
    @felicitybywater8012 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    I remember the Russian psychic soldiers thing playing out on the news in the seventies. My Nana, a horoscope addict, was convinced the soviets would be dropping nukes on us by means of ESP. It seemed rather unlikely.

    • @bipolarminddroppings
      @bipolarminddroppings ปีที่แล้ว +3

      thing is, looking back at the cold war from our perspective it's pretty obvious that no one was actually going to use their nukes. but I will bet it was pretty fucking scary at the time, I was too young to know or understand it back then.

    • @jmanj3917
      @jmanj3917 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And your Nana would have been right if not the courage of one mid-level Soviet "political officer", who refused to turn the third and final key required to launch their submarine's nuclear missiles at the USA.
      Oh, wait; No, never mind. That wasn't ESP...lol

    • @Lanka0Kera
      @Lanka0Kera ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well, currently Russia seems to target its missiles and drones to "military targets" by using ESP. Perhaps they kept their super soldiers around.

    • @felicitybywater8012
      @felicitybywater8012 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @bipolarminddroppings There were some scary peaks in the seventies and eighties. Then they settled into the international disarmament slowdance for several years.

  • @Redsauce101
    @Redsauce101 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Whenever you are set that these people are a certain level of evil, they just push it to the next level, over and over again.

    • @garthoom
      @garthoom ปีที่แล้ว

      and they tend to lecture others on what to do and how to do it!

  • @bradlevantis913
    @bradlevantis913 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The thought that for over 2 decades people believed in remote viewing is a good indicator of how effective the CIA’s employee screening process is 😂

    • @ChuckNorrisUltra
      @ChuckNorrisUltra ปีที่แล้ว

      In 2017, the same year Project Farsight started, the CIA declassified some 12 million pages of records revealing previously unknown details about the programs Project Sun Streak, Project Grillflame, and Project Stargate. They are easily accessible to anyone and you could possibly even come up with your own conclusion.

  • @meu3211
    @meu3211 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    When I saw "project stargate" I was just like wait, what? I wonder if the original creators had heard the name somewhere or if it was just a coincidence.

  • @mptness4389
    @mptness4389 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I like how the Castro ones had a point of basically, "what's an even sillier way we can try and blow him up?"

    • @reedkellner6447
      @reedkellner6447 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, that was some Wile E Coyote sh!+

  • @JosephDuncan-kl6wz
    @JosephDuncan-kl6wz ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This was a great video my man

  • @Cs13762
    @Cs13762 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This makes the CIA seem just like General Turgidson from Dr Strangelove

  • @SpidermanandJeny
    @SpidermanandJeny ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What is insane is that the CIA continues to exist. How has it never been discontinued. The extreme lack of ethics, morality, evilness and awfulness would have brought down any other organization.

    • @jaec100x
      @jaec100x ปีที่แล้ว

      Lmao they had the power to kill a US president and probably much much further , who’s going to disband them?

  • @kitsunenoir87
    @kitsunenoir87 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    You should do a video about how the cia overthrew the Australian government in a political coup

    • @benjaminrowley
      @benjaminrowley ปีที่แล้ว

      Wait what lmao when

    • @kitsunenoir87
      @kitsunenoir87 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@benjaminrowley 1975 they were directly involved with the dismissal of goth witlem

  • @keiththorpe9571
    @keiththorpe9571 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Operation Stargate was an unqualified failure, but did give rise to one of George Clooney's, Jeff Daniel's, and Ewan McGregor's most underrated movie: "The Men Who Stare At Goats"
    I LOVE the goofy-ass friggin' movie!

    • @melly1432
      @melly1432 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cool! Thanks for that information; I love Jeff Daniels so I will definitely look into this movie. Btw have you seen “Escanaba in da Moonlight”?

    • @keiththorpe9571
      @keiththorpe9571 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@melly1432 You're more than welcome. I made a mistake, though. It wasn't Jeff Daniels in "The Men Who Stare At Goats", it was Jeff Bridges. However, that movie you mentioned "Escanaba in da Moonlight" is on Tubi. Gonna check that out later. Thanks.

  • @JerryB507
    @JerryB507 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Chapter 4, Australia recently legalized the use of psychedelics for the treatment of mental health disorders.
    I'm sure the Australian Health practitioners will take more care than the CIA.

