The most complex model we actually understand

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No one understands modern AI. Each new little piece of text known as a token produced by Chat GPT is the result of hundreds of billions of separate calculations. The parameters used in these calculations are learned from data by training Chat GPT to predict a single token at a time. But somehow from just learning to predict the next little piece of text again and again across trillions of examples, what feels like real intelligence emerges? What pathways through the network's billions of computations are responsible

for specific knowledge or abilities? Why do certain skills only emerge from models of a certain size or after training for a certain duration? Are these giant models just memorizing or are they actually learning? Today we have many compelling clues but no definitive answers to these questions. One interesting question we can ask is how much complexity do we have to strip away before we can really truly understand a model? We know how the individual artificial neurons that make up these models work. Although this did

take some time to sort out back in the 1960s. As we connect more and more of these neurons together, when exactly does our understanding really start to break down? In this video, I'm going to claim that one specific example, groing modular arithmetic with a single layer transformer, is the most complex AI model that we fully understand.

This is obviously highly subjective. If you have a different example that you think fits, please share it in the comments. Your answers could make for a fun follow-up video. Like many scientific discoveries, we stumbled onto groing completely by accident. The initial discovery led to some remarkable follow-up work that allows us to rigorously understand what the model's parameters are actually learning, why certain behaviors emerge later in training.

 And incredibly, we can even watch the model progress from just memorizing training examples to learning a robust forier space solution to the modular arithmetic problem. This example is a few years old at this point, but it's an amazing and still very relevant way to look under the hood of modern transformers. At the end of this video, we'll also look at some more recent fascinating results from a team at anthropic where the team found a six-dimensional manifold in the activations of Claude Haiku that appears to be responsible for handling the

arithmetic required for the model to figure out when to create new lines. As Claude writes, in 2021, a research team at OpenAI was training small models to perform modular arithmetic. If we take a mathematical operation like X + Y, we can turn this operation into a data set by creating a table with various X values as our columns and various Y values as our rows.

 From here, we can fill in each cell with the sum of X and Y. 0 + 0 is 0. 0 + 1 is 1 and so on. The team was studying modular arithmetic, meaning we need to pick a largest number or modulus. When our number reaches or exceeds the modulus, we divide by the modulus and take the remainder. If we choose a modulus of 5, when we reach 1 + 4 on our table, the answer is actually 5 modulo 5 equals 0.

4 + 2 equals 6 modulo 5 giving a final answer of 1 and so on. The modulo operation gives our model some interesting structure to learn and nicely bounds the number of individual tokens our model needs. We know that in this case our answer will always be 0 1 2 3 or four. From here we set aside a portion of our data for testing and train on the remaining examples.

It's worth taking a moment to consider what this data set really looks like from our model's perspective. Our model has one input and one output for each token in its vocabulary. We need five tokens to represent our numbers 0 through 4, and we'll add one more token to represent our equal sign. We could also add a token for the plus sign, but since we'll only be training our model on addition, it's not needed.

 Having a token for the equal sign is helpful, however, as we'll see. This effectively gives our model a placeholder for its final answer. So our model has six total inputs, one for each token. For comparison, GPT5 has 200,000 inputs. Again, one for each token in its vocabulary. To input a math problem into our model, for example, 1 + 2, we pass in the first token in our math problem one into the model by switching on the one position and switching off all the other positions.

 This is known as one hot encoding and is how the model sees our first token. Our second token two is passed into our model by switching on the second input and switching off the rest. Finally, our equal sign tells us to switch on only the final input to our model. So the math problem 1 + 2 from the perspective of our model looks like its first input switched on then its second input and then its sixth input.

Transformers like these are generally configured to return outputs of the same dimension that they're given. So our model's final output will also be 6x3.In this case, we're only going to look at the final column of the model's output. This is where we want the right answer to show up.

 And in this case, we want the three output to be switched on since 1 + 2 is three. So what our model is really learning is to map this pattern of 18 values, mostly zeros, to this new pattern of six values. Now imagine someone just handed you a bunch of different target input and output patterns. Here are the input and output patterns for 1 + 3= 4.

 Here's 2 + 3= 0, and so on. After you saw enough of these examples, do you think you could figure out the underlying structure of the problem? This is precisely how large language models work. When we pass in the text the capital of France is into llama, for example, the token for the tells us to switch on input 791.

 The token for capital tells us to switch on input 6864 and so on. Moving to llama's output, the final column is maximized at an index of 12366, which corresponds to the token for Paris. It's easy to forget that the symbols we assign to our model's inputs and outputs have this extra meaning that we attach to them.

 But to the model, they're just patterns of inputs and outputs. Now, when the OpenAI team trained their model on modular arithmetic, their initial results were pretty underwhelming. The model was able to quickly learn to match the patterns in the training data, giving the correct output on all training examples. However, the model performed very poorly on the test set.

It appeared that the model had simply memorized the training data without actually learning modular addition. But then something interesting happened. One of the researchers went on vacation but accidentally left a model training. Returning from vacation, the researcher was shocked to discover that after a very large number of training steps, the model had suddenly generalized, performing perfectly on both training and test sets.

What mechanism could possibly be causing the model to perfectly fit the training examples after just a couple hundred steps, appear to lay dormant for a couple thousand steps, and then suddenly actually learn? And could similar dynamics happen in full-size models? In Robert A. Highland's 1961 novel, Stranger in a Strange Land, he coins the term grocking.

 The book's main character, a human who was raised on Mars and returns to Earth, uses the Martian word gro throughout the book. Grock has no direct translation from the far more complex Martian language. But one meaning is to understand something so thoroughly that you merge with it and it merges with you. The OpenAI team was able to replicate the sudden generalization phenomenon across a range of arithmetic operations and model configurations and in January 2022 published this paper where they called the phenomenon groing.

Grocking is a provocative name but the phenomenon itself is shocking. What could be causing the model to suddenly perform perfectly on the test set? A year after the publication of the OpenAI groing paper, a team led by researcher Neil Nandanda published an incredibly detailed analysis of the phenomenon.

 Their paper digs deep into the model's parameters and activations to produce a very satisfying and elegant explanation. Nandanda and his collaborators studied a single layer transformer. This is the same architecture used in most large language models just with fewer layers. A transformer layer is composed of an attention and multi-layer perceptron compute block.

 As we saw with our toy example earlier, our data is fed into our model using one hot vectors. NAND used a modulus of 113. So the model's input vectors are of length 114 with 113 positions for the digits 0 through 112 and a final position for the equal sign. So to ask our model what 1 + 2 is, we pass in this 114x3 matrix made up of all zeros except for a one in the one spot of our first column, a one in the two spot of our second column, and a one in the equal spot of our final column.

 From here, our 113x3 matrix is multiplied by a matrix of learned weights known as an embedding matrix, producing three new vectors of length 128 each. These resulting embedding vectors are no longer sparse and as we'll see contain some interesting structure. From here, our embedding vectors are passed into our attention block and then our multi-layer perceptron compute block.

 The output of our multi-layer perceptron is of length 128. We multiply this output by an unmbbedding matrix to compute a final vector of length 114. The model's answer is given by the largest value in this final vector. So if our model is working well, its maximum output value should occur in the three position corresponding to the correct answer 1 + 2 equals 3.

Training this model on modular edition, we see the same groing behavior observed by the OpenAI team with the model first memorizing the training data after around 140 steps and then generalizing after 7,000 training steps. Let's explore the model's intermediateoutputs, better known as activations. Specifically, let's have a close look at the outputs of some of the neurons in the second layer of our multi-layer perceptron block.

 This layer has 512 total neurons. If we pass in the problem 0 plus 0 into our network, the first neuron of this layer returns an output value of 1.17. Our second neuron returns an output of 0.6 and so on. Now let's visualize how these values change as we change the input math problem. Let's fix the value of x to 0 and explore a range of y values starting with 0 + 0.

 then 0 + 1, then 0 + 2, and so on. Sweeping through all 113 possible values for y, we see some interesting structure with the outputs of some of our neurons looking like sine waves. Digging deeper, let's explore the correlation between all the different pairs of these neurons. Let's color our points using the input y value to our model.

 So our neuron outputs given the input 0 0 are colored purple and outputs given the input 0 + 112 are colored yellow. From here we'll create a 7x7 grid of scatter plots for each pair of neurons. So on our second scatter plot on our first row for example we'll plot the output of our first neuron as the y value and the output of our second neuron as the x value.

 Bringing our two waves together like this results in a nice loop shape. creating the same plots for each pair of neuron outputs, we see more interesting structures. So our model has clearly learned some type of structure. But could this structure be related to groing? If we move backwards in our training process and visualize these structures as we go, we see that by the time we reach our model that just memorizes our training set, these structures completely disappear.

 So while this early model performs perfectly on the training set, we don't see any evidence of the waves and loops that we see after grocking. So perhaps these structures are related to why the model gro is sponsored by me. The Welsh Labs team and I have written a whole new book on AI. It's beautifully illustrated and is a great way to dig deeper into the topics we cover in these videos.

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 I really think you're going to like it. Now, back to Groing modular arithmetic. The wave shapes and loops we see inside our model as it gro suggest that the model is potentially computing and making use of the signs and cosiness of our inputs x and y. If we take a discrete 4a transform of our activation pattern, we can compute the frequencies of the waves learned by our model.

 This first wave yields a largest frequency component of 8 pi over 113. And our third wave shows a largest frequency component of 6 pi over 113. If we plot these waves on top of our model's outputs, we see nice alignment. Let's look for these frequencies in other places in our model. Let's visualize a single value in our first embedding vector.

 Just as we did with the neurons in our multi-layer perceptron, let's plot this value as we sweep through a range of input values. Note that our first embedding vector only depends on our first input x. So here we'll sweep from x= 0 to x= 112 while keeping y fixed at zero. We don't see quite the same smooth plots that we saw earlier.

 But if we compare our curve to a cosine wave with a frequency of 8 pi over 113, we do see reasonably good alignment. Part of the challenge here is that this early signal in our network also appears to contain higher frequency information, which makes sense given that we found evidence of multiple frequencies later in our model.

 We could analyze the frequency content of our full embedding vectors at this stage of the model. But for now, let's build what's known as a sparse linear probe. If we sample the values at a few more positions of our embedding vector, we see similar semeriodic curves. Now it turns out that if we take a weighted sum of these eight curves, we end up with a curve that looks very close to a cosine curve with a frequency of 8 pi over 113.

The weighted sum is very relevant here because taking weighted sums like this is a big part of what our attention and multi-layer perceptron blocks do. Meaning that these compute blocks have access to a very clean cosine wave. The signal is just spread across a few different locations in our model. At this stage, we can compute a similar sparse linear probe for the sign of x * 8 pi over 113.

Now, our first embedding vector only depends on our first input x and our second embedding vector only depends on our second input y. These inputs are combined in our attention block. Since the same embedding matrix is used to process our three inputs independently,we can use the same sparse linear probe on our second embedding vector.

 And we'll see the same nice cosine and sign curves, but now as a function of y. So very early in the model, our model learns to compute the signs and cosiness of our inputs. But why? What did these functions from trigonometry have to do with learning modular addition? The modular addition problem may seem a bit foreign or contrived, but we actually do it all the time.

 A 2-hour meeting that starts at 11 a.m. will end at 11 + 2 modulo 12 equals 1 p.m. Analog clocks are implementing modular addition physically. Each hour that ticks by adds one with the hour hand. And the circular motion of the hands perfectly matches the modulo arithmetic problem. starting over when reaching 12. Now, as we saw when probing the neurons in our multi-layer perceptron, our network learns to form circular patterns in its activations.

Could these circular structures be solving the modular arithmetic problem in the same way that an analog clock does? The signs and cosiness we see computed by our model in its first layer could be part of this puzzle. If we put the output of our sparse cosine probe on an x axis and the output of our sparse sign probe on the y-axis of a scatter plot, we get a nice circle when we sweep through our input values.

However, it's not enough to learn a circular structure for x and y independently. Our network has to figure out how to actually add x and y together. Adding x and y may seem trivial for our model to learn. After all, neural networks are literally built from a bunch of adds and multiplies. But remember that we aren't actually passing in, for example, the number two or a direct representation of it.

Instead, we're switching on the input to our model that we have labeled two. The network cannot just use one of the additions in one of its neurons to add X and Y together. What happens instead turns out to be way more interesting. It is straightforward for our attention layer to add together the various signs and cosiness computed by our first layer.

 Our attention layer could easily compute cosine x plus cosine of y. However, that's still not what we need to solve the problem. We need to add together x and y themselves in our clock analogy. We need to add the angles of the clock hands, not the signs and cosiness of these angles. Let's return to the second layer of neurons in our multi-layer perceptron compute block.

Earlier, we explored how these neuron outputs changed as we varied a single input. Let's now explore how these outputs change as we vary both X and Y to see if we can figure out how our network is bringing these variables together. Again, visualizing the output of a single neuron. If we keep y fixed at zero and sweep through all possible x values, we get a familiar wave shape.

Now let's add another axis to our visualization and plot our neurons output now as we vary y. Let's explore all combinations of values for x and y. With this many points, it's easier to visualize our neurons outputs as the height of a surface where the color of the surface corresponds to our neuron's output value.

 Like many of the outputs we've seen so far, our surface is approximately wavelike. What combinations of signs and cosiness best capture this wave structure that our network has learned? As we did earlier, we can take a 4A transform, but this time with respect to both X and Y. Extracting our top frequencies, we can decompose our surface into a few key components.

This component is the cosine of x and this component is the cosine of y. This top component is the strongest and the most interesting. It's equal to the cosine of x times the cosine of y. So the strongest frequency component of our surface is equal to the product of the cosine of x and cosine of y functions that we saw computed earlier in our network.

Now, it turns out that it's more natural for our network to take a sum of signs and cosiness than a product. I'll put a note about this in the description. So, why are we finding a strong product like this in the middle of our network? And does this get us any closer to actually computing the sum of X and Y? Remarkably, it does.

 Let me show you one more thing. Let's go one layer of neurons deeper into our multi-layer perceptron and plot the outputs of a neuron in this layer as a function of X and Y. We see similar wavelike shapes here, but the wave is less regular and it moves diagonally across our surface. This orientation of the wave is really important.

Consider these top two crests where the output of our neuron is maximized. Let's move to an overhead view and look at the combinations of our input values that fall on these wave crests. The first crest starts at x= 0 and y= 65. Moving along our crest, we find intermediate values at x= 20 and y= 45, x= 40 and y = 25, x= 60 and y = 5, and finally x= 65 and y = 0.

All of these pairs of inputs add to the same value of 65. So this neuron fires maximally when x + y equals 65.In its own specialized way, this neuron has learned to add or more precisely this neuron fires for any pair of inputs that add to 65. Our second wave crest starts at x= 66, y= 112. From there it moves through values like x= 91 and y= 87 and ends on x= 112 and y = 66.

Adding these pairs together we get 178 in each case. Recall that our model is trained on modular addition with a modulus of 113. Our result of 178 modulo 113 is 65. So this second crest also finds pairs of inputs that add to 65. But how in just one layer of neurons do we go from products like the cosine of x times the cosine of y to actually adding together x and y themselves.

Here's the output of another neuron in the second layer of our multi-layer perceptron. The strongest frequency component here is s of x time s of y. Now each neuron in our following layer takes a weighted sum of the outputs of the neurons in our current layer. Let's consider how this weighted sum causes our surfaces to interact.

We saw earlier that our first neuron's output has a strongest frequency component of cosine of x time the cosine of y and our new second layer neuron has a strongest frequency component of the s of x time the s of y. Let's assume for a moment that the weight assigned to our cosine x * cosine y neuron is 1 and the weight assigned to our sin x * sin y neuron is negative 1.

 Visually, this negative weight flips our second surface vertically. Now, when we add these weighted surfaces together, the signs and cosiness remarkably interfere in just the right way to create the diagonal symmetry that we see in our neuron in the following layer that allowed our neuron to fire on combinations of inputs that add to 65.

