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Some secrets were buried for a reason — and what's inside these files is genuinely disturbing. Join us as we count down the creepiest discoveries exposed after classified government documents were finally made public, from chilling mind control experiments to shocking programs that targeted innocent civilians!
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00:00Operation Midnight Climax was a CIA-funded program where they dosed up Johns.
00:06Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at the spine-chilling discoveries
00:10exposed by declassified files, sealed records, and secrets that were never meant to get out.
00:15They kept you asleep for 23 days, and while I was asleep,
00:20they were shocking the heck out of me with electric shocks.
00:23A global web of elite access, the 2026 Epstein Files drop.
00:27The unsettling part of the 2026 Epstein Files release was not that Jeffrey Epstein knew powerful people.
00:32That was already well-established.
00:34It was the sheer scale of what the Justice Department suddenly pushed into public view.
00:38On January 30, 2026, DOJ released more than 3 million pages,
00:42along with 2,000 videos and 180,000 images tied to the Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell investigations.
00:48In February, the rollout itself became controversial,
00:50with concerns over redactions and the exposure of women whose identities were supposed to be protected.
00:54Lawyers had submitted a letter earlier this week saying that they needed the Justice Department
00:59to resolve these issues and remove any identifying information.
01:04You'll remember that there were a plethora of material of names, photos,
01:08other identifying information that was not redacted properly.
01:11They have a list of 350 survivors' names, and they want that material corrected.
01:16Fallout affected nearly 100 women, while the Justice Department also reviewed
01:19whether some Epstein-related records had been improperly withheld.
01:22In other words, even years after Epstein's death,
01:25the case still looked chaotic and complete and disturbingly mishandled.
01:28I feel like that's a fear for all of us along this whole process,
01:32is no matter how much we get released,
01:35is there always going to be something that wasn't released,
01:39or handled, or corrected, or followed up on.
01:43A toxic legacy passed through generations.
01:45Agent Orange.
01:46The family are certain they are victims of a chemical curse from the war their father fought decades ago.
01:53From 1962 to 1971, the U.S. military sprayed nearly 19 million gallons of herbicides
01:59over Vietnam under Operation Ranch Hand,
02:02including at least 11 million gallons of Agent Orange.
02:04The goal was military.
02:06Strip away jungle cover, expose enemy positions, and wreck crops.
02:09But the consequences didn't stay in the war zone,
02:11and they didn't end when the fighting did.
02:13Agent Orange was contaminated with TCDD-Dioxin,
02:16an extremely toxic compound,
02:17and over time the health fallout became impossible to ignore.
02:20There was nothing like this in our families before,
02:22and yet I've had three children and two of them have suffered very severely.
02:26I think only Agent Orange can be blamed for our children's conditions.
02:30Veterans reported cancers, diabetes, nerve damage, Parkinson's disease, and other serious illnesses.
02:35The Department of Veterans Affairs now recognizes a long list of presumptive conditions tied to exposure,
02:40and it also recognizes spina bifida in certain biological children of exposed Vietnam veterans.
02:45At a table in his Northside Youngstown home,
02:47Fred Marshall today retold the story of his years during the Vietnam War,
02:52where he was based in Thailand, which was often sprayed with Agent Orange.
02:56Trafficking in the shadows of U.S. intelligence, CIA covert operations.
03:00Who's the Dark Alliance with?
03:02The Dark Alliance referred to the allegiance between these contra-drug traffickers
03:06and the gangs of Los Angeles, who were their main customers.
03:11And who are the contra's?
03:12The contra's were, you know, former Somoza supporters, former Somoza military officers
03:17who had been kicked out of Nicaragua in 1979
03:22and were trying to retake the country with the aid of the CIA.
03:25The CIA has never admitted to running a giant illicit empire,
03:28but investigations and internal reviews gave real weight to claims
03:32that anti-communist priorities sometimes brought the agency into deeply compromised territory.
03:36The most famous example came out of the Iran-Contra era,
03:39when journalist Gary Webb argued that Contra-linked cocaine networks
03:42helped feed the trade of crack cocaine in Los Angeles
03:45while the U.S. backed the anti-Sandinista insurgency in Nicaragua.
03:49When you had all this cheap cocaine going into South Central Los Angeles,
03:52right at the time people were figuring out how to take this powder cocaine
03:56and turn it into crack, you had sort of a collision of historical events in a very odd place.
04:03And what happened from that was you had the spread of crack nationwide
04:07because the gangs spread nationwide.
04:09The gangs, after the L.A. market got saturated, took this to other cities
04:13and set up crack markets in other cities that didn't have them.
04:15Webb's reporting was heavily debated,
04:17but the CIA's own inspector general later acknowledged
04:20that the agency had relationships with people and entities tied to the Contra effort
04:24who were also implicated in narcotics trafficking.
04:27I think there was a lot of evidence to suggest that this occurred.
04:30The problem is when you retract it, it buries it forever.
04:34Nobody's going to look at it.
04:35I mean, the issue is like radioactive now and nobody will touch it again.
04:38A secret war on American descent.