    • @justamom4902
      @justamom4902 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, that's disturbing, considering how so many cult leaders use psychedelics on mentally fragile/traumatized people to more easily manipulate them.

    • @jenniferj5324
      @jenniferj5324 ปีที่แล้ว

      There is promising research, as well as a large amount of anecdotal evidence, that DMT and psilocybin can help with death anxiety for terminal patients, PTSD, depression, anxiety.

    • @99EKjohn
      @99EKjohn ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jenniferj5324 Replication crisis, pretty much every "experiment" now a days has hacked p-values and shady methodology. There's recently been 2 or 3 scandals involving faked research from ivy universities, just as an example.

  • @alicejohnson8751
    @alicejohnson8751 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Anyone who rants about modern conspiracy theorists being crazy hasn't read the history of the CIA

    • @givemeajackson
      @givemeajackson ปีที่แล้ว

      The fact they planned some false flag operations and drugged people doesn't really make lizard people, flat earth and an all powerful cabal of baby eating satanists more likely...

    • @vowel8280
      @vowel8280 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      because a lot of modern conspiracy theorists are flatearthers and moon landing deniers, so it's not easy to find conspiracy theorists that make valid arguments

  • @j.p.6932
    @j.p.6932 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    1:46 lol, did Simon’s voice just crack? “When it’s time to change…”

  • @drastikdreamz
    @drastikdreamz ปีที่แล้ว +7

    wow simon sure plays alot of mobile games in his free time

  • @martinstallard2742
    @martinstallard2742 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    2:11 operation Northwoods
    5:46 CIA assassination attempts on Castro
    9:04 operation pbsuccess
    12:07 mkultra
    15:18 Stargate project

    • @martinstallard2742
      @martinstallard2742 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is it just me or has Simon had a beard trim

    • @stephenhancock1578
      @stephenhancock1578 ปีที่แล้ว

      Check out the Finders

    • @118ghost
      @118ghost ปีที่แล้ว

      CIA failed killing Fidel Castro = Justin Trudeau 😂

    • @Im-Not-a-Dog
      @Im-Not-a-Dog ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Operation MkUltra: Two All LSD Patties, Cheese, Pickles, and Onions on a Sesame Seed Bun.

  • @ElegantMessTechPC
    @ElegantMessTechPC ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Kinda crazy there's plans trying to utilize mass "events" like that dating back that far. Makes you think a bit, which is always a good thing

    • @stigmaoftherose
      @stigmaoftherose ปีที่แล้ว

      9/11 was an inside job.

    • @DeosPraetorian
      @DeosPraetorian ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes but what exactly would be the objective now

    • @ElegantMessTechPC
      @ElegantMessTechPC ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DeosPraetorian Ya not really sure on that, just made me think about it with how often we see headlines in the news

    • @DeosPraetorian
      @DeosPraetorian ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ElegantMessTechPC tbf some of that is because of news media focusing on it. The same thing happened with stories of train derailments.

    • @99EKjohn
      @99EKjohn ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DeosPraetorian They do them now to push gun control. It's all they talk about after every one they can politicize, they inflate the numbers drastically to push their agenda too.

  • @ctilson176
    @ctilson176 ปีที่แล้ว

    I laughed so hard when Simon’s voice cracked as her said “certainly”.😂🤣😂🤣

  • @theUglyGypsy
    @theUglyGypsy ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Needed a palette cleanser after Joachim Kroll

  • @jace9985
    @jace9985 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Shocked at the lack of the Acoustic Kitty

  • @phoenixxxflytrap
    @phoenixxxflytrap ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The hypodermic pen thing was used in an early episode of Archer and its all I could think about during that story lol

  • @GrandChessboard
    @GrandChessboard ปีที่แล้ว +5

    JFK was the last president we really had...

    • @justamom4902
      @justamom4902 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is absolutely true. Every president these days are totally controlled by CIA. Elections manipulated and the candidates lives 100% dictated. Even down to the scandals, because we all know shameful and embarrassing secrets are great for blackmail.

  • @freedog632
    @freedog632 ปีที่แล้ว

    The last mission did create The Men Who Stare at Goats", though. Very amusing movie.

  • @terrafirma5327
    @terrafirma5327 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Why hire qualified agents when you can hire nutjobs? - CIA

  • @malachicook3321
    @malachicook3321 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Castro has the world record of most assassination attempts survived

  • @0o0ification
    @0o0ification ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ironically, there seems to be a “no one needs to know” mentality at the top of so many stovepiped, classified programs.

