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COVER-UP

69 files tagged cover-up.

The largest theme in the cabinet by some distance. Concealment is the one behaviour that recurs whether or not the underlying claim turns out to be true.

OSA-005THE ROSWELL INCIDENTDEBUNKEDThe crash that launched the UFO era OSA-010THE TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS STUDYCONFIRMEDForty years of treatment withheld OSA-012THE GULF OF TONKIN INCIDENTCONFIRMEDThe attack that launched a war didn't happen OSA-013IRAN–CONTRACONFIRMEDMissiles to Tehran, money to Managua OSA-017THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY COVER-UPCONFIRMED"Doubt is our product", the archetypal proven corporate conspiracy OSA-022THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATIONCONTESTEDTwo official verdicts, sixty years of suspicion, no proven plot OSA-023THE DEATH OF JEFFREY EPSTEINCONTESTEDSuicide by hanging, per every official review, in a cell where every safeguard failed at once OSA-051WATERGATECONFIRMEDThe break-in, the tapes, and the only presidential resignation OSA-055UNIT 731 & THE IMMUNITY DEALCONFIRMEDHuman experiments in Manchuria, and the data America bought OSA-058OPERATION SNOW WHITECONFIRMEDA church put agents inside the IRS and the Justice Department OSA-062THE RADIUM GIRLSCONFIRMEDTold the glowing paint was safe, taught to lick the brush OSA-066PURDUE PHARMA & OXYCONTINCONFIRMEDAn addiction claim built on a five-sentence letter to the editor OSA-068THE USS LIBERTY INCIDENTCONTESTEDThirty-four American sailors killed by an ally's aircraft OSA-071THE HAMMARSKJÖLD CRASHCONTESTEDA UN Secretary-General down nine miles short of the runway OSA-072AMERITHRAXCONTESTEDFive dead, one suspect, and a case closed after he died OSA-098THE KECKSBURG INCIDENTOPEN CASEAn acorn in a ravine, and a flatbed leaving under escort OSA-100THE VELA INCIDENTCONTESTEDA satellite built to spot nuclear tests spotted one nobody claims OSA-103THE GUATEMALA EXPERIMENTSCONFIRMEDAmerican researchers infected Guatemalans with syphilis on purpose OSA-104OPERATION POPEYECONFIRMEDWeather as a weapon, five years of secret cloud seeding over Vietnam OSA-105THE PENTAGON PAPERSCONFIRMEDA classified study showing four administrations had misled the public OSA-106TETRAETHYL LEADCONFIRMEDSeventy years of leaded fuel, and the science bought to defend it OSA-108THE KING ASSASSINATIONCONTESTEDOne convicted man who recanted, and a civil verdict nobody talks about OSA-111THE SHAG HARBOUR INCIDENTOPEN CASESomething went into the water off Nova Scotia, and the Navy went in after it OSA-112OPERATION CHAOSCONFIRMEDA domestic surveillance programme run by the agency banned from domestic work OSA-116THE KILLING OF FRED HAMPTONCONFIRMEDA pre-dawn raid, an informant's floor plan, and a $1.85 million settlement OSA-117THE DREYFUS AFFAIRCONFIRMEDThe state framed an innocent man and then forged evidence to keep him convicted OSA-118THE RFK ASSASSINATIONCONTESTEDA convicted killer in front, and a fatal wound fired from behind OSA-119THE MALCOLM X ASSASSINATIONCONFIRMEDTwo convictions vacated in 2021 after fifty-six years OSA-121PROJECT 112 AND SHADCONFIRMEDShipboard and land tests of live agents on American servicemen OSA-122CASTLE BRAVOCONFIRMEDThe worst radiological accident in US history, and the islands not evacuated OSA-123THE PLUTONIUM INJECTIONSCONFIRMEDHospital patients injected with plutonium to measure how the body handles it OSA-124DARK ALLIANCECONTESTEDA journalist linked CIA-backed Contras to crack cocaine, and lost everything OSA-126DIESELGATECONFIRMEDSoftware written specifically to cheat, in eleven million vehicles OSA-128C8 AND THE FOREVER CHEMICALSCONFIRMEDThe company knew for decades, and