the bigger the lie the more likely
they’ll believe it welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten infamous
cover-ups that may or may not be true
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
focusing on notorious cover-ups
that spawned significant debate and
discussion before and after the fact
regardless of whether or not they’ve
been proven true or false
I think our secrets out number 10
Winston wants to believe an eloquent
orator with nerves of steel and a
steadfast persona that’s how Winston
Churchill is generally remembered by
history many would be surprised to learn
that as he led Britain into World War
two he was also wondering and writing
about the existence of extraterrestrials
during the war
he ordered a reported UFO sighting by
the Royal Air Force be kept secret for
fear of mass panic
many feel this was one of the first time
the government covered up proof of alien
life combined with an essay he wrote
exploring life on other planets and his
friendship with HG Wells it’s easy to
see why this cover-up is so intriguing
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number nine GrandCentral secrets track
61 is a secret set of train tracks
beneath New York’s Grand Central Station
which were created for the private use
of dignitaries and VIPs the tracks lead
to an elevator leading to the garage at
the Waldorf Astoria Hotel while many
have speculated about possible other
uses of the Train one of its primary
functions was to help minimize awareness
of how polio was affecting Franklin
Roosevelt it was important for Roosevelt
as president of the United States to be
seen as strong and capable so the
government limited sightings in his
wheelchair but everyone pretended he
could walk yes as a result the
government supposedly went to great
lengths to ensure the track never
appeared on any blueprint number eight
bad blood we are delighted today to
close this very tragic and painful
chapter medical advances often hinge on
experiments and studies and nowadays
there are stringent rules and
regulations about how these are to be
done
rewind several decades though and this
was not the case one of the
longest-running medical studies of the
20th century was the Tuskegee syphilis
experiment it ran from 1932 to the early
70s during which time 399 black men were
treated for what was termed bad blood in
1972 a whistleblower came forward and
drew attention to the experiment which
had continued under several US public
health supervisors all had overlooked
the fact that the men were not being
treated appropriately
despite the proven success of penicillin
for the disease within the time frame of
the study the eight men who are
survivors of the syphilis study at
Tuskegee are a living link to a time not
so very long ago that many Americans
would prefer not to remember but we dare
not forget number seven listening in on
Lennon because we won’t we won’t peace
you know we’ve said the same thing for
two years different one way or another
and we believed in it it was no secret
that John Lennon was fascinated by
politics and that his political views
didn’t jibe with those of then President
Richard Nixon fearing Lennon would
influence the newly enfranchised youth
vote in the 1972 election the FBI began
an orchestrated campaign to deport him
this campaign included surveillance and
possibly wiretapping none of which was
admitted by the government of course and
it’s very ironic that the government
approved our application as outstanding
artists whose presence is beneficial to
us cultural interest in the public well
fought following Lennon’s murder a
University of California professor named
John Wiener launched a lawsuit against
the FBI requiring the bureau’s Lennon
files be released under the Freedom of
Information Act the last of the files
was ultimately on
failed in 2006 almost seven years after
Weiner presented copies of the FBI
documents he’d been able to obtain in
the book gimme some truth number six a
Clockwork Orange
this next cover-up may seem eerily
familiar for project MKULTRA the CIA
took unsuspecting individuals and
experimented on them to try to control
their minds the project had several
goals including developing methods to
force erratic behavior on an individual
or to brainwash them to carry out
specific commands many believe the
project was an attempt to make real-life
Manchurian candidates captain maka
please shoot private Ingram kinda makes
you wonder if Anthony Burgess grabbed
inspiration for his twisted tale from
the rumors surrounding this project just
to be safe we recommend avoiding staring
contests with goats to top things off
the head of the CIA ordered all files on
this project destroyed in 1973 after it
was officially halted number five
trouble is brewing it occurred to
various officials in the government that
we might run out of oil the Teapot Dome
scandal is one of the first and biggest
examples of government corruption in the
United States and may have gone all the
way up to the White House itself when
monitoring of naval oil reserve lands at
teapot dome Wyoming was switched over to
the Department of the Interior a few
shady deals occurred Secretary of the
Interior
Albert befall leased the rights to
several fields without engaging in
competitive bidding and was personally
enriched for his efforts
Paul had done a good job of hiding his
trail but a thorough investigation
uncovered his secrets was president
warren g harding also involved well he
died before that could be answered
conclusively number four going
radioactive yeah there Chernobyl yes
when it comes to the tragedy at
Chernobyl the alleged cover-ups contain
to occur even after the incident some
have speculated that the accident which
led to the immediate death of 31 of the
workers and long-term effects like
cancer for others was intentional you
should all be glad I have this
additionally it’s been speculated that