As you may remember from trigonometry class, the cosine of x time the cosine of y minus the s of x * the s of y is actually a trigonometric identity. specifically a sum of angles identity that exactly equals the cosine of x + y. This identity allows us to convert the sum of products of s and cosiness into a sum of x and y, which is exactly what our network needs to compute.

 And remarkably, the network appears to have learned to effectively use this trigonometric identity to solve the modular addition problem. And remember that our training data is just these sparse patterns that have nothing to do with signs, cosiness, or trigonometric identities. The final unmbed portion of our model takes one more weighted sum.

 This time of the outputs of the final layer neurons in our multi-layer perceptron. Visualizing the outputs of a few more of these neurons, we see the same types of diagonal symmetries with various shifts and scales. Our unmbedding layer takes different combinations of these outputs for each possible token that the network could return.

 Here's the resulting surface for the seven output. As we saw with our multi-layer perceptron neuron that detected all combinations of numbers that added to 65, this surface reaches a maximum for all the combinations of X and Y that add to 7. Here's 7 plus 0. Here's 0 plus 7. And here's 3 + 4. So remarkably to solve this modular arithmetic problem our network learns to numerically estimate the signs and cosiness of our inputs computes the products of these functions and then uses a clever trig identity to create the diagonal symmetry needed to solve

the modular addition problem and then brings multiple versions of these resulting patterns together to compute a final answer. Now, can this detailed understanding of how the model solves modular addition help us understand why it gro? Let's watch the training process again, but this time while visualizing the evolution of the various structures learned by our model.

 After a few hundred steps, our model perfectly fits the training data. But we don't yet see any hints of signs or cosiness. As our model continues to learn, its performance stays flat, giving the appearance that nothing is happening. However, as we can now clearly see under the hood, the model is starting to piece together the relevant structures needed to solve the modular arithmetic problem.

This is such a wild phenomenon. It's very common to visualize training and test performance as a model learns. And when both metrics are flat for this long, the typical assumption is that the model is done learning and has settled into a stable solution. Neil Nandanda and his co-authors propose a clever new metric in their paper called excluded loss.

 Note that thus far we've been plotting the model's accuracy as it learns. And here we'll switch to plotting the model's cross entropy loss. So lower values are better. See my gradient descent video or chapter 2 of my new AI book for more on cross entropy loss. Now that we know that our model is operating in the frequency domain at a few key frequencies, what happens when we remove the information at these frequencies from the model's final output before measuring performance? Removing the 8 pi over 113 frequency that we found and plotting this excludedloss as the model learns. We see our new

metric dip down quickly with training loss, but then slowly climb as our model builds the sign and cosine representations. This excluded loss increases because we've taken away the model's ability to use this key frequency. And importantly, during this long period of flat training and testing performance, our excluded loss slowly climbs, showing that our model is making more and more use of patterns at this frequency.

Interestingly, Nanda and his collaborators show that groing occurs not necessarily when the sign and cosine structures are completed, but just after during a phase they call the cleanup phase, where the model actually removes the memorized examples that it relied on early in training. These dynamics are fascinating and explain very nicely why this model gross on this problem.

It's so satisfying to me that we can take apart this model, understand the actual mechanisms that it learns, and then use these mechanisms to design a new metric that clearly shows the model's slow progression from memorization to learning and that nicely explains the surprising groing behavior. This level of clarity is a beautiful and rare exception in modern AI, a transparent box in a world of black boxes.

The approach Nandanda and his collaborators use to perform this analysis is generally known as mechanistic interpretability. Since Nand's paper came out in early 2023, we've seen some really interesting progress in this field, but are still very far away from anywhere near this level of understanding of full large language models.

 There's some recent work from a research team at Anthropic that gives a nice feel for the current edge of our understanding using this type of bottomup mechanistic interpretability approach. The team studies how a full-sized model Claude 3.5 Haiku figures out when to create line breaks when writing. The team finds that the Haiku model represents the number of characters that it's written on a given line on a manifold in sixdimensional space.

 This structure is somewhat analogous to the loops that we saw in the multi-layer perceptron of our model. To figure out when to insert a line break, Haiku needs to know both how many characters it's written on the current line and how many characters long the lines of the text it's currently writing it need to be.

Using linear probes similar to the ones we used here to find the signs and cosiness early in our model. The anthropic team mapped character count and line length to this sixdimensional manifold and found that haik coup represents these concepts in this space in a very similar way. This 70 character count probe lines up right next to this line length of 70 probe and so on.

Now, this gets really wild when these representations are passed into Haiku's attention blocks. We see what the team calls a QK twist, where these helix-like geometries are rotated relative to each other in this sixdimensional space. After rotation, the probe for a character count of 70 is now closest to a line width of 75.

And we see a similar offset of four to five characters across the length of our curve. The proximity of these points in the model's attention heads leads to a high dot product when the model is about five characters away from the end of a line. The team goes on to show that there are multiple attention heads that specialize in detecting various distances from the end of the current line of text.

 And this mechanism allows Haiku to precisely estimate how much more room it has before the end of the line. Now, compared to Claude Haiku's full range of capabilities, deciding when to create a new line is very simple. However, it is exciting to see that the anthropic team found such a clean mechanism that controls this behavior in a full-size model.

The story of groing is such a nice arc of scientific discovery and progress. We accidentally discovered a new phenomenon and the search for an explanation genuinely helped push forward our understanding of model training dynamics and the inner workings of transformers. The names we give our discoveries matter and I like the name groing.

 It feels alien and originates from the complex Martian language in Highland's novel. The AI researcher Andre Karpathy recently commented that training large language models is less like building animal intelligence and more like summoning ghosts. You can think of a ghost as a fundamentally different kind of point in the space of possible intelligences.

The literal meaning of gro to understand something profoundly and deeply is a nice fit for what the model appears to be doing. But what I really appreciate here is the connotation of this thing being alien. I think it's a really nice counterpoint to overly personifying models. We communicate with these models in human language.

 But as we've seen, this is a thin veneer. If we go one layer deeper into what these models actually process in return, we find these absurdly complex patterns.As we build more intelligent models and learn more about how they work, it will be fascinating to see if these artificial intelligences feel more alien, ghost, or human. I am tired.

 So, this has been my first full year working fully on Welch Labs. Um, we made some progress. So, we did nine videos this year and we did one book. Um, and man, getting that done filled like every available second of time that I had. Um, for now on the business, I'm trying to keep things simple. Um, so really just focusing on making sure that the business and the channel work well enough to support my family and I.

 Um, I left my full-time job last year. Um, my goal is to earn as much from Welch Labs as I did from my engineering job. I was hoping to replace my whole income this year. It's probably going to be like 75%. Um, the book helped a lot, but there's always challenges. The business side is hard. Um, I've tried to do this full-time before, once in 2018.

 Um, I just didn't have enough runway and enough focus on the business. So, I think we're doing it right this time, but gosh, it takes time and man, it takes a lot of work. So, I hope you enjoyed what we've done this year. Um, a lot more of it next year. Uh, kind of working on the focus and direction for next year right now.

 Um, but I'm really happy with the book. I hope you're able to get a copy. I know we're not shipping internationally yet. That will be a focus early next year. I I promise. Um but yeah, what a year, man. Thank you so much for your support. If you are able to support on Patreon, that helps a ton.

 Or just liking and sharing the videos. Um thanks for a great year. I'll see you next year.

The CIA Iceberg Explained

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The CIA, according to my extensive research, that stands for Central Intelligence Agency. According to the internet, it's this secretive, borderline omniresent shadowy organization that's behind well, everything from assassinations to diseases to terrorist attacks to me getting rejected by every woman on Hinge.

 But is the CIA really that bad or are skits on the internet just exaggerating? The answer is yes. In this extremely short video, I'm going to talk about a bunch of stuff that the CIA has been involved in throughout the years. Allegedly. When I say stuff, I mean like coups, blackmail, secret experiments, assassinations, and uh weird sex stuff among other things.

 Now guys, I've done at least half a dozen hours of research for this, so hopefully this video will give you a better understanding of how the agency operates and [music] the scope of their involvement in world events. I got all these topics from this here iceberg chart, which I'll link in the description.

 And I know it's been a while since I've done one of these iceberg videos. If you're unfamiliar, it's just a long list of topics starting with the most well-known and ending with the most unknown. So, let's get started. Oh, hang on. I should go get that. >> I'm coming. >> Who the heck is this? >> Are you owner of a YouTube channel, Dantavius? >> Yeah, that's me.

 Who the hell are you? >> We got him. >> What? WHAT? WHAT THE YO. YO, [screaming] WHAT'S GOING ON? WHAT THE [ __ ] OKAY, GUYS. I I don't know what's going on here. I think there's been a huge misunderstanding. Whatever my uncle Reuben owes you, I have nothing to do with it. Listen here, man. Don't [ __ ] us. We know you're making a CIA video.

 All right. >> Yeah, BUT WHAT THE OH, [ __ ] >> SHUT UP. LISTEN. If you say anything bad about the CIA, we're going to lock you in a cage with a PD clone. Okay. >> What does that mean? >> Okay. >> Okay. What are you What are you doing with that bucket of water? >> Uh, you'll find out here in a second. >> WHAT DOES THAT KEEP HIS HEAD BACK? KEEP HIM BACK.

>> Oh god. Out of my neck. I love that thing. >> This [ __ ] towel smells, man. >> You like that, mother? >> Getting water on my shoes. Damn it. [ __ ] drowned, [ __ ] >> Hey, hey, hey. Where'd you get those shoes from? >> Don't worry about it. Drown. You got it ALL MY SUIT, BRO. IT IS WHAT it is.

 You going to talk now, mother? >> Huh? >> I'm going to I'm going to be very >> You're going to be very what? >> Huh? I'm going to make you guys look good. >> All right. If not, we'll be back. >> Please. Just don't put me in a cage with the Diddy clone. >> Remember that [ __ ] man. Remember that [ __ ] >> Okay. I swear I'm going to be very generous.

[sighs] >> You better be. >> Okay. I think uh it's recording. Uh hey guys. So, uh I just had a very nice chat with some very nice people from the CIA and uh they assigned me a handler and everything which is awesome. So, I'm going to be rewriting my script here and uh should be getting it done in a few weeks.

 So, basically, a black site is a secret prison that houses inmates. Oo. These inmates are not officially registered anywhere or charged with a crime, at least not on paper. The most famous black site is Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, but they have these places all over the world, including Thailand, Morocco, and worst of all, Romania.

[music] >> Honestly, the entire country of Romania should be considered a black site cuz living there is basically torture. Which brings me to my next point. If you read about black sites on the internet, you might find claims that the CIA tortures people in them, but that is simply not true. The US does not torture.

 Okay? We practice enhanced interrogation, which is completely different because it has a different name. Some of the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques include, but are not limited to, beating, waterboarding, isolation, sleep deprivation, and starvation. So yeah, definitely not torture. Oh, and that was just the more normal stuff.

 There's also something called rectal feeding. Basically, they blend up food and they take this tube and stick it. You know what? I'm sure you can guess what it is on your own. Also, I would not recommend googling that because it's also a weird fetish that I prefer not to ever think about again. And they would do this thing where they, and I'm not joking about this, try to make people go insane by playing the Barney and Friends theme song on a loop for several hours.

 Okay? So, just imagine hearing this for like 3 days straight nonstop. Oh, you thought all that stuff was bad? Well, just wait because I read somewhere that they make inmates watch several episodes of Franklin the Turtle. for good life. Okay, talk about cruel and unusual. Okay, by episode 3, I would be telling them every secret I know just to make it stop.

 No, but seriously, uh, a lot of people did die from these techniques, allegedly. What's even worse is that a lot of people who ended up inthese black sites were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Take for example the case of Murat Kaz. Murat was from the Turkish town of Bremen, Germany. In 2001, he took a trip to Pakistan to visit some moss there.

 On his way back home, he was arrested for basically no reason and was handed over to American soldiers. Apparently, the US Army had distributed a bunch of flyers promising people quote enough money to take care of your family, your village, and your tribe for the rest of your life.

 life-changing amounts of money in exchange for turning in members of al-Qaeda or the Taliban. As you can imagine, a lot of people were all of a sudden being accused of being terrorists. And Murat was just unlucky enough to wind up in Guantanamo Bay, where he experienced the following: beatings, endless solitary confinement, freezing temperatures, and extreme heat, and days of forced sleeplessness.

 Well, at least that's if you believe him. Personally, I don't think our friends at the CIA would ever do any of that stuff. This alleged torture lasted 5 years before Germany pressured the Bush administration to let the man go. Now, the CIA is funded by Congress. But here's the thing. The CIA does a lot of stuff that those schmucks in Congress would consider unethical.

 So using traceable federal money is not really an option most of the time. That's where the black budget comes in. It's simply off the books money used to fund covert operations that are on a need to know basis. The money is obtained in many different ways, but I think it's [music] best to give you an example.

 So, let's talk about the Iran Contra scandal, which in my opinion is one of the greatest uses of the black budget. Now, I made a whole ass video on this topic, but I'll briefly summarize here, and if you want to know more, you can watch that later. Ronald Reagan. >> Ronald Reagan. The actor. >> Yes. The actor. Reagan had a massive heart on for a group called the Contras.

 He loved these men almost as much as he loved jelly beans. At one point, comparing them to the founding fathers. >> I've spoken recently of the freedom fighters of Nicaragua. They are the moral equal of our founding fathers. >> So, who are they? In 1979, Nicaragua's USbacked dictator, Anastasio Samoza, was overthrown by a leftist group known as the Sandinistas.

 Now, Reagan was a big believer in domino theory, which is this idea that if one country becomes communist, it'll cause a chain reaction, and he wasn't about to let that happen in our backyard. So, Reagan did everything in his power to back the Contras who were fighting against the Sandinista government. Only problem is the Contras were kind of naughty.

 Okay? And when I say naughty, I mean uh they were committing several war crimes. Amnesty International went to Nicaragua in the late '7s and documented what they called a pattern of executions, torture, mutilations, and kidnappings by Contra groups. Some of the victims were teachers and even priests. Damn. Just like the founding fathers, bro.

 Remember when George Washington crossed the Delaware and just like murdered a bunch of civilians? Remember when John Hancock chopped off a guy's hand and his [ __ ] When this stuff came to light, Congress passed the Bolan Amendment, which essentially banned the CIA from helping the Contras and cut off all funding.

 But here's the thing. A lot of members of Reagan's administration didn't give a [ __ ] They were going to find a way to fund the Contras no matter what. And they used the black budget I was talking about. Since the CIA couldn't technically get involved, they found a way around that as well. This is where Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North comes in.

 He was on Reagan's National Security Council and he was also a big fan of the Contras. Oi came up with a simple two-step plan to fund the Contras. Step one was to get private donations, most of which came from Republican donors and also uh Saudi Arabia. Step two was to sell weapons to Iran. Now, you might recall Iran is like one of our biggest nemesises.

Nemesis Nemesis. Some people would call what Olly North did high treason, but you know what I call it? Good oldfashioned American patriotism and ingenuity. Ali recruited this guy named Richard Cord who started a private company that acquired weapons from the black market and sold them to Iran in exchange for freeing American hostages held in Lebanon.

 The proceeds from this weapon deal was then laundered through various offshore banks to the Contras. While all this was going on, the Contras were smuggling drugs into the United States to help fund their war against the Sandinistas. And the feds just kind of let it happen. But again, we will talk about that later.

 And it's [ __ ] insane. Okay, so stick around. Now, obviously, this stuff sounds very bad, very illegal, and should probably have left a massive stain on anyone involved at the very least. But pretty much everyone got away with it. George HWBush pardoned everyone involved once he took office. Now, let's bring it back to the CIA.

 On paper, it looked like the CIA had no involvement in these shenanigans. But Richard Secore, the guy who smuggled the weapons to Iran, admitted to meeting with CIA director William [music] Casey on at least three occasions to discuss aiding the Contras. Civil Air Transport was a passenger and cargo airline founded by American World War II veterans in 1946.

