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BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYLockheed Bribery Scandal and the Birth of the FCPASecret payments the filings did not show came first, and the foreign-bribery statute came after that record.
ESPIONAGEOperation CondorIn the 1970s Southern Cone dictatorships built Operation Condor as a cross-border kill-and-kidnap net.
HEALTH & MEDICINEEdgewood Arsenal Human ExperimentsFor decades Edgewood Arsenal dosed soldiers with chemicals and drugs. GAO later admitted the scale.
ALT HISTORYGate of the Sun at Tiwanaku: Monumental Archaeology Beyond the Calendar StonesTiwanaku Gate of the Sun: UNESCO/AFCP monument file—not the calendar-stones sibling.
Operation NorthwoodsWhat happens when the Joint Chiefs draft fake terror on U.S. soil and a president still says no?
FINANCE & BANKINGToshiba Accounting Scandal (2015)Toshiba restated years of filings after an independent probe. SESC/FSA penalty followed—execs stay in regulator verbs.
ESPIONAGETeam B Competitive Analysis (1976)Team B’s 1976 competitive estimate challenged NIE soft readings—SSCI later audited the design.
DEATHS AND DISAPPEARANCESLittle Saint James: Island Logistics, Temple, and Visitor ClaimsDeeds show buildings on a private island. A temple-and-visitor claim sits beside that record, not on it.
ESPIONAGEOperation Gold (Berlin Tunnel)CIA and MI6 tapped Berlin landlines. Blake told the KGB first. CIA still calls much of the take genuine.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Church CommitteeThe 1975 Church Committee dragged COINTELPRO, MKUltra, and CHAOS into the Senate record under oath.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSPoverty Point and the Denial of Indigenous MonumentalismA lost-race story said Indigenous people did not build these mounds. The site record says they did.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYSiemens Global Bribery Settlements (2008)Siemens’s 2008 FCPA pleas and SEC disgorgement topped $1.6B. Papers show a bribery system—not one rogue payment.
The Nayirah TestimonyNayirah's 1990 incubator testimony helped sell the Gulf War. Later reporting said the story was coached.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Antikythera Eclipse Prediction MechanismThe out-of-time alien-computer claim meets a Hellenistic eclipse gear train. A model is not the original machine.
FINANCE & BANKINGMichael Milken / Drexel Burnham Junk-Bond ScandalDrexel pleaded; Milken pleaded to six felonies. Contested clearance keeps court verbs—and blocks afterlife sermons.
FINANCE & BANKINGCum-Ex Dividend Tax FraudBundestag, Bonn/BGH, and ESMA: multiple reclaim of tax never paid—organized fraud, not a quirky trade.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSKhafre SAR ProjectA SAR team claimed eight hollow cylinders plunge nearly half a mile under Giza near Khafre.
ESPIONAGEThe PROMIS Software AffairHouse Judiciary condemned PROMIS misappropriation; DOJ’s Bua review found no credible conspiracy—keep the split.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSWadi el-Hol: Early Alphabet Inscriptions in Egypt’s Western DesertDarnell desert-road survey: early alphabetic graffiti at Wadi el-Hol—documented epigraphy.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTThe Bhopal Gas DisasterManagement supplied no usable warning about the gas that left tank 610 on the night of 2-3 December 1984.