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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.
ESPIONAGEEpstein Flight Logs and the "Lolita Express"The logs list aircraft, routes, and names. A line is a travel entry, not a finding that the passenger was a client.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSProject MarauderIn the early 1990s Project MARAUDER surfaced as a claimed magnetically fired plasma ring weapon.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSYonaguni MonumentKimura artificiality vs Schoch jointed sandstone. Contested—not sunken-city-as-fact.
ESPIONAGEThe Family Jewels: CIA's 1973 Self-Inventory of IllegalitiesThe CIA ordered a list of what might fall outside its charter, and the public did not get that list in 1973.
PLANETARY ANOMALIES3I ATLASAbraham Loeb and coauthors asked if interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is alien technology; telescopes measure a comet.
AVIATIONB-2 Spirit / Advanced Technology Bomber: Senior Ice vs Senior PegOn 20 October 1981 Senior Ice beat Senior Peg inside a black ATB contest—GAO later scored the flying wing.
SCIENCE & SPACEThe Hutchinson EffectAdherents say John Hutchison's fields lift metal; the Army found no records of 1983 work its officer says it paid for.
The Hobbits of Flores IslandThe Liang Bua bones were called a modern human with microcephaly, against the species claim.
HEALTH & MEDICINESilent Spring and the DDT CounterattackCarson put DDT on the docket. Industry fought in hearing. Ruckelshaus overruled the examiner, canceled crop uses.
ESPIONAGEProject Genetrix: Balloon Reconnaissance over the Bloc (1956)Genetrix lofted camera balloons in early 1956—FRUS records the Soviet protest and Eisenhower’s kill.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Pike CommitteePike pushed CIA budget oversight harder than Church; House blocked the report—leak and Ford files kept it alive.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSRocky Flats: FBI Raid and Grand Jury SecrecyRockwell was paid an award fee for environmental control. The 6 June 1989 raid said the plant was not under it.
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 CIVILIZATIONSPergamon Altar: Berlin Custody vs Turkish ClaimsPergamon Altar: Berlin custody versus Turkish claims—documented dual-track heritage dispute.
SCIENCE & SPACEFlat Earth NASA Distrust and ISS Footage ArgumentsISS footage distrust: fisheye, harnesses, no stars, compositing—beside NASA/ESA doors; no dunk, no baptism.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYEnron and Mark-to-Myth AccountingEnron's 2001 collapse made "mark-to-market" a punchline and helped birth Sarbanes-Oxley paperwork.
FINANCE & BANKINGDeutsche Bank Russia Mirror TradesMoscow–London mirrors moved billions into dollars. NYDFS and FCA wrote the settlement; DOJ did not close beside them.
ESPIONAGEOperation Ghost Stories / The Illegals Program (2010)Ten SVR illegals arrested June 2010. Charged as unregistered agents. Pleaded and swapped in eleven days.
ESPIONAGEThe Rockefeller Commission (1975)Ford’s June 1975 Rockefeller Commission put CIA domestic excesses on paper before Church finished.