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GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Zircon Affair: GCHQ's Secret Satellite vs ParliamentBBC killed a Zircon spy-satellite film. Injunctions and Official Secrets raids followed. Parliament fought the gag.
HISTORICAL EVENTSOperation Big Itch and Entomological Warfare TestsDugway dropped uninfected fleas in 1954. The Archive spine is Chemical Corps paperwork—not plague folklore.
HISTORICAL EVENTSOperation MincemeatIn 1943 Britain floated a corpse with fake invasion plans. Operation Mincemeat worked better than fiction.
ALT HISTORYNewark Earthworks and Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes (UNESCO 2023)UNESCO 2023 Hopewell + Octagon lease politics: ceremonial geometry, not lost-race golf-course overlay.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDCanary Islands UFO Expedientes (1976 and 1979)The 1976 file says the lights are unidentified; a 1979 note says missiles; neither identifies a craft.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Lydian Hoard: Met–Turkey Repatriation (1993)Treated as a legitimate purchase, the Lydian tomb goods came from looted Uşak tumuli and returned to Turkey in 1993.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSToshiba Accounting Scandal (2015)Toshiba restated years of filings after an independent probe. SESC/FSA penalty followed—execs stay in regulator verbs.
FINANCE & BANKINGLIBOR RiggingLIBOR was published as an honest average. Traders bent the quotes. Barclays settled and was not convicted.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSNorthern Nigeria's Polio Boycott: The Sterilization-Plot ClaimIn 2003, polio vaccination stopped in parts of northern Nigeria amid false claims of a secret sterilization campaign.
ESPIONAGERHYOLITE / AQUACADE: Geosynchronous Missile-Telemetry SpiesCIA flew geosynchronous SIGINT as RHYOLITE, then AQUACADE. FOIA says the birds existed—not what every intercept said.
ESPIONAGELockheed A-12 Oxcart and BLACK SHIELDCIA's A-12 flew BLACK SHIELD from Kadena—29 missions—then yielded to the SR-71 path. Histories are declassified.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSEpstein Intelligence-Tie Narratives Adherents CiteJournalism says Acosta heard “intelligence.” DOJ paper charges trafficking and finds poor judgment
HEALTH & MEDICINEProject CoastApartheid South Africa's Project Coast built chemical and biological weapons. TRC testimony later mapped the shop.
RELIGIONWilbur Glenn Voliva and Zion Illinois Flat-Earth RadioVoliva put flat-Earth doctrine on Zion’s presses and WCBD. The Archive documents that reception—not a science dunk.
ALT SCIENCEMandela EffectFiona Broome says strangers' identical memories may reflect other realities; psychologists study them as false memories.
ANCIENT ASTRONAUTSSanxingdui Sacrificial Bronze PitsOnline theorists read Sanxingdui's giant eyes as alien portraits. Sun Hua and the excavators call them Shu ritual art.
SURVEILLANCEThe AT&T Hemisphere ProgramHemisphere let agencies search AT&T call records on admin subpoenas. OIG and Senate ask if that fits the Constitution.
ALT HISTORYSerpent Mound Dating Wars: Adena vs Fort AncientAdena vs Fort Ancient 14C fights at Serpent Mound. Contested dating—no hollow-earth.
SCIENCE & SPACEThree Mile Island Information ManagementKemeny's Public's Right Task Force shows TMI's public failure was information architecture—not a single cover-up slogan.
The Gateway ProcessThe CIA copy of the 1983 Gateway report lacked page 25, and the agency denied having it; the Monroe Institute did.