  • @littleboydesign
    @littleboydesign ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Formally created in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) grew out of the World War II Office of Strategic Services (OSS).

  • @johnmichael7586
    @johnmichael7586 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    As a follow-up to this video, perhaps you should do a video on what strange and immoral projects the KGB was up to during those years. 🤔🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @QBCPerdition
      @QBCPerdition ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They don't have FOIA in Russia, so most of those are still hidden away. The ones we are aware of, it's more like we suspect or are highly confident they did it, but we don't really know specifics.

    • @Dr.Fluffles
      @Dr.Fluffles ปีที่แล้ว

      @@QBCPerdition Which I wish more people realized. The US having FOIA and actually exposing its own mistakes and crimes after a number of years is a novel thing, as the rest of the world never expose their secrets if at all possible, but instead people take it as the US and the CIA being the only ones doing such things, with the rest of the world having no agency or evil actions hidden away.

  • @MarginWalker
    @MarginWalker ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember people building bomb shelters in Florida. "doing anything of note" . Cuba got a shipment of Nukes.

  • @Stevenchefjones
    @Stevenchefjones ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Got to love Simon's cynicism 😂😂❤

  • @WilbanksUSMC
    @WilbanksUSMC ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I bet Dr. Greer has some cool additions to this topic.

  • @johnjohnson9100
    @johnjohnson9100 ปีที่แล้ว

    While Kennedy may have balked at Northwoods, he was pretty enthusiastic about Mongoose.

  • @metamaxis
    @metamaxis ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You'd think, if they tried putting salts on his shoes to make his beard fall out, they could have just put a needle on his shoe that when he steps in the shoes, castro would have gotten pricked with the same poison from the death pen

  • @KC-nd7nt
    @KC-nd7nt ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Fantastic !
    No crap guy . You nailed it . Could you do a longer show about this topic please ? 🙏
    I know myself there is at least 1 hour of material when you delve into individual case history of lets say .... charles manson . The unibomber . Ted kysinski .
    MK Ultra alone can take 1 hour .
    Its a good move brother .
    I understand the economics of shorter video's these days and with the attention span shinking .
    Thanks from Baltimore Maryland

    • @ONEDVSDVIT
      @ONEDVSDVIT ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The unibomber . Ted kysinski - Same individual... would you believe? charles manson,,, different individual lol

    • @matteste
      @matteste ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, the channel Second Thought did a video on them. Though it is not very flattering and even got shadowbanned due to just how long the list of crimes is.

  • @adisura9904
    @adisura9904 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Not crazy, but something interesting at least. Maybe dig up the entire story.
    So here is the gist of it, India was developing nukes, and America wasn't happy and put the CIA on it. They used satellites to monitor places of interest. However, India successfully detonated the nuke, leaving the CIA operatives stumped. What India had done was something simple. They only carried out activities at night and kept an eye out for American satellites. As they would reach near the site in their orbit, everything was hidden and turned down to avoid detection. Yes, even the trucks had heavy almost tent-like fabric, that was hung from the back, which helped remove the tracks of tires and people off the sand. This was done to avoid any espionage or incident. India successfully tested the nuke once the satellites had moved away.

  • @scottee__03
    @scottee__03 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Having been raised in a military family amidst a backdrop of Western propaganda, I later came to the unsettling realization that our own side wasn't always on the right side of history, a truth that has only been further confirmed in my current role within the media industry. Chapter One came to fruition for 9/11.

  • @georgepapatheofilou6118
    @georgepapatheofilou6118 ปีที่แล้ว

    The bay of pigs was not a BBQ a rebel wanted to attend. Now I'll go heavy with French's mustard on my kransky rolls.

  • @TXKafir
    @TXKafir ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wonder why you didn't include Project Mockingbird. A bit too close to home?

  • @SurvivorNumber1
    @SurvivorNumber1 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That we know of......

  • @userUser-c9r
    @userUser-c9r 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The agents were dosing, high as hell.

  • @marxyfen2119
    @marxyfen2119 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    With friends like these who needs enemies

  • @bjornodin
    @bjornodin ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They got their comeuppance in the form of Ted Kaczynski! Did they learn their lesson??? Don't get your hopes up...

