From classified government operations to hidden military projects, prepare to be amazed by these recently revealed secrets! Join us as we explore the most shocking declassified documents that have changed our understanding of history. These revelations will make you question everything you thought you knew.
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00:00Declassified documents show the U.S. government was not just aware of what was happening, it helped.
00:06Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we'll be looking at deep, dark government secrets that were declassified or leaked to the public.
00:14We have made Castro. We've made him. We give him a foreign devil to point to.
00:20Fearing for his campaign, Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon sabotaged peace talks between North and South Vietnam in 1968, promising South Vietnam a better deal once he was president.
00:36President Johnson's declassified tapes reveal that he knew and considered Nixon's actions treason, but he kept quiet rather than revealing FBI and NSA wiretaps.
00:48The American public was never told that the regime for which 35,000 Americans had died had been willing to boycott peace talks to help elect Richard Nixon.
01:00The U.S. Army maintained a base in Thule, Greenland for much of the Cold War.
01:05One of their B-52s, armed with nuclear weapons, went down near the base in 1968.
01:11It was later revealed that the Army lied about its payload recovery.
01:16One nuclear bomb was never found.
01:19In 1968, American soldiers murdered hundreds of unarmed civilians, including children, in a small Vietnamese village of My Lai.
01:28A year later, photojournalist Ron Haberly published photos of the event in a Cleveland newspaper, leading to global shock and outrage.
01:37Groover estimated that the population of the village had been 300 to 400 people, and that very few, if any, escaped.
01:47A test rocket fired by the U.S. military in Utah, bound for New Mexico, went horribly off course in 1970.
01:55The rocket, containing radioactive isotopes that effectively made it a salted bomb, landed in Mexico's Mapimi Desert.
02:04Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the U.S.-backed Shah of Iran in 1979.
02:11Declassified documents revealed he'd secretly tried to negotiate the transition with both the Kennedy and Carter administrations.
02:19At a stroke, two and a half thousand years of Persian monarchy came to an end.
02:24CIA agents compiled jokes overheard in the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
02:30They were part of an assessment of Soviet morale.
02:34A Soviet lieutenant named Stanislav Petrov saved the world from nuclear holocaust in 1983.
02:42When a nuclear early warning system reported incoming American missiles, he decided not to tell his superiors, believing, correctly as it turned out, that it was a false alarm.
02:53His superiors would likely have launched a retaliatory nuclear strike.
02:58I knew perfectly well that nobody would be able to correct my mistake if I had made one.
03:04An expedition finally located the wreck of the Titanic in September 1985.
03:10But the expedition's primary purpose was actually a secret mission to map out the wreckage of two American nuclear-powered submarines that sank in the 1960s.
03:21Lunik and Sputnik were the crown jewels of the early Soviet satellite program.
03:27Unbeknownst to the Soviet Union, the CIA managed to steal, study, and return the Lunik from an exhibition in 1959.
03:37In 1959, Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro overthrew U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista and assumed power.
03:46The CIA tried to assassinate the communist leader hundreds of times.
03:50Many of the failures were so public that the Church Committee acknowledged eight that occurred between 1960 and 1965.
03:58The chief of Cuba's counterintelligence, Fabian Escalante, estimated the number of assassination attempts at a staggering 638.
04:07And that's just from the CIA.
04:09The CIA took the term surveillance bug literally in the early 1970s.
04:15They created a robotic dragonfly, or insectothopter, for eavesdropping.
04:20However, crosswinds rendered the device impractical.
04:24But it was the first of a very successful generation of micro-drones that have continued to be developed.
04:33Available within the FBI's archive of Freedom of Information Act materials, you can find the FBI file on Bigfoot from the late 1970s.
04:43They analyzed a hair sample and concluded it came from a deer.
04:48In 2000, the Iranian military purchased a team of dolphins trained to attack boats from the Russians.
04:58From 2005 to 2010, the U.S. and Israeli Cyber Intelligence Services joined forces with Stuxnet, a virus sent to Iran to disrupt their nuclear program.
05:092010 was a bad year for Iran, largely because of Stuxnet.
05:14There were other things going on too, but Stuxnet, I think, hurt him for maybe up to a year.
05:20The CIA looked into a scientist's method for guiding lightning onto targets using artificial leaders in 1967.
