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BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYLockheed Bribery Scandal and the Birth of the FCPA1970s Lockheed commission hearings helped birth the FCPA after Tanaka-era Japanese payouts hit daylight.// exhibit added
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSLibby Montana Tremolite AsbestosGrace's Libby vermiculite mine dusted a town with amphibole—then came the first CERCLA PHE.// exhibit added
ESPIONAGEOperation CondorIn the 1970s Southern Cone dictatorships built Operation Condor as a cross-border kill-and-kidnap net.// exhibit added
SURVEILLANCEXKEYSCORE Public SlidesTraining slides went public in 2013. NSA answered on-record. PCLOB later published redacted oversight. Stick to those.// exhibit added
HISTORICAL EVENTSStanislav Petrov and the 1983 Oko False AlarmOko lied on 26 September 1983. Petrov judged false alarm inside a war-scare file—not a one-man apocalypse veto.// exhibit added
HISTORICAL EVENTSNORAD False Alarms of 1979–1980NORAD warning computers lied in 1979 and 1980. Conferences and sensors stood the forces down—not a lone-hero caption.// exhibit added
HISTORICAL EVENTSLooking Glass: SAC's Airborne Nuclear Command PostSAC kept a nuclear command post airborne for 29 years. Looking Glass mirrored Offutt—then handed off to Navy E-6Bs.// exhibit added
SECRET SPACE PROGRAMThe Manned Orbiting Laboratory and KH-10 DORIANMOL planned Gemini crews running a spy station in orbit. Cancellation in 1969 buried KH-10 Dorian with it.// exhibit added
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSFranco-Era Materia Reservada UFO SecrecyUnder Franco, Spanish UFO files sat as materia reservada, a classification wall around the sky.// exhibit added
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDCanary Islands UFO Expedientes (1976 and 1979)Spanish Air Force expedientes logged Canary Islands mass-sky events on 22 June 1976 and 5 March 1979.// exhibit added
HISTORICAL EVENTSThule / Project Crested Ice (21 January 1968)Thule crash: officials said no yield. Crested Ice paper: gentleman's agreement, missing spark plug, Chrome Dome ended.// exhibit added
ESPIONAGERudolf Abel / Hollow Nickel CaseA hollow nickel and Hayhanen’s break led to Abel’s conviction—affirmed in 362 U.S. 217.// exhibit added
SCIENCE & SPACEProject Pluto / SLAM: The Nuclear Ramjet That Never FlewProject Pluto built Tory nuclear ramjets for a doomsday cruise missile that never left the desert stands.// exhibit added
SCIENCE & SPACEOperation Fishbowl / Starfish PrimeStarfish Prime: planned EMP test. Paper trail: Hawaii damage, dead satellites.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSOxyrhynchus Papyri: Grenfell, Hunt, and the Egypt Exploration Society CorpusGrenfell/Hunt EES digs built the Oxyrhynchus corpus; Oxford/Bodleian still publish it.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Glozel Affair: French Archaeology’s Media Fraud WarGlozel Affair: French press/court fraud war—documented historiography, not Atlantis-in-Auvergne.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSShinichi Fujimura and the Japanese Paleolithic Planting Scandal5 Nov 2000 cameras caught Fujimura planting Paleolithic finds—textbook invalidation, facts only.// exhibit added
HISTORICAL EVENTSSeahenge (Holme I): The Timber Circle Exposed by the TideSeahenge's inverted oak stump and 55 posts surfaced at Holme-next-the-Sea in 1998 like a Bronze Age clock.// exhibit added
HISTORICAL EVENTSOperation Chrome Dome: Nuclear Bombers on Airborne AlertChrome Dome kept nuclear B-52s aloft for years. Goldsboro and Palomares scaled it; Thule killed it.// exhibit added
HISTORICAL EVENTSOperation AlsosGroves built Alsos to measure the German bomb. The paperwork says they found scientists and ore—not a production weapon.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSQumran Settlement Archaeology: Beyond the Scrolls Publication Fightde Vaux dig + Magness synthesis: Qumran settlement archaeology—not the DSS publication fight.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSPersepolis Fortification Archive: Oriental Institute Tablets and Rubin v. IranChicago diggers pulled tens of thousands of Persepolis tablets that still map Achaemenid paperwork.// exhibit added
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSUgaritic Alphabet: Ras Shamra 1929 and a Bronze Age AbecedaryRas Shamra 1929 + Louvre abecedary—documented Ugaritic alphabet trail, not “still unread” mystique.// exhibit added
ESPIONAGECIA–Mafia Plots to Assassinate Fidel CastroChurch and CIA IG docs show Agency–Mafia cutouts aimed at Castro. The plots are history. The hit did not land.// exhibit added
AVIATIONRQ-170 Sentinel Capture in Iran (December 2011)Iran displayed a stealth drone. ISAF said a U.S. recon UAV was missing. Obama asked it back. Mechanism stays claimed.// exhibit added