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

For life with pets, there's Chewy delivering everything.

From food to fun to fashion.

All at great prices.

If a pet's part of your family, Chewy should be too, with everything you need for life with pets.

Hey, thanks for checking out another compilation.

I'm especially grateful that you clicked because this video is going to be demonetized and suppressed.

And that's because...

Half of the episodes in this compilation are what YouTube calls not suitable for all advertisers.

So thank you.

The first episode is,

I mean, talking about starting it off with a, with a banger.

This is the dark side of DARPA.

On the Y-Files, you walk a line between exploring wild conspiracies and keeping the audience grounded in facts.

Have you ever stumbled on a piece of information that made you stop and think, this is bigger than I want to touch?

This sounds like our breakfast conversation.

and if so what made you decide to hold back

um

the one episode that that that really got me emotional was i was doing the dark side of darpa and i went into that everyone knows darpa and their projects and and their science going back to whatever 40s 50s 60s but in the as i was going through the research i found the connection between DARPA and Asian Orange and Ancient Purple and all of that,

all the Vietnam chemicals.

And I got very emotional about that because my father-in-law suffers from everything, every illness that you can have from Agent Orange.

Was he a Vietnam vet?

He was, Air Force.

Yeah, this is an emotional episode.

This is the only episode that I completely finished editing and

I thought, I don't want to upload this.

I mean, there's been plenty of episodes, pretty much everyone in this compilation, that I've been uncomfortable with.

Like,

not so much worried for my safety, but worried that I'd get a phone call or a knock on the door or an audit, which I got.

But this one, I finished and I said, it's too dark, it's too emotional, it's too controversial,

but it

became

important to me, very personal.

So,

dark side of DARPA.

In the early days of the space race, the Soviet Union racked up a lot of firsts.

Sputnik, the first satellite.

Laika the dog, the first animal in space.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.

Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman, Zahn 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 three 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?

Here's the scene.

You're driving.

It's late and the 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.

How you know the Wi-Files is also a podcast.

No plugs yet, please.

We save those for the end.

Sorry, sorry.

I could sniff out a plug opportunity like a travel pig.

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 touch screen 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.

Is this going to be a highly predictable and hacked joke about how Al Gore said he created the internet?

I yield the rest of my time.

Thank you.

Mm-hmm.

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.

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.

You were online all the way back then?

When you 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.

Did you even know girls existed?

Yes, I knew they existed.

Yeah, now I see.

What?

Girls didn't know you existed.

I was a late bloomer.

Bloomer?

Bloomer.

What'd 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 yards 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 engage targets up to 1,300 yards away or more.

The farthest confirmed kill, 2.2 miles by Canadian Special Forces in 2017.

Impressive, but DARPA's Extreme Accuracy Task Ordnance 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.

SEPTER 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 HIMEMS.

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 can be controlled remotely or operate autonomously using AI.

They've created remote-controlled rats.

DARPA trains bees to find landmines.

They're developing claytronics, programmable shape-shifting matter.

They're developing nuclear-powered 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 him into one.

The human body is an amazing machine.

Our musculoskeletal 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 exosuit, 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 Talo 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 TAR, 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 Z-Man 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 amphetamines.

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 seven 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 biorevolution 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 CRISPR gene editing technology.

CRISPR can snip out unwanted genes and insert new ones.

CRISPR could accelerate healing.

Injuries that might have sidelined soldiers for weeks or months could heal in days.

CRISPR technology has already sparked a revolution in medicine with the potential to cure genetic disorders and even combat aging.

Link below on how CRISPR 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.

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 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 LS-3 can follow soldiers autonomously and carry up to 400 pounds 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?

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 miles 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 miles away can be destroyed in six 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 SCI.

The goal of SCI was to create military strategies by running simulations and learning from them.

You're describing war games.

What's it doing?

Wargames 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 Schwartz from the Stanford Research Institute, or SRI.

SRI, I know those guys.

You do.

SRI 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, Schwartz was fascinated by a new computer subculture called Hackers.

He suggested that they make a movie about a kid hacking a military supercomputer.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, what was it?

It was called the

Big Mac.

No, Whopper, War Operation Plan Response.

Yeah, right.

I'd still rather have a Big Mac.

Me too.

Well, the Whopper spends all its time thinking about World War III.

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 supercomputer.

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 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'm about to be.

No, they're watching you, human.

Yeah, I really don't want to talk about this.

Honestly, I'm about to put everything that I have at risk.

You're actually scaring me right now.

I'm scared too.

Here we go.

Welcome.

Like 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 six and three quarters points above fair value.

The early 1990s was the beginning of the tech boom.

Internet startups were getting millions in investments.

And they had access to vast resources and vast amounts 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.

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 invitation-only group of government officials, academics, and executives from tech and defense companies.

Their discussions are private and off the record, operating under the Chatham 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 U.S.

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.

MDDS 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 black budget 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 and academia.

If you can handle big data, we'll give you big money.

Then a promising promising project emerged.

Two Stanford graduate students working on a search engine made a breakthrough.

This episode is sponsored by FumeZero, the grab-and-go flavored air device that's changing habits, not just replacing them.

Fume Zero is single-use, pre-loaded, and ready to go right out of the box.

No charging, no refills, no setup.

And it's completely clean, zero nicotine, zero vapor, zero batteries.

Just natural, plant-based, flavored air.

Crisp mint is my go-to when I need that afternoon picnic up.

It's cool, clean, and helps me reset without reaching for something I'll regret later.

With six bold flavors and over 10 days of use, Fume Zero keeps things simple and satisfying.

You can even adjust the airflow to get the perfect draw, and the sleek triangular design feels great in your hand.

The subtle click is surprisingly calming, and the soft, chewable tip checks that box when you need something to hold on to.

Fume Zero is designed to replace the ritual without the chemicals and without the guilt.

Take zero chances with Fume Zero today.

Available for just $24.99.

Just head to tryfume.com.

That's T-R-Y-F-U-M.com to start with zero.

In the early 90s, searching the internet was difficult.

Popular engines like Alta Vista and Lycos 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 Stanford students developed a system that changed everything.

Their automated web crawling 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 flox.

This assumes birds of a feather stick together, meaning people searching specific keywords tended to click the same result.

Query flox 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 MDDS funded it.

If you haven't guessed by now, those two students were Sergei 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 Brendan Page's famous 1998 research paper, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, they thank 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-blah, 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 this story might have been a terrible mistake.

So yes, please go to patreon.com slash the wifiles.

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, Iran, Lebanon, and many others.

But the Soviet Union was fueling insurrections against U.S.-friendly 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, guerrilla warfare.

Old military strategies wouldn't work.

The situation in Vietnam was especially bad.

The Viet Cong 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 Ranch Hand.

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 Viet Con cover.

Agent Orange was the winner.

Millions of gallons of Agent Orange were sprayed over miles of jungle every day.

Leaves fell from trees almost 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 Diem if he knew which farms were Viet Cong 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 U.S.

didn't want to do this, but it only had a few hundred military advisors in Vietnam at this time.

They didn't want to send more.

Better to sacrifice North Vietnamese farmers than U.S.

