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these were the rumors you couldn’t
believe were true until it was revealed
they were welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 shocking Declassified secrets
for this list we’ll be focusing on
pieces of information that were once
top-secret but have since been revealed
to the public for the record we’re not
passing judgment on these secrets but
rather discussing how potentially
shocking their declassification was to
society as a whole they’re using these
capabilities to make us vulnerable to
them and then saying wow I have a gun
pointed at your head I’m not going to
pull the trigger number 10 Avro Canada
vz9 avrocar
have you ever seen what you thought was
a UFO in the night sky well if the
creators of the avrocar had it their way
there may have actually been flying
saucers in the air the Avro Canada vz9
avrocar was an experimental military
collaboration between the United States
and Canada during the Cold War and it
entailed building a fighting aircraft
who design resembled a flying saucer
typically found in 1950s sci-fi work on
the project was reduced over the years
however and eventually abandoned in 1961
thanks in part to disappointing
stability performances with its vertical
takeoff and landing is going to do this
boy so make sure you see barracks and
tray tables in their upright and locked
position number nine atomic bombs over
North Carolina this former military
blunder has gained a higher profile over
the years thanks to a number of major
news sources like CNN and Fox News
running the story of a near nuclear
disaster in what is now referred to as
the 1961 Goldsboro b-52 crash a bomber
jet containing two finished nuclear
bombs crashed over North Carolina on
January 24th of that year and actually
dropped both bombs to the ground during
the process although a parachute did
deploy over one of the bombs the other
fell to the ground
hey what about major Kong
thankfully safety pins had been removed
from the first bomb while impact from
the crash only damaged the second
sparing the entire country from
potential destruction number eight the
lost children of francoism the
dictatorial rule of Spain’s
Generalissimo Francisco Franco was one
marred by multiple human rights
violations censorship and violence
one other shocking secret behind his
reign however was that some children
born to parents who either opposed
Franco’s ideals or were otherwise seen
as inferior to the general racial views
were stolen an estimated 300,000
children were reportedly stolen by
hospital staff nuns and priests over the
course of 50 years with some parents
told that their babies had died shortly
after birth accusations of human
trafficking and illegal adoption were
leveled at Franco’s regime as well as
the Catholic Church who were said to
have sold these children to other
parents across the country number 7 Dark
Alliance did the CIA specifically know
that you were selling cocaine to buy
guns and supplies to support its call
objection the term Dark Alliance refers
to a series of investigative articles
published by journalist Gary Webb in
1996 for the San Jose Mercury News webs
articles called attention to the influx
of crack cocaine into the Los Angeles
area specifically its connection to
Contra rebel groups in Nicaragua so he
said why don’t we use the cash seized
from the cocaine arrest to fund and
support the Contra war in his work Webb
also accused the CIA of supporting the
Contras leading to a major government
investigation and news coverage across
the country there were doubts and
criticisms levelled at Webb’s work
however with both the Mercury News and
the Los Angeles Times claiming
inaccuracies and exaggeration I think
you know I’m biased obviously my
recorder and Webb would resign from its
position working freelance and writing a
book on the dark alliances before
committing suicide 2004 number 6
operation Neptune spear tonight I can
report to the American people and to the
world
the United States has conducted an
operation that killed Osama bin Laden
the leader of al-qaeda the US government
had a name and face for their
most-wanted list in the aftermath of the
September 11th terror attacks that name
and face belonged to al-qaeda founder
Osama bin Laden and his death was the
subject of a covert classified operation
known as operation Neptune spear in this
operation a group of airborne military
CIA operatives and Navy SEALs tracked
bin Laden to Pakistan whereupon he was
killed and his body buried at sea a
possible jackpot the controversy behind
Neptune spear is due largely to the lack
of any physical or DNA evidence of his
killing as well as reports that bin
Laden was unarmed at the time of his
