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CIA's Greatest Hits

The Agency's confirmed operations read like rejected thriller screenplots -- except they all actually happened. From dosing unwitting citizens with LSD to overthrowing democratically elected governments to running drugs to fund off-the-books wars, this is the declassified highlight reel of America's most powerful intelligence agency.

12 theories in this list

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MKUltra — CIA Mind Control Program
Confirmed

MKUltra — CIA Mind Control Program

Confirmed CIA program (1953-1973) conducting illegal human experiments with LSD, electroshock, and psychological torture on unwitting subjects at 80 institutions — revealed by 20,000 surviving documents.

1953 · United States
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Confirmed

Project BLUEBIRD -- First CIA Mind Control Program

Project BLUEBIRD (1950-1951) was the CIA's first formal mind control program, established during the Korean War to counter enemy brainwashing and investigate methods of interrogation and agent control.

1950 · United States
3
Confirmed

Project ARTICHOKE -- CIA Behavior Modification Precursor

Confirmed CIA program (1951-1953) that investigated hypnosis, drugs, and forced morphine addiction for creating involuntary agents and extracting information from captives during the Cold War.

1951 · United States
4
Confirmed

Operation Mockingbird — CIA Media Control

The confirmed CIA program that placed agents in major U.S. news organizations and paid journalists to publish propaganda during the Cold War.

1953 · United States
5
Operation Northwoods
Confirmed

Operation Northwoods

The declassified 1962 plan by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to stage fake terrorist attacks on U.S. soil to justify invading Cuba. Rejected by President Kennedy.

1962 · United States
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Operation Ajax — CIA-Backed Iran Coup (1953)
Confirmed

Operation Ajax — CIA-Backed Iran Coup (1953)

The CIA and MI6 orchestrated the overthrow of Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mosaddegh in 1953 to restore the Shah — admitted by the CIA in 2013 declassified documents.

1953 · Iran
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Operation Condor — CIA-Backed South American Death Squads
Confirmed

Operation Condor — CIA-Backed South American Death Squads

A confirmed CIA-backed program coordinating South American military dictatorships to hunt, torture, and assassinate leftist political opponents across borders — killing an estimated 60,000+ people.

1975 · United States
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Operation CHAOS — CIA Domestic Surveillance
Confirmed

Operation CHAOS — CIA Domestic Surveillance

A confirmed illegal CIA program that collected files on 7,200 Americans and indexed 300,000 names — all because the Johnson and Nixon administrations refused to believe the antiwar movement wasn't run by Moscow.

1967 · United States
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Operation Gladio — NATO Stay-Behind Networks in Europe
Confirmed

Operation Gladio — NATO Stay-Behind Networks in Europe

Operation Gladio was a confirmed NATO covert program maintaining secret stay-behind armies across Western Europe, linked to false flag terrorism in Italy.

1956 · Italy
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CIA Drug Trafficking
Confirmed

CIA Drug Trafficking

Documented CIA complicity in drug trafficking from Southeast Asia and Central America, including Air America, Contra cocaine, and the Gary Webb investigation.

1955 · United States
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CIA 638+ Assassination Attempts on Castro
Confirmed

CIA 638+ Assassination Attempts on Castro

Church Committee confirmed the CIA planned and attempted multiple assassination plots against Castro -- including poison cigars, exploding seashells, and Mafia collaboration -- over more than a decade.

1960 · United States
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Frank Olson — CIA Scientist Murdered to Prevent Disclosure
Unresolved

Frank Olson — CIA Scientist Murdered to Prevent Disclosure

CIA biochemist Frank Olson fell from a 13th-floor window in 1953, nine days after being secretly dosed with LSD. Was it suicide, an accident, or murder? Explore the evidence.

1953 · United States