We all know the old trope of the tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorists who believes crazy things like the government is spying on us and the military is spraying things in the sky and the CIA ships in the drugs.

Except those things aren't so crazy after all.

As it turns out, many of the old conspiracy theorist fantasies are actually true.

Here are five examples of things that were once to write at a zaney conspiracy paranoia

and are now accepted as mundane historical fact.

Number one, the CIA ships in the drugs

the Central Intelligence Agency the most well-known branch of America's shadowy

intelligence community features in a number of popular conspiracy theories.

One of the theories about the CIA's dirty dealings that has been around for decades

is that the agency helps bring illegal drugs into the United States.

But this isn't just a theory. In fact, the CIA has been involved in drug running from its very inception.

Just months after its creation in 1947, the agency began a relationship with the Corsican mafia that controlled the old port of Marseille in post-war France.

That relationship involved a quid pro quo.

The CIA would protect the mafia if the mafia would keep the communists from taking control of the port.

In this case, protecting the mafia meant protecting their most lucrative business,

which just happened to be smuggling heroin into the United States.

This French connection thrum. to be smuggling heroin into the United States.

This French connection thrived for decades,

with the majority of the heroin in the US

in the post-war period coming via France

under the watchful eye of the CIA.

From the Korean War to the Vietnam War and beyond,

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