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A covert CIA program conducting illegalexperiments on humansubjects to develop mind-controltechniques using drugs (especially LSD), hypnosis, sensory deprivation,isolation, and psychological torture. Over 150 institutions participated, oftenwithout subjects' knowledge or consent. Most records were destroyed in 1973; surviving documents were discovered via FOIAin 1977.

A proposed false-flag operation by the U.S. JointChiefs of Staff to stage terrorist attacks on American soil and blame them on Cuba, providing justification for military intervention. The plan includedhijacking aircraft, sinking boats of Cuban refugees, and orchestratingviolent acts in U.S. cities.President Kennedy rejected the proposaland removed the JCS chairman.

A classified mass electronicsurveillance program that collected internet communications directly from the serversof major U.S. technologycompanies including Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, andYahoo. Exposed by NSA contractor EdwardSnowden in June 2013, PRISM operated under Section 702of the FISA Amendments Act with secret FISA court authorization.

A series of covert and illegal FBIprojects aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic American political organizationsdeemed 'subversive.' Targets included civil rights leaders likeMartin LutherKing Jr., theBlack Panther Party, anti-Vietnam War activists, and feminist organizations.

A secret U.S. program that recruited over 1,600German scientists, engineers, and technicians fromNazi Germany and brought them toAmerica after WWII. Many had been members of the Nazi Partyor SS. Their expertisewas used in the spacerace, weapons development, and intelligence operations during the Cold War.

Declassified NSA documents revealed that thesecond Gulf of Tonkin incident onAugust 4, 1964 — which President Johnson used to justify escalating U.S. involvement in Vietnam — likely never occurred. NSA analysts had misinterpreted radarand sonar data, but theadministration used the allegedattack to secure the Gulfof Tonkin Resolution from Congress.