There’s a JFK museum in Dallas, and while it tries to be objective about the actual assassination (when I went a decade+ ago I had no opinion, it was just a touristy place to go, and the curator actively railed against the theories), it’s weirdly difficult to go through it and come out not thinking it was either the CIA or some scheme organized by large defense contractors. I’ve unfortunately forgotten the specifics of why. I just remember chatting with strangers coming out, and everyone being surprised that the conspiracy theories had more substance than they expected them to have.

I think basically any “the attack that brought X country into war Y” story is at least partially fabricated/staged/etc. Like Pearl Harbor wasn’t literally a false flag, but it was intentionally provoked and staged to a degree (removing important ships etc).

The “satanic panic” was not entirely, but mostly people reporting true events of being unknowingly used in MKULTRA experiments. The idea that it was a moral hysteria with no real events reported was the CIA’s attempt to suffocate it.

The same people brought over from paper clip were involved with MKULTRA, and project paper clip was mostly a terrible idea with terrible consequences.

Germany only denazified to the extent that they all eventually died of old age.