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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.
Operation NorthwoodsIn 1962 the Joint Chiefs proposed staged attacks as a pretext to invade Cuba; the memo stayed secret until 1997.
HISTORICAL EVENTSLooking Glass: SAC's Airborne Nuclear Command PostSAC kept a nuclear command post airborne for 29 years. Looking Glass mirrored Offutt—then handed off to Navy E-6Bs.
SURVEILLANCERoom 641AAT&T said it obeyed the law, but a technician's papers showed a locked NSA room copying web traffic in San Francisco.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSKyshtym / Mayak Disaster (29 September 1957)Mayak 1957: Soviet silence for decades. IAEA 1989; CIA/NRC already knew.
The Tuskegee Syphilis ExperimentFor 40 years the Public Health Service told Black men it treated their "bad blood" while it withheld syphilis treatment.
HISTORICAL EVENTSOperation Menu Cambodia Bombing SecrecyMenu’s secret Cambodia B-52s used dual reporting that falsified the raid books Congress later read.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYTexaco/Chevron Lago Agrio Ecuador LitigationLago Agrio's U.S. file is Aguinda forum transfer, then fraud findings blocking enforcement.
FINANCE & BANKINGTyco International / Dennis KozlowskiSEC civil fraud plus New York grand-larceny convictions—affirmed on appeal, then SEC bars. Lifestyle memes ≠ verdict.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSHazor’s Late Bronze Destruction: Radiocarbon, Yadin, and Biblical ArchaeologyHazor’s Late Bronze destruction: Yadin and radiocarbon scenarios—archaeology first, agent unresolved.
ESPIONAGEThe BYEMAN Control System: How Spy Satellites Stayed InvisibleBYEMAN was the lock on NRO satellite secrets—restructured in the 1990s, retired into TALENT-KEYHOLE on 20 May 2005.
DEATHS AND DISAPPEARANCESJohn F. Kennedy AssassinationThe Warren Commission found a lone gunman; House investigators later said probable conspiracy, on disputed acoustics.
HEALTH & MEDICINEProject CoastApartheid South Africa's Project Coast built chemical and biological weapons. TRC testimony later mapped the shop.
DEATHS AND DISAPPEARANCESLittle Saint James: Island Logistics, Temple, and Visitor ClaimsDeeds show buildings on a private island. A temple-and-visitor claim sits beside that record, not on it.
FINANCE & BANKINGSavings and Loan CrisisInsolvent thrifts stayed open while bad assets were papered over. The cleanup priced the delay, not a secret plot.
ESPIONAGETeam B Competitive Analysis (1976)Team B’s 1976 competitive estimate challenged NIE soft readings—SSCI later audited the design.
The Dalai Lama CIA SalaryThe files print a subsidy beside the Dalai Lama, and they do not call that sum a salary.
FINANCE & BANKINGGalleon / Raj Rajaratnam Insider TradingSDNY wiretaps and a 14-count verdict sank Galleon’s tip network—docket, not tabloid.
SCIENCE & SPACEArtemis Program: Continuing the Deception?Adherents say Artemis continues a staged Apollo story; NASA records print an uncrewed 2022 flight and a crewed 2026 one.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Gulf of Tonkin IncidentHow much of the August 1964 Tonkin clash was fog, fear, or a story built to widen the war?