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SCIENCE & SPACEWilliam Carpenter’s One Hundred Proofs (1885)Carpenter's 1885 hundred "proofs" still arm flat-Earth checklists. The Archive documents the pamphlet—not a globe veto.
FINANCE & BANKINGUBS Cross-Border Tax Evasion DPA (2009)UBS paid $780M under a 2009 deferred prosecution—Statement of Facts, not a jury conviction and not an exoneration.
ESPIONAGERobert HanssenHanssen's affidavit and DoJ OIG review document decades of FBI security failure—not master-spy myth.
HISTORICAL EVENTSSerpent Mound Dating Wars: Adena vs Fort AncientAdena vs Fort Ancient 14C fights at Serpent Mound. Contested dating—no hollow-earth.
The Pais PatentsNavy patents describe an inertial-mass craft; the filings and a spin test do not say that such a craft flew.
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.
ESPIONAGEOperation MONGOOSEAfter Bay of Pigs, Lansdale's Special Group set out to overthrow Castro. FRUS/NS Archive document the planning spine.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS"Client List" Document Claims vs Contact Books and Flight LogsFlight logs and books are real exhibits. DOJ said no incriminating client list. Contested/L2 refuses adjacency-as-guilt.
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.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDPlaneta Encantado Mirlo Rojo CGI ScandalMirlo Rojo aired lunar images as proof; a critic names CGI work, and Benítez defends Imágenes inéditas.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSGhislaine Maxwell Trial Evidence Adherents CiteMaxwell's SDNY conviction rests on a checkable exhibit spine. Archive stays on docket—not viral lists.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSGiant of KandaharA giant body was claimed near Kandahar, and the accounts do not establish that body.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYSatyam Computer Services FraudSatyam’s books showed cash and revenue that were not there. Raju confessed to keep the growth story.
SCIENCE & SPACEProject West Ford: Copper Needles in OrbitLincoln Lab lofted copper dipoles to bounce X-band. The belt worked briefly; NASA still tracks the clumps.
RELIGIONThe Dead Sea Scrolls Publication ControversiesCave 4 monopoly vs Huntington 1991 photos + IAA/Tov access. Documented publication fight.
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.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Gulf of Tonkin IncidentHow much of the August 1964 Tonkin clash was fog, fear, or a story built to widen the war?
ESPIONAGEThe Zircon Affair: GCHQ's Secret Satellite vs ParliamentBBC killed a Zircon spy-satellite film. Injunctions and Official Secrets raids followed. Parliament fought the gag.
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.
SURVEILLANCERoom 641AAT&T said it obeyed the law, but a technician's papers showed a locked NSA room copying web traffic in San Francisco.