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.

Agent 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 Subliminal warfare, mind control, link going 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.

Even in war, there are rules.

POWs 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 Hague Convention banned the use of poison in war.

The U.S.

signed the treaty.

Agent Orange was poisoned.

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 loyal loophole bullshit.

In 1925, the Geneva Protocol banned the use of chemical weapons.

The U.S.

signed this treaty.

But Agent Orange was a chemical.

Of the 12 companies producing Agent Orange, the primary manufacturer was the Dow 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.

But 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 U.S.

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 U.S.

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 U.S.

signed this new treaty, but still denied any liability for the damage caused by Agent Orange.

However, in 1984, U.S.

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, 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 U.S.

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

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 gonna 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.

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 bioengineered 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 U.S.

has never been surprised by technology.

Except for the UFOs.

Okay, the U.S.

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.

Kevin and Rachel and Peanut M ⁇ Ms and an eight-hour road trip.

And Rachel's new favorite audiobook, The Cerulean Empress, Scoundrel's Inferno.

And Florian, the reckless yet charming scoundrel from said audiobook.

And his pecs glistened in the moonlight.

And Kevin feeling weird because of all the talk about pecs.

And Rachel handing him peanut MMs to keep him quiet.

Uh, Kevin, I can't hear.

Yellow, we're keeping it PG-13.

MMs, it's more fun together.

A happy place comes in many colors.

Whatever your color, bring happiness home with CertaPro Painters.

Get started today at Certapro.com.

Each Certipro Painters business is independently owned and operated.

Contractor license and registration information is available at Certapro.com.

So just to follow up on that Sean 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.

Because 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.

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've never seen anyone shoot like that.

Anyway,

check in the notes.

Check in the notes.

Okay.

Oh, boy.

We're going to keep it going with the dangerous topics.

This next one is another one that was

uncomfortable releasing.

When I did the Killer Patents episode, I ended it with all the free energy inventors that...

Like the hydrogen car guy.

He got, he said he was poisoned.

He said said

he is having he's having like lunch with investors to like finally take his, his car ran in water.

This is Stanley Meyer.

And

he's not feeling well and he runs outside.

He's like throwing up in the street.

And his brother was his partner.

And his brother said, 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 100 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 space-time 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.

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 say.

Five years, 20, 50.

You can't really quantify it.

Oh, you can't quantify it, huh?

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 of-

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 gearhead, 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 Pogue 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 Pogue carburetor on a Ford V8 coupe.

It got 26.2 miles on one pint of gasoline.

That's almost 220 miles per gallon.

Ford tested it.

They got 200 miles 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, Pogue's 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 damage he almost caused.

Fuel-efficient engines were not good for business, so the oil companies lobbied the U.S.

government for help.

And a few years later, in 1951, help arrived.

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 U.S.

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 U.S.

military.

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

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.

Woo!

After a few months of trial and error, Ogle replicated his invention with his own car.

His 1970 Ford Galaxy got 11 miles per gallon, but after a few modifications, it got 100 miles per gallon.

In April 1977, Ogle drove the 4,000-pound car 205 miles 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 Pogue's carburetor.

Almost overnight, 24-year-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, huh?

Yep.

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 was conveniently forgotten.

Later that year, the U.S.

and Saudi Arabia negotiated the United States-Saudi Arabian Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation.

They agreed to use U.S.

dollars for oil contracts.

The petrodollar became the de facto currency of the world that day.

This made the U.S.

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.

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 a police agency.

EPA cannot approve a fuel-saving device.

They put out reams of documentation.

stating that something will not work.

Soon after, he received bomb threats.

His 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.

So, you can only imagine what happens when you invent a car that doesn't need gas at all.

The Top R News here at 6 o'clock, an age-old dream becoming a reality.

A local inventor has discovered a way, hear this, to use water to head your car.

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 of car.

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.

He's 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 could 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 Rudolf 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 U.S., it would use only 22 gallons 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.

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 just dismissed being poisoned as such a blatant lie and not true.

I think a brain aneurysm is a very convenient way for somebody to die.

And if they were poisoned, that can cause that.

It 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 toroid-shaped-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.

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 it turns out that Stan's water car was his least important invention.

That donut-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.

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.

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 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 it all out.

Enough energy to boil and evaporate all the oceans on Earth from a coffee cup of empty space.

This energy is called zero-point energy.

And it's generated from the zero-point field.

Nikola Tesla, Nikolai Kaziarev, 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 the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.

He tried to harness energy from the zero-point field using the tower he built on Long Island.

Tesla link blow!

Now Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower tapped into this endless supply of energy.

The tower was considered an over-unity device.

An over-unity 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 100 years, scientists and inventors have proved that claim wrong.

Zero-point 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 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 Murray 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.

Murray tried to patent his invention.

He was denied.

They told him there's no such thing as free energy.

But still, the U.S.

government was interested.

Yeah, and that's when things go

Yep.

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, Murray 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.

Marais' 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 zero-point devices, it didn't generate heat.

The input was 26.8 watts, the output over 7,000 watts.

Gray's machine was tested and verified by multiple scientists.

Gray started developing this idea eight years ago.

For the past year and a half, he's been trying to get someone in the U.S.

government interested.

So far, he's had a little luck.

After he contacted the government, let me see.

Things went downhill, right?

Yep.

Yeah.

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 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 Sweet 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 milliwatts and produced almost 224,000 watts.

This was continuous on-demand power.

If you attach more equipment, it would simply harness more power.

No limit.

And here just coming into view,

you see five 100 watt 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 zero-point 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 spurious 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 one-third of a milliwatt of input power.

So Sparky filed a patent.

Yeah.

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 pay phones 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 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 six pounds.

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.

Zero-point energy, anti-gravity.

Now, if this sounds like UFO technology, that's because it is.

Richard Doty says zero-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

used zero-point energy.

That's what they referred it to, zero-point energy.

And it was connected in such a manner that this device could power, I mean, from

a very small

flashlight or a very small watch up to a city.

And

the

power was determined by what the demand on it was.

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 U.S.

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 Gianni Dotto 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 Dotto ring manipulates the magnetic field around a human body using gravity and frequency.

It was inspired by the Hunza 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 Dotto 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 Dotto ring was even tested at Sloan Kettering 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, Dotto's device could levitate.

Then the FDA became involved.

And everything went downhill.

Yep, they shut down Dotto's research.

Not long after that, Dotto was hit by a car that ran over him multiple times.

The levitating, age-reversing Dotto ring vanished.

T.

Townsend Brown used a high voltage and electromagnetic field to create 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 T-Towns and Brown from commercializing or even publicizing any technology which could potentially be interpreted as having a military application.

Anti-gravity or anti-gravitic technology was popular in the 1950s.

The United States and Canadian governments were both working on anti-gravitic technology.

They farmed this workout to well-known aerospace companies like Lockheed 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 Li 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 U.S.

government.

And then everything went dark.

Downhill.

Yep.

In 2001, Ning Li received a grant from the U.S.

Department of Defense for over $400,000 to continue anti-Gravitic research.

Then, Ning Li 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 Li reappeared out of nowhere.

