HISTORICAL COVER-UPS
Iran-Contra, COINTELPRO, Gulf of Tonkin, and the government experiments on its own citizens. Declassified proof that the truth was hidden.
History is full of government actions that were denied, classified, and covered up — only to be confirmed years or decades later through declassified documents. The Iran-Contra affair revealed a secret network where the Reagan administration illegally sold weapons to Iran and funneled the profits to Nicaraguan rebels, in direct violation of congressional law. The Gulf of Tonkin incident, which justified the Vietnam War and the deaths of 58,000 Americans, was later confirmed to have been largely fabricated based on NSA signals intelligence. The Pentagon Papers exposed systematic government lying about the Vietnam War spanning four administrations. COINTELPRO documented the FBI's illegal campaign to surveil, infiltrate, and destroy civil rights organizations and political movements. Every investigation in this category draws from declassified government files, congressional investigation transcripts, and court records that prove the cover-up.