Conspiracy Theory. The phrase brings to mind nut jobs with wacky ideas about world events. Government plots and false flags, assassinations, medical studies involving unaware and unwilling patients, secret criminal organizations, and lies used to start wars all qualify. The trouble is that there are documented, provable examples of each.
Join me as I examine conspiracy theories that turned out to be true.
Conspiracy Theory Defined
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conspiracy%20theory
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/conspiracy_theory
JFK
http://time.com/3422341/the-warren-commission-report/
https://www.history.com/topics/warren-commission
https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-1b.html#summary
https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-1d.html
http://jfkfacts.org/gary-mack-dies-called-attention-to-jfk-acoustic-evidence/
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
The Mafia
https://www.history.com/topics/the-demise-of-the-mafia
The Manhattan Project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project
http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/11/01/many-people-worked-manhattan-project/
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study
Operation Northwoods
https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&page=1
The 1990 Testimony of Nayirah
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/15/opinion/deception-on-capitol-hill.html
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=_nayirah__1
The Business Plot
https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1058&context=etd_hon_theses
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/08/18628134.php
https://archive.org/stream/WarIsARacket/WarIsARacket_djvu.txt