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FINANCE & BANKINGHalliburton / KBR Nigeria Bonny Island FCPAKBR pleaded guilty to Bonny Island FCPA bribery in 2009. The docket is Nigeria LNG—not an Iraq meme.
ESPIONAGEQuill: The First Orbital Imaging Radar SatelliteQuill flew orbital SAR in December 1964—pointed only at America—then waited decades for NRO to say the word.
HISTORICAL EVENTSCongo Uranium and the Manhattan PipelineSengier parked Congolese ore on Staten Island. Nichols bought it. DOE: ~two-thirds of Manhattan's uranium.
DEATHS AND DISAPPEARANCESDag Hammarskjöld Crash InquiriesNdola 1961 killed Hammarskjöld. UN inquiries since 2015 still call external attack plausible—not proven.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSRosetta Stone: Decipherment Engine and Repatriation DebateBritain’s title claim is the 1801 treaty. Reading the stone is not a return order.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe UN Emblem Azimuthal Map as Flat-Earth EvidenceAdherents read the UN polar azimuthal emblem as a flat map. UN text calls it a projection. Contested.
ET SPECIES & CONTACTThe Black Knight SatelliteBlack Knight lore says a dark satellite was already in orbit before humans launched anything at all.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSStaffordshire Hoard: Detectorist Find, PAS, and the Anglo-Saxon Gold ShockStaffordshire Hoard: detectorist → PAS/Treasure → museum custody; documented Anglo-Saxon find trail.
ESPIONAGEOperation MONGOOSEAfter Bay of Pigs, Lansdale's Special Group set out to overthrow Castro. FRUS/NS Archive document the planning spine.
ESPIONAGEWho Gets the Pieces: The 1962–1964 Space Fragment PapersBelievers say space-fragment rules hid a recovery program; the 1962–64 papers show agencies fighting over the debris.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSParthenon Sculptures / Elgin Marbles: The Legal-Diplomatic TrailBritain calls the removal lawful by firman and the 1816 purchase. Greece calls it a taking from the building.
ESPIONAGEProject Genetrix: Balloon Reconnaissance over the Bloc (1956)Genetrix lofted camera balloons in early 1956—FRUS records the Soviet protest and Eisenhower’s kill.
FINANCE & BANKINGBCCIBCCI's collapse exposed a bank used for laundering and intelligence cutouts across multiple continents.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYTheranosTheranos promised blood tests from a finger prick. WSJ reporting and Holmes's trial turned the pitch into fraud.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSMachu Picchu Artifacts: Yale, Bingham, and the Peru ReturnYale called the collection a lawful export. A 2010 accord, not a judgment, sent it to Casa Concha.
SURVEILLANCEXKEYSCORE Public SlidesTraining slides went public in 2013. NSA answered on-record. PCLOB later published redacted oversight. Stick to those.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYWorldCom Line-Cost FraudLine costs that were operating expenses were booked as capital assets so the earnings held.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Pike CommitteePike pushed CIA budget oversight harder than Church; House blocked the report—leak and Ford files kept it alive.
ESPIONAGEVENONAVENONA decrypted 1940s Soviet intel cables and quietly confirmed spy names the public only learned later.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSSutton Hoo: Ship Burial, Treasure Law, and the 1939 DigIn 1939 a jury ruled Sutton Hoo a funeral, not treasure trove. Pretty owned it and gave it away.