Source of Truth Publishing Co. — Proven Conspiracies

U.S. Public Health Service study that withheld syphilis treatment from Black men for 40 years without informed consent.

A congressional committee found credible retired Gen. Smedley Butler's sworn testimony that Wall Street financiers approached him to lead a veterans'-army coup against FDR.

A decades-long U.S. Army/NSA program that decrypted thousands of Soviet intelligence cables, ultimately confirming an extensive Soviet espionage network inside the U.S. government, including at Los Alamos. Kept secret for over 50 years before a joint CIA/NSA declassification.

Nearly 4,000 government-sponsored experiments exposing people — including students, prisoners, and hospital patients — to radiation, mostly without informed consent, per a presidential advisory committee.

Following passage of the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, a congressionally mandated Interagency Working Group confirmed the U.S. government, including the CIA, recruited and protected numerous former Nazi and SS intelligence operatives as Cold War intelligence assets — releasing over 8 million pages of records at the National Archives.

Over 1,600 German and Austrian scientists — including men with documented Nazi Party and SS affiliations — were secretly recruited into U.S. government and defense work after WWII, with their records altered to ease immigration. Confirmed by the government's own declassified personnel dossiers and a congressionally mandated review two decades later.

A 30-year NSA program, run with the cooperation of major telegraph companies, that copied virtually every international telegram entering or leaving the United States without a warrant. Publicly confirmed by NSA Director Lew Allen's 1975 Church Committee testimony and the CIA's own declassified retrospective account.

U.S. Public Health Service researchers intentionally infected at least 1,300 Guatemalan prisoners, soldiers, and psychiatric patients with syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid without consent, to test penicillin. Hidden for over 60 years until a historian found the records; confirmed by a presidential apology and a nine-month federal investigation.

A network of secret NATO "stay-behind" paramilitary units armed and trained across Western Europe during the Cold War, confirmed publicly for the first time by Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti in 1990 and formally condemned in a European Parliament resolution the same year.

Radioactive fallout from above-ground nuclear weapons tests at the Nevada Test Site drifted over downwind communities in Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, producing elevated cancer rates confirmed by a joint CDC/National Cancer Institute federal study commissioned by Congress.

The CIA's earliest interrogation and mind-control research programs, predecessors to MKULTRA, testing hypnosis, drugs, and coercive interrogation techniques on subjects. Documented in declassified CIA memoranda located and released through the National Security Archive.

The Church Committee's 1976 finding that the CIA maintained covert relationships with several hundred journalists and news organizations to place and shape stories.

CIA and State Department records confirming the agency planned and executed the overthrow of Iran's elected prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddeq.

CIA mind-control / behavioral-modification research on unwitting subjects, including LSD dosing. Confirmed by the CIA's own released files and 1977 Senate testimony.

The CIA's own declassified history and cable traffic documenting the covert operation that overthrew Guatemala's elected president, Jacobo Arbenz, including plans that considered assassination.

FBI covert program to surveil, infiltrate, and disrupt domestic political groups, including civil-rights and antiwar organizations.

The Senate's 1975 Church Committee investigation officially confirmed CIA-linked assassination plots against foreign leaders including Fidel Castro, Patrice Lumumba, and Rafael Trujillo, publishing its findings as "Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders."

A CIA-organized and financed invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, intended to trigger the overthrow of Fidel Castro, which collapsed within three days. The CIA's own multi-volume internal history of the failed operation was declassified in stages between 1998 and 2016.

A covert CIA campaign of sabotage, propaganda, and assassination plots against Fidel Castro's government following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, documented in declassified State Department and CIA planning memoranda.

The U.S. military's decade-long herbicide spraying campaign in Vietnam exposed millions of Vietnamese civilians, U.S. troops, and their descendants to the dioxin-contaminated defoliant Agent Orange — now formally acknowledged and compensated through the VA's and DTIC's own documentation.

A Joint Chiefs of Staff plan to stage false-flag terror attacks on Americans and blame Cuba, to manufacture a pretext for invasion. Rejected by President Kennedy.

The Pentagon's Deseret Test Center exposed roughly 6,000 U.S. service members to live chemical and biological warfare agents — sarin, VX, tabun, soman, and live biological agents — aboard Navy ships and on land, to test detection and defense measures. Kept classified for decades until the VA forced a DoD declassification review in 2000.

The FBI's COINTELPRO-authorized wiretapping, bugging, and blackmail campaign against Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., directed by J. Edgar Hoover and confirmed by the FBI's own declassified files, the Church Committee, and the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

A U.S. Army-funded social-science research program aimed at predicting and countering revolutions in Latin America, canceled by Congress within a year after its covert military sponsorship was exposed in Chile, as documented in the CIA's own declassified press-clipping files.

NSA's own historian concluded a second North Vietnamese attack — the event Congress used to escalate the Vietnam War — likely never happened.

Israeli air and naval forces attacked the American intelligence-gathering ship USS Liberty during the 1967 Six-Day War, killing 34 U.S. sailors. NSA's own declassified cryptologic history and Senate testimony document the incident and the disputed U.S. government response.

A joint CIA–South Vietnamese program to identify and eliminate the Viet Cong's civilian political infrastructure, resulting in tens of thousands of detentions, interrogations, and killings. Documented in the CIA's own declassified program memoranda and briefing materials.

