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GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe 1MDB Kleptocracy Case1MDB was described as a development fund; the civil complaint describes money that left that story.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSTimbuktu Manuscripts: 2012–13 Smuggling Rescue and UNESCO Damage CountsTimbuktu manuscripts: UNESCO damage counts and SAVAMA rescue—documented survival, not total-loss myth.
HISTORICAL EVENTSUnited Fruit and Guatemala 1954CIA's PBSUCCESS toppled Guatemala's Arbenz in 1954 while United Fruit's land fight sat in the background.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSPre-9/11 Put Options and Insider-Trading ClaimsAirline puts spiked before 9/11; adherents read foreknowledge, while the Commission and SEC found no tie to the attacks.
ALT HISTORYCoptic Magical Papyri: Würzburg Corpus Beyond Nag HammadiWürzburg catalogues Coptic magical papyri as ritual texts, not a Nag Hammadi leftover or superstition without weight.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSIran Air 655 and the USS Vincennes (3 July 1988)Vincennes destroyed Iran Air 655—290 dead. Fogarty investigated; ICJ settled. Shootdown is fact; intent stays edged.
HEALTH & MEDICINEThe Willowbrook Hepatitis ExperimentsAt Willowbrook, researchers deliberately gave institutionalized children hepatitis in the name of vaccine work.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDFive Air Force UFO Reports from Abroad, 1952–1957Believers count five 1950s Air Force reports as real encounters; officers floated answers for two, none for three.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSAncient Builder RaceA builder race on Mars, Iapetus and beyond, or a run of hard-to-read pictures? Later missions imaged every site.
PRISMLeaked slides tied NSA's PRISM to Google and Apple; officials said it was not undisclosed, and the firms denied knowing.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Lungyu CavesLongyou's hand-carved caverns in Zhejiang still lack a neat builder story that satisfies every survey.
ALT HISTORYTutankhamun’s Tomb: Carter, Carnarvon, and the Griffith ArchiveTutankhamun’s tomb through Carter, Carnarvon, and Griffith records—documented archive, not curse lore.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSTyco International / Dennis KozlowskiSEC civil fraud plus New York grand-larceny convictions—affirmed on appeal, then SEC bars. Lifestyle memes ≠ verdict.
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.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Antikythera Eclipse Prediction MechanismThe out-of-time alien-computer claim meets a Hellenistic eclipse gear train. A model is not the original machine.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSAksum Obelisk: Rome, UNESCO, and the 2005 ReturnAksum Obelisk: Rome spoil → UNESCO/Italy–Ethiopia 2005 return—documented restitution, not Ark folklore.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSPodesta Emails and the Pizza-Code ReadingThe chairman's emails were posted, and readers treated cheese pizza in them as a code.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSEpstein Flight Logs and the "Lolita Express"The logs list aircraft, routes, and names. A line is a travel entry, not a finding that the passenger was a client.
The Nayirah TestimonyA girl named only as Nayirah told a caucus of babies taken from incubators; she was the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter.
ESPIONAGEOperation MockingbirdMOCKINGBIRD was a secret 1963 CIA wiretap on two newsmen; Bernstein wrote that wider CIA press ties were played down.