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GOVERNMENT & POLITICSPergamon Altar: Berlin Custody vs Turkish ClaimsPergamon Altar: Berlin custody versus Turkish claims—documented dual-track heritage dispute.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYVioxx WithdrawalMerck called Vioxx safe and blamed the comparison drug for heart attacks, until its own trial ended sales in 2004.
Project MKUltraThe CIA hid MKUltra's drug tests on unwitting Americans, and in 1973 Director Helms ordered the files destroyed.
SURVEILLANCERoom 641AAT&T said it obeyed the law, but a technician's papers showed a locked NSA room copying web traffic in San Francisco.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe 1MDB Kleptocracy Case1MDB was described as a development fund; the civil complaint describes money that left that story.
ALT HISTORYCity of David Digs and the Eilat Mazar Palace DebateMazar called it David’s palace. Critics deny that. The dig is real. The palace is not confirmed.
PLANETARY ANOMALIESThe Face on Mars and Viking ImagingViking 035A72 looked like a face. NASA’s 1976 caption called shadows. MGS and HiRISE returned a mesa.
ESPIONAGESOSUS: The Cold War Undersea Sound Surveillance GridSOSUS listened for Soviet subs under an oceanography cover. The mission stayed classified until 1991.
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.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSCOINTELPROFBI orders said COINTELPRO must never be known outside the Bureau; files taken from its Media office in 1971 exposed it.
PRISMLeaked slides tied NSA's PRISM to Google and Apple; officials said it was not undisclosed, and the firms denied knowing.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSKarahan TepeHancock's circle sees lost knowledge in Karahan Tepe's serpent head. Karul's dig reads a Neolithic ritual burial.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSProject MERRIMAC and Project RESISTANCESecurity called it facility protection. Church and Family Jewels show MERRIMAC/RESISTANCE on Americans.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSOperation SHAMROCK: The Telegram Dragnet (1945–1975)International telegrams were copied for the government, and the public was not told.
PLANETARY ANOMALIESThe Iapetus Equatorial RidgeHoagland called the Iapetus ridge an artificial wall. Cassini images and natural formation models read it otherwise.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDCatalina Island UFO Reports, 1949–1955Believers see a pattern in four Catalina sightings; the files call two a probable meteor and Jupiter and leave two open.
ESPIONAGECanyon: Early Near-Geosynchronous COMINTCanyon put COMINT dishes near GEO. NRO history admits the enterprise—and still redacts the GEO pages.
CONSCIOUSNESS & SPIRITUALITYPsychedelic Renaissance and HyperspaceAdherents say DMT opens a hyperspace of real beings; clinical records log such reports and test psychedelics as drugs.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSAnniston PCBs and MonsantoAnniston's Monsanto PCB plant left a Superfund Alternative file DOJ still forced open.
DEATHS AND DISAPPEARANCESDisappearance of Harold HoltHarold Holt vanished in the surf in 1967; a coroner found he drowned, and spy, submarine, and suicide claims persist.