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BY EVIDENCE TYPE

The same hundred and one files, sorted not by subject but by how we know. This is the cut that shows what the archive is actually about: most confirmed conspiracies were confirmed by paperwork, and most failed ones never produced a checkable fact at all.

RESOLVED IN COURT38 FILES

Established by verdict, conviction, or guilty plea. The highest evidentiary standard in this archive.

OSA-016PRISM & THE SNOWDEN DISCLOSURESCONFIRMEDThe NSA's mass-surveillance programs, dragged into open court2013 OSA-017THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY COVER-UPCONFIRMED"Doubt is our product", the archetypal proven corporate conspiracy1953 – 1998 OSA-033THE PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZIONDEBUNKEDThe most consequential proven forgery in historyFORGED C. 1903 OSA-051WATERGATECONFIRMEDThe break-in, the tapes, and the only presidential resignation1972–1974 OSA-054OPERATION CONDORCONFIRMEDSix dictatorships, one shared kill list1975–1983 OSA-058OPERATION SNOW WHITECONFIRMEDA church put agents inside the IRS and the Justice Department1973–1980 OSA-062THE RADIUM GIRLSCONFIRMEDTold the glowing paint was safe, taught to lick the brush1917–1938 OSA-063THE GLEIWITZ INCIDENTCONFIRMEDThe staged attack that opened the Second World WarAUG 31 1939 OSA-066PURDUE PHARMA & OXYCONTINCONFIRMEDAn addiction claim built on a five-sentence letter to the editor1996–PRESENT OSA-105THE PENTAGON PAPERSCONFIRMEDA classified study showing four administrations had misled the public1967 – 1971 OSA-106TETRAETHYL LEADCONFIRMEDSeventy years of leaded fuel, and the science bought to defend it1923 – 1996 OSA-108THE KING ASSASSINATIONCONTESTEDOne convicted man who recanted, and a civil verdict nobody talks aboutAPR 4 1968 OSA-116THE KILLING OF FRED HAMPTONCONFIRMEDA pre-dawn raid, an informant's floor plan, and a $1.85 million settlementDEC 4 1969 OSA-117THE DREYFUS AFFAIRCONFIRMEDThe state framed an innocent man and then forged evidence to keep him convicted1894 – 1906 OSA-119THE MALCOLM X ASSASSINATIONCONFIRMEDTwo convictions vacated in 2021 after fifty-six yearsFEB 21 1965 OSA-120THE McMARTIN PRESCHOOL TRIALDEBUNKEDSecret tunnels, satanic rituals, 321 counts, zero convictions1983 – 1990 OSA-125THE BCCI AFFAIRCONFIRMEDThe largest bank fraud in history, and its intelligence clientele1972 – 1991 OSA-126DIESELGATECONFIRMEDSoftware written specifically to cheat, in eleven million vehicles2006 – 2015 OSA-128C8 AND THE FOREVER CHEMICALSCONFIRMEDThe company knew for decades, and the science it hid was its own1951 – 2017 OSA-129LOCKERBIECONTESTED270 dead, one man convicted, and an appeal that never finishedDEC 21 1988 OSA-133RUBY RIDGECONFIRMEDA sniper, a woman holding a baby, and a $3.1 million settlementAUG 21 – 31 1992 OSA-134THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBINGCONTESTED168 dead, two convictions, and witnesses describing a second manAPR 19 1995 OSA-150THALIDOMIDECONFIRMEDMarketed as safe in pregnancy, on no evidence that it was1957 – present OSA-159THE LETELIER ASSASSINATIONCONFIRMEDA former Chilean minister killed by Pinochet's secret police, in the American capitalSEP 21 1976 OSA-165EXTRAORDINARY RENDITIONCONFIRMEDDetainees flown to third countries for interrogation, tracked by flight logs1995 – 2009 OSA-166ABU GHRAIBCONFIRMEDDocumented by the perpetrators themselves, on their own cameras2003 – 2004 OSA-167THE PLAME AFFAIRCONFIRMEDA CIA officer exposed, and a chief of staff convicted of obstruction2003 – 2007 OSA-172THE ASBESTOS PAPERSCONFIRMEDThe industry's own correspondence, produced in discovery1929 – present OSA-173MINAMATACONFIRMEDMercury poisoning of a Japanese fishing town, concealed for a decade after proof1932 – 1968 OSA-174BHOPALCONTESTEDForty tonnes of methyl isocyanate over a sleeping cityDEC 2 1984 OSA-176THE FLINT WATER CRISISCONFIRMEDA city switched water source to save money, and did not treat it2014 – 2019 OSA-177AGENT ORANGECONFIRMEDSeventy-five million litres of herbicide, contaminated with dioxin1961 – 1971 OSA-178VIOXXCONFIRMEDA painkiller withdrawn after an estimated tens of thousands of excess cardiac events1999 – 2004 OSA-179THE GM IGNITION SWITCHCONFIRMEDA switch that could turn the engine off, and the airbags with it2001 – 2014 OSA-180ENRONCONFIRMEDA company that reported profits it had invented, and the audit firm that signed it1985 – 2001 OSA-183KAREN SILKWOODCONTESTEDA union activist gathering evidence on plant safety, dead in a single-car crashNOV 13 1974 OSA-184INSLAW AND PROMISCONTESTEDA software company, a stolen program, and a journalist found dead in a bathtub1982 – 1998 OSA-190THE WEST MEMPHIS THREECONTESTEDThree teenagers convicted of child murders on almost no physical evidence1993 – 2011