A CIA domestic counterintelligence program that infiltrated antiwar and civil-rights groups inside the United States, compiling files on more than 7,000 Americans — explicitly outside the CIA's foreign-intelligence charter. Confirmed the same year it was exposed by a presidential commission that concluded the program was "plainly unlawful."

A classified U.S. Air Force cloud-seeding campaign over the Ho Chi Minh Trail, meant to extend the monsoon season and turn enemy supply roads to mud. Exposed by a 1971 newspaper column, confirmed to Congress in a classified 1974 Senate briefing, and directly responsible for the international treaty that still bans weaponized weather modification today.

A companion program to Project SHAMROCK, in which the NSA maintained secret watch lists that placed the intercepted communications of prominent Americans — including Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali, and sitting U.S. senators — under surveillance without warrants. Confirmed through the NSA's own declassified internal history.

The Army's own investigation found officers up the chain of command deliberately suppressed and falsified reports on the killing of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai.

A White House-approved 1970 plan to authorize illegal surveillance, mail opening, and burglary against domestic dissidents, briefly approved by President Nixon before being withdrawn under FBI objection. Fully documented in the Church Committee's official hearing record.

A Defense Dept. study, leaked in 1971, showing the government privately knew Vietnam was unwinnable while publicly claiming progress. Fully declassified on the 40th anniversary of the leak.

A global signals-intelligence sharing network run by the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (the "Five Eyes"), long dismissed as internet folklore. Unlike most entries here, this one wasn't confirmed by a U.S. agency — it was confirmed by a formal European Parliament investigative committee after a 13-month inquiry.

A break-in at DNC headquarters that unraveled into a documented White House conspiracy to obstruct justice, ending in Nixon's resignation.

A CIA- and DIA-funded research program that paid professional "remote viewers" to attempt psychic espionage against Soviet and other foreign targets for over two decades. Declassified in 1995 after an independent scientific review found no operational intelligence value.

A covert Church of Scientology campaign to infiltrate, wiretap, and steal documents from more than 130 U.S. government agencies — including the IRS and Justice Department — to purge unfavorable records. Confirmed by the federal conviction of eleven senior Scientology officials, including Mary Sue Hubbard, in United States v. Hubbard.

The CIA Inspector General's own 693-page internal catalog of the agency's illegal domestic activities, spanning mail-opening programs to assassination plots.

The CIA's own congressionally mandated report on covert action against Salvador Allende's government and support for the military junta that followed his overthrow.

The CIA's covert 1974 mission using the Howard Hughes–fronted ship Glomar Explorer to raise a sunk Soviet submarine, K-129, from the Pacific floor — the origin of the phrase "Glomarize" now used in FOIA law. Confirmed by the CIA's own declassified Studies in Intelligence articles and a FOIA-forced National Security Archive release.

A coordinated campaign of political repression and assassination among South American military dictatorships, aided by U.S. intelligence, that killed and disappeared thousands of leftist opponents across borders. Documented through declassified State Department and FBI files used as evidence in international human-rights prosecutions.

Following a 1996 investigative series alleging links between CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contra rebels and cocaine trafficking into U.S. cities, the CIA's own Inspector General and the DOJ's Inspector General each opened formal reviews and confirmed instances where the agency failed to report drug-trafficking activity by its assets.

A White House operation that secretly sold arms to Iran and illegally diverted the proceeds to fund Nicaraguan Contra rebels, in violation of a congressional funding ban.

The Soviet Politburo's own internal records — and contemporaneous CIA cables — documenting the cover-up, reactor-design cause, and casualty estimates of the April 1986 disaster.

A warrantless domestic surveillance program authorized by President George W. Bush weeks after 9/11, permitting NSA collection of Americans' phone and internet metadata without FISA court approval. Confirmed by a declassified NSA Inspector General report and ODNI-released FISA Court orders.

The CIA's post-9/11 program of secret overseas "black site" prisons and coercive interrogation of terrorism suspects, documented in exhaustive detail by the Senate Intelligence Committee's 6,700-page investigation, whose executive summary was declassified in December 2014.

A 5+ year Senate Intelligence Committee review finding the CIA's post-9/11 interrogation program was more brutal, and far less effective, than the agency told Congress and the public.

The Senate Intelligence Committee's bipartisan investigations found that key U.S. intelligence assessments used to justify the 2003 Iraq invasion — claims of weapons of mass destruction and al-Qaeda ties — were not supported by the underlying intelligence.

A secret room inside an AT&T facility in San Francisco where the NSA installed equipment to copy and analyze the internet and phone traffic of ordinary Americans without warrants, exposed by whistleblowing AT&T technician Mark Klein's sworn declaration in the EFF's Hepting v. AT&T lawsuit.

The systematic physical and psychological abuse of detainees by U.S. military personnel at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, confirmed by the Army's own internal Taguba Report investigation and prosecuted through courts-martial.

An NSA program compelling major U.S. technology companies to provide access to user data under Section 702 of FISA, first publicly confirmed through declassified training slides released by the Director of National Intelligence following the 2013 Snowden disclosures.

A botched ATF gun-trafficking operation that allowed firearms to cross into Mexican drug cartels' hands without adequate tracking, later linked to the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. Confirmed by the Justice Department's own Inspector General review.

The NSA's bulk collection of Americans' phone records under the PATRIOT Act, revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013. Unlike most leak-based stories, this one is backed by the government's own declassified court orders, an independent federal oversight board's report, and a federal appeals court ruling that the program was never lawfully authorized.