Lollys Master wrote:
There are a bunch of conspiracy theories, that later turned out to be true.
For example, Gulf of Tonkin incident.
USS Maddox lied about being attacked by North Vietnamese, so president Johnson authorized counter-actions, which meant the beginning of the Vietnam war.
Yeah, just like that. A war started, because US lied and this only got declassified in 2005.
Another one is that Dalai Lama was a CIA agent in the 60's. Turned out to be true, as he earned $180,000 in connection with the CIA’s funding of the Tibetan Resistance to the tune of $1.7 million per year. The idea was to disrupt and hamper China’s infrastructure. Got declassified in 1998.
That’s a very distorted account of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident that bares only a passing resemblance to reality. So, par for the course for Lolly.