The Craziest CIA Projects

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  • @Sideprojects
    @Sideprojects10 ай бұрын

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  • @marcbeebee6969

    @marcbeebee6969

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @rexrocker1268

    @rexrocker1268

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @LaurieAnnCurry

    @LaurieAnnCurry

    10 ай бұрын

    This right here👆🏻

  • @emaarredondo-librarian

    @emaarredondo-librarian

    6 ай бұрын

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

  • @necrosapien1
    @necrosapien110 ай бұрын

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

  • @stephenhancock1578

    @stephenhancock1578

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @LocozillaYT

    @LocozillaYT

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @Dexy83

    @Dexy83

    10 ай бұрын

    💯 Well said... 😏

  • @cs1375

    @cs1375

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @tonycowin

    @tonycowin

    10 ай бұрын

    Thank you Homer.

  • @MrSchmo
    @MrSchmo10 ай бұрын

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

  • @jonpim2242

    @jonpim2242

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @bipolarminddroppings
    @bipolarminddroppings10 ай бұрын

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

  • @pennywise___

    @pennywise___

    10 ай бұрын

    We just need to kill Mummy first!

  • @rogerwilco1777

    @rogerwilco1777

    10 ай бұрын

    Big Brother enters the room

  • @Ivan_Berni

    @Ivan_Berni

    10 ай бұрын

    @@pennywise___ dayum

  • @lostbutfreesoul

    @lostbutfreesoul

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @auchucknorris

    @auchucknorris

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @mikeoleksa
    @mikeoleksa10 ай бұрын

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

  • @tonycowin

    @tonycowin

    10 ай бұрын

    He Rasputined them all.

  • @nurlindafsihotang49

    @nurlindafsihotang49

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @low_vibration

    @low_vibration

    10 ай бұрын

    Selling your soul will do that

  • @gouthamkrishnap121

    @gouthamkrishnap121

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @gregoryfoster7553

    @gregoryfoster7553

    9 ай бұрын

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

  • @Jayjay-qe6um
    @Jayjay-qe6um10 ай бұрын

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

  • @felicitybywater8012

    @felicitybywater8012

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @adarmus4768

    @adarmus4768

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @Karin_Allen

    @Karin_Allen

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @Chestersinthecar

    @Chestersinthecar

    10 ай бұрын

    “I’m hungry”

  • @jjstewart4341
    @jjstewart434110 ай бұрын

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

  • @chrisshorten4406
    @chrisshorten440610 ай бұрын

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

  • @aceundead4750

    @aceundead4750

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @paulputter8383

    @paulputter8383

    10 ай бұрын

    Can't solve weird with a shotgun though.

  • @aceundead4750

    @aceundead4750

    10 ай бұрын

    @@paulputter8383 tell that to Ash from Evil Dead

  • @project-unifiedfreepeoples

    @project-unifiedfreepeoples

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @SugarandSarcasm

    @SugarandSarcasm

    3 ай бұрын

    @@aceundead4750he also had a chainsaw for close up evil

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn222310 ай бұрын

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

  • @stephenhancock1578
    @stephenhancock157810 ай бұрын

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

  • @hottboie203

    @hottboie203

    10 ай бұрын

    Not that silly when it involved international child sex trafficking

  • @jaklegend3

    @jaklegend3

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @tauepsilon4220

    @tauepsilon4220

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @stephenhancock1578

    @stephenhancock1578

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @PoisondBacon

    @PoisondBacon

    6 ай бұрын

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

  • @GerSanRiv
    @GerSanRiv10 ай бұрын

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

  • @joelb8653
    @joelb865310 ай бұрын

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

  • @justamom4902

    @justamom4902

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @douggaudiosi14

    @douggaudiosi14

    10 ай бұрын

    So was Manson

  • @jordieg-us4ee

    @jordieg-us4ee

    9 ай бұрын

    Lee Harvey Oswald too?