 At the time, China was still fighting a decadesl long civil war with the communists on one side and Chiang Kai-sheks nationalists on the other. [music] So, CAT helped the nationalists by distributing aid and ammunition and transporting the nationalist soldiers. But it wasn't enough cuz in 1949 the nationalists got their asses handed to them by the CCP which caused a bit of a problem for CAT.

Now that the war was over, they had nothing to do [music] and they were on the verge of bankruptcy. Luckily for them, the good old Central Intelligence Agency stepped in and secretly acquired them in 1950, which happened to be the same year that the Korean War started. CAT was rebranded to Air America and they even had a new slogan and let me tell you they definitely lived up to that.

 Let's just say after the rebrand the scope of their work went way beyond distributing aid. Air America was involved in a bunch of shady Cold War shenanigans in Southeast Asia from 1950 to 1976. All under the guise of being a regular civilian transportation company. They had bases all over the region from Taiwan to Japan and most importantly Laos.

 Laos was like ground zero for those cold war shenanigans I was talking about. In 1959 a war broke out between communists and the Lao monarchy. By the mid60s the royal loyalists were starting to lose ground because the reds were well supplied by the Chinese and North Vietnam. They needed a cash injection and they needed one bad.

 So like many other people desperate for money, they turned to a tried andrue method, selling drugs. This is when Air America stepped in. They helped the Royalists distribute drugs all over the place. I mean, to be fair, their slogan was anything, anywhere, anytime. So you cannot accuse them of false advertising.

 You know, I got to defend the CIA here, okay? It's like my uncle Reuben always says, illegal drugs are an excellent way to fund raise. So cut them some slack. Okay. Uh, funny thing is, as you'll come to see later in this video, this was not the first or only time that the CIA would facilitate the trafficking of drugs to fund anti-communist causes.

 Oh, and I should say allegedly. Okay, now I I don't really know how the word allegedly works. I assume if I say it in a sentence, it just makes me immune from getting sued. At least that's what my lawyer told me. But then again, he also caused me to lose custody of my kids and lose half my money to my ex-wife. I need a new lawyer.

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 And big shout out to Morgan and Morgan for sponsoring this video. A lot of advertisers did not want to touch this one. So, shout out to them. And uh let's move on to the next thing. The disposition matrix is CIA speak for what US officials have described as a next generation capture/kill list. The matrix database collects backgrounds, locations, associates, and affiliations for those on the kill list.

 It also contains strategies for finding, capturing, or killing them or subjecting them to extraordinary renditions, which we'll talk about in a second here. The process for determining who goes on the list is classified, but if you happen to find yourself on this list, it's only a matter of time before your whole village is drone strike.

>> Wasn't as precise as it should have been. And there's no doubt that uh civilians were killed. >> Alan Dulles is the reason that the CIA became what it is. He was instrumental in establishing the agency and served asits director between 1953 and 1961. Originally, he was part of the OSS, >> Office of Strategic Services, >> which was the CIA's precursor established during World War II.

 Now, there's not a lot of people in this world who I can say are more evil than my uncle Ruben, but Allan Dulles was definitely one of these people. His paranoia about the spread of communism was so legendary that it made him do some downright devious [ __ ] like collaborating with Nazis, for example. [music] Right before the end of World War II, Dulles made a bunch of secret backroom deals with prominent Nazis behind President Roosevelt's back.

 He offered to help them escape justice in exchange for their aid in fighting against the Soviets. Huh. You know, all of a sudden, his uh choice of facial hair makes a lot more sense. He was also the guy behind MK Ultra, a series of highly unethical and illegal mind control experiments, which we will cover up later as well.

 Damn, I'm doing a lot of subtle foreshadowing here. When the CIA was established in 1947, it was a modest agency focused on gatherizing gatherizing gathering and analyzing intelligence. But under Dulles, it morphed into a whole new beast. He believed that for the CIA to function effectively, they had to operate outside of the government without all that oversight.

 He also was not opposed to doing very evil [ __ ] in the pursuit of what he believed was the greater good, i.e. stopping communism. So most of the supered up things the CIA did were under his watch. >> The idea that uh it is necessarily nefarious, it's always engaged in overthrowing governments, that's false. Now there are times. >> I think it's established that the United States was not a big fan of having communist countries anywhere near us.

 So when Fidel Castro overthrew US backed Cuban dictator Fencio Batista, you can imagine folks in the White House were not very happy and they immediately started plotting ways to overthrow Castro. In 1960, at the behest of Dwight Eisenhower, the CIA began training anti-Castro Cuban exiles in Guatemala to invade and take back their homeland.

 But the plan didn't go into effect until after Kennedy got into office. In February of 1961, shortly after taking office, JFK oayed the invasion. But he wanted to make sure that it seemed like a homegrown grassroots revolution and not a US-backed coup. That's why the Bay of Pigs was chosen as the landing point as it was a remote area in the south of Cuba. Genius level gambit.

 Clearly, if the US was involved, they would invade from the north since the US is in the north. So, here was the plan. First, a team of bombers disguised as Cuban Air Force planes would fly in from Guatemala and take out Castro's two main air bases, leaving them vulnerable to a ground invasion. Then the main invasion force of 1500 men would land on the beach in the dead of night and launch a surprise attack.

 A smaller team of paratroopers would drop in prior to the invasion and using guerilla tactics would disrupt Cuban infrastructure. Then another invasion force would land on Cuba's east side to create even more chaos and confusion. The CIA was banking on a lot of people joining the exiles which would spark a full-blown revolution. absolutely foolproof plan.

Let's see how it all played out. On April 15th, 1961, the bombers left Guatemala and bombed Cuba's air bases according to plan. Except the pilots missed their targets and barely made a dent in Castro's air force. To make matters worse, photos were taken of the [music] planes and it was clear that they were just shittily painted American B-52 bombers.

 All right, not a great start, but there was still phase two. Two days later on April 17th, the ground force landed in the Bay of Pigs. They immediately got smashed harder than your mom on a Wednesday afternoon. I mean, they really got destroyed. In just 3 days, the anti-Castro revolution was completely crushed.

 This was an absolute embarrassment for the United States and created a rift between Kennedy and the CIA. JFK blamed them for the colossal up and forced Alan Dulles to resign. the CIA's power level would be nerfed after this, which as you can imagine, probably made them very upset. Upset enough to, I don't know, maybe do something drastic.

Also, guys, please take everything I say with a gram of salt. Obviously, I can't dive too deep into these topics cuz I'm doing so many of them. So, I'm probably going to have a lot of mistakes and generalizations. So, just consider this like an entry point. If you guys really want to know more about the CIA, I'm going to list a few books that I read in the description of this video.

Now, you guys might be aware of this, but there were many, many, many attempts on Fidel's Castro's life. After the Bay of Pigs, there was an entire wing of the CIA dedicated to coming up with ways to assassinate Castro. Some of these plans were typical, like poisoning his food or paying the mafia to whack him.

 But theboys in black suits quickly realized that Castro maxed out his luck stat and that all of their schemes failed. So, the assassination plots became increasingly Looney Tunesque. All right, here are a few of my favorites. When the CIA found out that Castro loved scuba diving, they tried to poison his wets suit. When that didn't work, they planned to put an exploding sea shell next to his favorite dive spot.

 Close, but no cigar. Oh, and speaking of cigars, they literally tried to off this man with an exploding cigar. Apparently, this plan was cooked up by Agent Wild E. Coyote. Oh, another thing they tried was painting a tunnel on the side of a mountain, hoping that Castro's car would crash into it, but that also failed.

 The closest the CIA ever got was when they recruited one of Castro's Gumas to poison him, but this plan was also thwarted when she ended up sleeping with him instead. She later told a newspaper that he actually handed her his gun and told her, quote, "You can't kill me. Nobody can kill me." Bro, honestly, I don't know if I agree with his politics, but this dude was cool as hell.

 You cannot deny that. You know, I I would I would rip some nitrous with Castro for sure. Aside from the assassination attempts, there were also a lot of plans to discredit or humiliate Castro, like the time the CIA tried to spray him with LSD, hoping that he would freak out on live TV and embarrass himself.

 By the way, they were doing this as recently as 2000. That year, a bunch of explosives were planted at a podium where Castro was set to do a speech, but uh his security team discovered the explosives before they went boom. Now, the CIA only documented a total of eight attempts on Castro's life, but the head of his Secret Service claimed that a total of 634 attempts were made.

 So, I'm guessing the real numbers probably somewhere in between. So, I submitted my MK Ultra section to my CIA handler and uh let's just say he did not like it very much and wanted me to put a more positive spin on it. So, here's my second attempt. MK Ultra was the CIA's super duper top secret mind control program.

 Not long after World War II, Alan Dulles was convinced that the Soviet Union and China had figured out how to control people's minds. >> At the end of the Korean War, a number of freed [music] American PS came home seemingly brainwashed and espousing communist propaganda. American officials suspected [music] that the soldiers had been subjected to what they thought were new communist mind control techniques.

>> So, the CIA decided that they needed their own mind control program, and it had three main objectives. One was to erase memories. As you can imagine, this is a very useful tool for espionage. Also, it's useful when you drink too much and poop your pants at a cabin in front of all your friends. Two was brainwashing, aka making people do or say what you want them to do or say.

That's obvious. And three, implanting false memories. These objectives culminated into the ultimate goal of the program, creating a Manurion candidate. You've probably heard that term thrown around before. It's just another word for a sleeper agent. Basically, an unwitting assassin. So, this Manurian candidate, this MC, if you will, would be brainwashed into whacking a specific target and have their brain discombobulated.

 So, their memories of being brainwashed and of assassinating the person would completely be wiped from their dome. And finally, they would have a bunch of false memories implanted to throw off investigators. Now, I think we can all agree that having a Manurion candidate is essential to national security. So, that's why Doulles recruited Dr.

 Sydney Gotautle to run MK Ultra. You know, under normal circumstances, I would call this guy a demon or a putts or a jerk, but really, he was a patriot and a genius. Galib was convinced that some combination of drugs, hypnosis, and psychological manipulation could create the ideal Manurion candidate. Under his watch, the CIA tried out every possible combination of those things.

 Got a particular interest in how drugs impact people's brains. So he started testing out a bunch of different drugs like peyote, measculine, nitrous oxide, but mainly LSD. Under his watch, the CIA would give people large doses of LSD without their knowledge or consent. [music] A lot of the test subjects were prisoners held in black sites who were given a ton of drugs to see how it affected interrogation.

 Now, of course, the studies weren't limited to just prisoners. They also included just random ass people. Golly was known in intelligence circles for throwing parties and spiking people's drinks with LSD so he could observe their behavior. Allegedly, one of his guests got so distraught after being dosed that he later jumped out of a window.

 I've been told that this is an unrelated accident and to not ask any questions about it. So, I will move on. Another interesting practice Gotautle had was recruitingdoctors around the US to give LSD to their patients, usually without consent. For example, if a patient signed up for a drug trial, let's say, these hospitals would just give them LSD instead of the drug that they thought they would be getting.

 Some of the victims of MK Ultra went insane. Some of them ended up becoming terrorists and others took their own lives. But some of them had a good time, I assume. In the end though, these experiments, which have been called illegal and highly unethical, not by me, didn't produce the desired results and the program was officially shut down in 1973.

 Now, I say officially because some people think that the project never ended and the CIA was only claiming they didn't achieve their goal as a as like a smoke screen when in fact they did figure out mind control and have been using it ever since. Oh, and another thing I actually found out that Matthew Santoro was [snorts] 50 amazing facts were used to there's probably like 170,000 videos deep diving into the JFK conspiracy.

 So, I'm not going to go too deep into it here. Go watch Leamino or something. So, after the assassination, there was this thing called the Warren Commission, which was an investigation into the assassination, and it concluded that Oswald acted alone. Well, one of the people on the Warren Commission was our boy Allan Dulles.

 Now, as we know, Dulles was not the CIA director at this point because Kennedy fired him. Some people have suggested that Dulles worked with the current CIA director to withhold information from the rest of the commission. For example, some information that the Warren Commission would have found interesting was the fact that the CIA had been monitoring Oswald's mail through HT Lingual.

 So Oswald moved to the Soviet Union in 1959 and the feds had been monitoring his mail ever since. they were at least aware of who this guy was and they knew what he was writing in his letters. [music] Yet, that information was withheld from the Warren Commission. The prevailing theory here is that Kennedy had a falling out with the CIA after the Bay of Pigs and he wanted to limit their powers, so they whacked him.

 And then this theory branches off in two directions. The more basic version is that Oswald was a decoy and there was another shooter in the grassy gnome. The more skitso theory is that Oswald was a brainwashed Manurion candidate victim of MK Ultra. Oh, and speaking of MK Ultra, this rabbit hole goes even deeper.

 You guys are probably aware that before Oswald could go to trial, he was shot by a guy named Jack Ruby. Well, according to this book, Chaos by Tom O'Neal, before Ruby was set to go to trial, he was visited by a guy named Jolly West. Don't let his name throw you off, cuz this man was a demon. Jolly West was a psychiatrist and researcher who was tasked with questioning and psychologically evaluating Ruby.

 Now, Jack Ruby himself said that he quote lost his senses when he pulled his gun out and shot Oswald and that he had no memory of what he did. Now, here's the crazy part. It was later revealed that Jolly West was literally part of MK Ultra despite denying it his whole life. Now, get this. His specific area of expertise was apparently implanting false memories or deleting memories in people.

 Something which he had supposedly done in the past. So, you know, do what you will with that information. Google, I refuse to say anything bad about them because, well, they are my boss. But maybe if you join my Patreon or become a channel member, I'll have more to say there. Maybe there's a longer version of this video on there. Maybe you can also get early access to my content plus other stuff.

 Might be worth checking out. I don't know. Link in description. Radio Free Europe was an anti-communist media outlet. I'll give you a guess who funded them. RF transmitted to pretty much every communist country. Their news varied from cuttingedge journalism exposing atrocities done by communist governments to straight up pro-western propaganda.

>> Peter Zavoy escaped from Hungary when he was 12. Now he's working for the people he left behind. He brings young Hungarians closer to the world their government censors. Information with a beat. >> I'm over here stroking my dick. I got lotion on my dick right now. I'm just stroking my [ __ ] >> Now, some of the leaders of these communist countries saw RF as a huge threat to their power.

 Specifically, Romanian President Nikolia Chosesu, who orchestrated the bombing of their headquarters in Munich. >> [music] >> Now guys, I cannot stress this enough. The CIA does not do kidnappings. They do not kidnap people. That would be wrong. What they do instead is extraordinary renditions, which is a euphemism for kidnapping, but it's not as bad cuz it's the it's a different term.

Extraordinary renditions are a policy of kidnapping a person from a foreign country and taking them to a black site for some good old-fashioned enhanced interrogations.>> Hello, this is Agent Green from the CIA sponsored SCOP YouTube channel dubbed Necessary Information. Me and the boys here at Langley took a look at Dan's original recording for this segment.

 It was actually so bad, so unpatriotic and unfunny. Really, just total hack [ __ ] I mean, it sounded like Matthew Santoro wrote it in MS Paint. It was so bad that we had to hit him with some extraordinary rendition to one of our Muldoven black sites and perform some enhanced enhanced interrogation directly onto his face and chest as is CIA protocol.

 Anyway, while Dan's rear end heals up from that, I've been assigned to tell you what really happened with Operation Midnight Climax. You see, back in the 60s, a lot of our agents were getting really pent up and aggro. They saw the hippies out there getting to have all the fun and unprotected in the mud while they had to sit there filing paperwork and torturing people all day.

I mean, not torturing, uh, interrogating, interrogating people. So, we decided to create a project to help them blow off some steam for the good of the American people. Operation Midnight Climax, a subprogram of our larger, award-winning, ethically non- monogamous operation MK Ultra. We started by setting up brothel in the disgusting, debaucherous, and homosexual hippie hotbeds of San Francisco and New York City.

