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ESPIONAGECanyon: Early Near-Geosynchronous COMINTCanyon put COMINT dishes near GEO. NRO history admits the enterprise—and still redacts the GEO pages.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSTyco International / Dennis KozlowskiSEC civil fraud plus New York grand-larceny convictions—affirmed on appeal, then SEC bars. Lifestyle memes ≠ verdict.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSPalomares Broken Arrow (17 January 1966)Chrome Dome collision over Palomares spilled four B28s. Officials said safe. DNA: Pu scatter, bomb months at sea.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSBoeing 737 MAX Certification FailuresMCAS was left out of the manuals. Level B training kept a common type rating, so MCAS simulator time was not required.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe Pentagon PapersEllsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers and showed successive administrations had lied about Vietnam for years.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Cambridge FiveBurgess/Maclean fled; Blunt confessed under immunity; Thatcher named him in 1979—Venona had bitten.
ALT HISTORYÇatalhöyük: From Mellaart’s Fame to Hodder’s Reflexive DigÇatalhöyük: Mellaart to Hodder’s reflexive dig—documented Neolithic urbanism, not goddess absolutism.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe Phoenix ProgramPhoenix hunted Viet Cong infrastructure with interrogation and assassination tallies that still stain the war files.
ALT HISTORYʿAin Ghazal Plaster Statues: Neolithic Figures from JordanʿAin Ghazal PPNB plaster statues—Smithsonian/Jordan doors; documented Neolithic figures, not giants.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSLooking Glass: SAC's Airborne Nuclear Command PostSAC kept a nuclear command post airborne for 29 years. Looking Glass mirrored Offutt—then handed off to Navy E-6Bs.
DEATHS AND DISAPPEARANCESPaul is DeadA 1969 rumor said Paul McCartney had died and been replaced; press doors print the claim and print denials.
HISTORICAL EVENTSHerculaneum Papyri and the Vesuvius ChallengeHerculaneum’s rolls are real, and most are still unread. Scans have not opened the library.
HISTORICAL EVENTSCascajal Block: Olmec Writing Debate (Not the Colossal Heads)Cascajal Block: Olmec writing debate—Science 2006 + skepticism; documented; ≠ colossal heads.
CONSCIOUSNESS & SPIRITUALITYThe Mahatma Letters: Fabrication and Frame-Up ClaimsThe Mahatma Letters controversy turns on disputed authorship, not on whether a spiritual belief is itself a conspiracy.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSAldrich AmesAmes's plea and DoJ OIG summary document nine years of espionage and CIA–FBI coordination failure.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDThe Manises Incident (11 November 1979)On 11 November 1979 a commercial flight diverted to Manises; the official file and witness claims still disagree.
The Core Within the CoreA further ball inside the inner core is disputed: the papers do not agree on its size or its position.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSSiemens Global Bribery Settlements (2008)Siemens’s 2008 FCPA pleas and SEC disgorgement topped $1.6B. Papers show a bribery system—not one rogue payment.
PLANETARY ANOMALIESThe Hexagonal Storm of SaturnSaturn's hexagon looks like impossible geometry. Cassini tracked it, and a University of Oxford tank spun one up.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSSpirit Cave and the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone NAGPRA ReturnAffiliation was refused because the remains were called too old. Control passed in 2016, not by a DNA finding.