RESOLVED BY DECLASSIFICATION31 FILES

The government wrote it down, then released the paper. These files were theories until an archive opened.

OSA-001PROJECT MKULTRACONFIRMEDCIA mind-control research programEST. 1953 OSA-004OPERATION NORTHWOODSCONFIRMEDThe false-flag plan the Joint Chiefs actually signedMARCH 1962 OSA-005THE ROSWELL INCIDENTDEBUNKEDThe crash that launched the UFO eraJULY 1947 OSA-011OPERATION PAPERCLIPCONFIRMEDNazi scientists, freshly laundered dossiers1945 – 1959 OSA-012THE GULF OF TONKIN INCIDENTCONFIRMEDThe attack that launched a war didn't happenAUG 1964 OSA-014OPERATION SEA-SPRAYCONFIRMEDThe Navy fogged San Francisco with bacteriaSEP 1950 OSA-018AREA 51CONFIRMEDThe secret base was real. The aliens were airplanes.1955 – OSA-052OPERATION AJAXCONFIRMEDThe CIA–MI6 coup that removed Iran's elected prime ministerAUG 1953 OSA-053OPERATION PBSUCCESSCONFIRMEDGuatemala's president overthrown by a radio station and a bluffJUNE 1954 OSA-055UNIT 731 & THE IMMUNITY DEALCONFIRMEDHuman experiments in Manchuria, and the data America bought1936–1948 OSA-056OPERATION MINCEMEATCONFIRMEDThe corpse that misdirected the German armyAPRIL 1943 OSA-057THE GHOST ARMYCONFIRMEDInflatable tanks, sound trucks, and fake radio traffic1944–1945 OSA-059PROJECT AZORIANCONFIRMEDThe CIA stole a Soviet submarine off the ocean floorSUMMER 1974 OSA-060ACOUSTIC KITTYCONFIRMEDThe CIA wired a live cat for sound1960s OSA-061PROJECT SUNSHINECONFIRMEDThe government collected human bones to measure falloutEST. 1953 OSA-065OPERATION IVY BELLSCONFIRMEDA recording pod clamped to a Soviet cable, 400 feet down1971–1981 OSA-102OPERATION MONGOOSECONFIRMEDThe CIA's campaign to overthrow Cuba, including the assassination plots1961 – 1963 OSA-104OPERATION POPEYECONFIRMEDWeather as a weapon, five years of secret cloud seeding over Vietnam1967 – 1972 OSA-107PROJECT STARGATEDEBUNKEDThe CIA and Army funded remote viewing for two decades1972 – 1995 OSA-114CRYPTO AGCONFIRMEDHalf a century reading the secret traffic of allies and adversaries alike1970 – 2018 OSA-121PROJECT 112 AND SHADCONFIRMEDShipboard and land tests of live agents on American servicemen1962 – 1974 OSA-122CASTLE BRAVOCONFIRMEDThe worst radiological accident in US history, and the islands not evacuatedMAR 1 1954 OSA-136KOREAN AIR LINES 007CONTESTED269 dead, and a navigational error nobody has fully explainedSEP 1 1983 OSA-138THE ROSENBERG CASECONTESTEDBoth executed. Later evidence supports one conviction and undermines the other.1950 – 1953 OSA-139OPERATION UNDERWORLDCONFIRMEDThe Navy recruited organised crime to secure the New York waterfront1942 – 1946 OSA-152OPERATION CYCLONECONFIRMEDBillions in weapons to the Afghan mujahideen, routed through Pakistan1979 – 1992 OSA-155PROJECT ARTICHOKECONFIRMEDThe CIA interrogation programme that preceded MKULTRA1951 – 1953 OSA-156OPERATION MIDNIGHT CLIMAXCONFIRMEDDosing members of the public with LSD to watch what happened1953 – 1965 OSA-158CHILE 1973CONFIRMEDThree years of covert action against an elected government1970 – 1973 OSA-196THE MANTELL INCIDENTDEBUNKEDAn Air National Guard captain flew too high after something he could not identifyJAN 7 1948 OSA-197PROJECT BLUE BOOKCONFIRMEDThe US Air Force's public UFO investigation, and what it was actually for1952 – 1969

