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The truth was out there—and they didn't want you to find it. Join us as we dive into declassified documents that reveal the darkest secrets our governments tried to keep hidden! From war conspiracies and illegal operations to offshore accounts and Nazi scientists, these revelations shattered public trust and exposed decades of deception at the highest levels.
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00:00Friday's release totals over 8,500 documents and includes phone messages, flight logs, and
00:05manifests. Welcome to WatchMojo. And today, we're looking at documents so shocking that the
00:11government tried desperately to hide them from the public, only to fail. Over time,
00:16that awareness of wrongdoing sort of builds up. The Downing Street Memo. Smoking guns can come
00:25in many strange and disparate forms. In 2005, it was the minutes of a meeting. Leaked to the press,
00:32the Downing Street Memo detailed a secret conversation among British officials in 2002
00:36regarding messaging strategies around the impending U.S. invasion of Iraq.
00:41Eight more documents from 2002 leaked to the Associated Press over the weekend,
00:47further suggesting that President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were determined to remove
00:51Saddam Hussein from power within weeks or at the latest months after 9-11. It revealed that
00:57Washington had already decided on war. The document shattered the public narrative that war
01:02was a last resort or based on bad intelligence. The U.S. and the U.K. governments knew the truth
01:08beforehand. The crucial question is why did they turn away? Why did the Bush administration turn
01:13away from Al-Qaeda and go to Iraq? Both governments downplayed it, but the memo showed the world how
01:19politics will shape the facts to justify invasion. The rush to war had been from the start.
01:26Operation Paperclip. The Cold War arms race began straight after World War II. As Germany surrendered,
01:33the U.S. and the Soviet Union secretly recruited the Third Reich's highest scientists, engineers,
01:38and intelligence officers. It sounds like the plot of a film drama, but it actually happened
01:43and on a large scale. Operation Paperclip brought more than 1,600 former Nazi personnel to America.
01:50Some designed rockets, others carried dark wartime records. Their knowledge helped both NASA and
01:57America's military and intelligence strategies. And the idea was certainly at the Pentagon and among the
02:04joint chiefs of staff who were really running this program was, if we don't get these Nazi scientists,
02:10surely the Soviets will. The U.S. also imported the Gellin Organization, a former Nazi intelligence
02:17network. Gellin was a key Cold War asset and a key intelligence partner in the CIA's early years.
02:23For decades, the government tried to bury both whom they recruited and how far they'd go to undermine
02:28the progress of communism. So this idea that you can just whitewash someone's past, I think is important
02:35to look into and to investigate so that that truth can be reconciled. CIA Family Jewels. When the CIA even
02:45keeps secrets from the presidents, you know they did something horrible. The Family Jewels was a 693 page
02:51internal report compiled in 1973, detailing decades of illegal and unethical operations.
02:57CIA America's spy agency has just released nearly 700 pages of declassified documents
03:03detailing decades of illegal activities. There were domestic spying operations on journalists and
03:09anti-war activists. They created multiple assassination plots against foreign leaders and
03:14performed drug experiments on unwitting subjects. Meant to stay buried, the report was forced into the
03:20open after Watergate compelled journalists and Congress to poke around in shadowy corners.
03:25There are people inside those agencies that want truth to emerge if it doesn't hurt national
03:34interests. The revelation sparked congressional hearings, public outrage, and new oversight laws
03:39meant to rein in U.S. intelligence. The Family Jewels exposed how far the CIA had gone to protect
03:45itself from accountability. There are all sorts of covert operations that people are now carrying out
03:52with the idea. We'll deny it. And then 30 years from now, when we're all gone, we'll admit it.
03:57The 28 pages. For years, one section of a congressional report was so sensitive, it was literally torn out.
04:04Dubbed the 28 pages, this portion of the 2002 joint inquiry into the 9-11 attacks was redacted completely.
04:12The pages were locked away for over a decade, fueling speculation that the U.S. government was
04:17protecting someone. When declassified in 2016, the documents were shocking, but not terribly surprising.
04:24Prior to 9-11, the FBI apparently did not focus investigative resources on Saudi nationals in the U.S.
04:31I continue to quote here, due to Saudi Arabia's status as an American ally.
04:35They confirmed multiple connections between Saudi nationals and several of the hijackers.
04:40They did not, however, reveal indisputable proof of official Saudi complicity. Still, the implications were clear.
04:47I think it's important to have a full investigation and an understanding of the role, the possible
04:55role of the Saudi government in 9-11. The revelations deepened public mistrust and
05:01revived questions about oil, alliances, and accountability. There are just reams of
05:06intelligence that are coming through constantly. Some of them are raw and not tested. Some of them are...
05:13And some of that may be in the 28 pages. And some of that may be in the 28 pages. I don't know.
05:17The Pike Committee reports. If the Church Committee exposed the CIA's crimes,
05:22the Pike Committee showed how deep the rot went. Seems to me like that's a classic definition of
05:27cover-up. Led by New York Congressman Otis Pike, this House investigation dug into the CIA,
05:32NSA, and FBI's black budgets and covert operations. Unlike the Church Committee's cautious approach,
05:39Pike's team went straight for the jugular. Congressman Pike uncovered evidence of assassinations,
05:44coups, and billions in untraceable funds. They found the CIA had plotted to poison foreign leaders,
05:51bug allies, and mislead Congress about secret wars.
