Conspiracies that turned out to be True

"The use of 'conspiracy theory' as a derogatory -- as an epithet almost -- is something the propagandists have perfected over the decades, and it's a useful tool for eliminating articulate dissent and other points of view, and information that might be inconvenient for a policy agenda." - Chris Sanders, Oil, Smoke & Mirrors

What is Conspiracy:

1. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act. -- 2. A group of conspirators. -- 3. Law: An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action. -- 4. A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design.

List of Conspiracies that turned out to be True:

• The Catiline conspiracies in the 1st century BC.
• A group of Roman senators, calling itself the Liberatores, hoped to restore the Roman Republic by killing Julius Caesar in 44 BC.
• The Pisonian conspiracy AD 65.
• The Pazzi conspiracy, which included the Pope, of the late 15th century.
• The Babington Plot, as the event which most directly led to the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. This was a second major plot against Elizabeth I of England after the Ridolfi plot. It was named after the chief conspirator Sir Anthony Babington (1561–1586), a young Catholic nobleman from Derbyshire.
• The Throckmorton Plot, was an attempt by English Roman Catholics in 1583 to murder Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots. The plot is named after the key conspirator, Sir Francis Throckmorton, a catholic nobleman, who confessed to the plot under torture.
• The Main Plot of 1603, was a conspiracy by English Catholics, allegedly led by catholic noblemen Henry Brooke, Lord Cobham, Sir George Brooke and Thomas Grey, 15th Baron Grey de Wilton, to remove King James I from the English throne, replacing him by aid of Spain with his cousin Arabella (or Arbella) Stuart.
• The Bye Plot of 1603, led to the execution of Sir George Brooke
• The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholic Noblemen and Gentry led by Sir Robert Catesby. The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament on 5 November 1605, the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which James's nine-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, was to be installed as the Catholic head of state. Catesby may have embarked on the scheme after hopes of securing greater religious tolerance under King James had faded, leaving many English Catholics disappointed. His fellow plotters included Thomas Wintour, Robert Wintour, John Wright, Christopher Wright, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, John Grant, Lord of the Manor, Sir Thomas Percy, Sir Ambrose Rookwood, Sir Everard Digby, Sir Francis Tresham and Thomas Bates
• The Anjala conspiracy of 1788
• The conspiracy of 1865 to assassinate U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and members of his cabinet
• The French government's attempted cover-up following Émile Zola's accusations in the Dreyfus Affair, starting in 1894.
• The 1903 efforts by the Tsar's secret police to foment anti-Semitism by presenting The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as an authentic text.^[1]
• The 1933 Business Plot - Fascists Coup d'état attempt in USA
• The 1939 Operation Himmler and its Gleiwitz incident - False Flag Terrorism by Nazi Germany in order to get a pretext for Invasion of Poland
• The 1939 Shelling of Mainila, False Flag Terrorism by USSR in order to get a pretext for Winter War
• CIA Operation Mockingbird, from 1948. In 1976, then CIA director George H. W. Bush ordered that paid media recruiting would be prohibited.
• The 1942 Wannsee Conference, 3rd Reich Nazis related to Final Solution.
• The 1945 OSS Operation Paperclip, the extraction of top Nazi scientists (incl. SS nazi Party members).
• CIA MKULTRA mind control program, from 1953 and continuing.
• The 1954 'Lavon affair'- Operation Susannah; False Flag Terrorism by Mossad
• The 1962 CIA Operation Northwoods
• CIA Project Cherry, United States non-stop attempt to assassinate Norodom Sihanouk
• The 1969 Manson Family murders
• The 1972 Watergate burglary and cover-up scandals
• The 1980 October surprise
• The 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack
• The 1987 Iran-Contra Affair
• The supposed plot of Caucasians to regain control of and take over Washington, D.C.
• Breakup of Yugoslavia - To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia, Verso, 2000, ISBN 1859847765
• The Enron manipulation of the California Electricity Market during the California electricity crisis
• The Mafia
• Various CIA involvements in overseas coups d'état
• The 1991 Testimony of Nayirah before the U.S. Congress to rally the support of the U.S. public to launch the Gulf War
• The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male^[2]
• The General Motors streetcar conspiracy^[3]
• The plot by some gaullists of the French Secret Service to destabilise future president Georges Pompidou, known as the Markovic affair
• The series of incidents in Italy connected to the so called "strategy of tension"
• CIA Operation Gladio, a NATO 'stay-behind' Operation
• The 2000 CIA Operation Merlin
• 9/11 in 2001
• The 2002 Downing Street Memo
• The 2002 September Dossier UK and USA Governments Lies and Forgeries to Justify invasion of Iraq
• The 2002 Yellowcake forgery
• The 2003 Iraq and weapons of mass destruction reports in order to get a United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441 pretext to Iraq War

Original Source: Wikipedia

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary." - Adam Smith, "The Wealth of Nations"