  • @Cheesegrater09
    @Cheesegrater09 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Have you done Project coldfeet or Operation Skyhook maybe desert storm and shield?

  • @danr1920
    @danr1920 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Careful Simon, careful what you say or you'll find out where Jimmy Hoffa is.

    • @leighpowell1062
      @leighpowell1062 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jimmy Hoffa runs a coffee shop with Elvis Presley and Jim Morrison

  • @FatManWalking18
    @FatManWalking18 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    then there were "the men who stared at goats" and trying to use domestic cats as spies.

  • @sonnysantana5454
    @sonnysantana5454 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ha'ha' lmao you need way more than 18' plus minutes to list all of the company's odd off the loop shenanigans and antics

  • @robertacheson5976
    @robertacheson5976 ปีที่แล้ว

    I much prefer the way you articulate on this channel

  • @ChuckNorrisUltra
    @ChuckNorrisUltra ปีที่แล้ว

    The heart attack gun that was shown to the public was interesting.

  • @RUBBER_BULLET
    @RUBBER_BULLET ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Do you think that if they had found evidence of ESP that they would tell anyone?

    • @andrewalderman9489
      @andrewalderman9489 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hey, you read my mind !

    • @PlazDreamweaver
      @PlazDreamweaver ปีที่แล้ว

      Simon's lack of skepticism on the public results of the project is a perfect example of confirmation bias.

    • @rudra62
      @rudra62 ปีที่แล้ว

      People would use ESP to find out that they had evidence of it.

    • @jenniferj5324
      @jenniferj5324 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's why privaty funded research is important.

    • @rudra62
      @rudra62 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jenniferj5324 Not necessarily. What does the funding person or organization have to gain or lose if the research ends up supporting the point or not finding any evidence? Privately funded research is always suspect. So is publicly financed research, but in a different way. The trick is to find several sets of research, published in various journals, with different support, different research sites - preferably in different countries.

  • @EamonCoyle
    @EamonCoyle ปีที่แล้ว

    One big discovery from the magic powers experiment was that people fart when you pull there finger !! Ha Ha Ha

  • @iteerrex8166
    @iteerrex8166 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    634 attempts.. you gotta be very incompetent, but bad people usually are.

    • @marktg98
      @marktg98 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That, or Fidel was a genius.

    • @littlerave86
      @littlerave86 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I highly doubt bad people are usually incompetent. You just rarely ever hear about the competent ones.

    • @iteerrex8166
      @iteerrex8166 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@littlerave86 Of course there are competent ones, how else would we get all these endless problems.

    • @littlerave86
      @littlerave86 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@iteerrex8166 Yeah, of course there are. But how many is just a guess, and that's where it seems our opinions divide, as I don't think most of the bad ones are incompetent, I think there's a bell-shaped distribution of competence within bad people, which makes most of them neither very competent, nor incompetent. And yes, the worst ones are the competent ones.

    • @iteerrex8166
      @iteerrex8166 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@littlerave86 Agreed, it’s bell curved, but let’s not go into probability and stats. I just wana slap them lol

  • @insane0042
    @insane0042 ปีที่แล้ว

    Don't forget the CIA project of using games like Conflict of Nations to crowd source the best possible way to overthrow governments!

  • @achievementraider3039
    @achievementraider3039 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The "i" in CIA isn't its strong point

  • @Fufu0117
    @Fufu0117 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Makes "make America great again" hyper sinister huh. ?

  • @WoollyWanderers
    @WoollyWanderers ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I visited Cuba in 2011 from the UK. Flew Gatwick to Havana, then travelled across the island for the following three weeks to Santiago de Cuba, taking an internal flight back to Havana. Fascinating place, beautiful countryside, from the Sierra Escambray Mountains to the old colonial architecture in Havana, the old American cars too. I stayed a few nights in the Hotel Ambos Mundos in Havana and visited the room where Hemingway lived for several years and wrote "For Whom the Bell Tolls". At the time I found it bizarre that people living in the self-proclaimed "land of the free" were not allowed to visit Cuba for tourism purposes, thanks to their own government preventing them from travelling there. Is this still the case?

    • @gladlawson61
      @gladlawson61 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Lol. There are many reasons for not allowing u.s dollars into cuba. 😅😅😅

    • @WoollyWanderers
      @WoollyWanderers ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gladlawson61 Are you happy for your government to have such control over where you are allowed to travel?

