There is a difference between refusing a convenient story and accepting an exciting one. The first can begin an investigation. The second can end it before you have opened a document.

Read the labels closely.

A document is not its interpretation.

An authentic memorandum can contain a proposal that never happened. An authentic investigation can be incomplete. A scientific research grant does not prove its subject works. An archive can record an allegation without validating it. We identify which of these things a source actually establishes.

Follow the strongest available record.

Primary documents, court findings, scientific assessments, and museum or university scholarship come first. Agency accounts are valuable for what agencies acknowledge, but they are interested sources. A few historical or fringe narratives use reputable historical journalism or clearly labeled secondary discovery material; those entries carry a narrower assessment. Neither repetition nor official stationery substitutes for corroboration.

Keep the victims out of the spectacle.

False criminal accusations and scapegoating stories are recorded as false accusations. Real abuses are described accurately. The archive does not treat an allegation against a person or community as a finding, and it does not turn uncertainty around a tragedy into entertainment at a victim’s expense.

The boundaries of this edition.

This edition contains 71 selected dossiers across eight sections, including Special Edition: Korea. The wider archive emphasizes English-language, American, and European conspiracy culture. It includes documented covert programs as comparison cases, not as proof of unrelated theories. It is not an exhaustive list, a live news service, or a claim that every source has equal authority.

Research expanded: 2 October 2026. Each file now includes a narrative, the available witness or participant record, competing interpretations, and sources beside the relevant sections. Firsthand accounts are identified; where no verified witness record exists, the file says so. Historical dates mark the event or broad period of circulation; they are not claims to have pinpointed the first person who told the story. Assessments are limited to the allegation stated in each file.

The watching eye is theatre.

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Keep a place in the file for the sentence: “We do not know.”