the science it hid was its own OSA-129LOCKERBIECONTESTED270 dead, one man convicted, and an appeal that never finished OSA-130IRAN AIR 655CONFIRMED290 civilians killed by a US missile cruiser in the Gulf OSA-132WACOCONTESTEDThe government denied using incendiary devices, then admitted it in 1999 OSA-133RUBY RIDGECONFIRMEDA sniper, a woman holding a baby, and a $3.1 million settlement OSA-134THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBINGCONTESTED168 dead, two convictions, and witnesses describing a second man OSA-135TWA FLIGHT 800DEBUNKEDA missile theory supported by hundreds of witnesses, and refuted by the wreckage OSA-136KOREAN AIR LINES 007CONTESTED269 dead, and a navigational error nobody has fully explained OSA-137THE LUSITANIACONTESTED1,198 dead, a cargo manifest that was not complete, and a war it helped bring OSA-138THE ROSENBERG CASECONTESTEDBoth executed. Later evidence supports one conviction and undermines the other. OSA-147THE CASH-LANDRUM INCIDENTOPEN CASEMedical injuries consistent with radiation, and a lawsuit dismissed for lack of a defendant OSA-149THE MONSTER OF FLORENCEOPEN CASEEight double murders with the same pistol, and no reliable conviction OSA-150THALIDOMIDECONFIRMEDMarketed as safe in pregnancy, on no evidence that it was OSA-153THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICASCONFIRMEDA US Army school whose own manuals recommended torture and blackmail OSA-154EDGEWOOD ARSENALCONFIRMEDUS soldiers exposed to nerve agents and incapacitants in testing OSA-162THE IRAQ WMD CASECONFIRMEDA war argued on intelligence that four inquiries found unsupportable OSA-164THE TORTURE REPORTCONFIRMEDThe CIA's detention programme, documented by the committee overseeing it OSA-165EXTRAORDINARY RENDITIONCONFIRMEDDetainees flown to third countries for interrogation, tracked by flight logs OSA-166ABU GHRAIBCONFIRMEDDocumented by the perpetrators themselves, on their own cameras OSA-167THE PLAME AFFAIRCONFIRMEDA CIA officer exposed, and a chief of staff convicted of obstruction OSA-172THE ASBESTOS PAPERSCONFIRMEDThe industry's own correspondence, produced in discovery OSA-173MINAMATACONFIRMEDMercury poisoning of a Japanese fishing town, concealed for a decade after proof OSA-174BHOPALCONTESTEDForty tonnes of methyl isocyanate over a sleeping city OSA-175LOVE CANALCONFIRMED21,000 tonnes of chemical waste, and a neighbourhood built on top OSA-176THE FLINT WATER CRISISCONFIRMEDA city switched water source to save money, and did not treat it OSA-177AGENT ORANGECONFIRMEDSeventy-five million litres of herbicide, contaminated with dioxin OSA-178VIOXXCONFIRMEDA painkiller withdrawn after an estimated tens of thousands of excess cardiac events OSA-179THE GM IGNITION SWITCHCONFIRMEDA switch that could turn the engine off, and the airbags with it OSA-180ENRONCONFIRMEDA company that reported profits it had invented, and the audit firm that signed it OSA-182THE MURDER OF OLOF PALMEOPEN CASESweden's prime minister, walking home from the cinema without bodyguards OSA-184INSLAW AND PROMISCONTESTEDA software company, a stolen program, and a journalist found dead in a bathtub OSA-189THE CLEVELAND TORSO MURDERSOPEN CASEA killer who decapitated victims while they were still alive OSA-190THE WEST MEMPHIS THREECONTESTEDThree teenagers convicted of child murders on almost no physical evidence OSA-196THE MANTELL INCIDENTDEBUNKEDAn Air National Guard captain flew too high after something he could not identify OSA-197PROJECT BLUE BOOKCONFIRMEDThe US Air Force's public UFO investigation, and what it was actually for OSA-198THE VARGINHA INCIDENTUNVERIFIEDA Brazilian town, a reported capture, and a soldier who died days later

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