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GOVERNMENT & POLITICSTeam B Competitive Analysis (1976)Team B’s 1976 competitive estimate challenged NIE soft readings—SSCI later audited the design.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSWells Fargo Fake AccountsAccounts and products customers did not request were opened so Wells Fargo’s cross-sell numbers held.
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.
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.
ALT HISTORYMesha Stele / Moabite Stone: Louvre Provenance and ReconstructionLouvre AO 5066 Mesha Stele: shatter, squeeze, reconstruction—documented Moabite royal text.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Farewell Dossier: Line X and the Tech-Transfer TrapThe theft looked like a Soviet success. What was not said was that Line X was being fed altered technical data.
ALT HISTORYGobekli TepeGobekli Tepe's 12,000-year pillars forced textbooks to admit monumental ritual before farming.
ANCIENT ASTRONAUTSSanxingdui Sacrificial Bronze PitsOnline theorists read Sanxingdui's giant eyes as alien portraits. Sun Hua and the excavators call them Shu ritual art.
ANCIENT ASTRONAUTSCrystal Skulls: Tool Marks Behind the Ancient-Origin StoriesA quartz skull donated to the Smithsonian in 1992 set off an investigation into its supposed ancient origins.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe 1MDB Kleptocracy Case1MDB was described as a development fund; the civil complaint describes money that left that story.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Mitrokhin ArchiveMitrokhin's notes sit at Cambridge: open typescripts, closed notebooks, ISC process paper.
HEALTH & MEDICINEThe Bhopal Gas DisasterManagement supplied no usable warning about the gas that left tank 610 on the night of 2-3 December 1984.
ALT HISTORYPhantom Time HypothesisHeribert Illig says 297 early medieval years were invented; eclipse records, tree rings and calendar history answer him.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYTheranosTheranos promised blood tests from a finger prick. WSJ reporting and Holmes's trial turned the pitch into fraud.
RELIGIONGospel of Jesus's Wife: The Modern-Provenance ProblemA scrap reading “my wife” acquired an ancient identity before its modern ownership story came apart.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSTimbuktu Manuscripts: 2012–13 Smuggling Rescue and UNESCO Damage CountsTimbuktu manuscripts: UNESCO damage counts and SAVAMA rescue—documented survival, not total-loss myth.
ESPIONAGEProject CORONA: America's First Spy SatellitesCORONA photographed the earth in secret while the public was told the flights were Discoverer research.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Kharsag EpicsKharsag: an Anunna settlement in clay, or O'Brien's supplements to a 1918 translation called tentative?
ESPIONAGERHYOLITE / AQUACADE: Geosynchronous Missile-Telemetry SpiesCIA flew geosynchronous SIGINT as RHYOLITE, then AQUACADE. FOIA says the birds existed—not what every intercept said.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSPergamon Altar: Berlin Custody vs Turkish ClaimsPergamon Altar: Berlin custody versus Turkish claims—documented dual-track heritage dispute.