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AVIATIONConstant Peg: Secret MiGs at TonopahRed Eagles flew real MiGs at Tonopah 1977–1988—USAF declass renamed the desert folklore vacuum.
SURVEILLANCEProject MERRIMAC and Project RESISTANCESecurity called it facility protection. Church and Family Jewels show MERRIMAC/RESISTANCE on Americans.
FINANCE & BANKINGMichael Milken / Drexel Burnham Junk-Bond ScandalDrexel pleaded; Milken pleaded to six felonies. Contested clearance keeps court verbs—and blocks afterlife sermons.
ESPIONAGEProject Sunshine Human Tissue CollectionACHRE and AEC transcripts: Sunshine’s Sr-90 assay ran through infant bone networks under SECRET cover.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Euphronios Krater and the Met–Italy Repatriation AccordThe Met bought the Euphronios krater while a fresh-tomb origin was denied. Italy took it back.
ESPIONAGEThe Rainbow Warrior Bombing (Opération Satanique)France first denied the 10 July 1985 Rainbow Warrior bombing; the DGSE operation was later admitted.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSAbydos “Helicopter” Hieroglyphs: Palimpsest, Not AircraftAbydos Seti I panel: plaster loss → helicopter lookalike. Epigraphy says palimpsest—not paleocontact fact.
The Poisoned Alcohol of ProhibitionDuring Prohibition, federal chemists poisoned industrial alcohol knowing bootleggers would still drink it.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSParthenon Sculptures / Elgin Marbles: The Legal-Diplomatic TrailBritain calls the removal lawful by firman and the 1816 purchase. Greece calls it a taking from the building.
SURVEILLANCECambridge AnalyticaCambridge Analytica scraped Facebook quiz data and sold psychographic targeting into election campaigns.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDChaco Canyon Roads and Archaeoastronomy DebatesChaco roads documented NPS engineering; archaeoastronomy overclaims stay contested at L1—not alien surveyors.
HISTORICAL EVENTSUnited Fruit and Guatemala 1954CIA's PBSUCCESS toppled Guatemala's Arbenz in 1954 while United Fruit's land fight sat in the background.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSComet Ping Pong: The Restaurant at the CenterThe fight is a claimed trafficking basement at Comet Ping Pong versus the restaurant’s denial and the police record.
FINANCE & BANKINGNugan Hand BankNugan Hand collapsed in 1980. Stewart’s Royal Commission mapped the wreckage—not a sealed finding that CIA ran the bank.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSCascajal Block: Olmec Writing Debate (Not the Colossal Heads)Cascajal Block: Olmec writing debate—Science 2006 + skepticism; documented; ≠ colossal heads.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSSutton Hoo: Ship Burial, Treasure Law, and the 1939 DigIn 1939 a jury ruled Sutton Hoo a funeral, not treasure trove. Pretty owned it and gave it away.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe Manhattan Engineer District Secrecy RegimeMED hid the bomb by design. The 1946 Act made atomic data Restricted until someone affirmatively opened it.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYExxon Climate Research and DenialExxon's own scientists modeled climate risk with eerie accuracy while the company funded denial.
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.
RELIGIONThe Dead Sea Scrolls Publication ControversiesCave 4 monopoly vs Huntington 1991 photos + IAA/Tov access. Documented publication fight.