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BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYTheranosTheranos promised blood tests from a finger prick. WSJ reporting and Holmes's trial turned the pitch into fraud.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDTempestad en Bonanza and TVE Operación OVNIIn 1978 Spanish television put Benítez on camera with UFO witnesses; the catalogs do not confirm the sightings.
DEATHS AND DISAPPEARANCESDisappearance of Harold HoltHarold Holt vanished in the surf in 1967; a coroner found he drowned, and spy, submarine, and suicide claims persist.
ESPIONAGEThe Zinoviev LetterCAB 27/254 could not authenticate the 1924 letter; FCO historian Bennett's 1999 Note treats forgery as the best reading.
ESPIONAGEOperation MockingbirdMOCKINGBIRD was a secret 1963 CIA wiretap on two newsmen; Bernstein wrote that wider CIA press ties were played down.
Project MKUltraThe CIA hid MKUltra's drug tests on unwitting Americans, and in 1973 Director Helms ordered the files destroyed.
ESPIONAGEGRAB and POPPY: First ELINT from OrbitGRAB flew as Galactic Radiation cover. NRO volumes say it was America's first operational ELINT satellite—then POPPY.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSCity of David Digs and the Eilat Mazar Palace DebateMazar called it David’s palace. Critics deny that. The dig is real. The palace is not confirmed.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Richat Structure (The Eye of the Sahara)Plato's Critias gives Atlantis rings of sea and land. NASA's Earth Observatory calls the Richat an eroded dome.
SURVEILLANCECarnivore and DCSNetFBI records document Carnivore and later collection systems, and do not name a secret successor.
HISTORICAL EVENTSWindscale Fire (10 October 1957)White Paper in weeks; full Penney Report sealed until TNA opened AB 86/25 in January 1988.
FINANCE & BANKINGLIBOR RiggingLIBOR was published as an honest average. Traders bent the quotes. Barclays settled and was not convicted.
FINANCE & BANKINGWirecardThe cash in Wirecard’s published accounts was not in the banks the company had named.
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.
ESPIONAGEKH-9 Hexagon (and Gambit): Film-Return GiantsFilm-return Hexagon and Gambit stayed black on metrics while buckets still had to splash down—and sometimes vanish.
HISTORICAL EVENTSStanislav Petrov and the 1983 Oko False AlarmOko lied on 26 September 1983. Petrov judged false alarm inside a war-scare file—not a one-man apocalypse veto.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSVAERS as the Adherent COVID Safety DatasetAdherents tally VAERS COVID rows as a body count. CDC/FDA call the system passive—reports do not prove causation.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe Manhattan Engineer District Secrecy RegimeMED hid the bomb by design. The 1946 Act made atomic data Restricted until someone affirmatively opened it.
ESPIONAGEProject AzorianUnder Hughes cover, the Glomar Explorer tried to lift a sunken Soviet sub for the CIA's Azorian brief.
HISTORICAL EVENTSOperation Chrome Dome: Nuclear Bombers on Airborne AlertChrome Dome kept nuclear B-52s aloft for years. Goldsboro and Palomares scaled it; Thule killed it.