EXAMINED BY OFFICIAL INQUIRY32 FILES

A committee, commission, or tribunal investigated and reported. Findings vary in quality and independence.

OSA-003HAVANA SYNDROMECONTESTED"Anomalous health incidents" among U.S. personnel2016–PRESENT OSA-009COINTELPROCONFIRMEDThe FBI's covert war on domestic dissent1956 – 1971 OSA-010THE TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS STUDYCONFIRMEDForty years of treatment withheld1932 – 1972 OSA-013IRAN–CONTRACONFIRMEDMissiles to Tehran, money to Managua1985 – 1986 OSA-020OPERATION MOCKINGBIRDCONTESTEDThe CIA and the press: confirmed conduct, unproven code name1950s – 1976 OSA-021OPERATION GLADIOCONTESTEDNATO's secret stay-behind armies, and Italy's Years of Lead1948 – 1990 OSA-022THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATIONCONTESTEDTwo official verdicts, sixty years of suspicion, no proven plot1963 OSA-023THE DEATH OF JEFFREY EPSTEINCONTESTEDSuicide by hanging, per every official review, in a cell where every safeguard failed at onceAUGUST 10 2019 OSA-025THE BUSINESS PLOTCONTESTEDA general testified he was recruited to overthrow Roosevelt1933 – 1934 OSA-068THE USS LIBERTY INCIDENTCONTESTEDThirty-four American sailors killed by an ally's aircraftJUN 8 1967 OSA-069THE OCTOBER SURPRISECONTESTEDDid a campaign bargain to keep hostages in captivity?AUTUMN 1980 OSA-103THE GUATEMALA EXPERIMENTSCONFIRMEDAmerican researchers infected Guatemalans with syphilis on purpose1946 – 1948 OSA-112OPERATION CHAOSCONFIRMEDA domestic surveillance programme run by the agency banned from domestic work1967 – 1974 OSA-113THE PHOENIX PROGRAMCONFIRMEDOver 26,000 dead by the programme's own official count1967 – 1972 OSA-115OPERATION SHAMROCKCONFIRMEDThe telegraph companies gave the government copies of everything1945 – 1975 OSA-123THE PLUTONIUM INJECTIONSCONFIRMEDHospital patients injected with plutonium to measure how the body handles it1945 – 1947 OSA-124DARK ALLIANCECONTESTEDA journalist linked CIA-backed Contras to crack cocaine, and lost everything1996 OSA-127THE SUGAR RESEARCH PAPERSCONFIRMEDAn industry bought a Harvard review and shaped fifty years of dietary advice1965 – 2016 OSA-130IRAN AIR 655CONFIRMED290 civilians killed by a US missile cruiser in the GulfJUL 3 1988 OSA-132WACOCONTESTEDThe government denied using incendiary devices, then admitted it in 1999FEB 28 – APR 19 1993 OSA-135TWA FLIGHT 800DEBUNKEDA missile theory supported by hundreds of witnesses, and refuted by the wreckageJUL 17 1996 OSA-153THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICASCONFIRMEDA US Army school whose own manuals recommended torture and blackmail1946 – present OSA-154EDGEWOOD ARSENALCONFIRMEDUS soldiers exposed to nerve agents and incapacitants in testing1948 – 1975 OSA-157THE KILLING OF PATRICE LUMUMBACONFIRMEDCongo's first prime minister, killed with Belgian officers presentJAN 17 1961 OSA-161ECHELONCONFIRMEDThe Five Eyes interception network, confirmed by a parliamentary inquiry1971 – present OSA-162THE IRAQ WMD