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    Can’t believe none asked yet: what’s your favorite four? I in the comments I see Pokemon Go, MK Ultra, Project Stargate. Not even four!

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      MK Ultra on its own could count for several.

      Was the experiment where they released some “harmless pathogen” (assuming your immune system is all good!) in major cities to see how they spread, resulting in some deaths/complications part of MK Ultra? Can’t remember if it was under that project or part of a different one leading up to it.

      The Iran/contras were CIA.

      Oh also the Iranian revolution, or at least the instability that led to it.

      Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden both started as CIA assets that got tired of being used.

      A lot of attempts on Fidel Castro’s life.

      That’s off the top of my head. There’s also a bunch of fuckery in central and south America, though if I had to guess, I would guess that there has been fuckery in every single country on this planet, including countries some would have called allies. Iirc they targeted some Canadian cities for that “release the pathogen” experiment, too.

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          Yeah, the CIA weren’t openly involved (Cameron, the one who did the experiments claimed to be unaware of CIA involvement but who knows), McGill claimed to be unaware but they went on for 9 years, so even if that’s true, it could be considered negligence. And the Canadian government funded it.

          And when it came out, there was an investigation that concluded they didn’t act irresponsibly.

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        I read a great story about the Cuban “ASSETS” the CIA had we’re all double agents. I can see how Fidel Castro could backflip away from so many assignation attempts.

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        Hey replying here in case you didn’t see the rest of the chain on the other reply, but no, that wasn’t the CIA (see the other reply chain for more details).

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        Good one, I’ll take it. To seal it, let’s sprinkle the thread with some Family Jewels. The cunts are absolutely aware of what they do.

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          I think they are asking if the CIA was the one that did them rather than just suggesting that for the list. I don’t think that was the CIA but another government agency (or maybe even just doctor(s), though even then, the study was approved and funded).

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            The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male (informally referred to as the Tuskegee Experiment or Tuskegee Syphilis Study) was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on a group of nearly 400 African American men with syphilis as well as a control group without.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study

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      The family jewels documents are nice. After the cia had former employees “slightly” involved in Watergate, the CIA sent out a memo asking everyone for their records on things that happened that probably would be illegal.

      It’s like a short story collection of weird criminal shit. “We kidnapped this Russian for three years. Why? Well, he said he wanted to leave the Soviet Union after spying for us for a while and we thought that was suspicious, so we locked him in a room for a few years.”. “We gave a bunch of poison to the Mafia and had them wander around Havana” “we weren’t technically allowed to do that with the telephone”

      Pre-cia there was the radioactive foxes.

      Finally is the weirdly open CIA investment company inqtel.