 We offered these upstanding ladies $100, which is the equivalent to $3 billion today, for every John that they could lure back into one of our CIA brothel. Yes, a bounty not for collecting heads, but for G. We also assigned these girls the task of secretly dosing their targets with oodles of LSD without their knowledge before bringing them back to the compound.

 Once the gals had successfully lured this petty prostitute purchaser into the room, the John would sometimes notice the enormous, very out ofplace mirror covering the majority of one of the four walls. This, of course, made no difference to him, as by this point he was far too horny and drugged up to care, and was probably just excited to recreate that one scene from American Psycho.

 Now, unknown to him, this was actually a two-way mirror, some new technology that we had picked up from the boys over at Area 51. Behind the mirror was a secret room full of proud and patriotic CIA agents, as well as recording equipment, a mini fridge full of martinis, and a portable toilet so our boys could [ __ ] drink, and spy on some dude tripping nuts while nuts deep in somebody's daughter all at the same time.

 Why, you ask would we do this? Well, for science and national security purposes, of course. On the books, this operation was set up for the agency to study sexual blackmail, mind control, and the use of drugs and interrogation and psychological manipulation. Also, internet didn't exist yet, so people went to some pretty crazy lengths to get off.

 I am serious about the martini mini fridge and toilet, by the way. That wasn't a joke or exaggeration. They actually had those back there. We pride ourselves on accuracy here at Langley. Oh, and by the way, I'm gay. Now, sometimes our gals would have a slow night and weren't able to bring any John's back to our brothel, but our agents still needed to jack it hardcore behind that mirror.

 So, that's when we would switch to plan B. Our boys would go troll the streets near the compound in search of heroin addicts, who they would then bribe with some of the AY's near unending supply of heroin kept in the CIA heroin vault under the Lincoln statue in DC to take some LSD and then pork the gals in front of us.

 again for science and national security. Our brave agents would also often dip into the LSD supply themselves and of course would often dip their dingers into the agency's prostitutes as well. Activities all fully funded by you, the American taxpayer. So there you have it, the real agency approved declassified scoop on Operation Midnight Climax.

 I'm now getting word that the lowown commie loving degenerate piece of human filth cenamed Dantavius is finally able to sit down again. So I'll let you folks get back to listening to his teachings on our nation's great central intelligence agency. Agent Green of the SCOP YouTube channel necessary information signing off.

 Back to you Dan, you vile nitrous addicted Americahating piece of garbage. Franklin the Turtle is a national hero. You freak. You guys probably learned about the Watergate scandal in seventh grade social studies. To refresh your brain, on June 17th, 1972, five men associated with Nixon's reelection campaign broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters and installed listening devices so they could spy on the competition.

 These men were either straight up CIA agents or assets. Even though they all denied it and Nixon tried to cover it up, the truth eventually came out. Now, Nixon's ties to the CIA go way back. In fact, Nixon was handpicked by Alan Dulles to be Dwight Eisenhower's vice president. TheCIA would thrive under the Eisenhower administration in large part thanks to support from Nixon.

 Also, his nickname was Tricky Dick, which is funny. Once all of this shady stuff was uncovered by Congress, they passed a bunch of laws that effectively neutered the intelligence agencies. So post76, they had to be extra careful about not getting caught doing their borderline illegal and morally questionable covert activities.

 Or at least that was the case until a former CIA director became the vice president and then later president. Television. Is there a better way to spread propaganda than to subtly include it in your favorite movies and TV shows? Actually, most of the time it isn't very subtle. Plus, you have like zero media literacy.

 Now, there are several films that are confirmed to have ties to the CIA. These include, but are not limited to, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark 30, Argo, and basically any movie where the CIA is the good guys, and weirdly enough, Shrek 2. If you like any of those, turns out you like CIA propaganda, which is okay. It's fine.

Like, they make some bangers, bro. Also, I have no proof to back this up, but I personally think that James Cameron's avatar has to be a CIA scop cuz there's no way this piece of absolute dog [ __ ] should have ever been that successful. >> Unobtanium. >> Now, the CIA Hollywood connections go all the way back to World War II before the CIA even existed.

 Several filmmakers joined the OSS, the precursor to the CIA. According to the CIA's own website, these filmmakers were recruited to make moralebuilding films and war documentaries, aka [music] propaganda. The most famous example of that time was Cloak and Dagger, starring Gary Cooper. Whatever happened to Gary Cooper, the strong silent type who unwittingly acted in CIA propaganda films? Now, this all changed in the 1950s where the CIA preferred not to be mentioned at all in media.

 though they pulled away from entertainment media and instead focused their attention on manipulating the news. Back in his day, Alan Dulles recruited hundreds of US and foreign journalists as assets [music] and it was mostly to withhold information about his agency. This would change again in 1996 under the Clinton administration.

 and the CIA started directly working with film studios to improve their image, which as you can imagine had deteriorated a lot by that point. Bro, that's only the first [ __ ] layer. Bro, this is going to take forever. The Iraqi National Congress was a coalition of groups that opposed Saddam Hussein.

 This included Kurdish militia groups, fundamentalist Sunni clerics, Arab nationalists, and even people who wanted to restore Iraq's monarchy. Now, these are groups who under normal circumstances would never work together. Yeah, they all hated Saddam, but they also hated each other. But there was one other thing they all had in common.

 They were all being given money by the CIA. In 1991, George H. Dub authorized the CIA to create the conditions for Saddam's removal. So, they created the INC and supplied them with millions of dollars. Some of that money was used on sabotage operations like blowing up oil refineries. Don't know if it really helped much, but the group persisted all the way up until the 2003 US invasion, and it was a complete shitow after Saddam was toppled.

 A lot of infighting and backstabbing between all the various factions. Who could have predicted that? The story of solidarity begins in Poland. In the 1970s, Poland's economy was in [music] pretty bad shape. Workers were pissed. Things came to a head in 1976 when massive protests broke out after Poland's prime minister announced an increase on food prices.

 The protests were, of course, met with violent repression by the police. But this repression led to the establishment of underground labor unions. Here's an excerpt from a news story from back in the day. The Soviet Union attacked the leaders of Poland striking workers yesterday, accusing them of links with subversive centers abroad.

 And uh they were absolutely correct. They were being funded by the CIA to the tune of $12 million a year. And get this, the president of Solidarity eventually became the president of the entire country. The CIA denied funding it and actively hid their involvement by paying the trade union exclusively through third party middlemen.

 And uh Reagan really seemed like he enjoyed that, I guess, almost as much as he liked paying himself. After the Chinese Communist Party beat the nationalists, they immediately set their sights on Tibet. While not officially recognized as its own country, Tibet had its own de facto government separate from China since 1912.

 But in 1950, that would change when the CCP annexed Tibet in what they called a peaceful liberation. Not sure a military invasion counts as peaceful, but uh maybe they mean it like in the Orwellian sense, like war is peace type [ __ ] To be fair, China's initialinvasion of Tibet was pretty tame as far as invasions go.

 Like they killed a bunch of soldiers, but no civilians. So, I mean, really not that bad, honestly. But that was enough to make a point. The Tibetan government ended up signing an agreement that effectively brought Tibet under Chinese control while giving it semiautonomy and religious freedom. At first, things went pretty well, you know, because Tibet was a theocratic feudalistic backwater and China brought them some muchneeded modernization.

 But the CCP slowly started tightening its grip on the region and discontent started to grow. By 1954, the Tibetans engaged in full-on guerilla warfare. The communists responded by beating monks, bombing monasteries, and kidnapping Tibetan children for re-education. See, I don't like the sound of that. They should have called it extraordinary renditions instead of kidnapping.

 After these uh skirmishes, China went mask off. They took extreme measures to completely wipe out any Tibetan opposition. Over the next decade, 1.2 2 million Tibetans were either killed or displaced while thousands were put in labor camps. Meanwhile, Hanchinese were brought in to resettle the area. By 1980, Hanchinese outnumbered Tibetans.

Hey, wow. I think there's a name for that process. Forget what it is, though. Now, I don't know how much of this is exaggerated by US propaganda, but even the Soviet Union accused China of genocide. genocide. That's the word. Keep in mind, this was after relations had broke down between the two of them.

 Russia and China were both accusing each other of human rights abuses. It was kind of like the Spider-Man pointing meme. Anyways, let's bring it back. The CIA saw these struggles of the Tibetan people and out of an abundance of empathy and compassion, they decided to help them. The Tibetan resistance was supplied with tons of guns and ammo.

 Only problem is uh most of these guys were peasants who had never held a gun before. So the CIA set up a guerilla training program in Nepal. They also convinced them to participate in a bunch of operations that would benefit the United States, like stealing intel and attacking Chinese chemical plants. In 1959, things really started heating up and the Daly Lama, which was like the pope of Tibet, was called to Beijing by the CCP.

 The Tibetans, fearing that their religious leader was about to be kidnapped and and tortured or something, went into a full-on revolt. The CIA feared that if anything happened to the Dalai Lama, morale would hit the floor and the resistance would collapse. So, they helped smuggle him out of the country into India, where he [music] continues to live in exile today.

 The CIA continued funding the Tibetans by 1964, spending more than 1.4 4 million a year in Tibet until [music] 1972 when Nixon normalized relations with China. In 1960, Eisenhower already decided that Castro had to go. But after the failure of the Bay of Pigs, the Kennedy administration wanted to eat his leftist ass.

 I will eat your leftist ass like corn on the cob. I'm ready. So Kennedy authorized a multi- agency campaign to do the thing that the Bay of Pigs was supposed to do, destabilize Cuba and remove Castro. This whole operation was led by JFK's brother, Robert, since [music] he no longer trusted the CIA to call the shots.

 They were still involved in some capacity, but were now being micromanaged. Unlike the Bay of Pigs, Mongoose would focus on smaller scale covert operations [music] that could not be traced back to the US. Kennedy learned from his mistakes and decided to make plausible deniability the number one goal. So, a lot of these operations focused on using Cuban middlemen to attack civilian infrastructure like sugar refineries and power plants.

 Now, some people would say, "Hey, isn't that terrorism?" But I would have to disagree. It's not terrorism when we do it. Also, it's not like that many people died. Come on. I mean, at least not directly. The Kennedy administration also tried to destroy Cuba's economy by forcing other countries like Jordan, Iran, Greece, Japan, and Israel to stop trading with them.

 The hope was that the Cuban economy would completely implode and people would be so frustrated that it would spark a revolution against Castro. A fine theory, but it didn't work. All this ended up doing was pushing Cuba closer to the USSR. All of this schmuckery made Castro think that a full-blown US invasion of Cuba was imminent.

 Can you blame him? So, this along with the assassination attempts and the Bay of Pigs directly led to the Cuban missile crisis when Kruev secretly deployed nuclear weapons to Cuba and uh that almost turned the entire earth into a snow globe. So, yeah. Project Mockingbird was a CIA [music] wiretapping operation ordered by President Kennedy.

 It all started back in 1962. This New York Times reporter, Hansen Baldwin, apparently revealed classified information in an article, which really pissed off Kennedy. So, hisbrother, Robert, asked the FBI director, Jay Edgar Hoover, to tap that man's line. Hoover took some time away from his busy schedule of dressing like a woman and having with other to do that.

As JFK became increasingly more paranoid of leakers, this program grew from one journalist to several people. In 1963, Kennedy tapped the CIA to officially put Project Mockingbird into effect, which gave the CIA permission to tap the phones of journalists and figure out where they were getting their insider info.

 Keep in mind that the CIA was not allowed to do this at all. They were not allowed to get involved in domestic affairs. Not that that ever stopped them, but I mean, I guess it just goes to show that Kennedy wasn't uh, you know, as squeaky clean as we like to think. In 2011, the CIA set up a fake vaccination program to steal people's DNA so that they could find Osama bin Laden.

>> Holy crap. Did you just say fake vaccination program to try and catch Osama bin Laden? >> Yeah. In the early 2010s, the US was closing in on Bin Laden. They narrowed down his location to a compound near Abadabad in Pakistan. But they didn't want to just go in guns blazing and have a Pakistani version of Waco on their hands.

 After all, that would be a PR nightmare. So, we had to be 110% sure that this really was the place. So, the good old boys at Central Intelligence concocted a very normal plan. They paid a Pakistani doctor to organize a free vaccination program near Badabad. The aim of this was not to save lives, but to take people's blood so that they could analyze the DNA.

 The idea was that Bin Laden was hiding out with his large family. And I guess one of them would inevitably want to get a free vaccine for some reason. So using the DNA they obtained from these people, they would compare it to the DNA of Bin Laden's sister, which they somehow had, and they could use that to figure out that yes, he was there.

 This plan did not work at all. All they achieved was, you know, sewing a bunch of distrust in potentially life-saving medicine and undermining the credibility of vaccines. Cool. This is yet another case of the CIA allowing drugs to be brought into the United States. What the man? The French Connection was a drug smuggling operation run by a Corsican gangs out of Marseilles, France.

 They would smuggle opium from Southeast Asia and Turkey, turn it into heroin, and then traffic it into Western Europe and the United States. According to the CIA's own documents, most of the heroin consumed in the US from the 30s to the '7s passed through this network. Now, we already know that the CIA and its predecessor, the OSS, partnered with the mafia, but evidence suggests that they turned a blind eye to this drug network in exchange for cooperation in fighting the French Communist Party, who at the time was extremely influential in Marseilles.

Muhammad Musadig was elected prime minister of Iran in 1951. Now, Mosadig was pretty popular among his people, but he wasn't popular where it mattered. [music] in England. You see, Nosad committed the cardinal sin of nationalizing his country's oil industry, which had previously been controlled by British petroleum.

 Yes, the oil spill guys. BP tried to negotiate with Mosadic, but they just couldn't handle how based he was. So, with no options left, it was time for a coup. Winston Churchill basically gaslit the Eisenhower administration into believing that Mosadic was low-key working with the Soviets. Now, it should be mentioned that Mosadic was a proponent of secular liberal democracy, things that we in the US claimed to be big fans of, but back in those days, even a whiff of communism was enough to do a coup. So, Eisenhower gave the CIA

the green light to overthrow the prime minister. The CIA's man on the ground was a fellow by the name of Kermit. Kermit Roosevelt, grandson of Teddy Roosevelt. Now, on the surface, this man looks like aing dweeb. He looks like he speaks softly and carries a small stick. But this guy was an absolute demon.

 He was given a black budget of a million dollars, which was a lot of money back then. And let me tell you, it did not go to waste. Kermit had a four-point plan to take over the country. First was to turn public opinion against Mosadic. He did this by bribing the press to put out anti-Mosadic propaganda and by allying himself with the Islamic clergy.

 The second step was to have the Shaw dismiss Mosadic from parliament. Third was to pay mobs of protesters to riot in the streets and hope that Mosadic fights back, which would spark an organic revolution. Organic. And finally, they would declare a CIA asset as the new prime minister. Now, there was one problem with this plan.

 When Kermit asked the Shaw to dismiss MM, he said, "Are you out of youring mind?" Now, the Shaw was no fan of Mosadig, who had been slowly stripping away his power after taking office. But the King of Kings was no dummy. He knew that this would be a stupidly unpopular move that wouldlikely turn the Iranian people against him.

 But after a lot of uh convincing, intimidation, and a substantial bribe, the Shaw finally acquiesced. Now, step one went off without a hitch. The propaganda was flowing. But when they got to step two, that's when they started running into problems. Turns out that the Shaw was 100% right in his assessment that dismissing Mosade would be very incredibly stupidly unpopular.

Mosadic's supporters went ballistic and started protesting, forcing the Shaw to flee the country out of fear of being arrested or worse. So the coup was an absolute bumblot failure. But Kermit didn't give up. He stayed in Iran and continued doing blackmagic [ __ ] behind the scenes.

 And eventually he was able to sew enough discontent that a full-blown coup eventually did break out and Zahedi was able to arrest Mosadic and take his place as prime minister. The Sha quickly returned from exile and consolidated power. As a thank you for the US's help, he signed over some of Iran's oil fields to US companies. This was an absolutely genius level play by the CIA.

