17. Operation Choke Point
Operation Choke Point
The government would tell banks not to loan people money to people involved with certain industries. Now, that might not sound too bad until you read the list of things being ‘investigated’ which includes anyone selling firearms or ammunition, fireworks stores, lotteries, pornography, and tobacco stores.
18. Unshakable trust
The declassified Soviet papers that reveal Stalin’s unshakable trust in Hitler. Even as Russian intelligence informed Stalin that Hitler had broken the non-aggression pact and was invading the Soviet Union, Stalin refused to believe it and instead punished the intelligence officers who tried to warn him.
19. Second in charge
The second in charge of the FBI sent a letter to Martin Luther King, trying to convince him to commit suicide in 34 days.
The good that MLK did, and the fact that his cause is and was so just, make me really fear what is being done with the Intel we have these days..
20. Look it up
The Vietnam War, where tens of thousands of Americans were drafted to die, was launched in retaliation to a completely fabricated incident in the Gulf of Tonkin.
21. False
Mustard gas testing on enlisted soldiers, it was believed that darker skin would give you an immunity to the gas, and the US conducted test to figure out if it was true.
22. Where’d it go?
By the time Rocky Flats in Denver Colorado was shut down, documents showed that they had over a ton of plutonium waste unaccounted for.
23. Just rude
3,500 children with disabilities lived in the 1950s and 1960s. The children were used in medical experiments without parental informed consent they were subjected to government-sponsored radiation experiments
24. Mind blown
You know those little cases you see in movies and video games that need to be unlocked to launch a nuclear warhead? The US had those set to 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 for over 10-15 years.
h/t: Knowable
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