THE ARCHIVE

165 entries · every one carries a verdict

Some of them
were true.

MKUltra was real. COINTELPRO was real. Operation Northwoods was a signed proposal from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Tuskegee study ran for forty years while it was being published in medical journals. The reptilian elite are not real, and Pizzagate put a man with a rifle inside a pizzeria. This archive holds both facts at once, and tells you which is which on every single page.

The complete index — all 165 entries, oldest first. The highlighted ones are documented fact

51 of these 165 are confirmed conspiracies — declassified, adjudicated, or admitted. 9 are genuinely open. The remaining 105 have been investigated and refuted, and are documented here at the same length and with the same care, because explaining why something is false is the harder job.

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CONFIRMED

1953–1973 · United States

Project MKUltra

For twenty years the CIA funded research into chemical and psychological control of human behaviour, including administering LSD to people who had not consented and did not know. Most of the files were destroyed on the director's order in 1973. What survived was enough.

Government & Intelligence · 3 min

DEBUNKED

1969–2024 · United States

The Moon landing hoax

The claim that Apollo was staged has been answered by evidence that does not depend on trusting NASA: lasers bounced off mirrors left on the Moon, rock samples that cannot be made on Earth, and photographs of the hardware taken by other countries' spacecraft.

Space & Aviation · 3 min

UNRESOLVED

2019–2024 · China / Global

The COVID-19 lab-leak hypothesis

Two hypotheses remain live: that SARS-CoV-2 entered humans through the wildlife trade, and that it escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan. Serious scientists hold both positions. The decisive early evidence sits in China and has not been released.

Medicine & Public Health · 3 min

CONFIRMED

1956–1971 · United States

COINTELPRO

The FBI ran a fifteen-year covert programme to surveil, infiltrate, discredit and disrupt American political movements — civil rights groups, the anti-war left, Black nationalist organisations, and the far right. Its own memos describe the goal as neutralising targets, not prosecuting crimes.

Government & Intelligence · 3 min

DEBUNKED

2012–2022 · United States

Sandy Hook denial

Twenty children and six staff were murdered at an elementary school in Connecticut in December 2012. The claim that it was staged has been tested in open court twice and lost, and the families who brought those cases had spent a decade being hunted.

Modern Internet-Era · 3 min

CONFIRMED

1962 · United States

Operation Northwoods

In 1962 the Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a menu of manufactured provocations — staged attacks, faked casualties, a remotely destroyed aircraft — to justify invading Cuba. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and President Kennedy rejected it. The document was declassified in 1997.

Government & Intelligence · 3 min

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