RECORDING
SEC//WIRE//011
RESTRICTED
> THE WIRE_
Live log of amendments, new files, and evidence entering the archive
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSLockheed Bribery Scandal and the Birth of the FCPASecret payments the filings did not show came first, and the foreign-bribery statute came after that record.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Family Jewels: CIA's 1973 Self-Inventory of IllegalitiesThe CIA ordered a list of what might fall outside its charter, and the public did not get that list in 1973.
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.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSNorthern Nigeria's Polio Boycott: The Sterilization-Plot ClaimIn 2003, polio vaccination stopped in parts of northern Nigeria amid false claims of a secret sterilization campaign.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSUSS Scorpion (SSN-589) Disappearance ControversiesCourt said certain cause unascertainable. Acoustic critics fight the explosion language. Soviet-attack stays contested.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSHealthSouth Accounting FraudHealthSouth’s books were fiction—CFO pleas and SEC paper say so. Scrushy’s criminal acquittal did not erase the fraud.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDSomerton Man / Tamám ShudSomerton Man died on an Adelaide beach in 1948. Police exhumed him in 2021. The coroner has not closed the name.
ALT HISTORYTartariaTartaria: a lost world empire buried by mud, or old map names, temporary fairs and raised streets?
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Metcalf Substation Attack: A Dry Run for Taking Down the Grid?Some believe the 2013 sniper attack on the Metcalf substation was a dry run for blacking out America.
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.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYPurdue Pharma and OxyContinPurdue minimized OxyContin addiction risk while the opioid death curve climbed. Settlements came later.
PLANETARY ANOMALIES3I ATLASAbraham Loeb and coauthors asked if interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is alien technology; telescopes measure a comet.
ALT HISTORYThe Younger Dryas ImpactYounger Dryas impact papers blame a comet 12,800 years ago for megafauna die-offs and a sudden freeze.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS"Client List" Document Claims vs Contact Books and Flight LogsFlight logs and books are real exhibits. DOJ said no incriminating client list. Contested/L2 refuses adjacency-as-guilt.
ALT HISTORYCharles K. Johnson and the International Flat Earth Research SocietyOrbits and Moon landings were called a fraud beside the society's president, and that fight is not settled.
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.
SECRET SOCIETIESThe Gotthard Tunnel Opening CeremonyAdherents read the 2016 Gotthard tunnel opening show as an occult rite; its organisers and director call it Alpine myth.
ANCIENT ASTRONAUTSKV5: The Tomb of the Sons of Ramesses IIWeeks/TMP rediscovered KV5—sons of Ramesses II. Documented tomb, not Hall of Records.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSAksum Obelisk: Rome, UNESCO, and the 2005 ReturnAksum Obelisk: Rome spoil → UNESCO/Italy–Ethiopia 2005 return—documented restitution, not Ark folklore.
SCIENCE & SPACERetrocausality in Quantum MechanicsAdherents say quantum eraser tests show the present rewriting the past; physicists split on whether anything goes back.