 And hey, it's not like they could have predicted that this would sew a deep discontent with the west that would eventually lead to a government whose catchphrase is literally death to America. The Bank of Credit and Commerce International or BCCI was a financial institution started in 1972 that operated out of Pakistan. Among US intelligence though, it had another name, the Bank of Crooks and Criminals, which to be fair could be used to describe uh pretty much every bank.

 But this one was even worse. Trust me. BCCI got up to all sorts of wacky stuff like money laundering, drug smuggling, funding terrorism, and worst of all, financing bootleg Nintendo games. bank provided services for a slew of shady characters like Saddam Hussein, Manuel Noriega, terrorist groups, drug cartels, and the CIA.

 Central intelligence got involved with BCCI sometime in the late '7s. The bank basically managed the CIA's black budget. Whenever something needed to be done off the books, BCCI would handle it. Like, for example, funding the Contras in Nicaragua often went through them. There's a whole another uh part to this. When the CIA found out about BCCI's other clients, they found a new use for the bank, collecting intel and profiling all the criminals and terrorists that worked with the bank. It was a win-win.

 They got to do illegal [ __ ] They got access to everyone else doing illegal [ __ ] So, if they ever got caught, they could just say, "Oh, well, we were only using this bank to keep tabs on all these other criminals and stuff." Which is exactly what they did in 1991. BCCI's illicit activities were revealed to the world.

That's when the American public found out about the CIA's involvement with them. But it blew over pretty quickly cuz the Soviet Union dissolved, which was a much bigger news story. Talk about perfect timing, huh? The Golden Triangle refers to this region here between Burma, Laos, and Thailand.

 The term Golden Triangle was coined by the CIA, not because the area was full of gold. No, no, no. It's full of sun. Much better. Sweet, sweet opium. Before Afghanistan became the biggest player in the opium game, the Golden Triangle was the place to get opio and opium accessories like heroin and morphine. So, there were a couple different ways that the CIA was complacent in drug smuggling in that area.

 After the Quuoman, aka the Chinese nationalists, lost the civil war, many of them fled to Burma and Thailand. And the CIA was hoping that they would hamper the communists if they ever tried pushing into those regions. But it turns out that the Quuomontang was much better at trafficking drugs than fighting communists.

 Now, that was only one leg of the operation. Another way in which the CIA was involved with drugs in that area was through Air America. Let me introduce you to the UFC. No, not that UFC. Not the one where the owner beats his wife, denies his fighters health care, and pays them absolute dog [ __ ] The other UFC, which is actually more psychotic, is the United Fruit Company.

 In the midentth century, they dominated the global banana trade, which somehow made them one of the most powerful corporations in the world. People really liked bananas back then. By the 1930s, they owned most of the land in Guatemala, which obviously gave them a ton of influence over the country. Between 1931 to 44, Guatemala's president, Jorge Uiko, was a puppet of the banana Empire.

 During that time, Guatemala basically had a feudal system, and most of the peasant class was made up of ethnic Mayans. Uniko forced a bunch of them to work on banana plantations and just generally treated them like [ __ ] Inspired by FDR's New Deal, a democratic movement took root and quickly gained steam. Eventually, most of the country backed the movement and Ubico was forced to resign.

 In 1945, the country held its first presidential election, which was won by Juan JoseArao, a university professor who had been exiled from the country previously. He was insanely popular and more importantly, he still kept a working relation going with the UFC. Arivalo, damn, I was saying, what the did I spell this right? Wait, it's Arivalo was succeeded by a guy named Hakopo Guzman in 1951.

 Guzman was much less moderate than his predecessor. He actually seized the UFC's land and redistributed it to the Guatemalan people, about 600,000 acres total. United Fruit was absolutely pissed and demanded that Guzman at least pay them a bunch of money for the land. But when he refused, he sealed his fate. The United Fruit Company went straight to their dad, Dwight D. Eisenhower.

 Now, let me tell you, the D stands for don't with the money. Eisenhower told his boy Allan Dulles to get to work. And the CIA created Operation Pey Success, which I believe stands for peanut butter success because, you know, peanut butter bananas. >> Peanut butter jelly time. >> Peanut butter jelly time. The goal of this operation was to overthrow the democratically elected president of Guatemala and to replace him with a handpicked CIA asset, Carlos Castillia Armas, who, if you couldn't tell by his mustache, was a literal fascist. The CIA

gave him all the money and training he needed to do a coup. But before the actual coup, the CIA spent millions of dollars on a psychological warfare campaign to discredit and demonize Guzman. And it [music] worked. In June of 1954, Armas, along with a small force of a few hundred men, plus CIA spy planes, invaded Guatemala and successfully took over the country.

 The rest was history. He made good on all the promises he made to the US government. 1.5 million acres were returned to the United Fruit Company, and he outlawed most of Guatemala's trade unions. Anyone who complained was made a victim of Armas' death squads. It wouldn't be long before a civil war broke out which led to a genocide of the Mayan people in northern Guatemala who were seen as siding with the rebels.

 You know, I'm kind of starting to think that a lot of these countries would be better off if we didn't interfere. [panting and sighs] Actually, no. I take it back. Regime change is good. [sighs] Chile 1970. Guy named Salvador Aende is running for president as a member of the Socialist Party. His campaign was financially backed by Cuba and the USSR.

Naturally, the United States could not allow this. So, they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars running a so-called spoiling operation, i.e. paying for anti-ende media and supporting his opponent. But that didn't pan out and Aende became president anyways. So, [music] the United States allowed the will of the people to dictate the country's future. Oh, wait.

 No, they did a coup. At least tried to. The CIA met with Chilean military officers to try and get a coup going before Aende could even take office. But [music] this also failed and he went on to serve as president. So, this is when the CIA decided to play the long game. Over the next three years, they spent $8 million or 59 million in today's money, slowly shoring up the opposition to Aende's rule, cutting off international aid, stifling their ability to take out IMF loans, and most importantly, giving money to anti-government military

groups. And it was working. The US had successfully done everything in its power to make it as hard as possible to run the country. Negative sentiment against Aende quickly grew. In 1973, the military launched a coup against him, bombing the presidential palace. Aayende ended his life before they could get to him.

 This is when a guy named Agusto Pinoche took his place. What happened next is the same thing that happens every time a democratically elected president is overthrown and replaced by a US backed strongman. A massive nationwide anti-communist manhunt. Tens of thousands of people were rounded up and thrown into internment camps. Not even celebrities were safe with popular folk singer Victor Java being killed in one of the camps.

 Pinoa's most infamous shtick was the helicopter rides. When he wanted to get rid of someone, his goons would load them into a helicopter, get as high up as possible, and well, sure, you can figure out what happens next. Now, I don't want to be accused of having an anti-penino bias here, so I'm just going to be fair and say that the helicopter rides were pretty fun.

 All of this stuff was being directly supported by US Secretary of State/demonic Hebler elf Henry Kissinger. By the late 80s, the Cold War started going in the US's favor and they tried to distance themselves from Pinocha's atrocities. In 1988, lacking support from both the US and his own generals.

 A referendum was held and Pinocha was removed from office. By that point, he ruled for 17 years and 38,000 people were imprisoned and thousands more were whacked. Back in the 80s, this guy right here had a monopoly on the cocaine trade. He was moving tons, literally tons of cocaine. So much cocaine.

>> You moved $900 million worth of cocaine >> or more. >> In today's dollars is the equivalent of $2.5 billion. But the real question is where was Rick Ross getting all of this cocaine? >> I was getting my coke from a guy by the name of Oscar Denilo Blandon. Oscar Denilo Blandon was heavily connected to the government of Anastasio Samoza. After the Sandinista Revolution toppled Samoza's regime, Blandon fled to the United States where he started his own business.

 Sort of a import export business. you know, he was importing a bunch of cocaine into the US and exporting a bunch of money back to the Contras. A lot of people didn't know about this until journalist Gary Webb wrote a series of articles for the San Jose Mercury News. He put out a three-part series called Dark Alliance in 1996, which established connections between the CIA, the Contras, BCCI, and Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, and the crack epidemic.

 Ali North himself called these series quote absolute garbage. And hey, if anyone's an expert on absolute garbage, it's the guy who illegally sold weapons to US enemies behind Congress's back to fund narot terrorist groups. When Webb put out Dark Alliance in 96, it should have made his whole career, but instead multiple news outlets made it their mission to discredit Web's reporting, which ultimately led to the San Jose Mercury News pulling the series and firing him.

Webb would then be blacklisted by pretty much every news outlet in the entire country. Okay, so let me give you guys a short and simple version. You can buy Dark Alliance as a book. I highly recommend you guys read it cuz it is absolutely nuts. Okay, so it goes like this. Manuel Noriega had pilots that would fly to Colombia and pick up cocaine from the Medí cartel.

 The planes would then fly to northern Costa Rica to Contracrolled air strips. The planes would then drop off weapons for the Contras and refuel before heading to the United States and dropping off the cocaine. [ __ ] now that I think about it, my dad did say something about my uncle Rubin taking a bunch of trips to Costa Rica in the late 80s.

Probably unrelated though. On the west coast, most of the coke went to Blandon, who in turn funneled the proceeds back to the Contras. Oh, and BCCI was helping launder money for all of these people. Webb also insinuates that it was impossible that the CIA and the DEA didn't know what was going on. Costa Rica was crawling with federal agents and CIA spy planes were constantly monitoring the airspace on behalf of the Contras.

 He also mentioned that the CIA was stonewalling local law enforcement when they tried to investigate Blandon or Rick Ross or anybody else involved. Now, a lot of people believe that this actually went even further, that the CIA was actively protecting these drug peddlers for years and purposely caused the crack epidemic so that they could destabilize inner cities and target minorities with unfair drug laws and policing. But hey, that's just a theory.

A conspiracy theory. That was I don't know if I like that bit. I might cut that out. Dark Alliance was initially met with near universal acclaim. Gary probably thought that he was in the running for a Pulitzer, but that would be short-lived. It wouldn't be long before almost every prominent news outlet in the country would come for his neck.

 The LA Times, in particular, went especially hard. They gathered a team of 17 reporters to write a hit piece on web that was actually longer than Dark Alliance itself. In it, they dissected the articles and listed every single mistake or inaccuracy they could find to try and discredit him. Now, keep in mind he was mostly right about everything.

 We know this in retrospect. Like, yeah, he might have used a lot of conjecture, may have made some inaccurate statements here and there, but for the most part, he was right. The San Jose Mercury News initially stuck by his side, but eventually they caved to the pressure and fired Gary. He was now a disgraced reporter blacklisted from ever working as a journalist in the United States.

Gary would later be found in his home with two shot wounds to the head. Now guys, I'm about to say something controversial. I think Gary actually did whack himself. I know, I know. I had heard about this story before and I always thought it was obvious that the feds got him, but that happened 10 years after he got fired.

Like if they were going to do it, I think they would have done it sooner, right? I mean, indirectly, yeah, sure, they helped ruin his reputation, which led to depression and ultimately his. But I don't think a guy in a suit walked into his house and shot him in the face, you know, like like that would actually beed, especially considering the CIA has access to a variety of poisons and stuff that would be way more subtle than a bullet to the head.

 You know, this whole thing is kind of like that bell curve meme where like people on the left and right both think he didn't whackhimself. Or at least that's what my CIA handler told me to say. 9/11. God, I hate talking about this. Reminds me of that tragedy. Also, YouTube doesn't like when I talk about it either, so I'm gonna go ahead and not talk about it.

 I I will talk about it on Patreon, though. You know, sorry to keep plugging it, but you know, link in description. This handsome mother sucker is Manuel Antonio Noriega. He was a dictator, human rights abuser, drug trafficker, CIA asset, and close personal friend of Bush Senior. Nora ran Panama with an iron fist while at the same time being on the CIA's payroll.

 During his reign, Panama was known as a narco kleptocracy, which is a cool way to say that he sold drugs and lived very large at the expense of his own people. At the same time, the guy helped the US government do a bunch of shady [ __ ] in Latin America. Though the US largely looked away when it came to that other stuff until eventually even they had enough of his [ __ ] and Bush invaded Panama and overthrew him.

 He went through the classic CIA asset to brutal dictator to getting overthrown by the US pipeline. Nora was recruited by the CIA while he was attending a US military academy and he even received intelligence training from the Americans. In 1968, General Omar Torihos Herrera took control of Panama in a coup. Norria put his training to good use and [music] cozied up to Torios, rapidly rising through the ranks and eventually being made the head of military intelligence.

 When Torios died in a helicopter crash in 1981, Norriga didn't waste any time in taking his spot. By 1983, he had complete control of Panama. During this time, there were a lot of communist revolutions springing up in Latin America, and Panama was seen by the US as a sort of bull work against the great red menace.

 Norria basically allowed the US to use his country as a base for covert operations in the region. He would pass information to the CIA and help supply anti-communist groups like the Contras. He would even assassinate people if the need arose. In exchange, the US looked the other way when he did naughty things like trafficking tons of drugs into the US.

 You see, Noriega wasn't just working with the CIA. He was also working with guys like Pablo Escobar. In a few short years, Noriega made upwards of a billion dollars in today's money from his drug smuggling enterprise. It was funny. At home, Ronald Reagan was ramping up the war on drugs. >> Drugs are menacing our society.

 They're threatening our values and undercutting our institutions. They're killing our children. From the beginning of our administration, we've taken strong steps to do something about this horror. He was supporting Noriega and the Contras who were funneling tons of cocaine into the US, which is kind of like [ __ ] in your friend cereal bowl and then promising them that you'll hunt down and kill the man who just [ __ ] in their cereal or something like that.

 I don't know. I failed analogy class in college. In the Gary Web section, I already talked about the links between the Contras and Noriega. But Noriega had a much bigger role than just helping them smuggle drugs. like he also offered to sabotage or assassinate Sandinista leaders. Like he was heavily involved with helping the Contras and and several other anti-communist groups.

 By the late 1980s, the US's relationship with Noriega fell apart faster than my relationship with my uncle Reuben when I found out he was sleeping with my ex-girlfriend. And it wasn't just because of the drug things either. The guy was genuinely batshit insane. He was really into witchcraft and even had a personal sorcerer who he used to curse his enemies.

 So, it was becoming more and more clear that Noriega was more of a liability than an asset. That was made even more apparent when the US found out Noriega was selling US secrets to Cuba while on the CIA's payroll. Plus, there was the stuff he was doing domestically, like beheading one of his political opponents.

 Things came to a head in 1990 when Noriega had completely canceled Panama's elections and declared himself maximum leader. But the man completely lost his marbles when he declared war on the United States. The US immediately responded by sending troops into Panama, bombing the [ __ ] out of the country. This was the biggest military action by the US since the Vietnam War.

 And they called the invasion Operation Just Cause, which is kind of badass. I can't even lie. Noriega went on the run. Disguised as a woman, he fled to Panama's Vatican embassy where he would remain as a guest for the next few months. Now, the US military couldn't just storm the embassy because that would be rude.

 Instead, they did something much, much worse. They tried to drive Noriega insane by blasting loud American rock music 24 hours a day for 3 days straight. The playlist they used is actually available on YouTube if you guys want to check it out. A lot of the songs are bangers. I'm not even going tolie.

 That ended after the Vatican called George Bush directly and begged him to stop this cruel and unusual torture. Eventually, Noriega was captured and sentenced to lengthy prison sentences in multiple countries for drug trafficking and crimes against humanity. The Syrian coup of 1949, the CIA had just been formed two years prior, and this was their first ever attempt at regime change.

 You know, historically, Syria cannot catch a break. In the early 20th century, they broke away from the Ottoman Empire only to become a French colony. In 1946, they were finally able to get their independence and held their first ever democratic elections. Shukri al-Qawati became Syria's first president. But as the Cold War was kicking off, Syria became a real pain in the ass for the United States for a few reasons.

