3 FBI’s secret program COINTELPRO
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A secret program of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), COINTELPRO, was executed between 1956 and 1971 in the US. During this program, FBI used to carry out string of illegal acts including surveillance, infiltration, and assassination. The FBI was also involved in discredit of many political organizations including Communists, Socialists, Black Nationalists, and Civil Rights Movements.
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4 Operation Northwoods
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If the reports are to be believed then the US military had plotted false flag terror operation on its own soil. There was a plan to stage the terror attack on US citizens and hold Cuba as the mastermind of the attack. As they wanted to go into the war against Cuba, they proposed this kind of attack. The operation was called Operation Northwoods.
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5 Secret bombing in Cambodia
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It was 1970 when US President Richard Nixon issued directions for the secret bombing in Cambodia. The operation caused deaths of almost 1,00,000 Cambodian people. The operation continued till 1973. The bombings were executed in order to eliminate Viet Cong troops.
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6 Radiation poisoning due to radium painting on watches
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There was a trend earlier when watches used to have radium placed in it as it helped to see the time in dark as well. Many of female factory workers were employed for painting clocks and watches with luminous, radium paint. The female workers were advised to hold the brushed with their lips while giving the painting a good shape. The female factory workers were told that radium was harmless. But, they contracted radiation poisoning as a result. It happened between 1917 and 1926.
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