I didn't see that coming.

And then she was hit by a car.

That I saw it coming.

She suffered permanent brain damage.

Ning Li'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.

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.

Stam Meyer, the man who invented the water-powered car, receives a lot of scrutiny, probably because his story is so well known.

Now, despite his claim 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.

Moray, 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 cover 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 pushback 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 Fallone was working at the U.S.

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, public needs to know at least that every major military agency has a representative at the patent office.

And when Vallone 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, it's actually breaking the law, it's trying to make happy the 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 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?

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.

Do 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 slave labor and 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 Paes 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 speed travel.

He has a patent that can change the course of asteroids through a magnetic field.

And my favorite Salvatore Paez invention?

He has a patent for a tiny solid-state device about the size of a deck of cards that can generate 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 U.S.

government.

They work for the shadow government.

A shadowy government with its own air force,

its own navy,

its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest,

free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

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.

It 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.

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 re-elected 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.

Fall is in full swing.

And if you're looking to refresh your wardrobe or help someone else refresh theirs, Quince makes it easy to look polished, stay warm, and save big without compromising on quality.

My wife's been loving their fall collection.

Think 100% Mongolian cashmere from just $50.

Washable silk tops, skirts, and denim that looks designer without the markup.

She's also got her eye on one of their wool coats.

It has that high-end look, but costs a fraction of the price.

For myself, I picked up the latent polarized stainless steel sunglasses.

They're honestly the best pair I've owned.

Lightweight, comfortable, and the polarized lenses block 99% of glare.

And Quince partners directly with ethical top-tier factories and cuts out the middlemen so you get that luxury quality for half the price of other brands.

It's the kind of wardrobe upgrade that feels smart, stylish, and effortless.

Keep it classic and cozy this fall with long-lasting staples from Quince.

Go to quince.com/slash the wife for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.

That's q-u-in-ce-e.com/slash the wife to get free shipping and 365-day returns.

Quince.com/slash the wife.

3 plus 15 plus 00.

Now, I thought Killer Patents volume one was controversial, but volume 2, 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 used special herbs to treat illnesses.

Hippocrates, 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 smallpox vaccine, and Louis Pasteur 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.

Royal Raymond Reif 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 Johns Hopkins University, one of the best medical institutions in the world.

Reif 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 Reif 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.

Reifs could reach 60,000 times magnification.

He could see viruses and bacteria that nobody had ever seen before.

Reif discovered what he called Bacillus 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.

They 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.

That's how you do it.

So Rife built the Reif Frequency Generator or Reif machine, which emitted specific frequencies to target and destroy specific microorganisms.

He called the frequency the mortal oscillatory rate.

He found the frequencies to destroy tuberculosis, typhoid, pneumonia, anthrax, and more, all without harming healthy tissue.

Now you can see the disintegration of the bacteria playing into pieces.

This is killing bacteria without harm to the image cell,

without drugs.

He injected lab rats with cancer cells, creating golf ball-sized tumors, then used his machine to match the cancer's mortal oscillatory rate.

It worked.

The lab rats were completely cancer-free.

Reif's work attracted interest from other doctors.

Dr.

Milbank Johnson arranged a study on 16 cancer patients using Reif's machine.

In three months, 14 of the 16 patients were completely cured.

Dr.

Royal Raymond Reif discovered the cure for cancer, and it ruined him.

Royal Raymond Reif'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 three 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 Rife's ideas.

The notion that simple radio waves could succeed where radiation and surgery had failed, well, that was nonsense.

They figured Rife'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 Reif didn't need big pharma.

He was backed by a few private investors, including William Timken, who owned a ball-bearing company.

I know it's Fletch.

With no ties to the medical industry, Reif had the freedom to research whatever and however he wanted.

Doctors around the country figured if this Rife guy wasn't going away, they might as well look at his work.

Reife 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 Fischbein.

Fischbein, head of the American Medical Association, was known to be very aggressive.

Some critics called him the medical Mussolini.

At first, Fischbein offered to buy Reif out, but when Reife said no, Fischbein's attitude changed.

Reife 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 Rife's technology, but were pressured by the AMA to stop or lose their licenses.

Vigilant against quackery is Dr.

Morris Fischbein.

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.

Fishbein then launched a campaign of character assassination against Reif.

Articles appeared in medical journals and newspapers calling Reife 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.

Fishbein offered one of Rif's investors legal assistance in an attempt to steal the company from Reife and other investors.

Reif spent years fighting lawsuits.

He went bankrupt, and the AMA stopped his work from proceeding.

Royal Raymond Reif quietly retired.

Broke and broken, he turned to alcohol.

About 20 years later, renewed interest in Reif's technology led John Crane and John Marsh to convince him to build a new machine.

Reif agreed, but the business didn't last long.

In 1960, their labs were raided without a warrant.

All equipment and records were seized.

Reif stayed out of court, but his partners were charged with medical fraud.

Even though 14 patients testified they were cured by the Reif machine, Crane and Marsh were sentenced to three years in prison.

Oh, by the way, the forewoman of the jury was an AMA doctor.

Oh, come on.

Reif was again labeled a liar and a quack and reduced to poverty and despair.

Many of Reif's associates faced tragedies.

Dr.

Billblake Johnson died in 1944, poisoned, and all his research disappeared.

Burnett Labs in New Jersey, building Reif 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 Burnett, was related to William Timkin.

Yep.

Dr.

Elmer Nemes was a nuclear physicist, medical doctor, and microscope designer.

He was trying to replicate Reif'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 Reif'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 Fishbein or the AMA.

The medical establishment does not like alternative medicine.

In the 19th century, there were two types of medical practitioners in the U.S.

allopathic doctors and alternative healers.

Allopathic doctors diagnosed 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.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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 Carnegie Foundation to survey medical schools.

In 1910, they released a report calling for standardizing medical training and eliminating non-scientific practices.

And then 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 of the sick.

The AMA established allopathic 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,

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.

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 Fishbein 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.

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 Fishbein 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 Fischbein took over.

By the way, Simmons was never a doctor.

He got his diploma from Rush Medical College by mail.

At least Fischbein went to medical school, though he wasn't a good student.

He never finished his internship.

He never received a diploma and never practiced practiced medicine, never saw a patient, not ever.

In 1938, along with the AMA, Fischbein was indicted for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act.

The AMA was convicted and fined, but Fischbein was acquitted.

Still, he was lining his pockets.

Under Fischbein'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.

Fischbein was finally thrown out of the AMA in 1949.

And that was the end of the corruption with the AMA and Big Pharma?

Oh, I'm sure everything's on a level now.

In 1924, Harry Hoxsey 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 Hoxie Clinic in Dallas was the world's largest private cancer center with branches in 17 states.

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.

Hoxie reported very high success rates, which caught the eye of Morris Fishbein.

Hoxie gave Fishbein and other AMA members a demonstration of his product and method.

The next day, Fischbein offered to buy Hoxie's formula.

Hoxie was open to the idea, but insisted on providing treatment to those who couldn't afford it, as he did in his clinics.

Fishbein was offended.

He demanded full control of the business and profits for nine years.