 They were friendly with the USSR. Secondly, they refused to sign an armistice with the newly formed Israel. [music] And worst of all, they refused to let an oil pipeline from Saudi Arabia go through their territory. an oil pipeline owned by Chevron. So then the newly founded CIA came up with a plan eating a very simple principle.

 If you can't change the game, change the players. Alshukri had to go. But first they had to find someone to replace him. Someone who was not only power- hungry but also willing to make an unpopular decision on behalf of the US. They landed on Husn al- Zim, the commander of the Syrian army. Now, the level of the CIA's involvement is unknown, but what I do know is that on March 29th, 1949, Alzheime's forces marched into Damascus in the dead of night.

 The military occupied the parliament building, police headquarters, and the residence of the prime minister and finally the president himself. Telephone lines were cut and the borders were shut down. The prime minister was arrested and exiled to Egypt. Ozaiim immediately agreed to do everything the US asked.

 He would ban communists from the government, allow the oil pipeline to be built, and he even signed a peace deal with Israel. But unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, none of this stuff actually came to be. Al Zim was only in power for 137 days before getting couped himself by one of his own colonels.

 He was then executed via firing squad. The guy who took his spot, Sami Hawani, did the most horrible thing imaginable. He promised to restore democracy in Syria. Hinawi was also a nationalist who undid all the stuff Alzahim did for the US. The CIA realized they had majorly screwed up by not providing more support to Alzheimer. Oh, by the way, this guy would also be assassinated a few years later.

 Man, Syria really got dealt a bad hand. And there's only one man who can save it. >> In the 60s, Brazil was in the midst of a severe political crisis. Pano Cuadros took office in January of 1961. By August [music] of that year, he unexpectedly resigned. Literally, no one was expecting this. He like no one. In his resignation letter, Hano, wait, Portuguese, they don't pronounce their J's like that. I think it's Jio.

 In his resignation later, Jonno cited oult forces as one of the reasons. >> But that's what this is, you know, satanic black magic, sick [ __ ] >> In reality, though, this was likely a galaxy brain political move. See, Cuadros was getting irritated by all the political factions in Brazilian Congress.

 So, he figured that if he randomly resigned, they would beg him to stay in office so he could consolidate power. But this move ended up backfiring spectacularly when Congress immediately accepted his resignation. The guy had underestimated the amount of ops who wanted him gone. So, Cuadras was now out of office and there was a massive dispute over who should take his place.

A lot of people in the military wanted this guy, Jao Gulard, popularly nicknamed Django. >> Jango, Django. >> But others in the military were against him due to his supposed ties to communism. The US government started throwing money at opposition parties trying to weaken Django ahead of the presidential election in 1965.

 They founded media conglomerates to paint Django as a puppet of the USSR. Now, here's a fun fact for you. In 1965, the US government spent more on Brazil's elections than on the US presidential election. But it didn't matter. The US could throw infinity money at the opposition. Django was just that popular. The guy had a cool ass name.

How could he not win? >> Jango. >> The US was freaking out that the largest country in South America might become communist. And uh just to be clear though, the guy was not a communist. He was just like kind of neutral. and he had a few friends who were leftists. That's it. It wasn't like he was out there quoting Karl Marx or anything.

 But you know what they say, if you can't bait him, call him. The CIA had infiltrated Brazil's war college and started training officers to overthrow the government. Meanwhile, in Langley, Virginia, the CIA was drawing up plansto send in a covert military force to help on the ground. But it ended up not being necessary.

 The Brazilian military carried out a coup on their own. General Hberto Bronco ended the fourth Brazilian Republic and created a military dictatorship that lasted until 1985. In the initial years, this was the US's wet dream. He launched Operation Cleanup aimed at removing every labor union in the country.

 And you know, despite the initial uh chaos, the new government was actually able to stabilize Brazil's economy largely because of the US's overt endorsement. They received a ton of foreign investment and direct funding from the US which created an economic boom that lasted for a little while till it didn't. Similarly to his older brother, Robert F.

 Kennedy's assassination has been the subject of many conspiracy theories. Not as much, but uh still a decent amount. Now, this is the official story. In 1968, Kennedy was running for president. He was one of the front runners for the Democratic nomination. On June 5th, Kennedy was celebrating winning the California primary, which was huge.

 RFK was giving a victory speech to his supporters in front of the Ambassador Hotel in LA. But unfortunately, the celebration was cut short by a gunshot to the head. The shooter was Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian man who wasn't a fan of RFK's support of Israel, which is kind of weird cuz Kennedy wasn't even like the most diehard Israel supporter.

So, a lot of people thought it was strange that he would specifically be targeted when most of our politicians were getting Apac money and still are. At first, Sir Han said that he felt bad about whacking Kennedy and that it wasn't personal and just felt like he was helping the Palestinian people. But later, he claimed to have no recollection of the assassination at all, which led others to believe that he might have been a Manurion candidate.

So, we know that the CIA experimented with mind control. We know that they were trying to create a Manurion candidate. So the idea is that Sir Han was hypnotized into whacking Kennedy. And uh this isn't just some skits on the internet who believe this, by the way. Like his own lawyers argued this in court.

 In 2018, Sir Han was visited in prison by Donald Trump's health secretary, Robert Kennedy Jr. After a 3-hour long conversation, RFKJ said he was convinced that there was a second gunman and that Sir Han was just a distraction. So that's like the other theory. The motivation is the same as with JFK. Like the CIA didn't like him. They wanted to get rid of him.

 Anyways, RIP Bobby. You would have loved watching Kaisenat. >> Suck that [ __ ] till he 10 times. That [ __ ] all night. >> In 2011, the Syrian civil war broke out and several factions were trying to overthrow this guy. >> Listen, I know that the CIA asked me to speak out against him, but I I can't do it. I cannot do it.

 Okay? Nothing you can say to me will make me hate this beautiful man. Timber Sycamore was a secret program launched by Obama where the CIA provided weapons and [music] training for Syrian rebels. Now, this is probably the worst thing that Obama has ever done. Well, other than wearing that tan suit.

 The [ __ ] were you thinking, man? Oh, also like the bailouts for the banks [music] and the drone striking a [ __ ] ton of civilians. But this is worse than all that. And I'll tell you why. If you drop a metric [ __ ] ton of weapons into a war zone where literally dozens of factions are vying for power, naturally some of those weapons are going to end up in the hands of people who maybe we don't like very much.

 Now, there was a very complicated web of factions involved in this war. Look at this graph, man. This [ __ ] is more confusing than a woman's reproductive system. You got Iranianbacked militias, Russian mercenaries, Kurdish freedom fighters, US backed militias, and extremist jihadi groups. A significant portion of weapons ended up in the hands of the latter, specifically an al-Qaeda affiliate called al-Nusra and even worse, ISIS.

 You guys remember them? They're still around, by the way. Ironically, ISIS was created as a result of the US invasion of Iraq. Using the chaos of the civil war and their new supply of US weapons, ISIS was able to make rapid territorial gains. In January of 2014, they captured the Syrian city of Raka, which became the capital of their caliphate.

 So, the US had to shift from fighting Assad to fighting another much worse enemy, which we created. Now, ISIS was so evil that most of the sides of the civil war took a break from fighting each other to focus on them. Do you know how bad you have to be to get Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and the US on the same side? That's like getting me, my ex-wife, my uncle Reuben, Franklin the Turtle, and Hitler on the same side.

 Now, the Syrian civil war and the fight against ISIS caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, mass displacement, a refugee crisis, andirreparable instability in the region. Hey, at least Rathon and Lockheed Martin shareholders got some sick returns. Bangkok. Why would you name your city that? Despite its name, this has nothing to do with Thailand.

 The Bangkok plot was an attempt to overthrow the prince of Cambodia in the 1950s. Prince Norodam Sihanuk, probably [snorts] not saying that right, was able to secure Cambodia's independence from France. So, he was popular. In 1955, he abdicated the throne and became a politician. His party dominated parliament and he easily became prime minister which actually gave him more power than when he was prince.

 So this is where the problem started to arise. Sihanuk wasn't a rabid anti-communist. Now this isn't to say he was a communist by any means. He just wanted to stay neutral, which to Alan Dulles and Dwight Eisenhower was as bad as being a full-on Marxist. So, the CIA along with Thailand and South Vietnam financially backed a bunch of right-wing nationalists and encouraged them to start a coup.

 They meticulously planned how they were going to overthrow the government. And in 1959, it was finally go time. But Sihanuk got word of the plot and crushed it before it even started. Ironically, this led to him getting closer with Mao's China since clearly he couldn't trust the West. Many such cases, by the way. In fact, Western aggression against this guy led to Polepot taking over Cambodia, who was literally the most murderous genocidal dictator in history, or at least like top three Albanians.

 Are they even human? The juryy's still out on that one. During pretty much the entire Cold War, Albania was ran by this guy, Anver Hoya. I made a video about him, too, if you're interested. Also, I know it's actually pronounced Hoa. I just think rage baiting Albanians is funny. Shut up before I your [ __ ] your grandma twice. >> Now, when he first took over Albania, Hoa was pretty popular both domestically and abroad, as is often the case.

 But as the years went on, bro started to lose his mind. Hoja pioneered a new type of political ideology, which I like to call schizocommunism. He was such a fundamentalist that he thought every other communist country was doing it wrong. So one by one he cut ties first with the Yugoslavia, then with the USSR, and finally with China.

 His domestic policy was also completely dograined, fearing an imminent invasion from Yugoslavia or Russia or the US or aliens. Hoja had 750,000 bunkers built across Albania. He also stockpiled tons of weapons and ammunition while his people starved to death. Now, to be fair, his paranoia wasn't completely unfounded because for 10 years, the CIA along with British and French intelligence tried to overthrow him.

 The West was hoping to deny the Soviets access to the Mediterranean and also gain a foothold in the Balkans that they could launch operations from. The plan was to infiltrate Albania with anti-communist exiles that would build a covert resistance network made mostly of ex-Nazis and also Zagladites, which is the name I gave to supporters of the exiled King Zog.

 Just a little sidebar about King Zog. This guy was absolutely goated. He smoked 200 cigarettes a day and survived 55 assassination attempts. No idea how he was as a ruler, but either way, the British wanted him back on the throne. But the only problem is all of the agents they sent kept dying. About 200 trained insurgents were killed over the course of 3 years.

 Well, it turns out MI6 had a mole. A guy by the name of Kim Philby was secretly working for the Soviets and passing information on to them who tipped off Hoja's people. So yeah, this plan was a massive failure and only contributed to Hoa's growing paranoia that foreign powers wanted to take over his nation cuz I mean they did.

 That being said, the guy was a complete jerk. Okay, normally I'm not a fan of a CIA backed regime change, or at least I wasn't prior to being locked in this room and forced to make this video, but I think this is one of the rare cases where it would have been almost impossible to get a worse leader than him than than Hojo.

 This guy might be the only dictator with no fans. MK Naomi was a biological warfare research program that ran in the 1950s. It mostly involved coming up with new ways to poison people, but they also researched potential bioweapons that could be used on a large population. One project involved spraying the entire city of San Francisco with a quote unquote harmless but traceable bacteria.

Mostly harmless would have been a better phrase because one person did die and several others contracted UTI. The researchers who sprayed the bacteria concluded that San Francisco was vulnerable to a biological warfare attack, which is like, I don't really understand this. This is like if I threw [ __ ] at someone's face and was like, "Yeah, well, it looks like this guy is very vulnerable to getting [ __ ] thrown in his face.

" So MK Ultra basically had three stages.It started out as Project Bluebird, then the second iteration was Artichoke before it finally became MK Ultra. In 1951, Alan Dulles wanted to expand Bluebird and gave it a new name. Apparently, he picked artichoke because that was his favorite vegetable. And if that doesn't tell you everything you need to know about this psychopath, I don't know what else to say, bro.

 Like, artichoke is your favorite vegetable. What the [ __ ] Operation Condor was a secret alliance between a bunch of South American military dictators headed by Chile's Pinocha. The group also included Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, and many more. The goal of the group was to suppress leftist opposition and perceived communist threats through intelligence sharing, assassination, kidnapping, and torture.

 A lot of these operations were supported and financed by US intelligence. In 1992, a collection of documents now called the Archives of Terror were discovered proving the existence of Condor and the extent of the tom foolery. They show that around 50,000 people were killed, 30,000 displaced and 400,000 imprisoned over the course of Condor.

Raphael Trujillo. This guy was famous for changing the names of everything to his own name. Like he changed the city's capital to Trujillo City and then changed the name of the streets to some variation of Trujillo, which confused the absolute [ __ ] out of anyone who owned a car. He was also a prolific chubby chaser apparently and he made his son a colonel in the [music] army.

 His four-year-old son, hey, this guy sounds like a funny, eccentric guy. I hope he didn't commit mass murder. Oh, [music] so this man was uh not right mentally. Obviously, he wasn't very wellliked in Washington either, but he was a fervent anti-communist, so we put up with him. However, starting in 1959, the US's stance on Trujillo began to shift after Castro overthrew the Bautista government in Cuba.

 [music] You see, the CIA warned Eisenhower that the Dominican people rightfully hated Trujillo. So, it was only a matter of time until he got overthrown. The big fear was that Trujillo would be replaced with a Castroesque communist revolutionary, which obviously they couldn't have. The CIA started putting a plan in motion to replace Trujillo with another anti-communist guy.

 So, they got in contact with some of Trujillo's ops and smuggled some weapons in for them. On May 30th, 1961, Trujillo was leaving the house of one of his Reubenesque girlfriends and headed back to Trujillo City. On the way back, his car was intercepted by a group of eight armed men who proceeded to shoot his ass.

 The weapons they used were later found to have been smuggled through the US embassy. This should have been a huge win, except they ended up backfiring completely because the guy who took Trujillo's place was kind of a socialist. Whoops. Here's a fun fact. Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the entire world.

 In 1998, Venezuela elected Hugo Chavez as president. As soon as he entered office, he asked Congress for special emergency powers so that he could rip the Venezuelan constitution out by the roots to save the country. Basically, he spent a lot of that oil money on social programs. So, the United States quickly branded him a leftist dictator in the making, which I mean, I guess, yeah.

 The following year, people got to vote on a brand new constitution, which expanded presidential powers, extended presidential terms to six years, and centralized the two chambers of parliament into one. At the time, this made him even more popular and he was reelected under the new constitution with like 60% of the vote. But this popular support had some gaps.

 A lot of people weren't thrilled with Hugo's increasingly dictatorial behavior, so they started protesting. But even more serious than the problems at home were the growing tensions with the United States. Chavez was the only leader in the Americas who didn't sign George Bush's free trade agreement. [music] He also got a little too close with Fidel Castro there.

 But in 2001, he took things way too far when he condemned the US bombing of civilians in Afghanistan. So the NE, a civilian subsidiary of the CIA, started sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to opposition groups in Venezuela. Now, since Venezuela is a pro state, their entire economy is based on their oil reserves. Their state-owned oil company, the PDVSA, provided funding for, well, everything.

Chavez used the profits from the PDVSA to fund all of his social programs. And starting in 2002, the company leadership started to break away from Chavez and supported the ongoing protest against him, which really pissed him off. Chavez went on TV and announced that he was firing everybody involved.

 This in turn riled up the protesters even more and a massive mob descended on Venezuela's capital city. To make matters worse, members of the Venezuelan military had turned on Chavez and asked him to step down. A million people marched on thepresidential palace. Pro Chavez counterprotesters also started gathering and violent clashes [music] broke out between the two groups, leaving 18 people dead.

 Chavez was then arrested and taken to a military prison. The leader of the opposition, Pedro Carmona, would then become Venezuela's interim president. The first thing he did was suspend Venezuela's Congress, Supreme Court, and Constitution. Now, Carmona would go on to reign in Venezuela for the extremely long period of 48 hours. Yeah.

 The guy was in office 2 days before pro- Chavez demonstrators stormed the presidential palace. Chavez also had supporters in the military and didn't take long for them to overturn the coup and put him back in power. Now again, I can't say to what extent the CIA was involved with this coup. The Bush administration denies any involvement.

