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GOVERNMENT & POLITICSLibby Montana Tremolite AsbestosGrace's Libby vermiculite mine dusted a town with amphibole—then came the first CERCLA PHE.
Operation PaperclipPaperclip was to bar active Nazis, yet the JIOA asked for revised security reports so some scientists could still come.
ESPIONAGECanyon: Early Near-Geosynchronous COMINTCanyon put COMINT dishes near GEO. NRO history admits the enterprise—and still redacts the GEO pages.
SECRET SPACE PROGRAMThe Manned Orbiting Laboratory and KH-10 DORIANThe public name was a military manned laboratory. The camera was KH-10 DORIAN. The station did not fly.
RELIGIONBiblical Firmament Cosmology as Modern MovementA solid vault, or waters above, is read from the Hebrew text as a description of the world now.
DEATHS AND DISAPPEARANCESPaul is DeadA 1969 rumor said Paul McCartney had died and been replaced; press doors print the claim and print denials.
New World OrderAdherents say a secret plan for one world government hides behind the phrase; its best-known users spoke in public.
ESPIONAGERadio Free Europe PsyopsRadio Free Europe went live on 4 July 1950 under a private cover while CIA money kept the transmitters hot.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSPetra’s Nabataean Hydraulic EngineeringPetra’s Nabataean water systems—UNESCO/Jordan engineering record; not Indiana Jones treasury mystique.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSCascajal Block: Olmec Writing Debate (Not the Colossal Heads)Cascajal Block: Olmec writing debate—Science 2006 + skepticism; documented; ≠ colossal heads.
ET SPECIES & CONTACTChilca and Misión RAMA 1974 ReportageThe contested report is a programmed sighting at Chilca in September 1974, not a landing in the assignment.
HEALTH & MEDICINEGuatemala Syphilis ExperimentsFrom 1946 to 1948, U.S. researchers deliberately infected Guatemalans with STDs. A commission later said so.
DEATHS AND DISAPPEARANCESDag Hammarskjöld Crash InquiriesNdola 1961 killed Hammarskjöld. UN inquiries since 2015 still call external attack plausible—not proven.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSIran-ContraIran-Contra sold arms to Tehran and diverted cash to Contras. Tower Commission pages still sting.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDThe Voynich ManuscriptVoynich stays contested: cipher, hoax, or unread language. Beinecke holds MS 408. No proven translation.
The Gateway ProcessThe CIA copy of the 1983 Gateway report lacked page 25, and the agency denied having it; the Monroe Institute did.
ESPIONAGESOSUS: The Cold War Undersea Sound Surveillance GridSOSUS listened for Soviet subs under an oceanography cover. The mission stayed classified until 1991.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Klerksdorp SpheresKlerksdorp spheres: machined balls in 3-billion-year-old rock, or concretions? Mineralogy weighs in.
ALT HISTORYLinear A: Crete's Undeciphered Administrative ScriptLinear A undeciphered Minoan admin script—documented corpus/WH List 1733; no fake “cracked” claim.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSBehistun Inscription: Darius, Rawlinson, and Cuneiform’s RosettaBehistun: Darius, Rawlinson, and trilingual cuneiform—UNESCO-documented, not Atlantis.