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12 crazy conspiracy

theories that actually

turned out to be true

They say the truth is stranger
than fiction. That's no lie.

By Lauren Cahn

All of these so-called "conspiracy theories"
turned out to be legit.

1. The horror of 'Project
Sunshine'
Laughing at conspiracy theories is good
fun - at least until they turn out to be true.
Take the conspiracy surrounding the
"Project Sunshine," for example.
In the wake of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
the U.S. government commenced a major study
to measure the effects of nuclear fallout on the
human body.
Conspiracy: The government was for months, during which time his wife, Edith 6. John Lennon was under
stealing dead bodies to do radioactive testing. Wilson, was making most executive decisions.
The truth: The government was stealing Despite Mrs. Wilson claiming that she government surveillance
parts of dead bodies. Because they needed acted only as a "steward," historians who have Conspiracy: The FBI was spying on
young tissue, they recruited a worldwide analyzed the Wilson term in office confirm that former Beatle John Lennon.
network of agents to find recently deceased for well over a year, Mrs. Wilson was effectively The truth: They most certainly were.
babies and children, and then take samples and president. Like many counter-culture heroes, Lennon was
even limbs - each collected without notification considered a threat: "Anti-war songs, like "Give
or permission of the more than 1,500 grieving 4. Government mind control Peace a Chance" didn't exactly endear former
families. Beatle John Lennon to the Nixon
Conspiracy: The CIA was testing LSD
The world only woke up to the the administration," NPR reported in 2010.
and other hallucinogenic drugs on Americans in
horrific scientic history of Project Sunshine half "In 1971, the FBI put Lennon under
a top-secret experiment on behavior
a century later. surveillance, and the Immigration and
modification.
Naturalization Service tried to deport him a year
The truth: The program was known as
2. Bad booze MK-ULTRA, and it was real. later."
In 1957, John Lennon and Paul
Conspiracy: During Prohibition, the The CIA started by using volunteers - the McCartney met at a party in Woolton. Just yards
government poisoned alcohol to keep people novelist Ken Kesey was one notable subject. away from their meeting place was the grave of
from drinking. But the program heads soon began Eleanor Rigby. A bizarre coincidence, or not?
The truth: Manufacturers of industrial dosing people without their knowledge; MK-
alcohol had been mixing their product with ULTRA left many victims permanently mentally (Continued on Page 90)
dangerous chemicals for years prior to disabled.
Prohibition. At the present time, another drug that
But between 1926 and 1933, the federal alters food and perception and is causing great
government pushed manufacturers to use public concern because of its harmful effects is
stronger poisons to discourage bootleggers from meth.
turning the alcohol into moonshine.
That didn't stop the bootleggers or their 5. The Dalai Lama's impressive
customers, and by the end of Prohibition, more salary
than 10,000 Americans had been killed by
tainted booze. Conspiracy: The Dalai Lama is a CIA
Much of the illegal booze was sold in agent.
infamous night spots called 'speakeasies' - so The truth: Perhaps the reason the Dalai
called from the practice of speaking quietly Lama is smiling in all those photos has
about such a place in public, or when inside it, something to do with the six-figure salary he
so as not to alert the police and neighbours. pulled down from the U.S. government during
the 1960s.

3. The first lady who ran the According to declassified intelligence
documents, he earned $180,000 in connection
United States with the CIA's funding of the Tibetan Resistance
Conspiracy: A stroke rendered United to the tune of $1.7 million per year.
States President Woodrow Wilson incapable of The idea was to disrupt and hamper
governing, and his wife surreptitiously stepped China's infrastructure.
in. The Dalai Lama is believed to have the
The truth: Wilson did suffer a power to choose the body into which he is
debilitating stroke towards the end of his reincarnated, meaning that the current Dalai
presidency - but the government felt it was in the Lama is a reincarnation of the last. Today
country's best interest to keep things quiet. millions of people – across all religions –
The public didn't learn about the stroke believe in reincarnation.