  • @taraarrington2285

    @taraarrington2285

    8 ай бұрын

    Sirhan sirhan, John Wilkes Booth, all mk ultra

  • @taraarrington2285

    @taraarrington2285

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @cotati76
    @cotati7610 ай бұрын

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

  • @cwang6951
    @cwang695110 ай бұрын

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

  • @douggaudiosi14

    @douggaudiosi14

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @cwang6951

    @cwang6951

    10 ай бұрын

    @@douggaudiosi14 yes. Famously so.

  • @AEsdadsvaL25230

    @AEsdadsvaL25230

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @WormholeJim
    @WormholeJim10 ай бұрын

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

  • @douggaudiosi14

    @douggaudiosi14

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @rexxer2792

    @rexxer2792

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @99EKjohn

    @99EKjohn

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @HexLabz
    @HexLabz10 ай бұрын

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

  • @maddog2020tt2
    @maddog2020tt29 ай бұрын

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

  • @taraarrington2285

    @taraarrington2285

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @Talisguy

    @Talisguy

    7 ай бұрын

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

  • @frankpriolo7735
    @frankpriolo773510 ай бұрын

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

  • @douggaudiosi14

    @douggaudiosi14

    10 ай бұрын

    What drugs did they dose them with

  • @cosmokramer4585
    @cosmokramer458510 ай бұрын

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

  • @Crudusum
    @Crudusum10 ай бұрын

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

  • @douggaudiosi14

    @douggaudiosi14

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @drgonzo305
    @drgonzo30510 ай бұрын

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

  • @laingadaing

    @laingadaing

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @taraarrington2285

    @taraarrington2285

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @SugarandSarcasm

    @SugarandSarcasm

    3 ай бұрын

    Not Twitter?

  • @bradlevantis913
    @bradlevantis91310 ай бұрын

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

  • @ChuckNorrisUltra

    @ChuckNorrisUltra

    6 ай бұрын

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

  • @felicitybywater8012
    @felicitybywater801210 ай бұрын

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

  • @bipolarminddroppings

    @bipolarminddroppings

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @jmanj3917

    @jmanj3917

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @Lanka0Kera

    @Lanka0Kera

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @felicitybywater8012

    @felicitybywater8012

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @Redsauce101
    @Redsauce10110 ай бұрын

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

  • @garthoom

    @garthoom

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @911jujitsujames
    @911jujitsujames3 ай бұрын

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

  • @mptness4389
    @mptness438910 ай бұрын

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

  • @reedkellner6447

    @reedkellner6447

    10 ай бұрын

    Yeah, that was some Wile E Coyote sh!+

  • @meu3211
    @meu321110 ай бұрын

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

  • @keiththorpe9571
    @keiththorpe957110 ай бұрын

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

  • @melly1432

    @melly1432

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @keiththorpe9571

    @keiththorpe9571

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @alicejohnson8751
    @alicejohnson875110 ай бұрын

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

  • @givemeajackson

    @givemeajackson

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @vowel8280

    @vowel8280

    Ай бұрын

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

  • @ElegantMessTechPC
    @ElegantMessTechPC10 ай бұрын

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

  • @stigmaoftherose

    @stigmaoftherose

    10 ай бұрын

    9/11 was an inside job.

  • @DeosPraetorian

    @DeosPraetorian

    10 ай бұрын

    Yes but what exactly would be the objective now

  • @ElegantMessTechPC

    @ElegantMessTechPC

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @DeosPraetorian

    @DeosPraetorian

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @99EKjohn

    @99EKjohn

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @drastikdreamz
    @drastikdreamz10 ай бұрын

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

  • @McClane4Ever.

    @McClane4Ever.

    10 ай бұрын

    😄

  • @JerryB507
    @JerryB50710 ай бұрын

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

  • @justamom4902

    @justamom4902

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @jenniferj5324

    @jenniferj5324

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @99EKjohn

    @99EKjohn

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @littleboydesign
    @littleboydesign10 ай бұрын

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

  • @SurvivorNumber1

    @SurvivorNumber1

    10 ай бұрын

    Operation paperclip

  • @kitsunenoir87
    @kitsunenoir8710 ай бұрын

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

  • @benjaminrowley

    @benjaminrowley

    10 ай бұрын

    Wait what lmao when

  • @kitsunenoir87

    @kitsunenoir87

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @SpidermanandJeny
    @SpidermanandJeny8 ай бұрын

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

  • @jaec100x

    @jaec100x

    8 ай бұрын

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

  • @j.p.6932
    @j.p.693210 ай бұрын

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

  • @JosephDuncan-kl6wz
    @JosephDuncan-kl6wz10 ай бұрын

    This was a great video my man

  • @GrandChessboard
    @GrandChessboard10 ай бұрын

    JFK was the last president we really had...