capture these reports continue to fuel
conspiracy theories to this day after a
firefight they killed Osama bin Laden
and took custody of his body
number five global surveillance
disclosures why did you do this the NSA
has the greatest surveillance
capabilities that we have ever seen in
history now what they will argue is that
they don’t use this for nefarious
purposes Patriot or traitor
these are the opposing labels assigned
to Edward Snowden a former NSA
contractor who rocked the world in 2013
when he released thousands of top-secret
documents and files from the United
States Canada Australia and the UK these
links drew international attention and
scrutiny with one of the main takeaways
being the individual’s right to privacy
from the government Snowden took
temporary asylum in Russia from the
charges of theft and espionage laid
against him by the u.s. in 2014 my
country is something that travels with
me you know meanwhile critics of his
actions like President Barack Obama
claimed that Snowden’s actions put the
country and its citizens at risk to
enemies and that linking these secrets
did little to keep people safe the way
in which these disclosures happened had
been have been damaging to the United
States and damaging to our intelligence
capabilities number four project MKULTRA
can a government develop mind control
techniques over their citizens this is
what the United States attempted to find
out during the 1950s and 60s with a
series of experiment known as project
MKULTRA these programs experimented on
subjects using psychedelic drugs
hypnosis and chemical agents reportedly
to acquire some sort of mental control
or dominance some historians have
theorized that MKULTRA was designed to
create assassins who would be used for
long-distance espionage while others
just talk up the whole thing to an
expensive study in LSD drug trip MKULTRA
the use of unwilling or unwitting test
subjects however led to the project’s
ultimate dissolution in 1973 it turns
out he really was being given daily
doses of LSD for 11 years
number three unit 731 there are war
crimes and then there was unit 731
this Japanese research group committed
unthinkable human disease during World
War two experimenting with physical
medical and chemical torture on some
3,000 people many of them Chinese
prisoners furthermore there’s evidence
found in Chinese and Japanese documents
showing that the u.s. traded immunity
for data in the years following the
war’s end
this is particularly shocking given the
brutality associated with the methods of
unit 731 which were said to have
included live vivisection germ warfare
and use of a gas chamber the sheer
magnitude of unit 731 and The Associated
crimes has led some to call the air at
the Asian Holocaust
number two operation Northwoods quote
from Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta states
that quote people shouldn’t be afraid of
their government governments should be
afraid of their people unquote
people should not be afraid of their
government governments should be afraid
of their people but maybe it’s the other
way around
operation Northwoods was a shocking plan
during the 1960’s for the United States
to actively engage in homegrown terror
attacks in order to incite public demand
for a war in Cuba the US was determined
to oust the communist government in
Fidel Castro from Cuba after the failed
Bay of Pigs invasion in 1951 and was
seemingly willing to do whatever it took
to achieve these ends president kennedy
rejected this proposal from his Joint
Chiefs of Staff however and Operation
Northwoods was thankfully never put into
use before we unveil our topic here are
a few Declassified honorable mentions
she was an undercover agent for the CIA
and when an investigation traced the
leak of her name all the way to the
White House it became apparent this was
no ordinary spy story operation Gladio
it was a NATO stay-behind mission set up
to counter a possible Soviet invasion of
Western Europe and it sort of turned
into this whole weird crypto-fascist CIA
shit show
[Applause]
number one Operation Paperclip enemies
were turned into allies under the rules
of Operation Paperclip a shocking secret
whose details remain almost
inconceivable to this day after the war
ended we were snatching up crowd
scientists like hot cake the program was
conducted after World War two by the
United States Office of Strategic
Services under the approval of President
Harry Truman during the Cold War dr.
Wernher von Braun who is at present the
chief of the guided missile division of
the Army’s rocket center at Redstone
Arsenal Operation Paperclip involved
over 1,500 scientists and engineers who
originally worked under the Nazi regime
in Germany being brought into the u.s.
