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ESPIONAGEProject Genetrix: Balloon Reconnaissance over the Bloc (1956)Genetrix lofted camera balloons in early 1956—FRUS records the Soviet protest and Eisenhower’s kill.
The Tuskegee Syphilis ExperimentFor 40 years the Public Health Service told Black men it treated their "bad blood" while it withheld syphilis treatment.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSChromosome 2 FusionGenome papers read human chromosome 2 as a fusion of two ape chromosomes; creationist researchers dispute that reading.
SURVEILLANCEThe AT&T Hemisphere ProgramHemisphere let agencies search AT&T call records on admin subpoenas. OIG and Senate ask if that fits the Constitution.
ESPIONAGERHYOLITE / AQUACADE: Geosynchronous Missile-Telemetry SpiesCIA flew geosynchronous SIGINT as RHYOLITE, then AQUACADE. FOIA says the birds existed—not what every intercept said.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSDamascus Titan II Accident (19 September 1980)Damascus Titan II: socket, silo blast, W-53 thrown clear. Officials said safe.
FINANCE & BANKINGLIBOR RiggingLIBOR was published as an honest average. Traders bent the quotes. Barclays settled and was not convicted.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSSTELLARWIND / President's Surveillance ProgramSTELLARWIND ran years on presidential paper before FISA court and a five-IG FOIA autopsy.
HEALTH & MEDICINEEdgewood Arsenal Human ExperimentsFor decades Edgewood Arsenal dosed soldiers with chemicals and drugs. GAO later admitted the scale.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSEvent 201: The October 2019 Pandemic TabletopEvent 201 was a real Oct 2019 coronavirus tabletop. “They planned COVID” stays a reading.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Kharsag EpicsKharsag: an Anunna settlement in clay, or O'Brien's supplements to a 1918 translation called tentative?
AVIATIONTacit Blue: The Whale That Taught Stealth RadarThe Tacit Blue demonstrator flew in secret, and the public was not told the aircraft existed.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDSkinwalker Ranch: The BAASS Utah Ranch Report, 2010Eleven witnesses told a Pentagon-paid team of a dog-like creature that ran upright near Utah's Skinwalker Ranch.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSRQ-170 Sentinel Capture in Iran (December 2011)Iran displayed a stealth drone. ISAF said a U.S. recon UAV was missing. Obama asked it back. Mechanism stays claimed.
DEATHS AND DISAPPEARANCESDisappearance of Harold HoltHarold Holt vanished in the surf in 1967; a coroner found he drowned, and spy, submarine, and suicide claims persist.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSSutton 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.
CONSCIOUSNESS & SPIRITUALITYPsychedelic Renaissance and HyperspaceAdherents say DMT opens a hyperspace of real beings; clinical records log such reports and test psychedelics as drugs.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSOperation Popeye Weather ModificationPopeye seeded Indochina clouds in secret. Senate 1974 forced the sortie paper out.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSGhislaine Maxwell Trial Evidence Adherents CiteMaxwell's SDNY conviction rests on a checkable exhibit spine. Archive stays on docket—not viral lists.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSBenin Bronzes Repatriation: 1897 Loot to 2022 Transfer Agreements1897 was a punitive sack, not a gift. Berlin and the Horniman transferred pieces in 2022. Not all are home.