Common Sense Soapbox
About this show
Short videos with a punchy, comedic tone and entertaining Socratic characters taking on trending issues and important concepts from a classical liberal perspective, written & animated by Seamus Coughlin.
IT'S ALL TRUE! The CIA did WHAT?!?
September 13, 2022
Ok... It's not "all" true. But a lot of it is!
On this episode of Common Sense Soapbox, the Men in Black appear at Bubble Man’s funeral. Bob frantically alerts the crew, but Ron dismisses it as a conspiracy theory. However, Ron soon learns that not every conspiracy is merely theory — some smack of facts.
CREDITS:
Written by Seamus Coughlin & Sean W. Malone
Animated by Seamus Coughlin
Produced & Edited by Sean W. Malone
LINKS:
Operation Northwoods:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&page=1#.TxsGQG_Ox2B
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/news/20010430/index.html
https://groups.google.com/g/aus.tv.x-files/c/OJxpReU11cg?pli=1
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.conspiracy.jfk/c/vGNN91e_HvM/m/Z3x64dHrCa4J
Operation Mongoose:
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cuba/2019-10-03/kennedy-cuba-operation-mongoose
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/rfk-operation-mongoose/
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/bay-of-pigs
CIA in Nicaragua (Contra Affair):
https://www.brown.edu/Research/Understanding_the_Iran_Contra_Affair/documents.php
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/presidential-documents-archive-guidebook/proclamations-washington-1789-present
https://www.brown.edu/Research/Understanding_the_Iran_Contra_Affair/documents/d-nic-24.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20121012185850/http://bailey83221.livejournal.com/77479.html
http://www.cnn.com/US/9811/03/cia.drugs/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/special/cia.html
Phoenix Program (Vietnam War):
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/opinion/behind-the-phoenix-program.html
https://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP258.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20070711065505/
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol51no2/a-retrospective-on-counterinsurgency-operations.html
Operation Condor:
https://youtu.be/C8nZIOMi0C4
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/sep/03/operation-condor-the-illegal-state-network-that-terrorised-south-america
http://www.cels.org.ar/especiales/plancondor/en/
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB125/index.htm
MKUltra:
https://www.history.com/topics/us-government/history-of-mk-ultra
https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/p/Project_MKULTRA.htm
https://books.google.com/books?id=TEqhqtrF3XEC&pg=PA70#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/09/one-shocking-cia-programs-time-project-mkultra/
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief
Operation Midnight Climax:
https://www.history.com/mkultra-operation-midnight-climax-cia-lsd-experiments
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-cias-operation-midnight-climax-was-exactly-what-it-sounded-like-fa63f84ad015
Project Sunshine:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/05/03/stillborn-babies-used-in-50s-radiation-test/f5eb76c0-ad55-4ed5-96a3-5dc5f1ca88fa/
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/21/us/in-1950-s-us-collected-human-tissue-to-monitor-atomic-tests.html
https://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/scotorgrev/documents/project%20sunshine%20%20slippery%20slope.pdf
https://news.wsu.edu/news/2021/06/03/secret-government-investigation-radioactive-fallout-focus-historians-research/
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/reports/2008/R251.pdf
https://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=80970&page=1
Prohibition Alcohol Poisoning:
https://slate.com/technology/2010/02/the-little-told-story-of-how-the-u-s-government-poisoned-alcohol-during-prohibition.html
https://www.vox.com/2014/8/8/5975605/alcohol-prohibition-poison
https://time.com/3665643/deadly-drinking/