CASECONFIRMEDA war argued on intelligence that four inquiries found unsupportable2002 – 2004 OSA-164THE TORTURE REPORTCONFIRMEDThe CIA's detention programme, documented by the committee overseeing it2002 – 2014 OSA-168THE LITVINENKO POISONINGCONFIRMEDA public inquiry concluded the Russian president probably approved itNOV 2006 OSA-169THE KHASHOGGI KILLINGCONFIRMEDA journalist killed inside his own country's consulate abroadOCT 2 2018 OSA-171THE SALISBURY POISONINGSCONFIRMEDNovichok on a door handle, and one death that was never the targetMAR 2018 OSA-175LOVE CANALCONFIRMED21,000 tonnes of chemical waste, and a neighbourhood built on top1942 – 1980 OSA-181CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICACONFIRMEDHarvested Facebook data used for political targeting2013 – 2018

TURNED ON FORENSIC SCIENCE20 FILES

DNA, genetic genealogy, stylometry, or laboratory analysis moved the case, sometimes decades later.

OSA-034MAJESTIC 12DEBUNKEDThe secret UFO committee that existed only on filmSURFACED 1984 OSA-038THE ZODIAC KILLEROPEN CASEFive dead, two survivors, and ciphers mailed to the pressDEC 20 1968 OSA-039JACK THE RIPPEROPEN CASEWhitechapel, autumn 1888, the oldest file in the drawerAUG 31 1888 OSA-046THE SOMERTON MANOPEN CASEA body on an Adelaide beach, a scrap of Persian poetry, an uncracked codeDEC 1948 OSA-072AMERITHRAXCONTESTEDFive dead, one suspect, and a case closed after he diedSEP–OCT 2001 OSA-075QANONDEBUNKEDThousands of predictions, zero hitsSINCE OCT 2017 OSA-081THE TYLENOL MURDERSOPEN CASESeven dead, no charges, and the reason every bottle is sealedSEP–OCT 1982 OSA-082THE ISDAL WOMANOPEN CASENine aliases, a coded diary, and no name at allNOV 29 1970 OSA-087THE BOY IN THE BOXOPEN CASESixty-five years without a name, and still no chargesFEB 25 1957 OSA-089THE CIRCLEVILLE LETTERSOPEN CASEA conviction that the letters themselves contradicted1976–1990s OSA-090THE BLACK DAHLIAOPEN CASESixty false confessions and a cut nobody could explainJAN 15 1947 OSA-109PILTDOWN MANDEBUNKEDA human skull, an orangutan jaw, and forty years of citations1912 – 1953 OSA-118THE RFK ASSASSINATIONCONTESTEDA convicted killer in front, and a fatal wound fired from behindJUN 5 1968 OSA-142ELISA LAMOPEN CASEFound in a rooftop water tank guests had been drinking fromJAN – FEB 2013 OSA-149THE MONSTER OF FLORENCEOPEN CASEEight double murders with the same pistol, and no reliable conviction1968 – 1985 OSA-151THE VILLISCA AXE MURDERSOPEN CASEA family of six and two guests, killed in one night in a small Iowa townJUN 10 1912 OSA-163THE NIGER URANIUM FORGERYCONFIRMEDDocuments so bad the IAEA needed a few hours and a search engine2001 – 2003 OSA-170THE UMBRELLA MURDERCONFIRMEDA Bulgarian dissident killed in London with a modified umbrellaSEP 7 1978 OSA-182THE MURDER OF OLOF PALMEOPEN CASESweden's prime minister, walking home from the cinema without bodyguardsFEB 28 1986 OSA-189THE CLEVELAND TORSO MURDERSOPEN CASEA killer who decapitated victims while they were still alive1935 – 1938