  • @justamom4902

    @justamom4902

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @phoenixxxflytrap
    @phoenixxxflytrap9 ай бұрын

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

  • @ctilson176
    @ctilson1767 ай бұрын

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

  • @johnmichael7586
    @johnmichael758610 ай бұрын

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

  • @QBCPerdition

    @QBCPerdition

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @Dr.Fluffles

    @Dr.Fluffles

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @jace9985
    @jace998510 ай бұрын

    Shocked at the lack of the Acoustic Kitty

  • @martinstallard2742
    @martinstallard274210 ай бұрын

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

  • @martinstallard2742

    @martinstallard2742

    10 ай бұрын

    Is it just me or has Simon had a beard trim

  • @stephenhancock1578

    @stephenhancock1578

    10 ай бұрын

    Check out the Finders

  • @118ghost

    @118ghost

    10 ай бұрын

    CIA failed killing Fidel Castro = Justin Trudeau 😂

  • @Im-Not-a-Dog

    @Im-Not-a-Dog

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @SurvivorNumber1
    @SurvivorNumber110 ай бұрын

    That we know of......

  • @freedog632
    @freedog6327 ай бұрын

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

  • @malachicook3321
    @malachicook332110 ай бұрын

    Castro has the world record of most assassination attempts survived

  • @Stevenchefjones
    @Stevenchefjones10 ай бұрын

    Got to love Simon's cynicism 😂😂❤

  • @Corsuwey
    @Corsuwey10 ай бұрын

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

  • @pakde8002

    @pakde8002

    10 ай бұрын

    Better still if democracies were actively supported.

  • @Dr.Fluffles

    @Dr.Fluffles

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @creativeideas012

    @creativeideas012

    10 ай бұрын

    The whole world

  • @jenniferj5324

    @jenniferj5324

    10 ай бұрын

    They would most likely be worse off or the same.

  • @0o0ification
    @0o0ification10 ай бұрын

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

  • @j.p.6932
    @j.p.693210 ай бұрын

    17:51 There’s anecdotal evidence of remote viewing that’s actually interestingly plausible.

  • @jamescarter3196

    @jamescarter3196

    10 ай бұрын

    If it worked, they'd never admit it, but they would sure keep the program running for decades, and then end it and say 'we didn't have any results' while starting a new program under a different name, doing the same stuff.

  • @pakde8002

    @pakde8002

    10 ай бұрын

    The parapsychology program at Duke University beginning in the 1930 is really interesting.

  • @j.p.6932

    @j.p.6932

    10 ай бұрын

    @@jamescarter3196 Exactly

  • @j.p.6932

    @j.p.6932

    10 ай бұрын

    @@pakde8002 Huh, I’m not familiar with that. I’ll have to look into it.

  • @iteerrex8166
    @iteerrex816610 ай бұрын

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

  • @marktg98

    @marktg98

    10 ай бұрын

    That, or Fidel was a genius.

  • @littlerave86

    @littlerave86

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @iteerrex8166

    @iteerrex8166

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @littlerave86

    @littlerave86

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @iteerrex8166

    @iteerrex8166

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @TXKafir
    @TXKafir10 ай бұрын

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

  • @WilbanksUSMC
    @WilbanksUSMC10 ай бұрын

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

  • @achievementraider3039
    @achievementraider303910 ай бұрын

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

  • @user-ly3mu1mp5p
    @user-ly3mu1mp5p2 ай бұрын

    The agents were dosing, high as hell.