After that, Hoxie would get 10% of the profits if the AMA was satisfied the cure worked.

Yeah, Hoxie refused.

And like Royal Raymond Reif, Hoxie faced Fishbein's wrath.

From 1926 to 1931, Hoxie was arrested 119 times for practicing medicine without a license.

Between 1937 and 1939, he was arrested over 100 times in Texas.

Fishbein labeled Hoxie the worst cancer quack of the century and pressured the FDA to shut down his clinic.

Patients were harassed, records seized and clinics closed.

Hoxie fought back.

He sued Fishbein and the AMA for libel and slander and won.

Fishbein was forced to resign and admitted in court that Hoxie's treatment cured external cancer.

Hoxey converted skeptics, including Al Templeton, the assistant district attorney of Dallas, who had arrested Hoxsey almost 100 times.

When Templeton's brother's cancer was cured by Hoxie, Templeton became Hoxie'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 fellow.

He's getting too big.

And the American Medical Association liked 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 six weeks and wrote The Quack Who Cures Cancer Cancer and became Hoxie's publicist.

Now, even though Fishbein resigned, he was still powerful.

In 1960, after 36 years of operation, Hoxie's clinics were closed.

Even with the support of U.S.

Senator Elmer Thomas, Hoxie'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 lobbied heavily against Senator Thomas.

Even though Thomas was very popular, he was defeated in the primary by Mike Monroney.

The vote was a huge upset and a surprise to everyone, but it wasn't a surprise to the AMA.

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 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 Hoxie's formula is still around, but don't try it.

Actually, don't do anything without talking to your doctor.

Hoxie'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 Hoxie 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 seven years later.

Seven hard years.

So don't mess with his formula.

Listen to your doctor.

Morris Fishbein and all that nasty stuff about the AMA?

Well, that's pretty much all true.

Fishbein was sleazy.

Whether he admitted that Hoxie's formula worked, I couldn't find any proof.

I think it's just part of the legend.

But in Fishbein'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 Fishbein and the AMA is hard to find.

There's not a lot of that on the internet.

You have to dig.

Now Royal Raymond Reif, 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 seven 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 pulsing those waves, we create the histotripsy 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 is 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 nine months after his diagnosis trying nothing but alternative treatments against his doctor's wishes.

Steve Jobs had unlimited resources and he 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.

But things are stretched me out like this, and reach back to Pilate Life's memory a lot.

Drew and Sue in Eminem's Minis.

And baking the surprise birthday cake for Lou.

And Sue forgetting that her oven doesn't really work.

And Drew remembering that they don't have flour.

And Lou getting home early from work, which he never does.

And Drew and Sue using the rest of the tubes of Eminem's minis as party poppers instead.

I think this is one of those moments where people say, it's the thought that counts.

Eminem's, it's more fun together.

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 Gladio.

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 guerrilla army, and

they were trained by a Nazi general who was tight with Alan Dulles.

And this was planned during the war.

You know, while American GIs were being killed fighting the Nazis, they were already planning this next phase.

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 Luciano.

That was a surprise.

The mob didn't deal drugs, but maybe things changed.

Anslinger sent agents to Sicily where they caught Luciano preparing a half-ton shipment of heroin heading to New York City by way of Havana.

Now the U.S.

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 U.S.

Embassy in Palermo.

A young man picks up the phone and says, Sorry, Commissioner, have your agents stand down.

Lucky'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 Luciano, one of the world's most notorious crime bosses, was working for the CIA.

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 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 stay-behind 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.

Oh, great.

What could possibly go wrong?

Operation Paperclip was a covert U.S.

intelligence program that brought Nazi scientists, engineers, and technicians to America after World War II.

Many of of these scientists had been implicated in war crimes and human rights abuses, but the U.S.

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.

What did he do for the CIA?

Well, he worked for the MK Ultra program.

Using chemicals on people against their will?

Yep.

Nah, at least he was consistent.

Dr.

Eric Traub was a top Nazi bioweapons designer.

After the war, he worked for the U.S.

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 here with all this stuff?

Arthur Rudolph, Walter Dornberger, and Werner von Braun developed the V-2 rocket that killed thousands of people in London.

V-2 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, whoa, let me fix that for you.

They later worked for NASA and built rockets that never went to the moon.

Fake moon landing linked down here too, by the way.

About 1,600 Nazi scientists were recruited by the United States.

A lot of them are 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 Reinhard Gellen was Hitler's intelligence chief for the Eastern Front.

He had a reputation for abusing Soviet POWs 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 U.S.

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.

Gellen'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 stay-behind 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.

This was unacceptable.

It would undermine America's position in Europe and increase Soviet influence.

The CIA wanted Gellen'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 Gladio, named for the Gladius, the sword used by Roman soldiers.

Recruits would be trained by U.S.

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 Gladio running: a lot of cocaine.

The CIA would use Operation Gladio 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.

Gladio 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 Gladio.

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 Helliwell had a solution.

He worked with the Chinese National Army fighting Mao Zedong's communists.

Chiang Hai-check funded the Chinese National Army by selling opium.

Hellwell smuggled opium into China using civil air transport, an airline owned by Chinese nationalists.

That airline was sold to the Airedale 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 Gladio with untraceable drug money.

But Gladio 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.

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.

U.S.

intelligence cut a deal with mob boss Charles Lucky Luciano, who was in prison.

In exchange for his cooperation, Lucky received a reduced sentence and other perks.

What?

He broke Omerta!

He did.

Omerta is the mafia code of silence.

You don't talk to authorities.

Informators if you're a punti.

Snitches get stitches.

I know what it means.

Kickball in the sky.

Ah, fatsiticula fanable.

Oh, hey, guess it, Chiquefa.

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.

But yeah, I was with the Peschey family.

That's a story for another time.

Maybe your next sponsor air, perhaps.

Good idea.

So when the CIA needed to move heroin, they knew who to call.

Lucky Luciano and his mafia syndicate.

Definitely.

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 Luciano 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.

Communists are bad for family business.

They are.

Organized crime would become a target in a communist state.

The mafia and the CIA liked things the way they were.

So business fronts were set up in Sicily and Italy.

Heroin was smuggled into the U.S., hidden in everyday items like sardine cans, wheels of cheese, and barrels of olive oil.

Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters moved the drugs around the country.

The operation instantly generated a ton of cash.

Yep.

Heroin was good business.

Operation Gladio 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 U.S.

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 them, bag them, tag them, 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, in the family business, everybody what's their peak.

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 Gladio 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 Gladio soldiers: prepare for war.

It would take a few years to organize, but Gladio was finally ready to enter its second phase: terrorism.

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 12, 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 Petano.

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 Giulia Andriati proposed a new, more stable government, but it was up to Parliament to decide.

So a vote was set for March 16th, 1978.

Meanwhile, Aldo Morro, a five-term prime minister, supported the historic compromise.

This plan would give the Italian Communist Party a larger role in the government.

Now, Morro 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 Moro would present his historic compromise plan to Parliament just before the vote.

Well, it didn't matter.

Morrow never made it to parliament.

The Red Brigades kidnapped him that morning and murdered him weeks later.

Morrow's death killed the historic compromise.

