016 - Conspiracy

1. Project Jennifer Howard Hughes told the world he built the giant barge Glomar Explorer for undersea mining. In fact it was designed in conjunction with the CIA in order to raise a sunken Russian submarine holding nuclear warheads. The mission was not entirely successful.

2. Operation Mincemeat During WW2, British Naval Intelligence threw a dead body into the ocean off the coast of Nazi occupied Spain. What the Germans learned from the papers carried by the dead man contributed to their eventual defeat.

3. Lord of Light Ex-CIA operative Antonio Mendez explains how a fake Hollywood movie based on Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light allowed hostages to be removed from Iran. A clip from Eroll Morris' great documentary series, First Person.

4. Them Author Jon Ronson has spent a lot of time hanging around with extremists, from the Taliban to the Klan. Even with all their different beliefs, these people shares one thing in common; hatred of the Bilderberg Group, an elite bunch of world leaders that meets once a year to decide the fates of the rest of us.

5. MKultra From 1950 to 1975, the US government performed thousands of illegal experiments on its own citizens. The were trying to develop a real life "Manchurian Candidate" using hypnosis, psychiatry and hallucinogenic drugs. If this article is a bit dry and tough to get through, try this Damn Interesting one on Operation Midnight Climax. <