  • @FatManWalking18
    @FatManWalking1810 ай бұрын

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

  • @terrafirma5327
    @terrafirma532710 ай бұрын

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

  • @WoollyWanderers
    @WoollyWanderers10 ай бұрын

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

  • @gladlawson61

    @gladlawson61

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @WoollyWanderers

    @WoollyWanderers

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @dgoodwin619

    @dgoodwin619

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @vic5015

    @vic5015

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @WoollyWanderers

    @WoollyWanderers

    10 ай бұрын

    @@dgoodwin619 Why?

  • @KC-nd7nt
    @KC-nd7nt10 ай бұрын

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

  • @ONEDVSDVIT

    @ONEDVSDVIT

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @alexander-mauricemillamlae4567

    @alexander-mauricemillamlae4567

    10 ай бұрын

    Oh boy. Are you gonna love two other of Simons 673 channels - Into The Shadows, where he covered MKUltra in some more detail, I think the video was around 20 minutes, and The Casual Criminalist, where he did a 1h video on Manson, and two 55 minute videos covering the *Unabomber (not Unibomber) Teddyboi. He's also made hundreds of other videos on other famous or infamous criminals, with the odd heist or prisonbreak story here and there. His single longest, non-compilation video is on John Wayne Gacy, at over three hours. My three (four, technically) favourite ones were on The Great Canadian Maple Syrup heist, Jailbreak! The International King of Escapes, and part one and two of the Jennings Eight. Edit: I can't seem to find the MK Ultra video, maybe it was deleted, but Ill check in more detail in the coming days. You'll still love that channel as well.

  • @matteste

    @matteste

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @alidabirnia2882
    @alidabirnia288210 ай бұрын

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

  • @RUBBER_BULLET
    @RUBBER_BULLET10 ай бұрын

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

  • @andrewalderman9489

    @andrewalderman9489

    10 ай бұрын

    Hey, you read my mind !

  • @SilverDreamweaver

    @SilverDreamweaver

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @rudra62

    @rudra62

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @jenniferj5324

    @jenniferj5324

    10 ай бұрын

    That's why privaty funded research is important.

  • @rudra62

    @rudra62

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @danr1920
    @danr192010 ай бұрын

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

  • @leighpowell1062

    @leighpowell1062

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @MarginWalker
    @MarginWalker7 ай бұрын

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

  • @tizscotty
    @tizscotty9 ай бұрын

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

  • @metamaxis
    @metamaxis7 ай бұрын

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

  • @jjlpinct
    @jjlpinct10 ай бұрын

    He was broken by the Hyman

  • @theUglyGypsy
    @theUglyGypsy10 ай бұрын

    Needed a palette cleanser after Joachim Kroll

  • @johnjohnson9100
    @johnjohnson910010 ай бұрын

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

  • @georgepapatheofilou6118
    @georgepapatheofilou611810 ай бұрын

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

  • @ChuckNorrisUltra
    @ChuckNorrisUltra6 ай бұрын

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

  • @Cs13762
    @Cs13762Ай бұрын

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

  • @pmgn8444
    @pmgn844410 ай бұрын

    It's an ESP Gap!!!!

  • @juzoli
    @juzoli10 ай бұрын

    …at least what we know about

  • @donovandelaney3171
    @donovandelaney317110 ай бұрын

    Redacted doesn’t count as declassified.

  • @djpaulhannon
    @djpaulhannon9 ай бұрын

    I love the balanced delivery.

  • @barbararoca6847
    @barbararoca68478 ай бұрын

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

  • @marxyfen2119
    @marxyfen211910 ай бұрын

    With friends like these who needs enemies

  • @JohnGarland72
    @JohnGarland7210 ай бұрын

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

  • @kyleevans6221
    @kyleevans62217 ай бұрын

    How is no one talking about the hilarious voice cracks

  • @syntaxerror9994
    @syntaxerror999410 ай бұрын

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

  • @MrEnjoivolcom1
    @MrEnjoivolcom110 ай бұрын

    Operations Northwoods sounds a lot like 9/11.

