33 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True, What Every Person Should Know...

Mr. Elinoff uses rather broad definitions of the words conspiracy, Conspiracy Theory, and true.


1. The Dreyfus Affair
Real Government conspiracy of limited scope and massive impact.
There really wasn't a Theory until Zola started digging.

2. The Mafia
Real conspiracy by private people
There are hundreds of crime organisations, the Mafia having started as a resistance group doesn't make them that special.
Where is the Theory?

3. MK-ULTRA
Real Government conspiracy of limited scope and limited impact. And fucked up.

4. Operation Mockingbird
Real Government conspiracy of limited scope and limited impact

5. Manhattan Project
Not a conspiracy, just the government being secretive.
Just like D-day.

6. Asbestos
Corporate conspiracy.

7. Watergate
Small scale Real Government conspiracy. Very embarrassing, massive impact.

8. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Douchebaggery.
Not a conspiracy.

9. Operation Northwoods
Proposed conspiracy, never carried out.

10. 1990 Testimony of Nayirah
Disinfo. People lie all the time.
Quickly exposed.

11. Counter Intelligence Programs Against Activists in the 60s
Real Government conspiracy of limited scope and limited impact

12. The Iran-Contra Affair
Real Government conspiracy of limited scope and limited impact

13. The BCCI Scandal
Corporate conspiracy.
There was a Theory?

14. CIA Drug Running in LA
B.S.

15. Gulf of Tonkin Never Happened
McNamara didn't really know that. It just happened to be convenient.
FoW incident, not planned.
There is a theory.

16. The Business Plot
With the only witness being the last person in the US military a right wing conspiracy would have trusted, this one definitely can't be considered proven.

17. July 20, 1944 Conspiracy to Assassinate Hitler
Real conspiracy by private people.
Coup plots are a dime per dozen.
Gunpowder Plot, assassination of Caesar, there are thousands.
Where is the Theory. It was exposed rather quickly.

18. Operation Ajax
Real conspiracy.
Overthrowing foreign governments was America's favourite pastime during the Cold War.

19. Operation Snow White
Real conspiracy by private people

20. Operation Gladio
Secret military operation, parts of which turned into a private conspiracy.

21. The CIA Assassinates A Lot Of People (Church Committee)
Never been a secret the US government assassinated people.
The CIA happens to be not very good at it, though.
And every American citizen that didn't vote for Stop-the-CIA candidates is a co-conspirator.

22. The New World Order
The NWO was implemented with the Yalta Accords and fell apart in 1991.
It wasn't a success.

Any other NWO is just a Theory.

23. Kennedy Assassination
B.S.

24. 1919 World Series Conspiracy
Real conspiracy by private people
Honestly, who cares?

25. Karen Silkwood
Corporate conspiracy. Possibly.

26. CIA Drug Smuggling in Arkansas
Variation of 14. Still B.S.

27. Bohemian Grove
Bunch of bored rich people playing pageantries.

28. Operation Paperclip
Not a conspiracy, just woowoos misunderstanding what the government does.
Lots of countries go egghead-hunting.

29. The Round Table
Imperialist fantasy of a billionaire.

30. The Illuminati
Radical political movement crushed by the government.
There is a Theory.

31. The Trilateral Commission
No conspiracy.

32. Big Brother or the Shadow Government
No conspiracy.
Lots of countries have a Continuity of Government plan in case the capital gets nuked.

33. The Federal Reserve Bank
There is a Theory.
Has not yet turned out to be true.

I don't recall many conspiracy theories associated with the real ones.

They left out the StreetCar Conspiracy. And many many others.
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The whole Conspiracies have happened therefore you must take my Conspiracy Theory serious approach doesn't wash anyway.
Name me one conspiracy that was successfully exposed by a CTer, rather then an insider or a professional law-enforcer, journalist, or historian.