The CIA’s $15M Taxpayer-Funded Weather Control Operation Leaked

THEY’RE POISONING THE SKY AHHHHH!!!!

Look, I didn’t want to have to explain this to you but the Daily Mail (a famously reputable publication), just ran a story entitled, “CIA accused of ‘poisoning the sky’ with toxins as files expose secret weather control agenda” and because it’s reached 10 million views on X, I guess I have to cover it…

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Because it’s old news, literally half a century old, without any kind of new developments that make this newsworthy in 2026.

We’re talking about ‘cloud seeding’ and it’s an old technology that goes back to the 1940s and has nothing to do with contrails or conspiracy theories.

Yes, it was a real thing that sounds like science fiction but has been very well documented and is really interesting. Basically you fly up in a plane, drop a bunch of salt crystals or whatever into a cloud and it makes it rain. 

The problem is it’s almost impossible to control and when it’s been tried, things have often gone awry. Turns out the weather is kinda unpredictable like that. Because of this, the concept has seen significantly less interest this century, although experiments continue and we’ve actually seen a small uptick this decade.

I don’t know weather or not this is real

The main project that the Daily Mail cites as being newsworthy is Operation Popeye, a cloud seeding project during the Vietnam War. The idea was to extend the monsoon season and flood out the Vietnamese fighters. And we all know how well that war turned out…

(That’s where I got the $15 million figure from, btw, a quick Google told me it cost about as much and that’s as much research as I’m willing to do for this.)

But it goes without saying that this has nothing to do with contrails, condensation trails, that are literally just that: water vapor. I know you want to believe the CIA is poisoning everyone with mind control agents or even controlling the weather but they’re just not. I’m sorry to disappoint.

Contrails might not be poison gas afterall, but they do potentially have an impact on global warming… oh, sorry, I forgot, the earth is flat and the moon landings were faked but climate change? Well, that’s just completely implausible.

So by all means, read up on cloud seeding, it’s genuinely fascinating. By all means, be weary of the bad stuff governments are doing behind closed doors. But please, just stay savvy out there and know when a shitty publication is using your good will and inquisitiveness just to get clicks.

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Pen Smith• March 18, 2026D

The CIA’s $15M Taxpayer-Funded Weather Control Operation Leaked

It's called 'cloud seeding', basically you fly up and drop a bunch of salt crystals or wha...
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Pen Smith• D

The CIA’s $15M Taxpayer-Funded Weather Control Operation Leaked

It's called 'cloud seeding', basically you fly up and drop a bunch of salt crystals or wha...
Culture