Andriatti's new government proceeded without the Communist Party.

I don't believe in coincidences.

Well, neither did journalist Mino Piccarelli.

He published an article with a really provocative theory about what really happened to Aolo Moro.

Piccarelli had discovered Prime Minister Andreatti's connections to the Sicilian mafia, and he openly wondered if Andriotti ordered or was complicit in Amoro's death.

Peccarelli thought Italian intelligence might have aided the Red Brigades.

He implied Operation Gladio members and foreign intelligence agencies like the CIA could be involved.

Now, Peccarelli didn't have hard evidence, but he believed there was a conspiracy between Andreati, the mafia, and CIA.

He knew if he kept digging, he'd find proof.

Ah, 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

through the 1970s and 80s the years of lead continued in italy more bombings and assassinations the bodies were piling up

in 1984 judge felice casson 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 Vinchiguera confessed to the Petiato 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.

Casson 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.

Casson couldn't believe it.

The officer said, there is more.

The suitcase had a false bottom with more hidden documents.

Casson 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.

Casson followed the lead.

He gained access to Italy's military intelligence archives.

That's when he learned these attacks were connected to Operation Gladio, launched by the CIA.

Casson now had evidence that a secret unit in military intelligence was conducting guerrilla operations against its own people.

Even more shocking, it wasn't just Italy.

Operation Gladio was conceived in Germany by former Nazis, expanded in Italy, and then spread across NATO.

Casson 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.

Casson 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 Gladio who was not already part of the conspiracy.

Prime Minister Andriatti initially denied knowing anything about Gladio, but in 1990, under political pressure, he confirmed Operation Gladio 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 U.S.

and UK continued to maintain a no-comment policy on Gladio.

The truth coming out put Prime Minister Andriati under tremendous scrutiny.

Eventually, he was arrested and charged with being complicit in the murders of Peccarelli and Moro.

After multiple trials and appeals, he was acquitted for lack of evidence and cleared of all charges.

About 30 acts of violence were directly linked to Gladio, with 150 more suspected.

Around 600 innocent people died from Gladio bombs, with twice as many injured.

If all suspected attacks are proven to be gladio-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.

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 U.S.

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 chests 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 Gorbachev 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.

Gladio was funded right up until it was exposed in 1990.

Gladio 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, Belarus, 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 U.S.

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.

Operation Gladio 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, scared, horse, brown sugar, china white.

Heroin.

What'd I say?

The CIA said it never happened.

In 1996, journalist Gary Webb linked the CIA to Nicaraguan Contras trafficking cocaine into the U.S.

to fund rebels.

That 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 Webb'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?

The CIA did.

Oh, they investigated themselves?

Yep.

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 wear in 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.

Let me 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 U.S.

government, including CIA, associated with known drug traffickers.

They overlook these activities to start communism.

Yep.

If you ask the question,

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 close their eyes to the criminal behavior of our allies and supporters in that war.

The policymakers 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 what he used to think.

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 playing the pool of organized crime, I think it's a very serious situation that's facing the country at the present time.

John F.

Kennedy was assassinated on November 22nd, 1963.

Robert F.

Kennedy, about to run for president, was assassinated five 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, Lone Gunman, case closed.

RFK, Surhan Surhan, 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.

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 Huelva, 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 fiancée, 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?

Joey.

See, oh, look at that.

How could the planes fly this distance in 1931?

Uh, you know that was meant as a joke.

Eh, 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'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 Godfrey'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,

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 Ewan Montague to help him develop the plan.

Before the war, Ewan Montague 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.

You know, I've 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.

Ewan didn't know it at the time, but his own brother, Ivor Montague, 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.

That's true.

So did this Igor.

Ivor.

Igor.

Ivor.

Ivor.

Ivor.

Did he stop spying for the Russians after the war?

The Montagues were also Jewish, so Ewan's wife and children spent the war in America for safety reasons.

Ewan 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 chumbley and montagu 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.

Chumley and Montague 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 one's corpse being dressed up as someone else and taken out of the country.

Ewan Montague was friendly with a local coroner who agreed to keep an eye out for just such a body.

Ah, it's good to have a corpse guy.

It is.

And on January 26, 1943, the coroner called Montague and told him, I got one.

Glender Michael had a hard life.

His father attempted suicide by stabbing himself at 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 26, 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 two days later.

Death by rat poison is a rough way to go.

But considering the forensic technology available at the time, dying for rat poisoning could pass for drowning.

Chumlea Montague now had a body.

Not for long though.

Montague's coroner buddy,

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 three months.

At this point, Chum Leon Montague's mission had also been given an official code name, Operation Mincemeat.

And this was a dark joke.

Mincemeat 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 co-op sky.

Now, Montague 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 every day for the next three months.

Now they needed a name.

Montague 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 Montague 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.

Montague and Chumley attempted to photograph the dead body, but this was unsuccessful.

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 montagu and chumley borrowed 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

and this is where the expression go in commando comes from

I don't think that's right.

Well, Montague 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 colleague's underwear for Operation Mincemeat.

Montague 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 fiancée Pam.

Jean Leslie, a secretary working at the agency, agreed to provide a photograph.

Jean now became Major Martin's fiancée 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 Ewan and Jean, as William and Pam.

They may have been playing characters, but the romance was real enough that Montague'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 Ewan Montague, 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.

But the month of rewrites was a problem, considering the three-month window given to Operation Mincemeat by the coroner.

They needed to get Glinder Michael, the photo of Gene, the worn uniform, the love letters, the dead academics' underwear, the all-important 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 Ewan Montague, Charles Chumley, and a secret package from England to Scotland, where Ewan 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 streetlights were out and all vehicle headlights had to be covered.

So Montague and Chumley were going to be driven at high speed by a race car driver in pitch darkness.

And by the way, Jack Horsfall was legally blind and refused to wear glasses.

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.

Just like James Bond.

You'll be using this Aston Martin DB5 with modifications.

Now, pay attention, please.

James Bond was a composite character based on real people that Ian Fleming knew, including Jack Horsfall.

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 Seraph 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 gunned the engine and the body was on its way.

Their final task was to sink the body's container, and this turned out to to be one of the biggest hurdles Operation Mints-Meet 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 Huelva, Spain.

This was chosen as the drop-off site because of one specific Huelva resident, Adolf Klaus.

That's the most German name I ever heard.

Klaus was a notorious German spy who was the key to making sure the falsified documents were seen by the Germans.

The fishermen 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 peek.

But they did eventually need to get the documents back if this thing was going to work.

Because 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, 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 Mincemeat 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 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 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 red, 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, codenamed 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 Viet Cong, the VC, by 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.

Hey, 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, eh?

Sarcasm!

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 U.S.-inspired Civil War, at least 75,000 civilians were killed.

MKUltra 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 Mincemeat 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 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 U.S.

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 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.

Elite basketball returns to the Elite Caribbean destination.

It's the 2025 Battle for Atlantis men's tournament happening November 26th to 28th.

Don't miss hometown team St.

Mary's, along with Colorado State, Vanderbilt, Virginia Tech, Western Kentucky, South Florida, VCU, and Wichita State, playing 12 games over three days.

