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Among McCarthy's allies was rabid anti-Communist John F. Kennedy (whose death in 1963 would spark its own infamous conspiracy theory). Eventually, public opinion and his fellow senators turned against McCarthy and he was censured by the Senate.

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Two of the most famous true-to-life conspiracies in the last century were the MK ULTRA (the name refers to the abbreviation MK, for the CIA’s Technical Service Staff and ultra for the secrecy level) and COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program) programs. The two operations were overseen by the CIA and FBI, respectively, the former to develop mind-control techniques and the latter to infiltrate dissident political organizations in the U.S.

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The programs went on for decades — there are still whispers that they continue today — and were revealed to the public in the early 1970s; they are responsible for the idea of being “bugged” or “tapped” entering into the American collective unconsciousness.

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The ‘80s began with the election of Ronald Reagan, whose victory was due in no small part to the Iranian Hostage crisis — a crisis that, it’s theorized, was kept going by Reagan himself in order to keep his opponent, President Jimmy Carter, on his heels.

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Pushing an international crisis for domestic political gain isn’t unique to Reagan; Richard Nixon did the same thing in 1968 while he was running for president, attempting to disrupt then-President Lyndon Johnson’s peace negotiations between the South and North Vietnamese. Scholars will not conclusively say whether he was successful, but no matter: Nixon won the presidency and the war stretched on for another seven years.

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Thanks in part to MK ULTRA and COINTELPRO, it’s relatively common today to assume with some degree of resignation that someone, somewhere, is listening to your calls. Even so, there are still lines we don’t want crossed — but they regularly are, as proven by the documents exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013.

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The documents that Snowden leaked to The Guardian and The New York Times showed that a number of Western countries, primarily in Europe, were working with the U.S. to develop a full spectrum of surveillance over the rest of the globe. Meanwhile, the U.S. was also spying on those allies. The leak revealed the extent of NSA spying to the world, and many of our worst fears about surveillance came true: that the government was pursuing a wide range of spying techniques and working with American companies to do so.

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If you asked someone only a few years ago, they would have told you that the idea that a social media network was using the mic on your phone to record you was ridiculous. But even though Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg denied the social network uses listening devices in April, and reporting over the last year indicates that Facebook doesn’t have to record or listen to you — rather, the company knows enough about your personal life through data aggregation and targeting — users continue to report weird coincidences to do with the app’s commercials.

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But it was revealed Johnson & Johnson executives knew about this contamination since at least the 1970s. That the presence of such a carcinogen in a substance meant for children was hidden meets the definition of conspiracy in that it required the cooperation of a number of parties to keep it quiet; that the executives don’t appear to face any consequences for their actions — which took nearly five decades to uncover — lends credence to the idea that the world isn't set up for equality of success.

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So what have we learned?

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For many of us, the idea that we not in control of our lives is a comforting thought — it erases our personal and societal accountability for the grim realities of life, and obfuscates responsibility for violence and exploitation.

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It’s easier to blame reality on forces beyond your control than to face the tension between morality and materiality head on. That’s part of the appeal of believing that the arc of history is bent by shadowy forces who have axes to grind and profits to make.

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Oh well.

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Eoin Higgins is a journalist in western Massachusetts. You can see some of his other work for The Outline here.

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The biggest conspiracies in American history (that also happen to be true)

Seven truly disturbing moments in which the tin-foil hat was actually a good idea.

By Eoin Higgins

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