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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 CIVILIZATIONSKoh Ker / Cambodian Statue Repatriations from U.S. MuseumsKoh Ker ICE/SDNY/Met repatriations—documented provenance care, not blanket “all Khmer art stolen” smear.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Pike CommitteePike pushed CIA budget oversight harder than Church; House blocked the report—leak and Ford files kept it alive.
SCIENCE & SPACECastle Bravo Fallout (1 March 1954)The early public line said the exposure was small, planned, and already over.
The Philadelphia Experiment; Project RainbowThe Navy record denies a 1943 invisibility and teleport of USS Eldridge; degaussing is not that claim.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYEnron and Mark-to-Myth AccountingEnron's 2001 collapse made "mark-to-market" a punchline and helped birth Sarbanes-Oxley paperwork.
ESPIONAGEIgor Gouzenko Defection and the Canadian Royal CommissionGouzenko’s 1945 Ottawa defection fed the 1946 Kellock–Taschereau report—Canadian primary open.
HISTORICAL EVENTSBorobudur Restoration Politics: UNESCO’s Mega-Conservation ProjectUNESCO Borobudur mega-restoration (1970s–80s) + WH List 592—documented conservation politics.
SCIENCE & SPACERoswell Crash and Cover-UpRoswell's 1947 disc became a weather balloon, then secret Project Mogul in Air Force reports; crash claims persist.
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.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe Manhattan Engineer District Secrecy RegimeMED hid the bomb by design. The 1946 Act made atomic data Restricted until someone affirmatively opened it.
ALT SCIENCEActive Thermitic Material: The 2009 Harrit–Jones Dust PaperA 2009 paper says WTC dust held active thermitic chips. NIST did not baptize demolition.
The Dalai Lama CIA SalaryThe files print a subsidy beside the Dalai Lama, and they do not call that sum a salary.
ESPIONAGEOperation CondorIn the 1970s Southern Cone dictatorships built Operation Condor as a cross-border kill-and-kidnap net.
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.
SCIENCE & SPACEIce Wall Antarctica and The Final Experiment 2024An ice rim is said to bound a flat earth, and a 2024 Antarctic trip is offered as a test of that claim.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe Dreyfus Affair ForgeriesFrench military justice met a handwriting error with forgeries—until cassation broke the seal.
ESPIONAGEMordechai Vanunu / Dimona RevelationsDimona visits missed the underground plant. Vanunu’s photos put it in public view. Amimut held.
ET SPECIES & CONTACTThe Black Knight SatelliteBlack Knight lore says a dark satellite was already in orbit before humans launched anything at all.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSFranco-Era Materia Reservada UFO SecrecyBenítez says Franco's Spain made UFOs reserved matter in 1968. Ballester Olmos dates the strict secrecy to 1979.