05:54I don't think any member of this committee takes the position that the CIA should be abolished. I may
06:06be wrong. The report was so explosive that the Ford administration refused to release it,
06:11but it leaked to the village voice. It revealed not just abuse of power, but the terrifying truth that
06:17America's spies were often operating unchecked. I don't think the government has a right to keep
06:22secrets. No secrets at all? Not in peacetime. Of course not. They work for you. You don't want
06:26folks working for you keeping secrets from you. That's crazy. The Panama Papers. It started with
06:30a single anonymous message. Hello, this is John Doe. Interested in data? What followed was one of the
06:37biggest leaks in human history. In 2016, journalists exposed the Panama Papers, 11.5 million files from the
06:45law firm Mossack Fonseca. Mossack Fonseca say the services they provide are commonly used worldwide
06:52and they are responsible members of the global financial and business community. The world learned
06:58the specifics of how the global elite hid trillions in offshore accounts and shell companies. But as
07:04crazy as the structures behind anti-overseas might seem, they are entirely legal in Panama. The documents
07:10stretched back to the 1970s, implicating world leaders, billionaires, drug cartels, and even
07:16FIFA officials. An amazing story, potentially an earthquake. Governments scrambled, protests erupted,
07:22and the prime ministers of Iceland and Pakistan resigned. The leak exposed a hidden world where,
07:28for decades, the rich and powerful had bought the system.
07:32The NSA Black Budget When Edward Snowden blew the
07:45whistle in 2013, he brought the world's attention to NSA's mass surveillance. Among the leaks was the
07:52existence of PRISM, a surveillance system that tapped tech giants like Google and Facebook to collect user
07:59data. PRISM is about content. It's a program through which the government could compel corporate
08:07America. It could sort of deputize corporate America to do its dirty work for the NSA. The documents
08:15showed just how far the U.S. would go to spy on its own allies and citizens. What received less attention,
08:21though, was the money trail. The Black Budget detailed how over 52 billion dollars in taxpayer money was
08:27funneled each year into hidden intelligence programs. It shows that the budget in its entirety tops 52
08:35billion dollars a year with the biggest share, more than 14 billion going to the CIA. The scope of
08:41three-letter agencies' Black Book programs was massive. Those paying attention to this less flashy
08:47part of Snowden's revelations were disgusted. People will see in the media all of these disclosures.
08:54They'll know the lengths that the government is going to grant themselves powers unilaterally
09:03to create greater control over American society and global society.
09:09The Nixon tapes. Sometimes the cover-up really is worse than the crime. Between 1971 and 73,
09:16President Richard Nixon secretly recorded more than 3,700 hours of conversations.
09:21He taped virtually everywhere he went, from the White House to Camp David. Meant to preserve his
09:35legacy, the tapes ironically destroyed it instead. Where investigators uncovered their existence during
09:41the Watergate scandal, Nixon fought to keep them hidden. His argument of executive privilege fell flat
09:47at the Supreme Court. Once released, once released, the recordings revealed corruption, political sabotage,
09:53and attempts to obstruct justice.
09:58The most infamous recording dubbed, The Smoking Gun Tape, sealed his downfall.
10:02With the new transcripts, the President issued a written statement of his own.
10:06In it, he acknowledges that what the transcripts say is, as Mr. Nixon puts it,
10:11at variance with what he told the American people on other occasions.
10:15The world heard a President weaponizing power to crush his enemies. In 1974, Nixon resigned.
10:21May God's grace be with you in all the days ahead.
10:28The Pentagon Papers. The Vietnam War unraveled both on the battlefield and in Washington. In 1971,
10:35military analyst Daniel Ellsberg leaked a 7,000-page report that changed everything.
10:41I can no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public.
10:46U.S. Presidents had lied to both Congress and the American people about the U.S. role in Vietnam.
10:52The Pentagon Papers exposed secret bombings, false optimism, and plans for escalation long after
10:58officials promised peace. The Nixon administration sued to stop The New York Times from publishing.
11:03The Times called its lawyers. The lawyers came over and said,
11:08we won't represent you. The case quickly reached the Supreme Court,
11:12which ruled in favor of the free press. The papers revealed shocking government deception,
11:16marking the very moment Americans stopped taking their leaders at their word.
11:21I was struck, in fact, by President Johnson's reaction to these
11:24revelations as close to treason, because it reflected to me the sense that what was damaging
11:30to the reputation of a particular administration, a particular individual, was in itself treason,
11:36which is very close to saying, I am the state.
11:39The Epstein list. In 2019, financier Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on suspicion of running an elaborate
12:02sex trafficking operation. The number of girls that have been put into therapy because of this
12:07one individual or this group of individuals is just astronomical. He took his own life a month
12:12later in a Manhattan jail cell. But what followed was even murkier. There have been years of speculation
12:19over his network of powerful associates. It's really a Democrat hoax because they're trying to get
12:25people to talk about something that's totally irrelevant. Court filings and unsealed records revealed a web of
12:30billionaires, royals, politicians, and scientists. Some were accused of terrible crimes and others
12:37were merely connected. The Epstein list became shorthand for elite protection, including sealed
12:43evidence, name redactions, and uncharged co-conspirator. Why did some of the most powerful men in the world
12:51flock to him? What was Bill Gates doing around Jeffrey Epstein? One key witness, Ghislaine Maxwell,
12:59was the only one convicted of a crime. For all the revelations, much of the truth remains sealed in
13:05federal files. We now know so much more that there is so much public scrutiny on this that the wheels
13:12of justice will turn in a way that they definitely didn't for a very long time. What do you think is
13:20the darkest file to be brought out of the shadows? Drop your theories in the comments below before they
13:26mysteriously disappear.
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