It's basketball at its best, plus everything Atlantis has to offer.

Aqua Venture Water Park, White Sand Beaches, World Class Dining, and more.

Get your tickets and accommodations at battleforatlantis.com.

A happy place comes in many colors.

Whatever your color, bring happiness home with CertaPro Painters.

Get started started today at Certapro.com.

Each Certapro Painters business is independently owned and operated.

Contractor license and registration information is available at Certapro.com.

The next one is a dark one.

This was the first case that I could find where the U.S.

government actually publicly compensated someone who died in a strange way.

Oh, look, he had a heart attack.

Whoops, he's...

He fell out of a hotel window.

The Frank Olson murder is taught taught by Israeli intelligence as the perfect murder.

Frank Olson 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 Sidney Gottley and was

into programming and he was freaking out.

And he's up in a hotel room with someone else from MK and he falls out the window.

But if you look at the window where he fell, it's like

two feet by two feet.

You can't just jump out the window.

So he was found on the sidewalk by the doorman.

That's Frank Olson, worth looking up.

This is an older episode.

This goes back to number 76.

It's about MK Ultra and the Frank Olson 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 doorman of the Statler 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 pool around him.

13 stories up, a single window was 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 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 Olson.

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, Olson, Frank Olson.

The responding officers figured this was an open and 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, Armin 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 Olson'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 Olson family tried to move on.

Having trouble coping with losing his father, Eric Olson 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 Olson family.

The government confirmed the scientist was Frank Olson.

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 Olson family agreed to the terms.

Alice Olson 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 Olson only knew a few things about her husband's job.

She knew he was a scientist doing important work for the U.S.

government.

She knew he traveled for work all the time.

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 Olson 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, at 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, tularemia, and brucella.

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 bioweapon 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.

Olson developed delivery devices for these bioweapons, canisters disguised as shaving 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 Olson 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 ulcers 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 Sidney Gottlieb and Robert Lashbrook.

Gottlieb, Gottlieb.

Where do I know that name from?

Well, Sidney Gottlieb ran the CIA's Project Bluebird, which became Project Artichoke, which became NK Ultra.

Bingo.

During the Cold War, the CIA, specifically Sidney Gottlieb, 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 MKUltra was the program intended to accomplish this.

MKUltra was brutal and illegal.

Over time, the experiments Frank Olson conducted and witnessed started to weigh on him.

During one study, Frank Olson 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 Olson 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 Olson received an invitation for a pre-Thanksgiving retreat at a cabin on Deep Creek Lake.

Gottlieb ran these retreats for scientists and staff pretty often.

Deep Creek was a convenient place for Gottlieb.

This was one of the locations where Americans were subjected to MKUltra techniques against their will for decades.

Frank Olson 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 post-meal drink.

Lashbrook, Gottlieb's second-in-command, pulled a bunch of glasses and poured everyone a generous portion of Goan Treaux, which is an excellent orange triple sec liqueur from France.

Right.

20 minutes later, Gottlieb asked if anyone was feeling odd.

A few of the men said they were.

Gottlieb then told him that their drinks were spiked with a heavy dose of LSD.

Son of a

Frank Olson 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 olson to new york to meet with dr harold abramson 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 Statler 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 Olson's family was told he died from jumping or falling out a window.

About 20 years later, more details about MKUltra emerged and the Olson family received a settlement.

And almost 20 years after that, the case would take another turn.

Frank Olson's wife, Alice, passed away in 1993.

Their children decided to have Frank's body exhumed and reburied next to his wife.

But Frank's children had an additional plan.

They had James Starr, a medical examiner professor, conduct a second autopsy.

Starr 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.

Starr said of his findings, I think Frank Olson was intentionally, deliberately, with malice aforethought, thrown out of the window.

Frank's sons 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 Olson'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 Olson'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 feet onto a hard surface.

The manual says when successfully executed, it causes little excitement and is only casually investigated.

In fact, the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence organization, used Frank Olson'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 Olson was one 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 cholera, meningitis, and even plague.

It's possible Frank Olson was directly involved in deploying these illegal weapons.

Frank Olson was one of only a dozen or so people on earth who knew the extent of MKUltra and other secret and illegal CIA operations.

Frank Olson 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 Olson 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 MKUltra 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 Sidney Gottlieb, Robert Lashbrook, or any of the senior scientists from MKUltra 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 MKUltra 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?

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 Verdivan Braun 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 Trau.

He was the top bioweapon scientist for the Nazis.

And after the war, U.S.

Army brought him over to set up or improve the bioweapons program for the U.S.

But whenever I get into Operation Paperclip, I always hammer home.

These are Nazis.

You know, Werner von Braun is not a hero.

He's a hero, but he's not a hero.

You know, a lot of these guys, these are 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 1,200 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 U.S.

is bringing over a war criminal to help with a program that is, by definition, a war crime.

Anyway, Dr.

Traub helped set 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 Montauk Point, Long Island.

Local beach combers 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 Montauk 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 bioweapons, 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.

Less than two miles off the coast of Long Island and about 85 miles from New York City is a small island owned by the U.S.

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 U.S.

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 avian 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 ends in a hoof.

The Manhattan Monster's feet had five toes that ended in what looked like claws.

Oh, did it have the body of a crab and the head of a cat?

No, it hadn't.

I know, but

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 4th 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 Siddiqui 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 six-foot-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 U.S.

brought in bioweapon scientists with experience in human experimentation.

To build Plum Island, the U.S.

brought in the Nazis.

Why couldn't the Montauk monster be some critter that they were tinkering with that somehow went into the water and got swept by that outgoing tide?

Montauk is

south and east of Plum Island, not that far, maybe 10 miles as the crow flies, maybe less even.

Why couldn't it be that?

Reims Island, Germany is home to the oldest virological institution in the world.

Reims was founded in 1910 to research foot and mouth disease, but during World War II, it became ground zero for Hitler's biowarfare program.

Reams was run by scientist Erich Traub, who reported directly to Heinrich Himmler, who reported directly to Hitler.

Traub 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 biowarriors, 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 U.S., they could still find themselves swept up in Operation Osoavyakim.

This was the Soviet counterpart to Operation Paperclip, but where the U.S.

gave scientists a choice, the Soviets took them by force.

Eric Traub was one of the scientists forced to work for the Soviets from his lab on Reims 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 Traubs 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 animal facility, since 1954, when it was actually inaugurated as a biological warfare facility by Nazi Germany's top germware officer, warfare officer, that we secretly imported to the United States, the goal was germ warfare.

Is that true?

It really was that a Nazi?

A Nazi ran the place?

An ex-Nazi?

Yeah, his name was Eric Traub.

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 two 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 botulinum 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.

Botulinum 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.

In 1977, Long Island newspaper Newsday reported two Cuban exiles admitted they were part of the plot.

They said in early 1971, they were given the virus at Fort Gulick in Panama.

They then traveled to Navassa Island near Cuba and smuggled the virus to the island.

Now there is proof that the U.S.

Navy was on Navassa 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 Traub 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 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 Lyme, 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.

