Declassified CIA Files Reveal Cold War Weather Modification Programs

S. military conducted cloud-seeding operations intended to extend monsoon conditions over enemy supply routes, particularly along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

The objective was to increase rainfall, create mudslides, and disrupt troop and supply movements.

That operation is historically documented

But online speculation has gone much further.

Some conspiracy theorists have pointed to the declassified files as supposed proof of a decades-long secret “chemtrail” operation involving mass poisoning, climate manipulation, and atmospheric spraying over civilian populations.

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