[Convolutional]

Regarding MKUltra - the only reason we know what we know about it, after the CIA director directed in 1973 that all documents on it be destroyed, is that some of the MKUltra documents were mislabeled and not destroyed. They were discovered in a 1977 FOIA request.

[willcipriano]

Remember when the CIA spent six years putting together six thousand page report on the torture it conducted and then "lost" it right before it was to be delivered and then "found" it again once it was clear that they weren't going to get away with that lame excuse?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cia-torture/cia-says-...

[prottog]

I liked it better when the "Deep State" was just a conspiracy theory.

[l33t233372]

The term deep state was first used popularly far after these things were made public.

[George83728]

Use of the term dates back decades, and it's popularity accelerated through Bush the Younger's reign (for obvious reasons I think, Bush was widely perceived as an idiotic puppet, a theatrical figurehead for the real government (e.g. Cheney and co.))

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=deep+state&yea...