The CIA has been accused of running a program to “poison the skies” with toxic substances. Newly declassified papers have revealed a secret project aimed at controlling weather conditions. It seems like the U.S. was trying to use climate manipulation to gain global dominance over other nations, as evidenced by highly classified CIA archives with detailed plans.
Back in 2003, some documents got released talking about how they’d go about changing the weather. The CIA tactics involved missiles or aircraft to spray chemicals up in the air capable of transforming climate systems and local storm patterns (Declassified CIA Documents, 2003).
Although the discovered documents from 1965 do not specify which chemical compounds were used in tests, they note the necessity of increased funding for weather modification projects that could be weaponized in the near future.
According to internal memos, federal funding for this classified program was supposed to quadruple in 1967. That same year, the United States began operations spraying toxic chemicals over Vietnam, trying to trigger floods and landslides. Lyndon Johnson gave the green light for this CIA weather project just three years after delivering a speech addressing America’s future and the development of meteorological satellites capable of intensifying storm phenomena.
Delivering a commencement address at Southwest Texas State University in May 1962, then-Vice President Johnson told everyone: whoever controls the weather is going to control the whole world. Following this speech, archival documents show that by 1965, government programs such as Project Stormfury were already up and running. Under this program, aircraft flew straight into hurricanes to dump silver iodide in there, a chemical designed to break the storm apart from the inside. By 1967, however, these activities had evolved into Project Popeye employed to disrupt enemy supply routes during the Vietnam War by making the monsoon season last longer than it should naturally have.