2014/03/22/9 Huge Government Conspiracies That Actually Happened

title/short::9 Huge Government Conspiracies That Actually Happened Conspiracies discussed:
 * when: when posted::2014/03/22
 * author: author::Christina Sterbenz
 * source: site::Yahoo!
 * topics: topic::conspiracy theories
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 * link: URL::http://finance.yahoo.com/news/9-huge-government-conspiracies-actually-130000233.html
 * title: title::9 Huge Government Conspiracies That Actually Happened
 * summary: "As the years pass, however, secrets surface. Government documents become declassified. We now have evidence of certain elaborate government schemes right here in the U.S. of A."
 * 1) The U.S. Department of the Treasury poisoned alcohol during Prohibition
 * 2) The U.S. Public Health Service lied about treating black men with syphilis for more than 40 years. (Tuskegee)
 * 3) More than 100 million Americans received a polio vaccine contaminated with a potentially cancer-causing virus.
 * 4) Parts of the, which led to U.S. intervention in Vietnam, never happened.
 * 5) Military leaders reportedly planned terrorist attacks in the U.S. to drum up support for a war against Cuba.
 * 6) The government tested the effects of LSD on unwitting U.S. and Canadian citizens.
 * 7) In 1974, the CIA secretly resurfaced a sunken Soviet submarine with three nuclear-armed ballistic missiles.
 * 8) The U.S. government sold weapons to Iran, violating an embargo, and used the money to support Nicaraguan militants.
 * 9)  A public relations firm organized congressional testimony that propelled U.S. involvement in the Persian Gulf War.