Shocking Stories The FBI Doesn't Want You To Know

#1 Thirty Years For Nothing

The FBI falsely framed four men for a murder in 1965 to protect an informant. Two of those men died in prison; the other two served more than 30 years before being exonerated and released. The informant was placed in hiding and his identity and whereabouts have never been disclosed. The federal agency was never held accountable or faced any charges.

#2 Maybe The Bureau Was Involved

According to secret files, in 1964, the FBI sent Martin Luther King Jr. a letter along with a cassette that contained allegedly incriminating audio recordings of King with women in various hotel rooms. The letter "clearly implied that suicide would be a suitable course of action for Dr. King." So who really killed him, and why?

#3 They Were Warned Several Times

A counter-terrorism expert in the FBI continuously hounded and warned officials of an impending Al-Qaeda terrorist attack 5-6 years prior to 9/11. His claims were dismissed over and over until he was pushed out of the FBI in 2001. He took a job as security head in August at the World Trade Center, and in a sad bit of irony, that's where he died when the towers fell.

#4 Wild Goose Chase

The alleged mastermind behind the 9/11 terror attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sent the FBI on a series of wild goose chases, literally, by claiming that some geese in Central Park had explosives stuffed up their behinds. The agency spent days tracking geese.

#5 Poisoning Us

Forget about all the chemicals the government is allowing in our foods, during prohibition, the FBI snuck methyl alcohol in booze to make people sick so they'd stop breaking the law by getting drunk.

#6 They Have Ways Of Making You Talk

In 1964, the FBI enlisted the assistance of mafia boss Gregory Scarpa to find information on the murders of 3 civil rights activists by the KKK. He attained the location of the bodies by pistol whipping a Klansman and putting a gun in his mouth. Scarpa was placed on a retainer for several years to assist in other "projects".

#7 What A Wonderful Life

In the 1940s, during the very height of the cold war, the FBI considered the holiday classic movie "It's a Wonderful Life" to be communist propaganda due to its supposed subversive anti-capitalist/banking themes. They blocked it's release in several cities and put a permanent surveillance on director Frank Capra.

#8 It Is Balloon

Wasting money, time, and resources, in 1989, a Michigan farmer found a camera attached to balloons in his field. The film contained images of what appeared to be a mutilated corpse, sparking a yearlong FBI investigation. It turned out to be footage for Nine Inch Nails' first music video, being filmed 200 miles away.

#9 Always On Top Of Things

The FBI assigned a team to Sacha Baron Cohen during the filming of his 'Borat' movie due to reports of a "Middle eastern man traveling the Midwest in an ice cream truck." They kept on him for over 3 years and recently issued a second team to keep tabs on the actor because of a report that he seemed "like a crazed terrorist."

#10 Just Doing His Job

The security guard who discovered a pipe bomb at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, alerted police and helped evacuate the area was later considered a suspect by the FBI and presumed guilty by the media. He was disgraced by his country and imprisoned but he was exonerated when a homegrown terrorist confessed nine years later. As far as we know, the FBI nor the media has apologized to the hero yet.

#11 That Bites

From early 1955 to middle 1956, the government dropped a total of 930,000 mosquitoes over Georgia and Florida as "test weapons." Though they did not carry any infections, that anyone is aware of, the military wanted to determine the insect's capacity to spread diseases without detection. Reports released as recently as 1987 claim the agency released over 1 million 'clean' mosquitos once more over Alabama and Louisiana. With all the diseases now known to be spread to humans via mosquitos, this seems pretty dastardly.

#12 Before His Time

Upon his death, the FBI ordered the Alien Property Custodian to seize all of Tesla's belongings, even though Tesla was an American citizen. Rumors flew around the world that the innovator was about ready to release an invention or technique that would revolutionize the military.

#13 Black Power

In the early 1970's, Samuel L Jackson was part of the Black Power movement but before he could become involved with any significant armed confrontation, his mother sent him to Los Angeles after the FBI told her that he would die within a year if he remained with the organization. She later wrote that she perceived the suggestion as a warning after she learned his friend was shot down on the streets by unknown assailants.

#14 He Was A Tyrant

Due to J. Edgar Hoover's excessive abuse of power, Directors of the FBI are now limited to 10 years in office. He was known as 'The Tyrant' because of his abuse of power and secrets he kept from even the president.

#15 Now They Just Sue The Phone Company

It wasn't an iPhone, and they didn't sue Apple for the codes to break into it, but when a wanted Las Angeles pimp had such a sophisticated pattern lock on his android phone the FBI was unable to crack it and they forced Google to assist them by threatening the company with over 1,300 frivolous lawsuits. They had to serve Google with a warrant to try and help them and the company caved in instantly without fanfare and unlocked the phone.

#16 They Do Exist

During a Japan Air Lines flight from Paris to Tokyo, a massive UFO was spotted flying alongside the airplane, with the event captured on radar data. Officials from the FAA, CIA, and FBI all declared it the first radar data of a UFO but later sealed all reports and information of the event. A representative from the White House Office of Science & Technology responded and said statistically, there could be other life forms out there but that the distance between our planet and theirs is so great that we'll never get the chance to interact. Recent unsealing of closed reports from the CIA and FBI have proved that there are classified UFOstudys being conducted at Area 51.

#17 Things Were Way Different In The 60's

In 1964, a parent wrote to the US Attorney General complaining that the lyrics to "Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen were obscene. After 2 years of investigation and hundreds of man hours spent, the FBI dismissed the complaint because the lyrics of that recording were "unintelligible at any speed." They should check out some current lyrics.

#18 Mind Control

In 1953, the CIA launched project MKUltra. The goal was to develop tactics to get Soviet spies and foreign leaders to divulge information, and because the CIA didn't want to test the techniques (many of which involved various forms of torture) on its own agents, they used average citizens and pets as their subjects. The program was technically shut down in 1973 but the FBI took over control of it until it was permanently closed down in 1977, but that's probably what they want us to think.

#19 Not Wiki Leaks

They were well before Anonymous and Snowden. But in 1971, a small group calling themselves the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI broke into an FBI office in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and stole over 1100 documents and exposed the extreme surveillance program COINTELPRO. They then sent these documents to the press, leading to the FBI shutting it down, or so we were told.

#20 Someone Had To Step Up

In the I-40 bridge collapse back in 2002, a crazy man impersonating a US Army Captain took control of the accident scene for over two days, directing FBI agents and appropriating vehicles and equipment, before it was determined he didn't even work for any official agency. Later he was caught fleeing to Canada. Good job FBI!

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