05:28But the program was scrapped as less practical than conventional weapons.
05:33In the mid-1960s, Indonesian General Soharto oversaw the mass murder of between 500,000 to 1.2 million people.
05:44The U.S. was complicit in the killings, framed as an anti-communist purge, even providing names to Soharto's death squads.
05:53With Western backing, Soharto became president.
05:56The victims are still often buried on the sand underneath the very hotels where Australian surfers or American ecotourists are staying and sipping on coconuts.
06:08Project Gladio, which ran from 1956 to 1990, involved NATO creating secret stay-behind paramilitary organizations in case of Soviet invasion.
06:20Started in 1992, the NSA program Rampart A sucks communication data right out of the fiber-optic cables that form the backbone of the Internet.
06:32It was revealed in 2013 when former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked information about the mass surveillance programs of the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance, comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S.
06:49I could be rendered by the CIA. I could have people come after me or any of their third-party partners.
06:56You know, they work closely with a number of other nations.
06:59Robert Hansen was a high-level agent within the FBI with a long and storied career that spanned the 1980s and 90s.
07:08He was also one of the highest-placed Soviet and Russian spies in American history.
07:13He pleaded guilty to passing thousands of classified documents to his Russian handlers.
07:19He also, as you mentioned, resulted in his work in the execution of numerous Russians who were spying for the United States.
07:25In 1957, the Soviets had deployed new, effective surface-to-air missiles, known as S-75s.
07:34The CIA disguised SAM sniffer drones as U-2 planes to collect data on the missiles as they were shot down.
07:42This strategy finally succeeded in 1966 over Vietnam.
07:47The data collected led to the development of a warning system.
07:51In Project Constant Pegg, a special squadron of U.S. fighter pilots trained on Soviet MIGs from 1977 to 1988 in order to understand and develop combat tactics against them.
08:05In 1936, Imperial Japan created a secret unit, Manchu Detachment 731, to research biological and chemical weapons.
08:16They conducted deadly human experiments and horrific war crimes in China, killing an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 people.
08:25At the end of World War II, the U.S. gave captured researchers immunity in exchange for data.
08:31Under the Bush administration, the CIA established torture sites around the world in the wake of 9-11, where detainees, some innocent, were beaten, waterboarded, and sexually assaulted.
08:49In 2002, memoranda known as the Torture Memos advised the CIA on techniques that could be considered legal.
08:58One was leaked to the press in 2004.
09:01The leadership of the House and the Senate were always kept informed as to the interrogation techniques that are now under attack.
09:09Operation Northwoods was a scraps Department of Defense plan in 1962 for the CIA to conduct false flag attacks against American military and civilian targets in order to justify an invasion of Cuba.
09:24It was rejected by JFK.
09:26The Pentagon would foster a homegrown terror campaign in Florida, Washington, and possibly other cities, all perpetuated by fake Cuban operatives.
09:36Forty years after the fact, the NSA declassified documents concerning Project Minaret, a secret surveillance program in the 1960s and 70s.
09:47During the Vietnam War, the NSA had wiretapped anti-war activists, civil rights leaders, journalists, and two U.S. Senators.
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10:12In Operation Paperclip, which lasted from 1945 to 1959, the U.S. recruited over 1,600 German scientists and engineers, many of whom had been members of the Nazi Party.
10:27They played a major role in the U.S. space program.
10:31The mid-20th century saw the CIA facilitating the replacement of democratically elected leaders in foreign countries with right-wing dictators.
10:53In 1954's Operation P.B. Success, they organized a coup against Guatemalan President Arbenz to aid the United Fruit Company, resulting in decades of atrocities.
11:06Edward Snowden also revealed a program called Dishfire, run by the NSA and the UK's GCHQ that collects about 200 million text messages every day around the world.
11:19Another NSA program, Mystic, can record the metadata and content of phone calls from entire countries.
11:26Initiated in 2007, PRISM was another NSA program revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
11:34It allows the NSA to collect communications matching court-approved search terms from companies like Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Apple.
11:46US Cyber Command launched Operation Glowing Symphony against ISIS in 2016.
11:52It was one of the largest cyber attacks in history, and it caused major disruption to the terrorist group.
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