Two years later, scientists finally connected Lyme arthritis to the bite of a deer tick.

A type of single-cell bacteria called Borrelia 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 Trabb'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 U.S.

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 Seaspray 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, 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 a lot of smoke and the planes would let out a,

it's like a smoke or gas type of thing and 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 in tests that occurred in Hawaii, 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 tick-borne 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 Lyme, 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 Borrelia bergdorferi, after Willie Bergdorfer, who discovered it.

Now, Bergdorfer 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 Bergdorfer is that early in his career, he developed biological weapons for the U.S.

military.

Specifically, he weaponized ticks.

And between 1966 and 1969, almost 300,000 research ticks

got out.

Dr.

Willie Bergdorfer, the researcher who is credited with discovering Lyme disease.

Turns out that Dr.

Bergdofer was a bioweapons specialist.

The interviews, combined with access to Dr.

Berkdofer's files, reveals that he and other bioweapons specialists stuffed ticks with pathogens in a quest that caused 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.

What could possibly go wrong?

Oh, plenty.

One of the species released were lone star ticks.

Lone star 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.

Lone star 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 lone star 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 lone star ticks lay hundreds of thousands of eggs at a time.

And scariest of all, lone star 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, early chiosis, tularemia, heartland virus, and on and on.

A bite from a lone star 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 lone star 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 lone star larvae I found was just astonishing.

They're everywhere.

Every property that we have gone to, we've found lone star 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 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 a 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 ferries.

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 Arbovirus lab became infected with Sebillavirus.

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 eye.

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 U.S.

agreed to a worldwide ban.

The U.S.

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, the CDC had a leak?

A leak?

No.

Oh, thank God.

They've had dozens.

Oh, no.

In May 2012, 24-year-old Amy Copeland and a few friends were ziplining near the Tallapoosa 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 two days developed a fever and severe pain.

Amy was infected with Aromonis hydrophila, a rare type of flesh-eating 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 Copeland'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 Germany air?

Yep.

In that building, they study SARS, monkeypox, and anthrax.

Ooh, 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 concert?

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, botulism, and bird flu.

About a week after this report, old vials of smallpox 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.

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 flesh-eating 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, Otzie, 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 lone star 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 Newby 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.

Bonapet.

When the right team comes together at the right time, the potential is unlimited.

In the world of biotech, that time is right now.

At Unicisive Therapeutics, we've assembled an industry-leading biotech team to tackle the biggest unmet needs in kidney care.

Our lead investigational therapy is on pace to deliver a potential best-in-class profile for treating hyperphosphatemia in chronic kidney disease patients on dialysis.

What's next in kidney care is almost here.

Join us as we work to cross the finish line at unecisive.com.

Ready to take your skills and expertise to the next level?

At the Association for Talent Development, ATD, we offer more than 200 in-person live, online, and on-demand courses designed specifically for learning and development professionals.

Whether you want to lead projects more confidently, design engaging learning experiences, or drive stronger organizational impact, there's a program to help you meet your goals.

Visit td.org/slash training to find your next course today.

ATD, real training for the real world.

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 used those books in the episode.

But I never in a million years expect the U.S.

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.

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.

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 Schlesinger 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 Liddy.

Hunt was former CIA.

Liddy 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 U.S.

and Soviet Union.

28 million letters over 20 years were illegally opened and scanned.

The Office of Security confessed to wiretapping American journalists who had 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, MKOfton.

Week after week, the secrets poured in.

Programs everyone thought were conspiracy theories.

The binder was getting heavy.

By summer, 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 agency's biggest threat and knew his target.

The journalist who would expose it all was no stranger to government lies.

Seymour Hirsch had already won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre, where American soldiers slaughtered hundreds of Vietnamese civilians.

The Pentagon tried to bury that story.

Hirsch dragged it into the light.

By December 1974, Hirsch 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 Hirsch'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 Hirsch 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 agency does monitor foreign communications.

How do you define foreign communications?

I think it is communications that go abroad or are abroad.

I think they are.

Does it involve a United States citizen at one end?

On some occasions, that cannot be separated 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 turned out that most of these abuses really could be trailed back to the president and the NSC.

They initiated them, they knew about them.

In some cases, for example, assassinations, Eisenhower was the first to suggest it.

And so

this was really not a rogue

president, I mean a 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.

No 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, MH Chaos.

Started in 1967 under President Johnson and expanded under Nixon.

The mission was simple, find foreign influence in the anti-war movement, prove 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 Olber ran the operation.

He worked under James Jesus Angleton, the CIA's counterintelligence 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 spider web 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 Gettler for three months in 1971.

They were watching who I was talking to.

They took pictures of who I was having lunch with.

They actually took pictures

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.

Merrimack infiltrated protest groups around Washington, D.C.

Operation Resistance collected information on draft resistors.

H.T.

Lingual, 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 Abzug from New York, Patsy 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.

When it came to crushing Americans' Americans' First Amendment rights, the CIA and the FBI were perfect partners.

The CIA surveilled dissent, and the FBI dismantled it.

The program was called COINTELPRO, short for counterintelligence 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.

And 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.

Because 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 J.

Edgar Hoover got personal.

On November 21st, 21st, 1964, an unmarked package arrived at King's home.

His wife, Coretta, 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.

COINTELPRO 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.

There's a reason that protecting the press shows up right in the First Amendment.

The founding fathers knew knew that democracy needs watchdogs.

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 wurlitzer, a massive organ that would play any tune you wanted.

It started in the early days of the Cold War under Alan 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 few were patriots who thought they were serving their country.

Some enjoyed playing spy.

And some journalists had no agenda at all.

They just

liked 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, two 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 Salzberg at 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 are extremely proud of the quality, balanced journalism that CityS4 News produces.

But we are concerned about trouble in treating irresponsible, one-sided news stories plaguing 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 the same fake stories without checking facts first.

The sharing of biased and false newsletters.

False news has become all too common on social media.

More alarming means some media outlets

because they publish state stories basically are true without checking facts first.

Unfortunately, some members of the CIA use their platforms to socialize their own personal bias and agenda controls.

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 MKUltra, run by Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA's chief chemist.

His colleagues called him the Black Sorcerer.

From 1953 to 1973, Gottlieb had unlimited funds and zero oversight.

His mission, develop mind control techniques for the CIA.

And MKUltra 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 part in a government 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 brothels 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.

Ewan Cameron ran experiments at Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal.

He called it deep patterning, 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 seven-year-old child and compounded my 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 Olson, a scientist working in MKUltra.

He expressed ethical concerns about the CIA's methods.

He told a supervisor he wanted to resign.

A few days later, Gottley's team slipped LSD into Olson's drink at a CIA retreat.

On November 28th, 1953, nine days after being dosed, Olson went through a 10th floor hotel window.

The CIA said he jumped.

Suicide.

Case closed.

For 20 years, Gottlieb ran MKUltra with very little oversight and a tremendous amount of power.

But now, Congress was asking questions.

If MKUltra got exposed, it would be a huge problem.

So Sidney Gottlieb came up with a solution.

He ordered all 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'm uncomfortable doing this.

Are the most problematic?

Most problematic for me are probably the

CIA ones.