to assist in weapons research and
development although Truman specified
that no Nazi members or sympathizers
were to be included the OSS destroyed
the critical evidence that would have
proven their Nazi status believing that
the results of Operation Paperclip
would be crucial to homeland security
against the Soviet Union you don’t
believe me welcome to NASA sometime in
the Ohio Hitler whoops they all jump
straight up so do you agree with our
list which covert operations do you find
the most secretive and shocking for more
illuminating top 10 lists published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com the objective of this
program was to prove the effectiveness
of the new control system from hovering
through transition in the presence of
the ground up to free flight conditions
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you
these were the rumors you couldn’t
believe were true until it was revealed
they were welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 shocking Declassified secrets
for this list we’ll be focusing on
pieces of information that were once
top-secret but have since been revealed
to the public for the record we’re not
passing judgment on these secrets but
rather discussing how potentially
shocking their declassification was to
society as a whole they’re using these
capabilities to make us vulnerable to
them and then saying wow I have a gun
pointed at your head I’m not going to
pull the trigger number 10 Avro Canada
vz9 avrocar
have you ever seen what you thought was
a UFO in the night sky well if the
creators of the avrocar had it their way
there may have actually been flying
saucers in the air the Avro Canada vz9
avrocar was an experimental military
collaboration between the United States
and Canada during the Cold War and it
entailed building a fighting aircraft
who design resembled a flying saucer
typically found in 1950s sci-fi work on
the project was reduced over the years
however and eventually abandoned in 1961
thanks in part to disappointing
stability performances with its vertical
takeoff and landing is going to do this
boy so make sure you see barracks and
tray tables in their upright and locked
position number nine atomic bombs over
North Carolina this former military
blunder has gained a higher profile over
the years thanks to a number of major
news sources like CNN and Fox News
running the story of a near nuclear
disaster in what is now referred to as
the 1961 Goldsboro b-52 crash a bomber
jet containing two finished nuclear
bombs crashed over North Carolina on
January 24th of that year and actually
dropped both bombs to the ground during
the process although a parachute did
deploy over one of the bombs the other
fell to the ground
hey what about major Kong
thankfully safety pins had been removed
from the first bomb while impact from
the crash only damaged the second
sparing the entire country from
potential destruction number eight the
lost children of francoism the
dictatorial rule of Spain’s
Generalissimo Francisco Franco was one
marred by multiple human rights
violations censorship and violence
one other shocking secret behind his
reign however was that some children
born to parents who either opposed
Franco’s ideals or were otherwise seen
as inferior to the general racial views
were stolen an estimated 300,000
children were reportedly stolen by
hospital staff nuns and priests over the
course of 50 years with some parents
told that their babies had died shortly
after birth accusations of human
trafficking and illegal adoption were
leveled at Franco’s regime as well as
the Catholic Church who were said to
have sold these children to other
parents across the country number 7 Dark
Alliance did the CIA specifically know
that you were selling cocaine to buy
guns and supplies to support its call
objection the term Dark Alliance refers
to a series of investigative articles
published by journalist Gary Webb in
1996 for the San Jose Mercury News webs
articles called attention to the influx
of crack cocaine into the Los Angeles
area specifically its connection to
Contra rebel groups in Nicaragua so he
said why don’t we use the cash seized
from the cocaine arrest to fund and
support the Contra war in his work Webb
also accused the CIA of supporting the
Contras leading to a major government
investigation and news coverage across
the country there were doubts and
criticisms levelled at Webb’s work
however with both the Mercury News and
the Los Angeles Times claiming
inaccuracies and exaggeration I think
you know I’m biased obviously my
recorder and Webb would resign from its
position working freelance and writing a
book on the dark alliances before
committing suicide 2004 number 6
operation Neptune spear tonight I can
report to the American people and to the
world
the United States has conducted an
operation that killed Osama bin Laden
the leader of al-qaeda the US government
had a name and face for their
most-wanted list in the aftermath of the
September 11th terror attacks that name
and face belonged to al-qaeda founder
Osama bin Laden and his death was the
subject of a covert classified operation
known as operation Neptune spear in this
operation a group of airborne military
CIA operatives and Navy SEALs tracked
bin Laden to Pakistan whereupon he was
killed and his body buried at sea a
possible jackpot the controversy behind
Neptune spear is due largely to the lack
of any physical or DNA evidence of his
killing as well as reports that bin
Laden was unarmed at the time of his
capture these reports continue to fuel
