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ESPIONAGEProject BLUEBIRDProject BLUEBIRD is the 1950 interrogation file; a hearing says it was renamed ARTICHOKE, apart from MKULTRA.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSUBS Cross-Border Tax Evasion DPA (2009)UBS paid $780M under a 2009 deferred prosecution—Statement of Facts, not a jury conviction and not an exoneration.
ALT HISTORYDinosaurs Are Not RealOne anatomist coined the word in 1842, sculptors built the beasts in brick, and museum giants are often fiberglass.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSCIA–Mafia Plots to Assassinate Fidel CastroChurch and CIA IG docs show Agency–Mafia cutouts aimed at Castro. The plots are history. The hit did not land.
HISTORICAL EVENTSGiants of the Ancient WorldNephilim, seven-foot mound skeletons, a Smithsonian cover-up: the giant claim meets the excavation records.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSSevso Treasure: Provenance Fights Without a Proven FindspotSevso Treasure: provenance litigation without a proven findspot—documented claims, not dealer folklore.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSOperation Chrome Dome: Nuclear Bombers on Airborne AlertChrome Dome kept nuclear B-52s aloft for years. Goldsboro and Palomares scaled it; Thule killed it.
FANDOM AND CELEBRITIESElvis in Witness Protection: The FBI Story and the BadgeElvis Presley's federal badge is real history; a secret witness-protection assignment is a separate claim.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe Blue PlanetSitchin-style Sumerian readings claim tablets already knew Uranus and Neptune's blue faces from space.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSBarry Jennings, Michael Hess, and the WTC 7 Explosion-Testimony ClusterTwo city officials described explosions inside WTC 7. NIST calls debris and fire. Both doors stay open.
HEALTH & MEDICINEThalidomideThalidomide was sold as a safe sedative until Frances Kelsey and birth-defect counts stopped the myth.
RELIGIONGospel of Jesus's Wife: The Modern-Provenance ProblemA scrap reading “my wife” acquired an ancient identity before its modern ownership story came apart.
ALT HISTORYPoverty Point and the Denial of Indigenous MonumentalismA lost-race story said Indigenous people did not build these mounds. The site record says they did.
FINANCE & BANKINGHSBC Money Laundering SettlementsHSBC’s 2012 DPA cost $1.256B and admitted AML failures. A deferred prosecution is a bargain—not exoneration.
HEALTH & MEDICINEProject CoastApartheid South Africa's Project Coast built chemical and biological weapons. TRC testimony later mapped the shop.
ESPIONAGEOperation CondorIn the 1970s Southern Cone dictatorships built Operation Condor as a cross-border kill-and-kidnap net.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSRosetta Stone: Decipherment Engine and Repatriation DebateBritain’s title claim is the 1801 treaty. Reading the stone is not a return order.
ALT HISTORYThe Younger Dryas ImpactYounger Dryas impact papers blame a comet 12,800 years ago for megafauna die-offs and a sudden freeze.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSB-2 Spirit / Advanced Technology Bomber: Senior Ice vs Senior PegOn 20 October 1981 Senior Ice beat Senior Peg inside a black ATB contest—GAO later scored the flying wing.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSMichael Milken / Drexel Burnham Junk-Bond ScandalDrexel pleaded; Milken pleaded to six felonies. Contested clearance keeps court verbs—and blocks afterlife sermons.