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SCIENCE & SPACEGlobe-Debunk Photo Arguments: Blue Marble, Composites, and Perspective CasesEarth pictures are called composites or perspective tricks, because an agency that needed a globe would publish one.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Pike CommitteePike pushed CIA budget oversight harder than Church; House blocked the report—leak and Ford files kept it alive.
ESPIONAGESpycatcher Affair / Peter WrightWright published Spycatcher. Lords and Strasbourg judged injunctions—not every memoir mole claim.
HISTORICAL EVENTSRuby RidgeDOJ’s Ruby Ridge Task Force and a 1995 Senate panel put Rules of Engagement on paper. Contested—no militia baptism.
Acoustic Cyber-EspionagePapers recover keys, printouts, and an RSA key from sound, and name no secret successor.
HISTORICAL EVENTSNewgrange and the Winter Solstice Roof-BoxNewgrange’s roof-box channels winter-solstice light—documented heritage engineering, not alien authorship.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSKa-Nefer-Nefer Mask: St. Louis Art Museum vs U.S. ForfeitureKa-Nefer-Nefer at SLAM: forfeiture failed on procedure—provenance care continues; not tabloid heist fact.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Ħal Saflieni HypogeumThe oracle hole that heals or kills is a popular claim. Ħal Saflieni is a Neolithic cemetery, not a sound weapon.
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.
FINANCE & BANKINGSteinhoff International Accounting ScandalSteinhoff's published numbers denied the hole. The doors show irregularities, not one global criminal verdict.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSTiwanaku Calendar StonesUNESCO Gate of the Sun vs Posnansky deep-time calendar. Contested Altiplano sky-clock claims.
SECRET SPACE PROGRAMThe Manned Orbiting Laboratory and KH-10 DORIANThe public name was a military manned laboratory. The camera was KH-10 DORIAN. The station did not fly.
ESPIONAGEProject Genetrix: Balloon Reconnaissance over the Bloc (1956)Genetrix lofted camera balloons in early 1956—FRUS records the Soviet protest and Eisenhower’s kill.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSBosnian Pyramid ClaimsVisoko pyramid park vs Schoch/Science geology + EAA. Contested—not European pyramid-as-fact.
ESPIONAGEMordechai Vanunu / Dimona RevelationsDimona visits missed the underground plant. Vanunu’s photos put it in public view. Amimut held.
OCEANThe Mariana Trench Anomalous SoundsHydrophones in the Mariana Trench caught metallic rhythms that listeners say no known animal explains.
ESPIONAGEOperation MockingbirdChurch-era files describe CIA friendships with journalists so thick that Mockingbird became shorthand.
SCIENCE & SPACEModern Flat Earth: From Zetetic Astronomy to the YouTube RevivalZetetic astronomy told readers not to trust a theory they had not tested, and the video revival has not ended the fight.
ESPIONAGEOperation Earnest VoiceCENTCOM’s Earnest Voice was real web-facing IO. A persona contract is not a domestic sock-puppet state.
FINANCE & BANKINGGlencore Bribery and Market-Manipulation Resolutions (2022)DOJ/CFTC/SFO 2022: Glencore pleaded to oil bribes and benchmark games—three dockets, not one fine.