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ESPIONAGEThe Zircon Affair: GCHQ's Secret Satellite vs ParliamentBBC killed a Zircon spy-satellite film. Injunctions and Official Secrets raids followed. Parliament fought the gag.// exhibit added
ESPIONAGEThe BYEMAN Control System: How Spy Satellites Stayed InvisibleBYEMAN was the lock on NRO satellite secrets—restructured in the 1990s, retired into TALENT-KEYHOLE on 20 May 2005.// exhibit added
SURVEILLANCEProject MERRIMAC and Project RESISTANCESecurity called it facility protection. Church and Family Jewels show MERRIMAC/RESISTANCE on Americans.// exhibit added
Operation PaperclipAfter World War II, Paperclip quietly imported Nazi rocket scientists into American labs and uniforms.// verdict set
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSBehistun Inscription: Darius, Rawlinson, and Cuneiform’s RosettaBehistun: Darius, Rawlinson, and trilingual cuneiform—UNESCO-documented, not Atlantis.// verdict set
ESPIONAGEThe Family Jewels: CIA's 1973 Self-Inventory of IllegalitiesIn 1973 Schlesinger ordered CIA's Family Jewels list of potentially illegal ops. The inventory still shocks.// verdict set
ESPIONAGEVENONAVENONA decrypted 1940s Soviet intel cables and quietly confirmed spy names the public only learned later.// verdict set
The Hobbits of Flores IslandFlores folklore about tiny hairy people suddenly had bones when Homo floresiensis entered the fossil record.// verdict set
ESPIONAGEProject MINARET: The NSA Watch-List ProgramChurch Committee and declassified NSA histories document MINARET—a 1967–1973 watch-list SIGINT program..// verdict set
The Tuskegee Syphilis ExperimentFor forty years the Tuskegee Study watched Black men with syphilis and withheld treatment. The apology came late.// verdict set
SURVEILLANCEOperation SHAMROCK: The Telegram Dragnet (1945–1975)From 1945 to 1975, NSA copied most international telegrams via RCA, ITT, and Western Union.// verdict set
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSRongorongo: Easter Island's Undeciphered ScriptRongorongo tablets still will not read. Fresh radiocarbon dates only deepen Rapa Nui's script mystery.// verdict set
The Lost City of Troy and the Epic of HomerSchliemann dug Hisarlik insisting Homer's Troy was real. Academia had called the war pure poetry.// verdict set
SURVEILLANCEHTLINGUALHTLINGUAL was the CIA mail-opening program that photographed Americans' letters for years.// verdict set
ESPIONAGEProject BLUEBIRDIn 1950 BLUEBIRD opened the CIA's behavioral-control file that later fed ARTICHOKE and MKUltra.// verdict set
SURVEILLANCENSA Trailblazer and ThinThreadNSA poured money into Trailblazer while ThinThread offered cheaper analysis with stronger privacy filters.// verdict set
The Dalai Lama CIA SalaryCIA Reading Room files document Agency money around the Dalai Lama's exile network for years.// verdict set
ESPIONAGEAble Archer 83 and the Soviet War ScareNATO ran Able Archer 83 with nuclear-release drills so realistic that Soviet war-scare files lit up.// verdict set
ESPIONAGEProject ARTICHOKEBefore MKUltra, ARTICHOKE chased hypnosis and drugs that might make a prisoner talk on command.// verdict set
DEATHS AND DISAPPEARANCESJohn F. Kennedy AssassinationSixty years later, which file stack still best explains Dealey Plaza: CIA, Mafia, Cubans, or all of them?// verdict set
ESPIONAGEOperation Midnight ClimaxMidnight Climax ran CIA safehouses where sex workers dosed johns so agents could watch through mirrors.// verdict set
HEALTH & MEDICINEGuatemala Syphilis ExperimentsFrom 1946 to 1948, U.S. researchers deliberately infected Guatemalans with STDs. A commission later said so.// verdict set
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSProject MarauderIn the early 1990s Project MARAUDER surfaced as a claimed magnetically fired plasma ring weapon.// verdict set
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Gulf of Tonkin IncidentHow much of the August 1964 Tonkin clash was fog, fear, or a story built to widen the war?// verdict set
Project MKUltraMKUltra was the CIA mind-control umbrella that turned LSD, hypnosis, and safehouses into a budget line.// verdict set