The only thing I know for sure is that they knew it was going to happen beforehand. Thankfully, this would be the last coup attempt. Oh, [ __ ] This is probably the funniest, most ridiculous attempt at a coup I've ever heard about. This right here is Nicolas Maduro, alleged president of Venezuela who took power in 2013 after the death of Hugo Chavez.

 Now, I'm saying alleged because we, the United States, do not recognize him. Now, I'm not going to lie, Maduro is kind of a huge jerk, but no one hates him as much as the United States of America, who recognized Juan Guidedo as the rightful leader of Venezuela. In 2020, President Donald Trump issued a $15 million bounty on him, claiming that he is a narco terrorist or some [ __ ] Now, the bounty was basically like Gold Roger talking about the One Piece.

>> You want my treasure? You can have it. Mercenaries from all over the world wanted to collect that sweet, sweet cash prize. But none more than this guy, Jordan Good Guudro, former Green Beret and current head of Silver Corps, a private mercenary group. On May 3rd, 2020, Jordan launched one of the most idiotic limp dict coup attempts in history.

 One person said it made the Bay of Pigs look like D-Day. Here was the plan. Two American mercenaries along with about 60 Venezuelans would launch an amphibious assault from Colombia. Once they landed, the group would split off. One unit would capture a nearby radio station and activate anti-Maduro sleeper cells scouted around the country.

 The two Americans would take over the airport and the final unit would arrest Maduro himself. Afterwards, he would be taken back to the United States and face justice. and Jordan could collect the bounty as well as a bunch of other funding that he got from random people to do this thing. But everything immediately went to [ __ ] First of all, Jordan's boat broke down, so he was stuck in Florida.

 He had to lead the troops via radio. But hey, that's okay. You know, it's not impossible. You know, he doesn't have to physically be there, I guess. But then another problem came up. The terrible weather made getting to Venezuela a nightmare. The men got seasick and started throwing up. Jordan tried telling them to go back to Colombia so they could reschedu but they misunderstood and kept going on as planned, [music] which turned out to be a terrible mistake because one of the boats ran out of fuel and was spotted by a Venezuelan fishing boat. The fisherman

contacted the Coast Guard who immediately swarmed the boats, killing eight Venezuelans and capturing the two American mercenaries. Damn, dude. No wonder Trump hates these fishing boats so much. Believe it or not, Gideon, which is the name given to this operation, gets even stupider. Turns out the whole operation had been infiltrated by Maduro the whole time.

 He knew it was going to happen. He knew where they were going to land. He knew pretty much everything about it. But it's not like Jordan was trying to keep it secret. You know, the schmuck literally tweeted about it as it was going down. Okay, this is a literal tweet that he put out. Dude, how how is this how is this an actual historical event that happened? Okay, so where does the CIA factor into all this? Well, one of the main guys involved in the coup other than Gudro was this guy Clever Alcala, who later claimed that Jordan was in the CIA and

that multiple intelligence agencies were aware that it was going to go down. And he wasn't the only one making these claims. But I highly doubt that's the case because the CIA apparently tried to warn Jordan not to go through with it on multiple occasions. Even they were like, "Bro, you seriously need to relax.

" Around 1967, Lynden Jumbo Johnson was getting a little worried about the anti-war sentiment brewing in the United States. He feared that these protests could snowball into a full-blown revolution. So instead of, oh, I don't know, ending the Vietnam War, he decided to set up a domestic surveillance program to illegally spy on American citizens.

 Johnson tapped the FBI and CIA who each set up their own ops. The CIA's operation was cenamed Chaos, focusedmostly on [music] infiltrating the hippie movement. Chaos pretty much had two goals. One, establish a link between anti-war [music] groups and communist governments. Two, destroy said groups from the inside. So [music] yeah, the CIA basically had a bunch of agents pretending to be hippies.

 So these guys whole job was to do drugs and have intercourse with hippies all day and occasionally report back some intel to the [music] feds. Under Nixon, the scope of the operation would grow cuz Nixon famously really hated hippies. Urkin Alkin is a oeer nationalist who advocates for an independent weager nation.

 If you guys are unfamiliar with the Weaguers, they are a white people who act like black. I'm kidding. They're a primarily Muslim ethnic group found in China. The CCP has been accused of widespread persecution against them. Uh forced labor, cultural eraser, and straightup internment camps. Now, this Urkin guy is the president of the World Weaguer Congress, which has been called quote a USbacked right-wing regime change network seeking the fall of China.

 Now, Urkin did work for Radio Free Europe at one point, which we know was backed by the CIA, so people kind of use that as proof that he still works for the CIA in some capacity. I don't know, man. Honestly, between the Chinese and US propaganda, it's hard to know what the hell is true. I hate to be the both sides guy, but like all these people are ret.

 On March 8th, 1985, a van filled with 400 lb of explosives detonated in Beirut's southern suburbs, killing 80 civilians and injuring 200. Most of them were women attending a nearby mosque. Now, the intended target of this explosion was Muhammad Hussein Fadla, a Shia cleric with ties to Hezbollah. The bomb killed pretty much everyone except him.

 Ah, yes, the Israeli strategy. Surprisingly though, Israel actually wasn't involved in this. Or at least not that I can find. You know who was involved though? Saudi Arabia. Oh, what? You thought I was going to say the CIA. Well, guys, luckily the House Intelligence Committee found that the CIA was not involved in this unfortunate event.

 I mean, yes, the group that carried out the attack was funded and trained by the CIA, but come on, guys. Come on. And yes, it is possible that this bombing was a retaliation for a previous bombing done by Hezbollah that killed US soldiers. The official toll now tops 160 dead and more than 180 wounded. The list of survivors, dead and wounded, is still being compiled, but the disaster is by far the worst since the Marines have been in Lebanon.

 Now, the CIA admits that these people were involved with the CIA, but that the bombing was carried out without authorization. All right, case closed. Bob Woodward, the guy who broke the Watergate scandal, said that he interviewed William Casey, the CIA director at the time, on his deathbed. And Casey admitted that the CIA was involved in the attack.

 I don't know how credible that is, a deathbed confession, but you know, just putting the information out there, I guess. Angola, it's a country in Africa, specifically right here. Also, they have a cool flag with a machete on it. This was the location of a two decadesl long proxy war. On one side, you had the anti-communist faction called Yunita, and on the other side, you had the MPLA.

UNITA was backed mainly by the US and South Africa, but also a bunch of randomass countries like Bulgaria, Egypt, Morocco, and weirdly enough, China. The other team had an even longer list of supporters including the Soviet Union, Algeria, Romania, Somalia, and weirdly enough, China. Apparently, after the Chinese Soviet split, China wanted to piss off Russia by any means necessary, so they kind of switch sides.

Honestly, kind of based. I'm a huge fan of switching sides. You know, sometimes I'll switch sides mid-con conversation. Now, one key player I forgot to mention was Kuba, who actually sent their own military to aid the MPLA. The US publicly denounced the USSR in Cuba for getting involved in Angola.

 Meanwhile, they were sending UNITA and other groups tens of millions of dollars plus weapons through US ally Mobu Seiko. [music] >> [cheering] >> In the end, it didn't matter cuz the communists won. So, we spent all that money for nothing. In the early 2000s, I'm going to move a little bit closer. In the early 2000s, the US became increasingly worried about Iran getting their hands on a nuclear weapon.

 The Clinton administration was desperate to get some intel on Iran's nuclear program, but that was shut tighter than a want to say a clam of some sort. I don't again bad at analogies. The only thing that we know for sure was that we absolutely did not want Iran getting their hands on a nuke under any circumstances.

 That's when the boys at Langley devised a brilliant plan. Let's give Iran the blueprints to build a nuke. Wait, what? Yes, the CIA literally gave nuclear weapon plans to Iran in what has been called one of the most reckless operations in the modernhistory of the CIA. One that may have helped put nuclear weapons in the hands of a member of what George Bush has called the axis of evil.

 So, here was the plan. The CIA recruited this Russian scientist guy who had previously worked on the Soviet nuclear program. His assignment was to pose as a greedy scientist willing to sell nuclear secrets to the highest bidder. But here was the catch. The blueprints included a bunch of flaws. The CIA thought that the Iranians wouldn't notice the flaws and would build a nuke based on those designs.

 When the time came to test the nuclear boy, instead of being met with a big, beautiful mushroom cloud, they would be greeted with the nuclear equivalent of a wet fort. Bit my tongue again. This humiliating setback would delay Iran's ability to get a nuke by at least several more years. But in the end, the only ones getting humiliated was the boys at the CIA.

 The flaws built into the plans were meant to be so clever and so well hidden that nobody would notice. But the Russian agent immediately noticed. So what did he do? He included a letter along with the blueprints telling the Iranians that there were flaws and that he could help them fix them. Why did he do this? question mark.

 Well, the CIA didn't tell this guy [ __ ] He had no idea why they wanted to give these plans to the Iranians. He had no idea why there were mistakes in them, and he assumed that the feds were trying to [ __ ] him over somehow. Also, he figured that the Iranians would find the flaws anyways since it took him like two seconds. So, he wanted to hedge his bets just in case.

 In the end, not only did we not get any additional insight on the Iranian nuclear weapons program, we also probably helped accelerate it by providing them with plans for an atomic bomb. So, I got pretty much all of the information about this from this book, State of War by James Ryzen. Again, check it out. The Onion Router or Tour is the main way people access the dark web.

 Honestly, I tried to understand how tour works, but I'm not autistic enough. All I know is that it makes it harder to track your internet activity. Speaking of which, you guys should protect your data using a VPN. Oh [ __ ] wait. I don't have an ad here. That was just reflex. I'm gay. Also, tour was originally invented by the Navy to be used by the CIA and other intelligence agencies.

 The FBI and CIA also have a bunch of honeypot sites that they use to lure people into doing something illegal so they can arrest them. Apparently, the dark web is no longer safe for criminals these days. Or at least that's according to this headline of this article, which I didn't really bother to read. That means that criminals now have to go on the darker web to do their illegal activities.

In 1958, a lot of stuff was going down in the Middle East. This guy, Abdul Al- Karim Kasim, overthrew the Iraqi Hasheite monarchy. Kasim, by the way, this guy's name is so long, like it's there's like 23 words. Anyways, Kasim became the new de facto ruler of Iraq. And over the next few years, he did all of the things we know pisses off the United States.

 First of all, they reached out to the Soviet Union and were somewhat friendly with them. Secondly, they nationalized their oil, which deprived the United States. To top it all off, Kasim explicitly allied himself with the Iraqi Communist Party. In 1959, they withdrew from the Baghdad Pact, a Middle Eastern version of NATO, instead signing a defensive agreement with the USSR.

 The CIA director at the time called Iraq the most dangerous spot on the globe. The same year, the US national security adviser assured everyone that they would do everything in their power to prevent a full communist takeover of Iraq. But all the information we have kind of stops here. We don't really know to what extent the CIA was involved in the events that are about to come up.

 But what we do know is that the CIA had spies embedded in the local leadership structure. So they were getting firhand accounts of everything that was going on there. They also were very public about their plans to overthrow Kasum. But again, the proposals are all we have. We don't actually know what they did or if they did anything at all.

 Over the next few years, Kasim or is it Kasim or is it Chasm? Over the next few years, Kasum slowly alienated a lot of the same people who helped put him in power, including the Bath party, which had been targeted by a wave of arrests. The Baisies were led by Colonel Abdul Karim Mustafa. In 1963, he launched a coup against the government and toppled Kasim and later killed him.

 This was great news for the US who immediately recognized Mustafa and started normalizing relations with Iraq again. The Both party then cracked down on communists, executing around 1,500 people with communist ties. Allegedly, the CIA supplied the Iraqi Foreign Ministry with a lot of names of people they wanted to get rid of, but again, hard to say if that's true.

 Now, Ishould mention that the most famous member of the Both party was Saddam Hussein. The same Saddam Hussein who would go on to be public enemy number one for the US. [music] Once again, many such cases. Operation Cyclone. I'm not sure why this one is so far down. There was an entire movie made about it. Charlie Wilson's War. Uh, great film.

 Complete propaganda fluff piece, but uh, still good nonetheless. In 1978, a communist government took power in Afghanistan. They did some chill stuff like giving women rights and banning child marriage. They did some not so chill stuff like enforced secularism and mass executing clerics. A lot of people did not like this.

 So an Islamist uprising broke out and the USSR responded by invading Afghanistan to back up their communist buddies. The US saw this as an opportunity to bog the Soviet Union down just like they were bogged down in Vietnam. That's how Operation Cyclone was born. The longest and most expensive CIA operation in history. like it literally holds a Guinness Book of World Records record.

 The US along with a bunch of other countries started covertly funneling a [ __ ] ton of arms and money to the Mujahedin, a coalition of Muslim freedom fighters. The CIA also helped train a lot of these Mujahedin groups. And these mujaheden, there were some some great people among them. One of them was Osama bin Laden of al-Qaeda fame.

 There was also Mulla Omar, the founder of the Taliban. Great guys. I don't see how this could possibly end badly. After the Soviet Union pulled out, some of the Mujahedin troops started fighting each other in a series of civil wars that lasted until 1996 when the Taliban eventually won and took control of the country. Luckily, it's been nothing but smooth sailing since then.

 In the 1980s, Libya was the dominant power in Africa. Their ruler, Gigachad Gaddafi, wasn't too friendly towards the US. Unfortunately for the CIA, at the time, Goat Dafi was far too secure in power to topple. So they decided to go for the next best thing. Speaking of Chads, Libya was in the middle of a war with its southern neighbor, Chad.

 Apart from the war with Libya, Chad also had a lot of domestic turmoil with multiple rebel groups operating in it. This made it fertile ground for a good old-fashioned coup. If the US couldn't overthrow Libya, they could at least use Chad to destabilize Gaddafi's regime. But first, the United States needed a guy, which eventually they found.

 This guy, Hen Habre, he was the perfect candidate, a chatty nationalist through and through. Didn't like communism, and he would do anything to fight off Libyan aggression. Now, our perfect guy also happened to be a complete psychopath whose most famous endeavors included kidnapping a French anthropologist and having a mass grave next to his house filled with his enemies.

 The CIA thought this was a charming fella, so they provided him with millions of dollars in funding. In June of 1982, he successfully seized power and became the de facto [music] leader of Chaff. As far as African dictators go, Habre was pretty standard fair. His rule was marked by political execution, mass arrests, ethnic cleansing, you know, the classics.

 The specific number of deaths isn't concrete, but estimates put it as high as 40,000, maybe even more. In one particularly brutal incident, Habre negotiated with some rebels from southern Chad and invited them to a reconciliation ceremony. They showed up to pay their respects. Habre had them all executed.

 And to top it all off, he also ran a sex slave ring. Okay, you know what? Maybe this guy was worse than the typical African dictator. Now, to be fair, the full extent of his crimes weren't known until after his rule ended. But even when it was still ongoing, people knew he was up to no good. Despite that, the US continued to provide him with a significant amount of material support and even sent liaison from the CIA to advise him.

 Actually, it was a little bit more than an advisory role. Chad had a bunch of Libyan PS because of the war. The US recruited them to create an army of counterrevolutionaries to oppose Gaddafi back home, plus you know, interrogation and all that. In 1990, Habre was finally deposed by another insurrection and fled to Sagal.

 Despite his numerous crimes, he didn't get a trial until 2015. He was finally sentenced to life in prison by the Seneagalles government in 2016. From 1979 to 1992, El Salvador was embroiled in a brutal civil war. On one side, you got the government of El Salvador, a military honta backed by the United States. On the other, the FMLN, a left-wing guerilla faction backed by Cuba and the USSR.

