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When Robert Ballard asked the Navy to fund his search for the Titanic, they told him to secretly survey two sunken US nuclear subs first, to keep the USSR in the dark. After the covert mission was done, Ballard's team had only 12 days to find the Titanic.

The research behind "Type A and Type B personality traits" was secretly funded by cigarette companies in the 1960's to suggest that smoking cigarettes didn't cause cancer and heart disease, being Type A did.

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1. Robert Ballard, the man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic, was secretly funded by the US Navy which wanted him to find their two sunken nuclear submarines first

2. The final section of the U.S. government's report on 9/11 was classified when it was released, and remained so until 2016. This section stated that the 9/11 hijackers received funding from individuals connected to the Saudi government, which the U.S. had kept secret for 15 years.

3. The film version of George Orwell's book Animal Farm was secretly funded by the CIA.

4. Under a secret, Navy-funded project, WWII scientists actually tried to turn sharks into living remote-controlled suicide bombers.

5. The CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Artists and Had a Secret Abstract Art Collection

6. A British company secretly funded Congolese rebel groups in order to open a UNESCO world heritage site to oil drilling.

7. George Washington mandated the creation of the Contingency Fund for Foreign Intercourse, a secret program comprising 12% of the U.S. government's budget which funded clandestine intelligence gathering missions in Europe, including spies and political subversion.

8. The CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Expressionism During the Cold War

9. After combing through nearly 50 million pages of previously secret internal tobacco-industry documents, UC Davis and UC San Francisco researchers say they have documented how the industry funded and used scientific studies to undermine evidence linking secondhand smoke to cardiovascular disease

10. Kanawha was a steam-powered luxury yacht aboard which industrialist Henry H. Rogers met Booker T. Washington to secretly fund the education of African Americans.

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In the 1950s the CIA secretly funded movie versions of Animal Farm and 1984 rewriting the endings of both to give a more overtly anti-Communist anti-Soviet message

MLB player Moe Berg, also an OSS spy, was secretly parachuted into Axis-Occupied Yugoslavia where he personal evaluated the Nazi Resistance groups and eventually decided that Josip Broz Tito had the stronger and better group to fund. - source

While residents of Shawnee, OK, the birthplace of Jim Thorpe, gathered funds to build his monument, his wife secretly sold and shipped his body. A monument was then built around his tomb to attract business to the newly renamed Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania—an area where he had never been. - source

Operation Mockingbird, a secret CIA campaign to influence media. This included recruiting leading American journalists into a network to help present the CIA's views, funding student/cultural organizations, and magazines as fronts

The United States secretly funded genocide in East Timor - source

Robert Bigelow created a fortune from commercial real estate in order to fund his ultimate goal of creating a space program, a secret that he kept from everyone, including his wife.

In 2011, Coke introduced a special-edition white colored can to raise funds for endangered polar bears but it was withdrawn when consumers complained that Coca-Cola had changed its secret formula

Nothing's changed in 58 years. Britain and America sought a secretive "regime change" in Syria. The plan called for funding of a "Free Syria Committee", and the arming of "political factions with paramilitary or other actionist capabilities" within Syria.

There's a site named "Open Secrets" that has been exposing lobbying for awhile. It gives a clear breakdown, for instance, of political candidates and the corporations (or poor individuals) funding them.

IKEA allegedly funded the Romanian secret police through intentionally overcharged purchases of lumber from a Romanian state-owned company.

The head of NATO has openly accused Russian Intelligence services of secretly funding anti-fracking environmental groups.