1. According to the FBI Director, the FBI is having a hard time filling positions to help tackle cyber crimes because a lot of the nation’s top computer programmers and hacking gurus are also fond of marijuana.
1. Project Coldfeet is a 1962 operation where two CIA operatives were airdropped onto an abandoned Soviet research station on an ice floe, retrieved information on advanced submarine detection systems, and were extracted via the Fulton Skyhook recovery system to a modified B-17.
1. In a CIA program called "Operation Midnight Climax", prostitutes were enlisted by the CIA to lure men to 'safe houses' in San Francisco where they were administered LSD without their consent. CIA Agents would then watch them have sex with the prostitutes through 1-way mirrors.
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1. In a CIA program called "Operation Midnight Climax", prostitutes were enlisted by the CIA to lure men to 'safe houses' in San Francisco where they were administered LSD without their consent. CIA Agents would then watch them have sex with the prostitutes through 1-way mirrors.
1. In a CIA program called "Operation Midnight Climax", prostitutes were enlisted by the CIA to lure men to 'safe houses' in San Francisco where they were administered LSD without their consent. CIA Agents would then watch them have sex with the prostitutes through 1-way mirrors.
1. The CIA's own inspector general named Gary Webb reported that the Reagan administration thwarted federal investigations into drug crimes.
1. Rio de Janeiro was once capital of Portugal, making it the only European capital outside of Europe.
1. Personality has a larger effect on success than IQ.
1. The CIA's own inspector general named Gary Webb reported that the Reagan administration thwarted federal investigations into drug crimes.
1. In 1983, Dick Wertheim, a tennis linesman, died after a ball struck him in the groin and he fell out of his chair.
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1. There is a village named Bengkala in Bali where, due to a recessive gene named DFNB3, so many people are born deaf that hearing people use sign language called Kata Kolok, and spoken language equally.
Don’t tell anyone you know this stuff. Cause the CIA will kill you so watch your back kid. Jk. Most of these facts aren't known because they are goofy and probably not true because the CIA would lie about everything.
1. Frances Kelsey, the physician who refused to allow the deadly drug Thalidomide from entering circulation into the US in the 1960s, saved numerous American infants from disfiguration and birth defects.
1. Famous chemist and lifelong bachelor Robert Bunsen once proposed to a girl who said yes, but he then lost himself in his work for a few weeks. When he finally emerged from his lab, he couldn't remember if he ever proposed or not, so he did it again, only to have her turn him down.
