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HISTORICAL EVENTSUnited Fruit and Guatemala 1954CIA's PBSUCCESS toppled Guatemala's Arbenz in 1954 while United Fruit's land fight sat in the background.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYExxon Climate Research and DenialExxon's scientists warned bosses in 1977 that fossil fuels would warm the planet, then Exxon sold the public doubt.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSFlint Water CrisisFlint switched water sources in 2014. Lead followed. State and EPA timelines still look like a cover delay.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Sumerian King ListThe Sumerian King List gives antediluvian rulers reigns of tens of thousands of years. Adherents take it literally.
ESPIONAGEAble Archer 83 and the Soviet War ScareAble Archer 83 is documented; the 1990 PFIAB and the 1984 SNIE still disagree on how close the scare came.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDThe Tic Tac and UAP Task ForcesThe 2004 Nimitz Tic Tac chase forced AATIP, UAPTF, and ODNI reports into the same uncomfortable folder.
FINANCE & BANKINGLIBOR RiggingLIBOR was published as an honest average. Traders bent the quotes. Barclays settled and was not convicted.
The Hobbits of Flores IslandThe Liang Bua bones were called a modern human with microcephaly, against the species claim.
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.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Amazon Rainforest is a Man-Made ArtifactAmazon dark earth and earthworks keep feeding claims the rainforest was a managed landscape, not virgin wild.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSLinear B Decipherment: Ventris, Chadwick, and Mycenaean GreekLinear B was denied as Greek for decades. Ventris and Chadwick read it as Mycenaean Greek.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYWorldCom Line-Cost FraudLine costs that were operating expenses were booked as capital assets so the earnings held.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYOlympus Tobashi Accounting ScandalOlympus hid 100B+ yen securities losses for years via tobashi parking to look solvent—2011 doors named it.
George Soros ConspiracyAdherents say George Soros works to remake Europe; the ADL and AJC say many such claims draw on antisemitic tropes.
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.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSCoptic Magical Papyri: Würzburg Corpus Beyond Nag HammadiWürzburg catalogues Coptic magical papyri as ritual texts, not a Nag Hammadi leftover or superstition without weight.
HISTORICAL EVENTSTacit Blue: The Whale That Taught Stealth RadarThe Tacit Blue demonstrator flew in secret, and the public was not told the aircraft existed.
SURVEILLANCERoom 641AAT&T said it obeyed the law, but a technician's papers showed a locked NSA room copying web traffic in San Francisco.
ESPIONAGEThe Cambridge FiveBurgess/Maclean fled; Blunt confessed under immunity; Thatcher named him in 1979—Venona had bitten.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSMonte Verde and the Fight Over America's First PeoplesClovis-first denied a pre-Clovis Americas. The 1997 visit accepted one Monte Verde layer, not a first date.