The one I did that ended with the Agent Orange kind of expose was a kind of a dangerous one.

It was the dark history of DARPA and all the bad stuff that DARPA's done

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.

MK Ultra is kind of afraid to release, because 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 Olson 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 nine 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.

Sidney Gottlieb 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, Gottlieb 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 U.S.

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 1 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.

But I wanted to see if you can carry things on your own for once.

Oh, yeah, how'd I do?

High praise.

This has been the Y Files.

Get fun or learn anything.

Do us a favor, hit like, subscribe, comment, share.

That stuff allegedly still helps the channel, but I'm not really sure anymore.

Like most topics we cover on the channel, everyone in today's compilation was recommended by somebody in the audience.

So if there's a story you'd like to see or have me do a a deep dive on, go to theyfiles.com/slash tips or just send us an email, catch us on Discord.

We're always looking for new subjects.

Now remember, the Y Files is also a podcast, so you can take us on the road.

And twice a week, I post deep dives into the stories we cover here on the channel.

And I also post episodes that wouldn't be allowed on the channel, like a couple of today's.

And those are going to be labeled unredacted.

Redacted?

Unredacted?

I don't know how it works.

The podcast, it's got a really creative name.

It's called the Y Files Operation Podcast.

It's available everywhere you get your podcasts.

And if you are listening right now,

click the like or thumbs up or follow or whatever the buttons are for the podcast.

That actually does help a lot.

Now, if you need more Wi-Files in your life, check out our Discord.

There are thousands of people on there 24-7.

They're into the same weird stuff we are here.

They talk about all these topics and

so many more.

It's a great community.

It's a lot of fun and it's free to join.

Speaking of 24-7, also check out our 24-7 stream on the Y Files backstage.

There's always a link for that below.

And over there, we run episodes back to back with some fun, unique content in between.

But, you know, come for the episodes, but stay for the live chat.

There's a community over there that is

very interesting and a lot of fun.

If you want to know what's going on with Y Files at any given time, check out our production calendar.

I paused there because I'm like, when was the last time we updated our production calendar?

I promise we're going to do better with that.

It's at thewifiles.com slash pal, and there we allegedly post our episode schedule, upcoming podcasts, live streams, AMAs, meetups, all that stuff.

Special thanks to our patron who made this channel possible and made this compilation happen.

Every episode you saw today was dedicated and made possible by our Patreon members.

I couldn't do this without your support.

And if you'd like to support the channel, keep us going, join this amazing community.

For as little as three bucks a month, you get access to perks like episodes early with no commercials, exclusive merch, plus at least two private live streams every week.

And those are a lot of fun.

It's not just me talking at a screen.

You get to meet everybody in the Wi-Fi's team.

So Jen, Victoria, Gino, everybody's there.

You can talk to anyone you want.

And you can also turn your camera on, jump up on stage, ask a question if you want to talk about a topic in a little more detail or recommend a topic, tell a joke, or just say hi.

I think it's the best perk there is.

Another great way to support the channel is grab something from the Wi-Fi store.

Grab a hangoise t-shirt or one of these fistable coffee mugs if you stick your fist in, hit the CIA's and chop it off or throw you out a window.

Or grab a hoodie or something, my squeezy, squeezy animal.

No, wait, wait, wait, I'm gonna talk about my stuff with my face on it and then I talk about the squeezy animal.

Fish target, fish target.

But if you're gonna buy merch, make sure you become a member on YouTube.

I know I know another membership, but hear me out.

It's three bucks a month and YouTube members get 10% off everything in the Wi-Fi store forever.

So if you're going to spend $40 on t-shirts or coffee mugs, join on YouTube, get the code, and it pays for itself.

And if you want to cancel, just cancel.

The membership is not there to make me money.

It's there to save you money.

But the money from YouTube memberships goes to my team.

All of it.

I don't touch any of that.

So it's a great way to save a few bucks and keep us going.

Yeah, keep that secret on your team for a hat, man.

Those are the plugs.

And did I get them all?

It felt like I was talking for a while.

It doesn't matter.

We're going to let it fly.

All the mistakes, everything, we're just going to let it fly.

I got to get out of here.

Until next time, be safe, be kind, and know that you are appreciated.

Bolivia's in Area 51.

A secret code inside the Bible said I would.

I love my UFOs and paranormal fun, as well as music, song singing the like I should.

But then another conspiracy theory becomes the truth, my friends.

And it never ends.

No, it never ends.

I feel the crap guy down, got stuck inside Mel's home with MK out trucks I've been only two aware

Dude Stanley Kufrid fake the moon landing alone

On a film set or where the shadow people

there

The Roswell aliens just fought the smiling man I'm told.

And his name was Cole.

I can't believe I'm dancing with the bitch shit.

And the fish on Thursday nights when they changed you.

And the rap's hopping all through the night.

All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth.

So the wild balls are beat up through the light.

The Mothman sightings and the solar storm still come.

To who got the secret city underground

Mysterious number stations, planet Surfo to Project Starcade, and what the Dark Watchers found.

in a simulation, don't you worry though?

The Black Knights had a lot of told to me.

So I can't believe

I'm dancing with the fish.

Henry Fish on Thursday nights with Day Jew.

And WAPA's limit me all through the night.

All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth.

So the WAM's limbs me all through the night.

Handsome fish on Thursday nights when they change you.

And whambover feet all through the light.

All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth.

So while

repeat all through the

lights today,

Gurdy loves to dance.

Gurdy loves to dance.

Yeah, Gurdy loves to dance on the dance floor.

Because she is a camera.

And cameras love to dance when the feeling is wild and wakes in time.

Gurdy loves to dance.

Gurdy loves to dance.

Want a bourbon with the story?

American-made wild turkey never compromises.

Kentucky born with 100 years of know-how.

Our pre-prohibition-style bourbons are distilled and barreled at a low proof to retain the most flavor.

Most bourbons aren't.

Well, we aren't most bourbons.

Wild Turkey 101 bourbon makes an old-fashioned or bold fashion for bold nights out or at home.

Now that's a story worth telling.

Wild Turkey, trust your spirit.

Copyright 2025 Capari America, New York, New York.

Never compromise, drink responsibly.

When the right team comes together at the right time, the potential is unlimited.

In the world of biotech, that time is right now.

At Unisice Therapeutics, we've assembled an industry-leading biotech team to tackle the biggest unmet needs in kidney care.

Our lead investigational therapy is on pace to deliver a potential best-in-class profile for treating hyperphosphatemia in chronic kidney disease patients on dialysis.

What's next in kidney care is almost here.

Join us as we work to cross the finish line at unisisive.com.

At T-Row Price, our experience helps us see investment potential differently.

Instead of fast answers, we understand the true road to confident investing is curiosity.

It's what drives us to ask smart questions about our ever-changing world.

Like, how can clean water transform farmland?

Can healthcare innovations create a healthier world?

How will AI be a part of a new tomorrow?

Our curiosity runs deep, and with it comes the power to help you invest more confidently.

Better questions, better outcomes.

T-Row Price.

Invest with confidence.

Learn more at t-roprice.com/slash curiosity.