CLOSED BY PHYSICS14 FILES

The claim contradicts well-established science. No archive release will reopen these.

OSA-019THE TUNGUSKA EVENTCONFIRMEDThe largest impact in recorded history, and a mystery science solved1908 OSA-026THE MOON LANDING HOAXDEBUNKED382 kg of moon rock, and a Soviet audience that never cried fake1969 – 1972 OSA-027FLAT EARTHDEBUNKEDSettled by Eratosthenes with two sticks; reopened by recommendation algorithmCA. 240 BC / 2015 OSA-028CHEMTRAILSDEBUNKEDThe sky's most-photographed conspiracy is condensation with good lightingSINCE THE 1990s OSA-031THE BERMUDA TRIANGLEDEBUNKEDA pulp-magazine coinage promoted to a law of natureCOINED 1964 OSA-035HAARPDEBUNKEDThe Alaskan antenna farm blamed for everyone's weatherEST. 1993 OSA-036THE MANDELA EFFECTDEBUNKEDThousands of witnesses, one shared wrong memoryCOINED 2009 OSA-048THE HUMUNVERIFIEDThe low drone two percent of a town can hear, and no microphone can find1970s – OSA-073THE 9/11 "INSIDE JOB" CLAIMSDEBUNKEDControlled demolition, melted steel, and what the engineering showsSEP 11 2001 OSA-079THE HOLLOW EARTHDEBUNKEDOnce a Royal Society hypothesis, now closed by seismologyEST. 1692 OSA-097THE MARFA LIGHTSUNVERIFIEDMostly headlights, bent by desert air, but not all of themREPORTED SINCE 1883 OSA-141THE BLOOPDEBUNKEDAn ultra-low frequency sound detected 5,000 kilometres apart1997 OSA-188THE SHROUD OF TURINCONTESTEDA linen cloth bearing a faint image, and forty years of argument about one test1354 – present OSA-200THE DEAD INTERNET THEORYUNVERIFIEDA claim that was paranoid when it was made and is now partly measurable2016 – present

ADMITTED BY THE SOURCE5 FILES

The person who created the story said so. The theory usually outlived the confession.

RESTS ON PHYSICAL EVIDENCE30 FILES

A scene, an object, a recording, an instrument reading. Real material, contested meaning.

