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FINANCE & BANKINGLIBOR RiggingLIBOR was published as an honest average. Traders bent the quotes. Barclays settled and was not convicted.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSOperation Popeye Weather ModificationPopeye seeded Indochina clouds in secret. Senate 1974 forced the sortie paper out.
AVIATIONBoeing 737 MAX Certification FailuresMCAS was left out of the manuals. Level B training kept a common type rating, so MCAS simulator time was not required.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSCOINTELPROFBI orders said COINTELPRO must never be known outside the Bureau; files taken from its Media office in 1971 exposed it.
ESPIONAGEProject MINARET: The NSA Watch-List ProgramChurch Committee and declassified NSA histories document MINARET—a 1967–1973 watch-list SIGINT program..
ESPIONAGEProject AzorianUnder Hughes cover, the Glomar Explorer tried to lift a sunken Soviet sub for the CIA's Azorian brief.
Operation PaperclipPaperclip was to bar active Nazis, yet the JIOA asked for revised security reports so some scientists could still come.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYFIFA / Garcia Report World Cup Bidding CorruptionGarcia’s bidding report sat withheld for years. DOJ racketeering ran parallel. Settlement is not a clean bill.
FINANCE & BANKINGRolls-Royce Bribery Deferred Prosecution AgreementsSFO and DOJ DPAs put intermediary bribery into agreed Statements of Facts—court admissions, not a jury.
HISTORICAL EVENTSBAE Al-Yamamah and the SFO HaltSFO halted Al-Yamamah for security; Lords upheld it; OECD called the halt a Convention crisis.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe Vela Incident (22 September 1979)Vela 6911 saw a double flash. Ruina said probably not. CIA paper said 90% plus. Verdict stays contested.
ESPIONAGEThe Cambridge FiveBurgess/Maclean fled; Blunt confessed under immunity; Thatcher named him in 1979—Venona had bitten.
AVIATIONTWA Flight 800 Contested CausesNTSB wrote a center-tank explosion. FBI closed without a charged missile. Critics still contest the streak—L2 holds.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSRunit Dome (Cactus Crater), Marshall IslandsUnlined Cactus crater, >100,000 yd³ Pu-contaminated waste, Compact claims closure—DOE “stable lid” vs RMI distrust.
PLANETARY ANOMALIESThe Face on Mars and Viking ImagingViking 035A72 looked like a face. NASA’s 1976 caption called shadows. MGS and HiRISE returned a mesa.
SCIENCE & SPACERoswell Crash and Cover-UpRoswell's 1947 disc became a weather balloon, then secret Project Mogul in Air Force reports; crash claims persist.
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.
New World OrderAdherents say a secret plan for one world government hides behind the phrase; its best-known users spoke in public.
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.
ESPIONAGEProject BLUEBIRDProject BLUEBIRD is the 1950 interrogation file; a hearing says it was renamed ARTICHOKE, apart from MKULTRA.