04:40COINTELPRO.
04:41He was taking steps to internationalize the black man's struggle
04:45to take it to the United Nations, to take it diplomatically to the other countries around the world
04:52so that meaningful pressure could be brought to bear on the United States government
04:56and to force them to let his people go.
04:59This shocking FBI program ran from 1956 to 1971,
05:03and as later investigations showed, its purpose was to expose, disrupt, misdirect,
05:07discredit or otherwise neutralize groups the Bureau saw as dangerous.
05:11The targets included civil rights groups, anti-war activists,
05:15black liberation movements, the Communist Party USA, and Martin Luther King Jr. himself.
05:19We must also realize that the problems of racial injustice and economic injustice
05:27cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.
05:35In King's case, the FBI wiretapped him, tried to damage his reputation,
05:38and sent an infamous anonymous letter that read as psychological torment.
05:42By the time the church committee dug into this in the 1970s,
05:45it was clear that this went way beyond a few overzealous agents.
05:48We're talking forged letters, whisper campaigns, planted stories, informants,
05:52and tactics designed to turn people against each other from the inside.
05:55We can step back from it and say, regardless of their success,
05:59whether they were the ones who pulled the trigger,
06:01this gives us an idea of what their intent was, what they were willing to do,
06:07what their political viewpoint was, and what ends,
06:11and what unconstitutional and violent ends they were willing to adopt and use
06:16in order to reach their goal, which was to destroy progressive movements.
06:20Children's remains used for fallout research.
06:22Project Sunshine.
06:23The energy that generates the heat of the sun and operates the solar system
06:27comes under the will of humankind.
06:30Project Sunshine started in 1953 under the Atomic Energy Commission
06:33as part of an effort to understand how radioactive fallout from nuclear testing,
06:38especially strontium-90, was building up in the human body.
06:41Records later showed that the project relied on the collection of bones and tissue from the dead,
06:46including infants and children, often without real family knowledge or consent.
06:49Samples came from hospitals, morgues, and international partners,
06:52which makes the whole thing feel even more sprawling and impersonal.
06:56One record noted that researchers were especially interested in the bones of very young children
07:01and described such material as easy to obtain in the United States.
07:04There were also references to a baby sampling program,
07:07which is just one of those phrases that makes your skin crawl on sight.
07:10Army cameras six miles away record the historic explosion.
07:15This is the end result of years spent on research and production of feverish scientific labors
07:20to harness atomic power ahead of the enemy.
07:26Luminous smoke rises eight miles in the air.
07:29From another angle, still six miles away, another picture of the atomic eruption.
07:34Nazi scientists welcomed into America.
07:37Operation Paperclip.
07:38Nazi scientists, some of them tied to war crimes including horrific concentration camp experiments,
07:43brought to the U.S. in a secret program to advance American security interests during the Cold War.
07:50It sounds like the plot of a film drama, but it actually happened, and on a large scale.
07:55After World War II, the United States wanted German scientific expertise before the Soviets could grab it first.
08:00President Harry S. Truman approved the expanded program in September 1946,
08:04and more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians eventually ended up in the U.S.
08:10Arguably the most famous was Werner von Braun,
08:13who later became a towering figure in the American space program.
08:15With World War II at an end, both the United States and Russia selected the cream of the Reich's rocket
08:20scientists
08:21and put them at work to continue their research in the new field of missiles.
08:24Men like Werner von Braun in the U.S., once released from the grip of the Nazi regime,
08:28made fantastic strides toward perfecting the new science.
08:32But the deeper story is a lot uglier than the triumphal version people are inclined to tell.
08:36Von Braun's V2 program relied on forced labor at Mittelwerk,
08:39where prisoners from the Mittelbau-Dorak concentration camp complex suffered and died in horrific conditions.
08:45Arthur Rudolph, another key figure, was also later scrutinized for his wartime role.
08:49Hundreds of cases the Air Force couldn't explain.
08:51Well, that was part of the mythology. It was like, we got the good Germans.
08:54Well, no, we didn't. We got the top Germans. And who do you think the top Germans were?
08:59They were coveted by Hitler, Himmler, Goring, you know.
09:03I mean, these guys were, I mean, there were guys that we grabbed out of the docks at Nuremberg, literally.
09:12Hundreds of cases the Air Force couldn't explain. Project Blue Book.
09:15Well, the Air Force's files on UFO sightings is released. And guess who's in the report?
09:20That's right. These files, termed Project Blue Book, shows reported UFO sightings back in May 1964
09:27at the Asheville School for Boys, a local private school.
09:31Included are sketches and detailed firsthand accounts of at least five different sightings.
09:36Project Blue Book was the Air Force's official UFO investigation program,
09:39based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio and running until December 17th, 1969.
09:45Officially, the conclusion was neat and tidy.
09:47No evidence of extraterrestrial vehicles, no threat to national security.
09:50But the files themselves are part of why people never really let the story go.
09:53Captain, were you aware that two weeks after your encounter in D.C.,
09:57an Air Force pilot chased a similar set of lights in Tacoma, Washington.