OSA-002D.B. COOPEROPEN CASEThe only unsolved commercial skyjacking in U.S. historyNOV 24 1971 OSA-006THE MAX HEADROOM INCIDENTOPEN CASEAmerica's most famous broadcast hijackingNOV 22 1987 OSA-007THE WOW! SIGNALUNVERIFIEDThe best candidate alien signal ever recordedAUG 15 1977 OSA-008DYATLOV PASSCONTESTEDNine hikers, a tent cut open from insideFEB 1959 OSA-015NUMBERS STATIONSCONFIRMEDAnonymous voices, unbreakable arithmeticCOLD WAR – PRESENT OSA-037MALAYSIA AIRLINES FLIGHT 370OPEN CASEA Boeing 777, 239 aboard, six silent hours of flightMAR 8 2014 OSA-041THE DISAPPEARANCE OF AMELIA EARHARTOPEN CASE"We must be on you but cannot see you", then nothingJUL 2 1937 OSA-043THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPTOPEN CASE240 pages in a script found nowhere else on EarthC. 1404 – 1438 OSA-044CICADA 3301OPEN CASEThe internet's most elaborate recruitment puzzle, recruiter unknownJAN 2012 OSA-050THE TIC TAC VIDEOSUNVERIFIEDNavy sensors, fighter pilots, and footage the Pentagon admits is realNOV 2004 OSA-076BOHEMIAN GROVEDEBUNKEDThe real retreat, the real owl, the imaginary sacrificeEST. 1872 OSA-080THE TITANIC SWITCHDEBUNKEDThe insurance scam undone by a hull numberAPRIL 1912 OSA-085THE MARY CELESTEOPEN CASESound, stocked, sailing herself, and emptyDEC 4 1872 OSA-086THE LOST COLONY OF ROANOKEOPEN CASEOne word on a post, and no distress signal1587–1590 OSA-088THE YUBA COUNTY FIVEOPEN CASEA working car abandoned seventy miles the wrong wayFEB 24 1978 OSA-092THE SODDER CHILDRENOPEN CASEA house fire that left five children and not one boneDEC 24 1945 OSA-093THE FLANNAN ISLES LIGHTHOUSEOPEN CASETwo sets of oilskins gone, one still on the hookDEC 1900 OSA-094KRYPTOSOPEN CASENinety-seven characters that have beaten the world's codebreakersNOV 1990 OSA-099THE VALENTICH DISAPPEARANCEOPEN CASE"It is hovering, and it's not an aircraft"OCT 21 1978 OSA-110THE BEALE CIPHERSOPEN CASETwo unsolved ciphers said to locate a vault of gold in Virginia1885 OSA-131THE USS MAINECONTESTED266 dead, a war three months later, and no agreed cause in 128 yearsFEB 15 1898 OSA-137THE LUSITANIACONTESTED1,198 dead, a cargo manifest that was not complete, and a war it helped bringMAY 7 1915 OSA-144THE HINDENBURGCONTESTEDStatic discharge or a saboteur, argued for eighty-eight yearsMAY 6 1937 OSA-145THE TOYNBEE TILESOPEN CASEIdentical messages set into asphalt across two continents1980s – present OSA-146THE BELGIAN UFO WAVECONTESTEDAn air force that investigated openly, and a triangle nobody identified1989 – 1990 OSA-160STUXNETCONFIRMEDSoftware built to physically destroy Iranian centrifuges2005 – 2010 OSA-185THE ALCATRAZ ESCAPEOPEN CASEThree men left the island and were never found, alive or deadJUN 11 1962 OSA-187THE ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISMCONFIRMEDAn ancient Greek device whose complexity was not matched until the medieval period1901 – present OSA-191SATOSHI NAKAMOTOOPEN CASEThe creator of Bitcoin, who left and never touched the money2008 – 2011 OSA-192THE BATTLE OF LOS ANGELESDEBUNKEDAn all-night barrage over a city, at a target nobody could identifyFEB 25 1942

RESTS ON TESTIMONY ALONE13 FILES

Human accounts with no corroborating physical trace. Weakest reliable category in the archive.

RECORDS WITHHELD OR LOST7 FILES

The evidence exists, or existed, and cannot be examined. These are the files this office most wants reopened.

NO EVIDENCE HAS EVER BEEN PRODUCED10 FILES

Not disproven so much as never supported. The claim has never generated a checkable fact.

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