conspiracy theories to this day after a
firefight they killed Osama bin Laden
and took custody of his body
number five global surveillance
disclosures why did you do this the NSA
has the greatest surveillance
capabilities that we have ever seen in
history now what they will argue is that
they don’t use this for nefarious
purposes Patriot or traitor
these are the opposing labels assigned
to Edward Snowden a former NSA
contractor who rocked the world in 2013
when he released thousands of top-secret
documents and files from the United
States Canada Australia and the UK these
links drew international attention and
scrutiny with one of the main takeaways
being the individual’s right to privacy
from the government Snowden took
temporary asylum in Russia from the
charges of theft and espionage laid
against him by the u.s. in 2014 my
country is something that travels with
me you know meanwhile critics of his
actions like President Barack Obama
claimed that Snowden’s actions put the
country and its citizens at risk to
enemies and that linking these secrets
did little to keep people safe the way
in which these disclosures happened had
been have been damaging to the United
States and damaging to our intelligence
capabilities number four project MKULTRA
can a government develop mind control
techniques over their citizens this is
what the United States attempted to find
out during the 1950s and 60s with a
series of experiment known as project
MKULTRA these programs experimented on
subjects using psychedelic drugs
hypnosis and chemical agents reportedly
to acquire some sort of mental control
or dominance some historians have
theorized that MKULTRA was designed to
create assassins who would be used for
long-distance espionage while others
just talk up the whole thing to an
expensive study in LSD drug trip MKULTRA
the use of unwilling or unwitting test
subjects however led to the project’s
ultimate dissolution in 1973 it turns
out he really was being given daily
doses of LSD for 11 years
number three unit 731 there are war
crimes and then there was unit 731
this Japanese research group committed
unthinkable human disease during World
War two experimenting with physical
medical and chemical torture on some
3,000 people many of them Chinese
prisoners furthermore there’s evidence
found in Chinese and Japanese documents
showing that the u.s. traded immunity
for data in the years following the
war’s end
this is particularly shocking given the
brutality associated with the methods of
unit 731 which were said to have
included live vivisection germ warfare
and use of a gas chamber the sheer
magnitude of unit 731 and The Associated
crimes has led some to call the air at
the Asian Holocaust
number two operation Northwoods quote
from Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta states
that quote people shouldn’t be afraid of
their government governments should be
afraid of their people unquote
people should not be afraid of their
government governments should be afraid
of their people but maybe it’s the other
way around
operation Northwoods was a shocking plan
during the 1960’s for the United States
to actively engage in homegrown terror
attacks in order to incite public demand
for a war in Cuba the US was determined
to oust the communist government in
Fidel Castro from Cuba after the failed
Bay of Pigs invasion in 1951 and was
seemingly willing to do whatever it took
to achieve these ends president kennedy
rejected this proposal from his Joint
Chiefs of Staff however and Operation
Northwoods was thankfully never put into
use before we unveil our topic here are
a few Declassified honorable mentions
she was an undercover agent for the CIA
and when an investigation traced the
leak of her name all the way to the
White House it became apparent this was
no ordinary spy story operation Gladio
it was a NATO stay-behind mission set up
to counter a possible Soviet invasion of
Western Europe and it sort of turned
into this whole weird crypto-fascist CIA
shit show
[Applause]
number one Operation Paperclip enemies
were turned into allies under the rules
of Operation Paperclip a shocking secret
whose details remain almost
inconceivable to this day after the war
ended we were snatching up crowd
scientists like hot cake the program was
conducted after World War two by the
United States Office of Strategic
Services under the approval of President
Harry Truman during the Cold War dr.
Wernher von Braun who is at present the
chief of the guided missile division of
the Army’s rocket center at Redstone
Arsenal Operation Paperclip involved
over 1,500 scientists and engineers who
originally worked under the Nazi regime
in Germany being brought into the u.s.
to assist in weapons research and
development although Truman specified
that no Nazi members or sympathizers
were to be included the OSS destroyed
the critical evidence that would have
proven their Nazi status believing that
the results of Operation Paperclip
would be crucial to homeland security
against the Soviet Union you don’t
believe me welcome to NASA sometime in
the Ohio Hitler whoops they all jump
straight up so do you agree with our
list which covert operations do you find
the most secretive and shocking for more
illuminating top 10 lists published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com the objective of this
program was to prove the effectiveness
of the new control system from hovering
through transition in the presence of
the ground up to free flight conditions
[Music]
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