Bizarre Government Documents Reveal America's Darkest Secrets

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We all know that governments keep secrets from their citizens. In an ideal world, we like to think that all of these lies are necessary to protect national security or avoid a panic. In most democracies, we can hope that the government will eventually declassify these secrets. The US government has plenty of secrets of its own and, thankfully, it has a relatively good record of declassifying material when it no longer poses a risk to security.

Buried in these declassified files, however, are gruesome, terrifying, and outright disturbing revelations of what the most powerful nation on earth has gotten up to over the years.

Today on A Day In History, we’re looking at some of the worst and weirdest secrets revealed by declassified documents. If you’re interested in topics like this, check out our other videos looking at the secrets of the CIA or the actions of other governments like Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. You can also like this video and subscribe to keep up with similar videos in the future.

Tuskegee is far from the only government secret whose effects are still being felt today.

Questions have long been raised over the events leading to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and whether the government lied about its claims that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

Throughout 2002 and 2003, the US and UK claimed to have uncovered mounting evidence of Iraq’s secret nuclear weapons program. The smoking gun in these allegations were a set of documents supposedly showing that Iraq had been secretly attempting to buy massive amounts of uranium from Niger. Niger was one of the world’s biggest supplies of uranium and both the US and UK governments pointed to this as concrete proof of Iraq’s sinister intentions.

We’ve only caught a glimpse of the secrets hidden in the files of the US government. We can only wonder what else will be revealed in time and what will never be revealed at all. There’s also many other governments around the world who don’t declassify their secrets, leaving us to question what other bizarre or disturbing things have gone on under our noses. Only time will tell…

In this video, we'll be taking a look at some of the most bizarre and shocking declassified government documents from the United States. From top-secret CIA experiments to government cover-ups, these documents provide a glimpse into the darker side of American history.

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Certificate for Participants in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, (1958), https://www.docsteach.org/documents/d...
Craig Timberg and Barton Gellman, ‘NSA Paying U.S. Companies for Access to Communications Networks’, The Washington Post, (September 3rd, 2013)
Gabe Rottman, ‘On Leak Prosecutions, Obama Takes it to 11. (Or Should We Say 526?)’, ACLU, (October 14th 2014), ‘https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech...
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Hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Subject: Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs, (January 28th 2004), https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSA...
James Jones, Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, (1981)
Jon Wiener, Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files, (2000)
Seymour M. Hersh, ‘Niger Lies and Uranium’, Prospect Magazine, (June 20th 2003)
‘Ad Hoc committee meeting to examine data from the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and offer advice on continuance of this Study’, (February 6th 1969), https://catalog.archives.gov/id/281641
‘Julia Child: Cooking Up Spy Ops for OSS’, CIA.gov, (March 30th 2020),