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ESPIONAGEAldrich AmesAmes's plea and DoJ OIG summary document nine years of espionage and CIA–FBI coordination failure.
ALT HISTORYThe Younger Dryas ImpactYounger Dryas impact papers blame a comet 12,800 years ago for megafauna die-offs and a sudden freeze.
FINANCE & BANKINGLong-Term Capital Management Near-FailureFRBNY herded a private LTCM consortium under systemic-risk theory—no public money, official room.
HISTORICAL EVENTSWoburn Wells G & H / Anderson LitigationWoburn Wells G & H shut on TCE/PCE. Courts and epidemiology never fully locked step.
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.
ESPIONAGEOperation Ghost Stories / The Illegals Program (2010)Ten SVR illegals arrested June 2010. Charged as unregistered agents. Pleaded and swapped in eleven days.
FINANCE & BANKINGBNP Paribas Sanctions Violations (2014)BNPP pleaded guilty in 2014 to moving sanctioned dollars through New York. Charging language is narrower than the memes.
HISTORICAL EVENTSNERVA / Project Rover: Nuclear Rockets on the GroundRover/NERVA engines ran on the ground; the flight program ended before any nuclear rocket flew.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSKhafre SAR ProjectBiondi and Malanga say radar shows shafts 648 m under Khafre. Hawass denies it; their 2022 method paper is retracted.
ESPIONAGECanyon: Early Near-Geosynchronous COMINTCanyon put COMINT dishes near GEO. NRO history admits the enterprise—and still redacts the GEO pages.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYHealthSouth Accounting FraudHealthSouth’s books were fiction—CFO pleas and SEC paper say so. Scrushy’s criminal acquittal did not erase the fraud.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThera / Santorini Eruption Dating: Radiocarbon vs Egyptology (Not Atlantis)Thera/Santorini dating: radiocarbon vs Egyptology offset stays contested—chronology fight, not Atlantis.
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 & SPACEProject Pluto / SLAM: The Nuclear Ramjet That Never FlewPluto's nuclear ramjet was ground-tested, not flown. Irradiation stayed a cancellation concern, not settled policy.
AVIATIOND-21 Tagboard and Senior BowlTagboard killed its M-21 mothership in 1966; Senior Bowl’s China shots never delivered usable Lop Nor film.
HISTORICAL EVENTSIran Air 655 and the USS Vincennes (3 July 1988)Vincennes destroyed Iran Air 655—290 dead. Fogarty investigated; ICJ settled. Shootdown is fact; intent stays edged.
SECRET SPACE PROGRAMProject CORONA: America's First Spy SatellitesCORONA photographed the earth in secret while the public was told the flights were Discoverer research.
AVIATIONB-2 Spirit / Advanced Technology Bomber: Senior Ice vs Senior PegOn 20 October 1981 Senior Ice beat Senior Peg inside a black ATB contest—GAO later scored the flying wing.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDThe CIA’s Project Star Gate and Mars ReconstructionAdherents take a 1984 STAR GATE session as a view of Mars; the 1995 review called its operational use unsubstantiated.
SURVEILLANCECambridge AnalyticaCambridge Analytica scraped Facebook quiz data and sold psychographic targeting into election campaigns.