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ESPIONAGEBay of Pigs Invasion / Kirkpatrick IG SurveyAfter Bay of Pigs, CIA's own IG called plausible denial a pathétique fiction. The survey and DDP rebuttal are public.
SURVEILLANCEXKEYSCORE Public SlidesTraining slides went public in 2013. NSA answered on-record. PCLOB later published redacted oversight. Stick to those.
SCIENCE & SPACEThe Wow! Signal~72s Big Ear burst (15 Aug 1977): beacon reading vs natural hydrogen noise—dual-refuse; no sneer.
PLANETARY ANOMALIES1991 VG ObjectWas 1991 VG a probe? ESA recovered it in 2017 and found none of the drift a hollow craft would show.
FINANCE & BANKINGLong-Term Capital Management Near-FailureFRBNY herded a private LTCM consortium under systemic-risk theory—no public money, official room.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSHerculaneum Papyri and the Vesuvius ChallengeHerculaneum’s rolls are real, and most are still unread. Scans have not opened the library.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSLibby Montana Tremolite AsbestosGrace's Libby vermiculite mine dusted a town with amphibole—then came the first CERCLA PHE.
HISTORICAL EVENTSPalomares Broken Arrow (17 January 1966)Chrome Dome collision over Palomares spilled four B28s. Officials said safe. DNA: Pu scatter, bomb months at sea.
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.
Acoustic Cyber-EspionagePapers recover keys, printouts, and an RSA key from sound, and name no secret successor.
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.
The Lost City of Troy and the Epic of HomerSchliemann named the mound Troy. Which layer is Homer's city, Troy II or a later one, stays unsettled.
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.
HISTORICAL EVENTSBorobudur Restoration Politics: UNESCO’s Mega-Conservation ProjectUNESCO Borobudur mega-restoration (1970s–80s) + WH List 592—documented conservation politics.
ALT HISTORYThe Younger Dryas ImpactYounger Dryas impact papers blame a comet 12,800 years ago for megafauna die-offs and a sudden freeze.
FINANCE & BANKINGBernard Madoff and the SEC's Missed WarningsThe statements showed trades that were not trades, and the SEC exams did not catch it.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Euphronios Krater and the Met–Italy Repatriation AccordThe Met bought the Euphronios krater while a fresh-tomb origin was denied. Italy took it back.
ESPIONAGECanyon: Early Near-Geosynchronous COMINTCanyon put COMINT dishes near GEO. NRO history admits the enterprise—and still redacts the GEO pages.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSGiant of KandaharA giant body was claimed near Kandahar, and the accounts do not establish that body.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSWadi el-Hol: Early Alphabet Inscriptions in Egypt’s Western DesertDarnell desert-road survey: early alphabetic graffiti at Wadi el-Hol—documented epigraphy.