  • @HMXDave
    @HMXDave10 ай бұрын

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

  • @whyjnot420
    @whyjnot42010 ай бұрын

    One other thing about insane ideas like remote viewing. For an agency like the CIA who is tasked with intelligence collection outside of the US itself. I like the idea that they are willing to explore methods beyond what would be considered normal. ESP and the like is a bit too far. But generally speaking, I want them to be thinking of odd and unusual ways that adversarial nations are working against the US.

  • @dilldowschwagginz2674

    @dilldowschwagginz2674

    10 ай бұрын

    Hopefully that agency hasn't also been politically weaponized by the current, embarrassingly incompetent administration

  • @GeldUndKokaine-kc1hp

    @GeldUndKokaine-kc1hp

    10 ай бұрын

    Considering some variation of psychic viewing and divination is pretty much an omnipresent idea across cultures it's not unreasonable to at least check up on it. The era of hard science gave them the ability to have certainty about it for the first time. At worst you waste some time & money on research. If such things turn out to be real you absolutely don't want to be behind your enemies in the R&D of it.

  • @whyjnot420

    @whyjnot420

    10 ай бұрын

    @@GeldUndKokaine-kc1hp That basically sums up my opinion to a degree. I think they might have gone a bit too far with some of the ESP stuff though. At the very least though I feel the idea of "hey, my enemy is researching this, maybe I should see what its all about", is the kind of idea where erring on the side of caution is very warranted.

  • @Drewsapher
    @Drewsapher10 ай бұрын

    Ooo I hope he talks about Guatemala in this

  • @SpacePatrollerLaser
    @SpacePatrollerLaser10 ай бұрын

    This belongs on Brain Blaze

  • @aapex1
    @aapex110 ай бұрын

    WOW! Trudope looks just like his father.

  • @derekhenson3471
    @derekhenson347110 ай бұрын

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

  • @adisura9904
    @adisura990410 ай бұрын

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

  • @EamonCoyle
    @EamonCoyle10 ай бұрын

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

  • @ONEDVSDVIT
    @ONEDVSDVIT10 ай бұрын

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

  • @iggymoondust289
    @iggymoondust28910 ай бұрын

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

  • @insane0042
    @insane004210 ай бұрын

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

  • @tannerking8299
    @tannerking82996 ай бұрын

    That failure to sign from jfk is what eventually made lee Harvey Oswald famous

  • @lukeboyer4071
    @lukeboyer407110 ай бұрын

    Fun fact lysergic acid diethelamyde (lsd) is destroyed when stored at a temp above 190 and below freezing. Ie it would do anything to lace a cigar other than lacing to tip you put I your mouth but still a weird one 😂 they just had allotta lsd at the time

  • @AubreyWilkinsWursten
    @AubreyWilkinsWursten10 ай бұрын

    "With most of the key players in the story being long dead by this time, nothing ever came of that anger." Which is why if you tell the people still engaging in this behavior today that they're on the wrong side of history, they don't care. LOL They know they won't be around to face consequences. The past was the worst... as far as we know at this moment.

  • @stevenbrogdon3074
    @stevenbrogdon307410 ай бұрын

    How about a vid on Briton’s atrocities

  • @meh7348

    @meh7348

    10 ай бұрын

    He's covered plenty across his channels lol, along with other countries. Don't get butthurt Mr American.

  • @stevenbrogdon3074

    @stevenbrogdon3074

    10 ай бұрын

    @@meh7348 Get your panties out of a pinch. It was just a suggestion. BTW. I’m not even American.

  • @donHooligan

    @donHooligan

    10 ай бұрын

    Dead Man's Island is the birthplace of the PIC (prison industrial complex) and Epstein Island. those boats had kids on them.

  • @strokeitsoftly246
    @strokeitsoftly24610 ай бұрын

    @1:45 CERRRRRtainly 🤭

  • @bhgtree
    @bhgtree10 ай бұрын

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

  • @skyden24195
    @skyden2419510 ай бұрын

    Who was/is running the CIA? Wile E. Coyote?

  • @nevenhumphrey1361
    @nevenhumphrey136110 ай бұрын

    Acoustic Kitty!