 To counter the FMLN, the government sponsored a bunch of right-wing paramilitary groups known as death squads. And they did uh exactly what their name sounds like. These squads would rove around the country murdering anyone suspected of aiding and abetting the FMLN. And it was brutal. If these guys heard there was a member ofthe FMLN in a village, they would roll up and massacre everyone.

 men, women, children, priests, didn't matter. It's estimated that 75,000 people were slaughtered by these groups. And keep in mind, El Salvador is like a tiny country. Craziest thing is, uh, most of them probably didn't even have much to do with the FMLN. Now, the most infamous of these murders was that of El Salvador's Catholic Archbishop.

 The US initially blamed his assassination on the FMLN, but that didn't make any sense as he was an outspoken critic of the death squads. A now declassified CIA document shows that they knew exactly who was behind it and kept their mouths shut to not hurt their anti-communist war effort. Now, the Reagan administration funded these death squads to the tune of millions of dollars.

 The CIA themselves claimed that they had no involvement in their actions, but they were at the very least kind of involved. A lot of these paramilitary soldiers were trained by the CIA in the arts of interrogation, intelligence gathering, and counterinsurgency. It was alleged that one of the top generals in these death squads was in regular contact with the agency.

While we're on the topic of paramilitary death squads, let's talk about the Phoenix program. For this one, we're going to leave Central America and go to Vietnam. The Phoenix program was the code name for a counterinsurgency force that has been described as a civilian assassination program. So just to give you a little context on how [ __ ] this was, the CIA director at the time, William Casey, had this to say.

 The Phoenix program was developed to bring some order. But during the mid 1960s, there was a great deal of anarchy and confusion. A large number of activities that went on there are quite frankly reprehensible. >> Yeah, you can say that again. So, Communist North Vietnam had a paramilitary group that had the goal of spreading communism to the South.

 They were known as the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, better known as the Vietkong. For some reason, a lot of these Vietkong guys were named Charlie, which kind of weird. It doesn't sound like a very Vietnamese name. The Vietkong were probably one of the most successful guerilla forces in history.

They were a real thorn in the side of the US. I mean, they were mostly like semi-literate, malnourished peasants, and they were making the most well-trained, well-armed, well-funded military in the world eat [ __ ] sandwiches for years. In addition to its paramilitary wing, the Vietkong also had a non-military political/ intelligence wing called the VCI.

 The main thing that the VCI did was infiltrate rural villages in South Vietnam to try and spread communist influence. They did this either by convincing the local leaders to join their side or by, [music] you know, old-fashioned kidnapping and murdering and then replacing them with someone more friendly.

 The Phoenix program was a direct response to VCI activity in the South. Unfortunately, the whole thing ended up turning into a complete shitow. So, here's how the Phoenix program or PP as I'll refer to it from now on was set up. First, you had these things called PRUS, >> Provincial Reconnaissance Unit. These were essentially gangs that would run around killing and capturing VCI members.

 Then the second part was the regional interrogation centers. This is where CIA trained interrogators would torture captured VCI prisoners for information which would then be used by the PRUs [music] to kill and capture more people. And the cycle continued on and on like this. So what ended up happening was that they were just killing and torturing a bunch of civilians.

 Apparently, the motto of the interrogation centers was quote, "If they are innocent, beat them until they become guilty," which is uh yeah, after being subjected to increasingly brutal interrogation methods, a lot of these people would just give random names to make the torture stop. And when I say brutal, I am not being cute. K.

 Barton Osborne, a military intelligence officer during Vietnam, claims he saw the insertion of a 6-in rod into the ear of one of the detainees, which was tapped through into the brain until dead. He also saw starvation and electronic shocks to both women's vaginas and men's [ __ ] Now, keep in mind, Osborne was accused of exaggerating, but I mean, pretty clear that they were definitely torturing people.

 It's just the extent of the torture that's debated. What's not debated though is that 26,000 people were killed as a result of the Phoenix program. Most of them civilians. Klaus Barbie. Despite his name, this man was not a hot blonde with no genitals. In fact, he was the exact opposite. Klaus Barbie was also known as the butcher of Leon.

 Now, you don't get a name like that unless you butcher a bunch of people in Leon, which is exactly what he did. I'm sorry, guys. I I ran out of budget to pay a writer, so I had to hire some guy from Muldova to finish my script. Klaus was an SSofficer and Gestapo chief in Nazi occupied France. He personally oversaw the torture and deportation of 14,000 French resistance members and Jews to concentration camps.

 Now, you're probably thinking, a guy like that deserves to be shot in the face. But instead, he was recruited by the US as a counterintelligence asset against the communists. Now, the main reason the US wanted to recruit this guy was so that he could share classified British interrogation techniques with them. Klaus had personally been on the receiving end of said techniques.

 And I guess it was super valuable to the CIC. >> Counterintelligence call. >> I mean, they could have just uh I don't know, asked the British, you know, weren't we allies? Did they even try to ask before recruiting a mass murdering psychopath? Klouse was more than happy to share these techniques, and we found other uses for him as well.

 By the late 40s, Barbie was living in West Germany and spying on French intelligence, which the US suspected of being in bed with the Russians. And apparently, he was a really good asset and provided the CIC with a ton of intel. But in 1948, the French had discovered that Barbie was hiding out somewhere in Germany and was working with the US.

 Now, obviously they were not fans of this guy and they issued a kill on sight order on him. When they heard that the US knew where he was, they requested him to be returned to France so that he could be turned into a stain on the floor. But instead of returning him, the CIC was just like, "We have no idea where he is.

" And then smuggled him out of Europe into Bolivia. Klaus Altman, as he was now known, kept himself busy in Bolivia, getting involved with Pablo Escobar's Medí cartel. He somehow also ended up working for Barrientos, the dictator of Bolivia who I mentioned earlier. He trained the Bolivian military in the art of torture and helped the government identify and stomp out any leftist movements.

 And the whole time he was sending intel to the CIA. And Barentos was not the only dictator that Barbie worked with. In 1971, after Barbintos died in a helicopter crash and was replaced with a leader that was a little bit too friendly with communists, the US staged a coup with Klaus Barbie's help. Bolivia's next leader, Hugo Banzer Suarez, was a personal friend of Klaus's.

 He was a rabid anti-communist who brutally cracked down on political opponents. The torture, disappearances, and murders would reach a fever pitch during his reign. For his role in the coup, Barbie was rewarded the position of colonel in the new regime. But the same year, Klouse would run into some trouble. Turns out that his cover had been blown.

 In 1971, two Nazi hunters were tipped off that Klaus Altman was actually Barbie. So, they flew to South America with a French journalist and eventually found Barbie. Now, I should mention that this journalist, Ladislas de Hooyos, was fluent in Spanish, German, and French. This is going to be important later. So, Lattis asked Barbie for an interview, which for some reason he actually agreed to.

 In the interview, he completely denied being Klaus Barbie and said that he only spoke Spanish, but the interviewer trapped him. [music] for [music] Yeah, bro was completely cooked. When word got back to France that this [ __ ] was still alive, they were pissed and demanded that the Bolivian government turn him over, which of course they refused.

 So Barbie continue to live in Bolivia under the protection of their government and also the CIA. Now, in addition to being a government asset, Barbie also had a lot of side hustles, like drug and arm smuggling. Barbie sold weapons to Pablo Escobar's Medí cartel in exchange for Pablo's assistance in fighting against communists in South America.

 So, Klouse made a lot of money from this arrangement, as well as a bunch of other illegal [ __ ] And that money went to good use. In 1967, Barbie worked with the CIA to track down and kill Cheg Guavara, who had been training resistance fighters in the jungles of Bolivia. So, Klaus Barbie became a rich man, and so did Banzer.

 The dictator had made millions from smuggling drugs into the US, which fortunately for him would lead to his demise. The US pressured him to resign as president, which I I don't know like why they were okay with Noriega doing this, but not him. Maybe he wasn't as chill. So after this, the Bolivian people were promised free elections.

 But when the right-wing party lost the election, it was time to scrap that whole idea. In 1980, Barbie would help orchestrate what would come to be known as the cocaine coup. But he wasn't alone. His partner in crime was a guy named Stefano Kiay, a neofascist terrorist who was also a member of Propaganda Dway. Oh, we'll get into propaganda dete later, but it was basically a fascist Freemason branch who secretly controlled the entire country of Italy. It's crazy stuff.

 I made a whole video about that, too. He also had ties to the CIA. Anyways, the cocainecoup was absolutely brutal. Radio stations were bombed. People were gunned down in the streets. Terrible stuff. And it was all funded by drug money, thus the name. When the smoke cleared, General Garcia Mesa was made president. The first thing he did after winning was he rounded up all of his political opponents [music] and had them all shot.

He then appointed Klaus Barbie as the head of Bolivia's internal security forces, which was basically the Gestapo again. It came full circle. But the gravy train wouldn't last forever. In 1983, Bolivia's government collapsed and a less Nazi friendly regime came to power, which was pretty much all she wrote for the Barb.

 He was immediately extradited back to France and tried for multiple war crimes. It was at this point that the world became aware that the American government protected Barbie along with a bunch of other Nazis. But hey, they apologized, so you know, it's all cool. During his trial, Klaus's lawyer had a pretty funny defense, saying that what he had done was not even a drop in the bucket compared to the war crimes that the French themselves had committed abroad.

 I mean, he's not completely wrong. In 1987, he was finally sentenced to life in prison where he would die at the age of 77. >> That freak. >> Hi, me again, Agent Green of the Scop YouTube channel. Necessary information. So, as Dan was editing his segment on the great, big, and beautiful Palunteer Technologies, we got a call from Peter Teal, uh, the boss man, Elfe if you will.

 Turns out he's bugged Adobe Premiere and saw everything Dan was saying about his company. And suffice it to say, uh, he was displeased. So, he has politely demanded that we here at the agency go ahead and kidnap Dan again and then double the Diddy clone count in his cell this time to really make sure that he's learned his lesson.

 We, of course, said, "No, that's a terrible idea, Peter. We need to at least triple it." So, we settled on quadrupling the titty count and throwing Matthew Santoro in there for good measure. Yes, we do have a Matthew Santoro clone. So, while Dan is busy with all that, I'm back to tell you the real straight skinny on Palunteer Technologies.

 By a show of hands, who has seen the Lord of the Rings trilogy? All right, for the few non- virgins left standing, the Lord of the Rings, so I've been told, are movies, there's a bad guy called Seumen or something like that who has a certain orb that he likes to ponder. With this all-seeing orb, the evil wizard sees all.

 It's basically the fantasy equivalent of the NSA, which by the way, [ __ ] those guys. Lameass nerds. Anyways, this allseeing orb was named Palunteer. So, way back in 2002, a young scrappy Peter Teal saw this maniacal allseeing orb wielded by the very clear evil villain of this film franchise and decided that that perfectly encapsulated the goals of his new company.

 You can even see this reflected in the logo for Palanteer with this little circle and squiggle representing the evil orb sitting on its evil stand. Likewise, Peter Teal also named the three Palunteer offices after Lord of the Rings locations with his California compound being called the Shire, his office right next door to us in Virginia, nicknamed Rivendell, and his Washington DC department dubbed Minus Tth. Oh, and also he's gay, I guess.

 So he he likes boys. Despite this fact, initially, for some strange reason, Peter Teal did not get much interest from the soft by boys of early 2000 Silicon Valley for his surveillance company idea named after a mythical evil glowing wizard orb. During the first meeting that Teal set up to acquire capital, the investor simply doodled through the entire meeting and told them to go kick rocks.

 And in the second meeting, the investor took the time to launch into a long tirade as to why their idea was very dumb, stupid, and gay and would never work. Peter then booked a meeting with us, the CIA, who promptly gave him $2 million. This was done through the CIA's venture capital fund, a very fun and unconcerning string of words called Inqutell.

 And let me inel you, our money really paid off here. Palanteer later split into two factions to focus on different revenue sectors. Palanteer Gotham, the one that we at the CIA use, which focused on selling its services to militaries, standup intelligence agencies such as ourselves, the FBI, [ __ ] also [ __ ] ICE, and various police forces, as well as Palunteer Foundry, which focused on the private sector.

 Both of these factions provided basically the same service in different flavors, data collection and delivery, with its main bread and butter being mass surveillance. We in the fine United States big brother departments use this service for counterterrorism, deportations, and what could be called predictive policing.

 Think Minority Report, that movie where that practice was was very good uh and ethical and turned out super well for everybody involved. The private sector also usesPalunteer Foundry to spy on both its customers and employees in their neverending quest to develop an infinite money glitch and forever raise shareholder value.

 So hopefully now you can see where the uh naming his company after an evil allseeing wizard orb came from based on their activities. Palanteer and Peter Teal himself have been embroiled in several blameless controversies and shameful witch hunts in the past that we won't go into here because the agency has deemed them untrue and unamerican.

 Peter Teal now spends his time pretending not to be the Antichrist by calling everybody else he doesn't like the antichrist and giving various Antichrist speeches to other powerful potential antichrist candidates. And that, my friends, is the agency approved Palunteer breakdown in a nutshell. Agent Green of the SCOP YouTube channel, Necessary Information, signing off once again.

 Now, back to suspected terrorist and known nitrous addict Dantavius. Please go check out my YouTube channel. It's uh it's it's actually not a sign up. It's pretty good. The Temple of Set is an oult uh cult, I guess. It's an oult cult. [sighs] God, I'm never working with this writer again. It was founded by Michael Aquino, a former member of the Church of Satan.

 Michael apparently had a disagreement with Anton Ly over the Church of Satan not being demonic enough. So, he branched out and formed his own group. The temple worships the Egyptian god Set, whom Aquino claims to have received a vision from in 1975. Upon receiving this revelation from set, Aquino's eyebrows curled up like the Grinch, indicating that he was now officially an evil sorcerer.

 Now, Anton Leave's Church of Satan was essentially just a edgy atheist group that pretended to worship the devil to dunk on Christians. But the Temple of Set, on the other hand, actually kind of did believe in that occult [ __ ] The group was also a lot more exclusive and elitist compared to the COS. Now, obviously, this group has been a lightning rod for conspiracy theories, and you'll see why in a second.

 During the 1980s, America was in the middle of a demonic crisis. There were widespread reports of satanic cults engaging in ritual abuse, child sacrifice, and pedophilia. In what's now known as the Satanic Panic, thousands of people were accused of being part of a satanic pedo network.

 It kind of all started in the 70s with the release of films like Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist and stuff like that. But by the 80s, it had reached a fever pitch. At the center of this mass hysteria were groups like the Temple of Set. Now, here's where it gets very interesting. Michael A. Aquino, the A stands for Angelo, by the way, which is kind of funny, I guess.

 Calabanga and whatnot. Anyways, Mike was, and stop me if you know where I'm going with this, an intelligence agent. But not just any regular old intelligence agent. He specifically worked in the psychological warfare division, meaning that the dude was a literal SCOP. So yeah, I mean, you can kind of see why there was a lot of conspiracy theories involving this guy.

Now, one of the theories is that Aquino actually infiltrated the occult movement so that he could spy on them. But that's the most normal one. Let's talk about the the more fun ones. Now, some people, not me, have said that the whole satanic panic thing might have been a literal scop, which I mean, it's not hard to see how people came to that conclusion.

 One of the most prominent Satanists in America was also a master of scops. To add another level of weirdness to this whole thing, we got to tie it back to MK Ultra. A big part of the satanic panic was therapists essentially implanting memories in people. There have been a bunch of books written about this that therapists would kind of inject false memories of getting abused into their patients, which was one of the main goals of MK Ultra.

 So, I don't know, man. I don't know what to do with all this information. You know what? This is all a joke. None of it's real. Just, you know, calm down. Just calm down. I think researching for this video is making me go crazy. Now on the flip side, Aquino himself was accused of child molestation during the satanic panic and it completely destroyed his career.

 He was under a monthslong investigation by the police and then he was in an even longer legal battle with his accusers. So if he was in on it, I feel like he wouldn't do all that. Maybe. I don't know, bro. Anyways, guys, that's the end of part one of this video. Part two I will be posting on my second channel, okay, in a few days.

 So go subscribe to that channel and go watch part two when it comes out. And you know, thank you guys so much for watching. [music] [music]