10:02Only when his plane spun out of control, he died.
10:06That could have been you.
10:09Which means it's only a matter of time before it happens again.
10:12Out of 12,618 reported sightings, 701 were still classified as unidentified.
10:17That is a pretty stubborn number.
10:19Now, does Blue Book prove aliens? No, but that's almost beside the point.
10:23What makes it eerie is that trained military observers, radar systems, and official investigators
10:28all sometimes ended up in the same place, unable to fully explain what they were looking at.
10:32Those are classified sightings that didn't get reported to Blue Book.
10:36They are being held as Exhibit A in the March to War.
10:39These all took place on military bases.
10:41That's right.
10:42Where'd you get these files?
10:45Gentlemen, the man I represent thinks that exposing the truth can bring this world together.
10:49The government's psychic spy program, Project Stargate.
10:52We were mostly concerned with targeting the Soviet Union, the PRC, China, some of our other enemies, Libya, Iran, Iraq.
11:06In various forms, Project Stargate ran from the 1970s until 1995, when it was finally terminated and declassified.
11:12The basic idea was that certain people might be able to describe distant places, objects, or events through remote viewing.
11:17Basically, psychic spying repackaged as a possible intelligence tool.
11:21And yes, actual government agencies took this seriously enough to fund it.
11:25So they asked the California psychics at SRI, can you tell us what's happening there?
11:30And with mixed results, nonetheless, there was enough information that convinced the CIA this is worth investigating in a serious
11:37way.
11:38Names like Ingo Swann and Pat Price show up throughout the files, along with testing protocols, formal reports, and accounts
11:44of sessions that believers thought were impressive.
11:46Some of the claims were oddly specific.
11:48Others were vague, unverifiable, or just sounded like classic Cold War wish casting.
11:52He's Ingo Swann, artist and psychic.
11:59He feels that he can project himself up towards the ceiling so he can look from above in the tray
12:10and see what's there.
12:12The CIA's LSD-fueled trap houses.
12:15Operation Midnight Climax.
12:16It fell under the sort of umbrella of this MKUltra, which is public knowledge.
12:22I'm not, you know, obviously we're not talking that out of turn.
12:24Well, let's also give them the benefit of the doubt.
12:27When LSD was synthesized by Albert Hoffman, they really needed to figure out what the f*** this was.
12:33And they needed to figure out, like, could this be used against Americans?
12:37Starting in 1954, the CIA ran safe houses in places like San Francisco, Mill Valley, and New York City, where
12:43women working with the agency lured unsuspecting men inside.
12:46Once there, the men were secretly dosed with LSD and other substances while agents watched from behind one-way mirrors
12:52and took notes.
12:52It was all based around chemical substances, use of chemicals, use of drugs, behavioral issues with human beings, creating false
13:03memories, deleting memory, influencing the behavior, again, of individuals.
13:10The official line was that this was all about studying intoxicated behavior and exploring possible interrogation techniques.
13:17But once you strip away the bureaucratic language, what you're left with is pretty vile.
13:20Secret drugging, sexual manipulation, surveillance, and humiliation staged by the government for research.
13:26The operation was scaled back after an Inspector General report in 1963, and the San Francisco sites closed in 1965.
13:33And it was, again, starting out as a defensive issue, but then quickly became sort of an offense.
13:38How do we become the leader in all of this?
13:41Which is typical, right?
13:42It's typical in how things develop.
13:44It's like cyber warfare.
13:46You know, initially it's defensive, and now you think, okay, now we've got to figure out how to make it
13:49work on our behalf.
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14:06The mind control program that crossed every line.
14:09Project MKUltra.
14:10CIA was interested in Dr. Cameron's work on psychic driving because it could give them an idea of where the
14:17personality could break or be stressed.
14:20Those of us who were involved with trying to find out something about rainwashing, yes, this is the reason that
14:28we were interested in Dr. Cameron's work.
14:30Authorized by CIA Director Alan Dulles on April 13, 1953, and driven by chemist Sidney Gottlieb, MKUltra was all about
14:38behavior control, coercion, and figuring out how to break down the human mind.
14:42What later came out through Senate hearings and surviving records was not one rogue experiment, but a whole network of
14:48them.
14:48Documents recently released by the CIA reveal what research Cameron proposed.
14:54To make patients receptive to repetitive messages, Cameron suggested using chemical agents to break down ongoing patterns of behavior.
15:02People were given LSD without informed consent.
15:05Others were subjected to hypnosis, sensory deprivation, electroshock, isolation, and all kinds of psychological abuse.
15:11The program reached into hospitals, prisons, universities, and research institutions, often through covert funding and front organizations.
15:18One of the most infamous linked sites was the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal, where Dr. Ewan Cameron carried out
15:24brutal de-patterning experiments that left some patients permanently damaged.
15:28I feel like I've been completely used. I feel like my mind has been completely invaded.
15:34I suppose if guinea pigs had feelings, they'd feel like I do.
15:37Which discovery in our video shocked you the most? Be sure to let us know in the comments.
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