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FINANCE & BANKINGThe 2008 Credit Ratings FailureSEC exams, FCIC, and Senate PSI treat issuer-pays AAA as an essential cog—not mere model error.
The Gateway ProcessThe CIA copy of the 1983 Gateway report lacked page 25, and the agency denied having it; the Monroe Institute did.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Abu Ghraib Taguba ReportTaguba wrote systemic criminal abuse at Abu Ghraib; Fay/Jones widened the aperture to intelligence and command.
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.
FINANCE & BANKINGBCCIBCCI's collapse exposed a bank used for laundering and intelligence cutouts across multiple continents.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Ħal Saflieni HypogeumThe oracle hole that heals or kills is a popular claim. Ħal Saflieni is a Neolithic cemetery, not a sound weapon.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSNess of Brodgar: Orkney’s Neolithic Complex Between the CirclesThe Ness of Brodgar was a walled Neolithic complex, not empty land between the circles.
ESPIONAGEGRAB and POPPY: First ELINT from OrbitGRAB flew as Galactic Radiation cover. NRO volumes say it was America's first operational ELINT satellite—then POPPY.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDSomerton Man / Tamám ShudSomerton Man died on an Adelaide beach in 1948. Police exhumed him in 2021. The coroner has not closed the name.
HISTORICAL EVENTSLalibela Rock-Hewn Churches: Stratigraphy of a Sacred LandscapeLalibela rock-hewn churches: UNESCO List 18 + multi-phase stratigraphy—not Templar folklore.
HEALTH & MEDICINEUnit 731Unit 731 ran lethal human experiments for Imperial Japan's biowar lab. Postwar deals muted the reckoning.
AVIATIONBoeing Bird of Prey: The 1990s Stealth DemonstratorPhantom Works kept Bird of Prey black from 1992–1999, then donated it in 2002 once the tricks were standard.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSWatson Brake: Middle Archaic Mounds Before Poverty PointSaunders Science Middle Archaic mounds before Poverty Point—documented Indigenous labor, not civilization-rank folklore.
HEALTH & MEDICINEThe Willowbrook Hepatitis ExperimentsAt Willowbrook, researchers deliberately gave institutionalized children hepatitis in the name of vaccine work.
CRYPTOZOOLOGYThe Flying Serpent of Dos Palmas (1882)A flying serpent over Dos Palmas in 1882? The whole case is one unsigned item in the Los Angeles Daily Times.
HISTORICAL EVENTSPentagon Flight 77: Path, Facade Damage, and Debris ClaimsNTSB and ASCE map Flight 77 into the Pentagon. Façade and debris claim-sets stay filed too.
HISTORICAL EVENTSOperation Chrome Dome: Nuclear Bombers on Airborne AlertChrome Dome kept nuclear B-52s aloft for years. Goldsboro and Palomares scaled it; Thule killed it.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSTerracotta Army Discovery, 1974March 1974 Lintong well dig → Qin pits → UNESCO 441. Prestige is managed; alien-garrison slogans are not.
The Dalai Lama CIA SalaryThe files print a subsidy beside the Dalai Lama, and they do not call that sum a salary.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTThe Bhopal Gas DisasterManagement supplied no usable warning about the gas that left tank 610 on the night of 2-3 December 1984.