the government continued to hide the
extent of the damage and
over-exaggerated the efforts to clean up
and make the area safer still others
have proposed the idea that the area is
in fact safe but that the government
wants to keep people out for other
reasons
number three castro catastrophes when
will your country and my country have
normal relations if one can believe
figures from a Cuban intelligence source
there were over 600 reported
assassination attempts by the USA on
fidel castro ranging from exploding
cigars to fungus filled diving suits
they were certainly not lacking in
imagination the church committee looked
into and confirmed some of these
attempts as factual but for many the
attempts were just there to camouflage
other issues some have theorized that
the government used these unsuccessful
attempts to keep tensions high helping
to promote a negative view of communism
however if they really bungled the job
over six hundred times the biggest
cover-up in this fiasco may just be how
incompetent they were as he drove his
own Jeep i sat next to him with his gun
in my lap I don’t think why do they do
this kind of know why am I asking enough
number two alien nation take my word for
it there’s no area 51 there’s no
recovered spaceship that’s not entirely
accurate
just what exists in area 51 the
government’s official stance is that the
desert area is a classified military
base but the restricted land has long
sparked more questions than answers
rumors of top-secret experiments and
classified operations abound but area 51
is most frequently connected with
conspiracy theories concerning UFOs and
extraterrestrial life-forms a shroud of
mystery surrounds this Nevada location
even after the powers-that-be finally
confirmed the base even existed in 2013
and it took a Freedom of Information Act
request just to get that much
information before we uncover our number
one pick here are some honorable
mentions
sort of cools the ankles doesn’t it the
huge numbers of Americans watch this
play out on their television sets and
the ending was incredibly horrifying
number one world trade terrorism
terrorism against our nation will not
stand on September 11th 2001 almost
3,000 individuals lost their lives as a
result of terrorist attacks after an
event of this magnitude a great deal of
time effort and exploration are devoted
to understanding how it happened and how
it might have been prevented today our
fellow citizens our way of life our very
freedom came under attack one theory
holds that the government knew the
attack was about to occur but refrained
from acting on it why perhaps in order
to justify launching a war and invading
Iraq and Afghanistan which happened
ultimately because these theories have
yet to be proved or disproved
conclusively talk of a cover-up
will likely continue do you agree with
our picks check out these other great
clips from WatchMojo and subscribe for
new videos every day
[Music]
they’ll believe it welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten infamous
cover-ups that may or may not be true
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
focusing on notorious cover-ups
that spawned significant debate and
discussion before and after the fact
regardless of whether or not they’ve
been proven true or false
I think our secrets out number 10
Winston wants to believe an eloquent
orator with nerves of steel and a
steadfast persona that’s how Winston
Churchill is generally remembered by
history many would be surprised to learn
that as he led Britain into World War
two he was also wondering and writing
about the existence of extraterrestrials
during the war
he ordered a reported UFO sighting by
the Royal Air Force be kept secret for
fear of mass panic
many feel this was one of the first time
the government covered up proof of alien
life combined with an essay he wrote
exploring life on other planets and his
friendship with HG Wells it’s easy to
see why this cover-up is so intriguing
[Music]
number nine GrandCentral secrets track
61 is a secret set of train tracks
beneath New York’s Grand Central Station
which were created for the private use
of dignitaries and VIPs the tracks lead
to an elevator leading to the garage at
the Waldorf Astoria Hotel while many
have speculated about possible other
uses of the Train one of its primary
functions was to help minimize awareness
of how polio was affecting Franklin
Roosevelt it was important for Roosevelt
as president of the United States to be
seen as strong and capable so the
government limited sightings in his
wheelchair but everyone pretended he
could walk yes as a result the
government supposedly went to great
lengths to ensure the track never
appeared on any blueprint number eight
bad blood we are delighted today to
close this very tragic and painful
chapter medical advances often hinge on
experiments and studies and nowadays
there are stringent rules and
regulations about how these are to be
done
rewind several decades though and this
was not the case one of the
longest-running medical studies of the
20th century was the Tuskegee syphilis
experiment it ran from 1932 to the early
70s during which time 399 black men were
treated for what was termed bad blood in
1972 a whistleblower came forward and
drew attention to the experiment which
had continued under several US public
health supervisors all had overlooked
the fact that the men were not being
treated appropriately
despite the proven success of penicillin
for the disease within the time frame of
the study the eight men who are
survivors of the syphilis study at
Tuskegee are a living link to a time not
so very long ago that many Americans
would prefer not to remember but we dare
not forget number seven listening in on
Lennon because we won’t we won’t peace
you know we’ve said the same thing for
two years different one way or another
