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GOVERNMENT & POLITICSKyshtym / Mayak Disaster (29 September 1957)Mayak 1957: Soviet silence for decades. IAEA 1989; CIA/NRC already knew.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSMaya Script Decipherment: Knorosov, Pacal, and the Dresden CodexMaya script deciphered—Knorosov, Pacal, Dresden; documented readable history, not unbroken mystery.
The Philadelphia Experiment; Project RainbowThe Navy record denies a 1943 invisibility and teleport of USS Eldridge; degaussing is not that claim.
ESPIONAGERudolf Abel / Hollow Nickel CaseA hollow nickel and Hayhanen’s break led to Abel’s conviction—affirmed in 362 U.S. 217.
ALT HISTORYLinear A: Crete's Undeciphered Administrative ScriptLinear A undeciphered Minoan admin script—documented corpus/WH List 1733; no fake “cracked” claim.
ESPIONAGEQuill: The First Orbital Imaging Radar SatelliteQuill flew orbital SAR in December 1964—pointed only at America—then waited decades for NRO to say the word.
ALT HISTORYMust Farm: Britain's Bronze Age Wet-Preservation SettlementMust Farm Late Bronze Age pile-dwelling: CAU/HE wet preservation—documented, not British Atlantis.
ESPIONAGEVENONAVENONA decrypted 1940s Soviet intel cables and quietly confirmed spy names the public only learned later.
ESPIONAGERHYOLITE / AQUACADE: Geosynchronous Missile-Telemetry SpiesCIA flew geosynchronous SIGINT as RHYOLITE, then AQUACADE. FOIA says the birds existed—not what every intercept said.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSPersepolis Fortification Archive: Oriental Institute Tablets and Rubin v. IranRubin tried to break up the loaned Persepolis tablets to pay a judgment. The Supreme Court left the archive immune.
HISTORICAL EVENTSOperation Menu Cambodia Bombing SecrecyMenu’s secret Cambodia B-52s used dual reporting that falsified the raid books Congress later read.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSIran-ContraIran-Contra sold arms to Tehran and diverted cash to Contras. Tower Commission pages still sting.
ANCIENT ASTRONAUTSLos Astronautas de Yahvé: Biblical Theophany as PaleocontactThe fight is whether Los astronautas de Yavé reads biblical appearances as paleocontact, or only a birth thesis.
ESPIONAGECIA–Mafia Plots to Assassinate Fidel CastroChurch and CIA IG docs show Agency–Mafia cutouts aimed at Castro. The plots are history. The hit did not land.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSStaffordshire Hoard: Detectorist Find, PAS, and the Anglo-Saxon Gold ShockStaffordshire Hoard: detectorist → PAS/Treasure → museum custody; documented Anglo-Saxon find trail.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSPuma PunkuAdherents call Puma Punku's H-blocks machined, beyond a people without iron. Tool marks and bronze cramps say Tiwanaku.
SURVEILLANCECarnivore and DCSNetFBI records document Carnivore and later collection systems, and do not name a secret successor.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSVindolanda Tablets: Everyday Writing on Rome’s Northern FrontierVindolanda ink-on-wood tablets: birthday invites and strength reports—empire paperwork, not Wall romance.
SCIENCE & SPACEWIPP February 2014 Radiation ReleaseLANL drum 68660’s nitrate-salt/organic chemistry shut the nation’s only TRU geologic repository for years.
ALT HISTORYLord of Sipán: Walter Alva and the Moche Royal Tombs1987 Sipán: Alva’s salvage archaeology raced a looting-to-market pipeline into Moche royal tombs.