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Live log of amendments, new files, and evidence entering the archive
SURVEILLANCERoom 641AMark Klein revealed Room 641A, an NSA-linked split at AT&T's San Francisco switch that copied the fiber.// exhibit added
ESPIONAGEOperation Gold (Berlin Tunnel)CIA and MI6 tapped Berlin landlines. Blake told the KGB first. CIA still calls much of the take genuine.// exhibit added
SCIENCE & SPACESeveso Dioxin Disaster (10 July 1976)On 10 July 1976 an ICMESA runaway dumped TCDD over Seveso and remade EU accident law.// exhibit added
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSRocky Flats: FBI Raid and Grand Jury SecrecyThe 1989 FBI raid on Rocky Flats exposed nuclear plant crimes a special grand jury wanted prosecuted.// exhibit added
ESPIONAGEQuill: The First Orbital Imaging Radar SatelliteQuill flew orbital SAR in December 1964—pointed only at America—then waited decades for NRO to say the word.// exhibit added
PRISMPRISM turned a paranoia meme into a named NSA program after Snowden's slides hit daylight.// exhibit added
SCIENCE & SPACEKosmos 954: Nuclear Spy Satellite Crash Over CanadaKosmos 954 fell on 24 January 1978 and scattered radioactive debris across Canada's Northwest Territories.// exhibit added
ESPIONAGEKH-9 Hexagon (and Gambit): Film-Return GiantsFilm-return Hexagon and Gambit stayed black on metrics while buckets still had to splash down—and sometimes vanish.// exhibit added
ALT HISTORYNok Culture Terracottas: Goethe University Chronology ResetGoethe/DFG Nok work resets terracotta chronology with archaeobotany—not colonial mystery-clay myths.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSPoverty Point and the Denial of Indigenous MonumentalismPoverty Point's concentric ridges prove hunter-gatherers could raise monuments colonial historians denied.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSTel Dan Stele: “House of David” and the 1990s Epigraphy ShockTel Dan bytdwd stele: documented 1990s epigraphy—reading debates stay open; stone stays on the table.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSStaffordshire Hoard: Detectorist Find, PAS, and the Anglo-Saxon Gold ShockStaffordshire Hoard: detectorist → PAS/Treasure → museum custody; documented Anglo-Saxon find trail.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Great Deluge1870s Mesopotamian digs pulled Gilgamesh flood tablets older than Genesis and restarted the deluge fight.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Getty Kouros Forgery ControversyGetty Kouros: 1985 buy, dual authenticity label, 2018 Villa removal—prestige vs forgery limbo.// exhibit added
ESPIONAGETeam B Competitive Analysis (1976)Team B’s 1976 competitive estimate challenged NIE soft readings—SSCI later audited the design.// exhibit added
AVIATIOND-21 Tagboard and Senior BowlTagboard killed its M-21 mothership in 1966; Senior Bowl’s China shots never delivered usable Lop Nor film.// exhibit added
ESPIONAGEProject AzorianUnder Hughes cover, the Glomar Explorer tried to lift a sunken Soviet sub for the CIA's Azorian brief.// exhibit added
ESPIONAGEThe EC-121 Shootdown (15 April 1969)On 15 April 1969 North Korean MiGs shot down Navy EC-121 Deep Sea 129 on a SIGINT orbit over the Sea of Japan.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Euphronios Krater and the Met–Italy Repatriation AccordIn 1972 the Met paid about $1 million for the Euphronios krater. Italy later tied it to Cerveteri looting.// exhibit added
RELIGIONThe Dead Sea Scrolls Publication ControversiesCave 4 monopoly vs Huntington 1991 photos + IAA/Tov access. Documented publication fight.// exhibit added
SCIENCE & SPACEThe Clovis Comet and the Carolina BaysHundreds of thousands of Carolina Bays still get read as comet scars from a Clovis-era sky disaster.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Amazon Rainforest is a Man-Made ArtifactAmazon dark earth and earthworks keep feeding claims the rainforest was a managed landscape, not virgin wild.// exhibit added
ESPIONAGEGRAB and POPPY: First ELINT from OrbitGRAB flew as Galactic Radiation cover. NRO volumes say it was America's first operational ELINT satellite—then POPPY.// exhibit added
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe Vela Incident (22 September 1979)Vela 6911 saw a double flash. Ruina said probably not. CIA paper said 90% plus. Verdict stays contested.// exhibit added
AVIATIONLockheed CL-400 Suntan: Liquid-Hydrogen Spyplane That Wasn'tSuntan spent real LH2 money, then died on logistics—SP-4404 records the kill, not a flown fleet.// exhibit added