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ESPIONAGEProject AzorianUnder Hughes cover, the Glomar Explorer tried to lift a sunken Soviet sub for the CIA's Azorian brief.
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.
SURVEILLANCESTELLARWIND / President's Surveillance ProgramSTELLARWIND ran years on presidential paper before FISA court and a five-IG FOIA autopsy.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSHobby Lobby, Cuneiform Tablets, and the Museum of the Bible ScandalsPurchases were treated as a lawful private buy. Forfeiture papers alleged false customs labels and an illegal import.
FINANCE & BANKINGBernard Madoff and the SEC's Missed WarningsThe statements showed trades that were not trades, and the SEC exams did not catch it.
SECRET SOCIETIESThe Statue of Liberty: Monument to LuciferAdherents read the Statue of Liberty as a Lucifer monument; Park Service pages call it Liberty Enlightening the World.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSGreat Zimbabwe and Colonial Denial ArchaeologyColonial archaeology refused to credit Africans for Great Zimbabwe's stone city. The walls outlasted the lie.
ESPIONAGEPan Am Flight 103 / Lockerbie Evidence ControversiesLockerbie's dead are settled fact. Megrahi's conviction survived appeals and SCCRC referral. The exhibits still argue.
ANCIENT ASTRONAUTSLos Astronautas de Yahvé: Biblical Theophany as PaleocontactThe fight is whether Los astronautas de Yavé reads biblical appearances as paleocontact, or only a birth thesis.
The Nayirah TestimonyA girl named only as Nayirah told a caucus of babies taken from incubators; she was the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter.
The Poisoned Alcohol of ProhibitionFederal rules put wood alcohol in industrial alcohol; Norris blamed the government for deaths; others blamed drinkers.
ESPIONAGEOperation Ivy BellsNavy/NSA tapped Okhotsk for years until Pelton sold it—Walker is the crypto sibling, not the tap salesman.
SCIENCE & SPACECharles K. Johnson and the International Flat Earth Research SocietyOrbits and Moon landings were called a fraud beside the society's president, and that fight is not settled.
FINANCE & BANKINGSociété Générale / Jérôme Kerviel Rogue TradingSocGen lost billions on unauthorized Kerviel positions. Courts convicted him and later shared civil fault..
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDLate 1953: Five Air Force UFO ReportsFive 1953 Air Force files, from the Bering Strait to Morocco, record lights and craft their own officers could not name.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSÇatalhöyük: From Mellaart’s Fame to Hodder’s Reflexive DigÇatalhöyük: Mellaart to Hodder’s reflexive dig—documented Neolithic urbanism, not goddess absolutism.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSRocky Flats: FBI Raid and Grand Jury SecrecyRockwell was paid an award fee for environmental control. The 6 June 1989 raid said the plant was not under it.
SCIENCE & SPACEThe Hutchinson EffectAdherents say John Hutchison's fields lift metal; the Army found no records of 1983 work its officer says it paid for.
PRISMLeaked slides tied NSA's PRISM to Google and Apple; officials said it was not undisclosed, and the firms denied knowing.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSAnniston PCBs and MonsantoAnniston's Monsanto PCB plant left a Superfund Alternative file DOJ still forced open.