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— Current Cover-Up File —
Boeing Knew And Certified Anyway
Boeing designed the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System to take input from a single angle of attack sensor, kept MCAS out of the pilot Flight Crew Operations Manual, and made Level B differences training a design objective so 737 MAX pilots would not need a simulator. Two crashes killed 346 people.
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23 Files Open — Updated 2026
The Epstein Files: How the System Protected a Predator
Federal prosecutors had a 53-page indictment, 30 victims, and overwhelming evidence. They gave him 18 months in county jail with work release.
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MK Ultra: The CIA's Mind Control Program
For 20 years the CIA experimented on unwitting citizens — prisoners, mental patients, ordinary people. Then they destroyed the evidence. Nobody went to jail.
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The Iranian Revolution: How Paradise Became Prison
In 1979 millions marched for freedom. They got a theocracy. Forty-seven years later their descendants are still marching for the same things.
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The Radium Girls: How America Poisoned Its Workers and Called It Progress
The company had internal studies proving radium was lethal. They buried the reports. Over 100 died. No executive was ever charged.
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The Milk That Killed
Nestlé knew formula mixed with contaminated water killed infants. They calculated the cost of harm against the cost of profit. They sold it anyway.
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The Womb Brokers
There is no federal law governing surrogacy agencies in the United States. No licensing. No oversight. No minimum standard of care. Anyone can open one tomorrow.
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The Brooklyn Rabbi's Kidney Ring
He told his neighbours he was in construction. For a decade he brokered black market kidney sales — flying donors from Israel, keeping the spread between $10,000 and $160,000.
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The Ant Hill Kids
He told them the world was ending in February 1979. He told them he was the only way out. He was wrong about the world. He was right about everything else he could control.
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The Landlady
She had a prior conviction for drugging elderly victims. Parole agents visited her boarding house repeatedly. They kept leaving. Seven bodies were in the yard.
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They Gave Him a Girl's Name. He Spent 30 Years Making Women Pay For It.
At 22 Carroll Cole walked into a police station and told an officer he fantasised about strangling women. A doctor later wrote in his file that he must kill women before he could be intimate with them. Both signed his discharge. Then they opened the door.
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The Candy Man
He gave free sweets to the neighbourhood children. He let them use the pool table in the back room of his factory. Between 1970 and 1973 he murdered at least 28 of them. Families reported their sons missing for months. The police called them runaways and closed the files.
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The Axeman of New Orleans
In 1919 a serial killer sent a letter to every newspaper in New Orleans. He said he would spare any home playing jazz at midnight on a specific night. The city played until dawn. He kept his word. He was never identified.
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The Zodiac Killer
He sent coded letters to newspapers daring police to break them. One cipher went unsolved for 51 years. He killed at least 5 people across San Francisco in 1968 and 1969. He was never identified. The file is still open.
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The Gorilla Man: Earle Nelson
He carried a Bible. He dressed neatly. He knocked on doors and asked for a room. In 18 months he killed 22 boarding house landladies across the United States and Canada. He was caught because he tried to sell a stolen watch for 50 cents.
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Belle Gunness: The Black Widow of the Prairie
She placed lonely hearts advertisements in newspapers across America. Widow seeks good man. Must bring funds. The men who answered her ads travelled to a remote Indiana farm. At least 14 were never seen again. When the farmhouse burned down she disappeared too. Nobody knows if she died in the fire or walked away.
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The UK Government Knew About the Bribes
GPT pleaded guilty to corruption on the SANGCOM contracts. Two men were later cleared after the jury heard evidence that Britain had authorised the arrangements.
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The UK Government Knew The Blood Was Infected
More than 3000 deaths are attributable to infected NHS blood and blood products. Sir Brian Langstaff found the calamity could largely have been avoided.
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The US Government Knew And Did Not Treat
For 40 years the United States Public Health Service studied untreated syphilis in Black men in Macon County, Alabama. The Ad Hoc Advisory Panel found the study ethically unjustified in 1932 and said penicillin should have been given when it became generally available.
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The CIA Tortured And Lied
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence found the CIA detained at least 119 people in its Detention and Interrogation Program. At least 26 were wrongfully held.
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The Post Office Knew And Prosecuted Anyway
Sir Wyn Williams found that senior Post Office employees knew or should have known Legacy Horizon was capable of error. Throughout its lifetime the Post Office maintained the fiction that its data was always accurate.
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NASA Knew And Launched Anyway
Morton Thiokol engineers recommended no launch of Challenger below 53 degrees Fahrenheit on the night of 27 January 1986. Managers reversed them, NASA launched at 36 degrees the next morning, and all seven crew members died 73 seconds after liftoff.
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The FBI Knew And Did Not Act
USA Gymnastics reported sexual assault allegations against Lawrence Gerard Nassar to the FBI Indianapolis Field Office in July 2015. The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General found that senior officials there failed to respond with the urgency required, never transferred the case as claimed, and later made false statements about what they had done.
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Boeing Knew And Certified Anyway
Boeing designed the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System to take input from a single angle of attack sensor, kept MCAS out of the pilot Flight Crew Operations Manual, and made Level B differences training a design objective so 737 MAX pilots would not need a simulator. Two crashes killed 346 people.
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