The CIA has a history of shadowy operations that are often classified for years, surfacing only decades later as declassified documents reveal bizarre and audacious plans. These ranged from anti-Communist propaganda efforts to attempts at psychological warfare, including dropping altered condoms over enemy territories and creating demonic toys designed to counteract Osama Bin Laden's influence. The released files show that the agency meticulously records its experiments and operations, illuminating the peculiar lengths to which it has gone to shape perceptions and maintain national security during the Cold War.
In the 1950s, the CIA co-funded an operation to drop millions of anti-Communist pamphlets from weather balloons flying over Soviet-controlled Europe.
The CIA once hatched a plan to make a Osama Bin Laden figurine with a face that peeled off in the sun to reveal a devil.
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