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Live log of amendments, new files, and evidence entering the archive
HISTORICAL EVENTSRuby RidgeDOJ’s Ruby Ridge Task Force and a 1995 Senate panel put Rules of Engagement on paper. Contested—no militia baptism.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYDeepwater Horizon Evidence FightsMacondo blew out in 2010. The Archive fight is JIT, Commission, and MDL evidence—not first-week spin.
ESPIONAGEUKUSA: The 1946 Signals Intelligence AgreementThe 1946 UKUSA agreement formalized U.S.–UK SIGINT partnership into Five Eyes. NSA/GCHQ/NARA doors—not invented takes.
AVIATIONBoeing 737 MAX Certification FailuresTwo MAX crashes killed 346. A 2020 House report said Boeing and FAA certification had failed hard.
ESPIONAGEThe USS Liberty Incident (1967) and NSA TranscriptsIsraeli forces hit USS Liberty in 1967. NSA FOIA’d the transcripts—without closing deliberate vs mistake.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSKhufu’s Boat Pits at Giza (Documented Finds, Not ScanPyramids)1954 solar bark pits at Giza are documented finds—not ScanPyramids voids.
HEALTH & MEDICINECamp Lejeune Water ContaminationCamp Lejeune’s wells carried VOCs for decades. ATSDR, VA, and CLJA are the paper trail—not folklore.
AVIATIONLockheed A-12 Oxcart and BLACK SHIELDCIA's A-12 flew BLACK SHIELD from Kadena—29 missions—then yielded to the SR-71 path. Histories are declassified.
ESPIONAGEThe Mitrokhin ArchiveMitrokhin's notes sit at Cambridge: open typescripts, closed notebooks, ISC process paper.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSParthenon Sculptures / Elgin Marbles: The Legal-Diplomatic TrailBetween 1801 and 1812 Elgin stripped Parthenon sculptures. Athens still calls the British Museum a vault.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTDuPont C8 and the PFAS Cover TrailDuPont’s C8 file became EPA’s record TSCA penalty—and a cover-trail about what reached the Agency when.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSPoverty Point and the Denial of Indigenous MonumentalismPoverty Point's concentric ridges prove hunter-gatherers could raise monuments colonial historians denied.
FINANCE & BANKINGBNP Paribas Sanctions Violations (2014)BNPP pleaded guilty in 2014 to moving sanctioned dollars through New York. Charging language is narrower than the memes.
SURVEILLANCEOperation SHAMROCK: The Telegram Dragnet (1945–1975)From 1945 to 1975, NSA copied most international telegrams via RCA, ITT, and Western Union.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSYonaguni MonumentKimura artificiality vs Schoch jointed sandstone. Contested—not sunken-city-as-fact.
AVIATIONDamascus Titan II Accident (19 September 1980)Damascus Titan II: socket, silo blast, W-53 thrown clear. Officials said safe.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSRongorongo: Easter Island's Undeciphered ScriptRongorongo tablets still will not read. Fresh radiocarbon dates only deepen Rapa Nui's script mystery.
FINANCE & BANKINGHalliburton / KBR Nigeria Bonny Island FCPAKBR pleaded guilty to Bonny Island FCPA bribery in 2009. The docket is Nigeria LNG—not an Iraq meme.
ESPIONAGEProject BLUEBIRDIn 1950 BLUEBIRD opened the CIA's behavioral-control file that later fed ARTICHOKE and MKUltra.
AVIATIONConstant Peg: Secret MiGs at TonopahRed Eagles flew real MiGs at Tonopah 1977–1988—USAF declass renamed the desert folklore vacuum.
SURVEILLANCENSA Trailblazer and ThinThreadNSA poured money into Trailblazer while ThinThread offered cheaper analysis with stronger privacy filters.
FINANCE & BANKINGNugan Hand BankNugan Hand collapsed in 1980. Stewart’s Royal Commission mapped the wreckage—not a sealed finding that CIA ran the bank.
ESPIONAGEAna Belén MontesDIA’s Cuba analyst pleaded guilty to espionage conspiracy. Twenty-five years. Court verbs only.
ESPIONAGEProject ARTICHOKEBefore MKUltra, ARTICHOKE chased hypnosis and drugs that might make a prisoner talk on command.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYEnron and Mark-to-Myth AccountingEnron's 2001 collapse made "mark-to-market" a punchline and helped birth Sarbanes-Oxley paperwork.