    • @dgoodwin619
      @dgoodwin619 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@WoollyWanderers Nothing stops you from visiting, you just can't get their directly.

    • @vic5015
      @vic5015 ปีที่แล้ว

      Obama lifted the ban on Americans going to Cuba. But Trump might have reversed that. Anyone else can visit freely.

    • @WoollyWanderers
      @WoollyWanderers ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dgoodwin619 Why?

  • @Drewsapher
    @Drewsapher ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ooo I hope he talks about Guatemala in this

  • @kyleevans6221
    @kyleevans6221 ปีที่แล้ว

    How is no one talking about the hilarious voice cracks

  • @MrEnjoivolcom1
    @MrEnjoivolcom1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Operations Northwoods sounds a lot like 9/11.

  • @alidabirnia2882
    @alidabirnia2882 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Not to mention dumping crack cocaine into the streets of inner city Los Angeles, followed by the Reagan drug war.

  • @MikeSmith-uq9fj
    @MikeSmith-uq9fj ปีที่แล้ว

    Castro wore a moral vest that protected him always.

  • @derekhenson3471
    @derekhenson3471 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When you are paid to research something that you realize is hot garbage but you need to come up with reasons to continue the research, you will always find away; even for 23 years!

  • @Corsuwey
    @Corsuwey ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I often wonder if the Caribbean, Central, and S. American countries were left alone... how much better off would they be today?

    • @pakde8002
      @pakde8002 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Better still if democracies were actively supported.

    • @Dr.Fluffles
      @Dr.Fluffles ปีที่แล้ว

      Probably not much better overall, as the issues and factions the CIA and others exploited already existed, they just shifted the balance of power during the time they were there. With power balances still swinging back and forth between violent groups of every ideology I doubt the current state would be much different.

    • @creativeideas012
      @creativeideas012 ปีที่แล้ว

      The whole world

    • @jenniferj5324
      @jenniferj5324 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They would most likely be worse off or the same.

  • @HMXDave
    @HMXDave ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Seeing the pictures, there is NO way Justin Trudeau isn't Castro's offspring...

  • @frakismaximus3052
    @frakismaximus3052 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like the great pic of Justin Trudeaus dad in the thumbnail! 👏 👏 👏

  • @WallStreet06
    @WallStreet06 ปีที่แล้ว

    No bad ideas in brainstorming.

  • @JohnGarland72
    @JohnGarland72 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The most astonshing yet unremaked thing...why was the Northwoods memo attached to the JFK assassination secretvrecords...

  • @barbararoca6847
    @barbararoca6847 ปีที่แล้ว

    My ESP abilities tell me that all these things are bad ideas. Oh wait, maybe this is just good old common sense!

  • @iteerrex8166
    @iteerrex8166 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    And we wonder why they hate us.

  • @davidstirkey2136
    @davidstirkey2136 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Odd, Fidel has been dead since 2016 but the number of atempts on his life continues to grow.

  • @bhgtree
    @bhgtree ปีที่แล้ว

    I heard about the cigar plot......unfortunately for the CIA it went up in smoke. 😄

  • @lukemarlowe6592
    @lukemarlowe6592 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Theyve obviously stopped doing these kinds of things and are the good guys now!

  • @syntaxerror9994
    @syntaxerror9994 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi-gem-n-ee
    I swear Simon does that on purpose!

  • @donovandelaney3171
    @donovandelaney3171 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Redacted doesn’t count as declassified.

  • @ONEDVSDVIT
    @ONEDVSDVIT ปีที่แล้ว

    Simon and co, please do a video on Çatalhöyük (Catal Huyuk)

  • @danelynch7171
    @danelynch7171 ปีที่แล้ว

    "well coop who we wanna coop"

  • @mad-cyantist3159
    @mad-cyantist3159 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can't have a Coup without USA, Russia and China

  • @iggymoondust289
    @iggymoondust289 ปีที่แล้ว

    Castro has got a real strong look of Trudeau in that thumbnail

  • @jjlpinct
    @jjlpinct ปีที่แล้ว +2

    He was broken by the Hyman

  • @andriesbotha3183
    @andriesbotha3183 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    And one wonders why people believe in conspiracy theories...