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1940–1992 · Soviet Union / Poland
The NKVD shot some 22,000 Polish officers and professionals in 1940 and blamed the Germans. Two governments knew otherwise and said nothing for decades. The signed order is now public.
Government & Intelligence · 3 min
1963–2026 · United States
A shape in a Polaroid taken at the instant John F. Kennedy was shot, identified in 1982 as a police officer firing from behind the fence on the grassy knoll. At that magnification the photograph contains no information at all.
Assassinations · 3 min
1993–2024 · United States
A circulating list attributes dozens of deaths to the Clintons. It is built by counting anyone who ever met them, over forty years, and treating each death as suspicious. Applied to any long career, the method produces the same result.
Modern Internet-Era · 3 min
1961 · Zambia / Democratic Republic of the Congo
The UN Secretary-General died in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia in 1961 while flying to negotiate a ceasefire in Katanga. Three inquiries at the time were inconclusive. The UN reopened the case in 2015 and has kept it open since, because member states will not hand over what they hold.
Assassinations · 3 min
1963–1979 · United States
Two federal investigations reached different conclusions about whether there was a conspiracy, and the second was later undermined on the evidence that drove it. What remains genuinely open is not the ballistics but the conduct of the agencies that investigated.
Assassinations · 3 min