and we believed in it it was no secret
that John Lennon was fascinated by
politics and that his political views
didn’t jibe with those of then President
Richard Nixon fearing Lennon would
influence the newly enfranchised youth
vote in the 1972 election the FBI began
an orchestrated campaign to deport him
this campaign included surveillance and
possibly wiretapping none of which was
admitted by the government of course and
it’s very ironic that the government
approved our application as outstanding
artists whose presence is beneficial to
us cultural interest in the public well
fought following Lennon’s murder a
University of California professor named
John Wiener launched a lawsuit against
the FBI requiring the bureau’s Lennon
files be released under the Freedom of
Information Act the last of the files
was ultimately on
failed in 2006 almost seven years after
Weiner presented copies of the FBI
documents he’d been able to obtain in
the book gimme some truth number six a
Clockwork Orange
this next cover-up may seem eerily
familiar for project MKULTRA the CIA
took unsuspecting individuals and
experimented on them to try to control
their minds the project had several
goals including developing methods to
force erratic behavior on an individual
or to brainwash them to carry out
specific commands many believe the
project was an attempt to make real-life
Manchurian candidates captain maka
please shoot private Ingram kinda makes
you wonder if Anthony Burgess grabbed
inspiration for his twisted tale from
the rumors surrounding this project just
to be safe we recommend avoiding staring
contests with goats to top things off
the head of the CIA ordered all files on
this project destroyed in 1973 after it
was officially halted number five
trouble is brewing it occurred to
various officials in the government that
we might run out of oil the Teapot Dome
scandal is one of the first and biggest
examples of government corruption in the
United States and may have gone all the
way up to the White House itself when
monitoring of naval oil reserve lands at
teapot dome Wyoming was switched over to
the Department of the Interior a few
shady deals occurred Secretary of the
Interior
Albert befall leased the rights to
several fields without engaging in
competitive bidding and was personally
enriched for his efforts
Paul had done a good job of hiding his
trail but a thorough investigation
uncovered his secrets was president
warren g harding also involved well he
died before that could be answered
conclusively number four going
radioactive yeah there Chernobyl yes
when it comes to the tragedy at
Chernobyl the alleged cover-ups contain
to occur even after the incident some
have speculated that the accident which
led to the immediate death of 31 of the
workers and long-term effects like
cancer for others was intentional you
should all be glad I have this
additionally it’s been speculated that
the government continued to hide the
extent of the damage and
over-exaggerated the efforts to clean up
and make the area safer still others
have proposed the idea that the area is
in fact safe but that the government
wants to keep people out for other
reasons
number three castro catastrophes when
will your country and my country have
normal relations if one can believe
figures from a Cuban intelligence source
there were over 600 reported
assassination attempts by the USA on
fidel castro ranging from exploding
cigars to fungus filled diving suits
they were certainly not lacking in
imagination the church committee looked
into and confirmed some of these
attempts as factual but for many the
attempts were just there to camouflage
other issues some have theorized that
the government used these unsuccessful
attempts to keep tensions high helping
to promote a negative view of communism
however if they really bungled the job
over six hundred times the biggest
cover-up in this fiasco may just be how
incompetent they were as he drove his
own Jeep i sat next to him with his gun
in my lap I don’t think why do they do
this kind of know why am I asking enough
number two alien nation take my word for
it there’s no area 51 there’s no
recovered spaceship that’s not entirely
accurate
just what exists in area 51 the
government’s official stance is that the
desert area is a classified military
base but the restricted land has long
sparked more questions than answers
rumors of top-secret experiments and
classified operations abound but area 51
is most frequently connected with
conspiracy theories concerning UFOs and
extraterrestrial life-forms a shroud of
mystery surrounds this Nevada location
even after the powers-that-be finally
confirmed the base even existed in 2013
and it took a Freedom of Information Act
request just to get that much
information before we uncover our number
one pick here are some honorable
mentions
sort of cools the ankles doesn’t it the
huge numbers of Americans watch this
play out on their television sets and
the ending was incredibly horrifying
number one world trade terrorism
terrorism against our nation will not
stand on September 11th 2001 almost
3,000 individuals lost their lives as a
result of terrorist attacks after an
event of this magnitude a great deal of
time effort and exploration are devoted
to understanding how it happened and how
it might have been prevented today our
fellow citizens our way of life our very
freedom came under attack one theory
holds that the government knew the
attack was about to occur but refrained
from acting on it why perhaps in order
to justify launching a war and invading
Iraq and Afghanistan which happened
ultimately because these theories have
yet to be proved or disproved
conclusively talk of a cover-up
will likely continue do you agree with
our picks check out these other great
clips from WatchMojo and subscribe for
new videos every day
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