15 Government Projects

15 Government Projects You Weren’t Supposed to Know About

At the end of every year you, as a responsible citizen, sit down and pay your taxes (we assume!), secure in the knowledge that your money will be used to benefit your country. But do you really know what that money is being used for? The money you worked so hard to earn, what exactly is it being spent on. Schools, hospitals, roads, research, those sort of things right? Well maybe. Or maybe it’s being spent by mad scientists who are turning people into mindless killing machines or deranged paranoid men implanting listen devices in fluffy cats. Maybe your tax projects are funding secret government projects that you aren’t supposed to know about. It’s happened before which means it’s probably

With almost unlimited budgets, top secrecy, and very minimal accountability you’ll be surprised what governments can get up to. Often when the cover of the projects is blown they are discontinued but you should ask yourself whether or not this is just a diversion tactic on their part. Maybe the projects continue under new names and in even more secretive conditions? No one can know for sure.

15 Project Twinkle

Ufologists believe green fireballs to be among the best documented examples of unidentified flying objects to date. Since the late 1940’s hundreds of people have reported seeing mysterious green balls of light in the night sky, particularly over the state of New Mexico in the U.S. The military decided to investigate the matter further as the objects often appeared over military and research installations.

They launched Project Twinkle in December 1949 to study the balls in hopes of identifying them. At first the research seemed to indicate that the balls were artificial, perhaps even some sort of Soviet surveillance, but after two years the project was shut down and it was announced that the balls had been identified as natural phenomenon. But they were extremely reluctant to share their results which does make you

Some even believe that the Air Force has contacted aliens! What do you believe?

9 Operation COINTELPRO

Operation COINTELPRO was a series of covert and often illegal projects conducted by the US FBI. The aim of these operations was to monitor American political organizations by way of infiltration and surveillance, and to discredit and disrupt them if deemed necessary. The program was officially started in 1956 and by 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. was just one of many individuals under constant surveillance. They also targeted other black power movement groups, feminist organizations, white supremacist groups, anti-Vietnam War organizers, and anti-colonial movements, anyone they considered to be “subversive”.

The FBI Director of the time, J. Edgar Hoover, ordered his agents to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, neutralize or otherwise eliminate" the leaders and activities of these groups and gave them almost unlimited power and resources to do so. The program was successfully kept secret from the public until 1971 when documents related to the project were stolen from FBI offices. Within a year, the project was officially