A curated, connected archive of conspiracy theories
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Start anywhere — a break-in, a hijacking, a haunted house — and follow the thread through the people, places, and events it actually shares with the case next to it. Every connection is graded documented, speculative, or disputed, and grading isn't the same as proof. Nothing here is true just because it made it onto the board.
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See all →Just used Find the Connection and got a 3-hop path I did not expect
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Anyone else think the CIA connections are the real spine of this whole graph?
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PSA: read the "Other Side" section before arguing in the comments
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The Epstein Files
✓documentedMillions of pages, redacted names, and a fight over what "full disclosure" actually means.
4 entities on file
The Waco Siege
✓documentedA 51-day standoff between federal agents and a religious sect ended with a fire that killed 76 people, including 25 children — and a government report years later confirmed federal agents didn't start the blaze, even as the tragedy directly inspired the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in American history.
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The NSA PRISM Program
✓documentedA contractor leaked proof the NSA was secretly collecting data directly from Google, Facebook, and Apple's servers — then had to flee the country to avoid prosecution for telling the public.
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The Pentagon Papers
✓documentedA military analyst leaked 7,000 pages proving the government had been lying about Vietnam for decades — and the Supreme Court ruled the government couldn't stop the presses from printing it.
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The Jakarta Method
✓documentedThe U.S. helped a foreign military kill up to a million of its own citizens in 1965 — then declassified cables show American officials later cited it as a model for operations elsewhere.
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Operation Ajax
✓documentedThe CIA secretly overthrew a foreign country's democratically elected government in 1953 — and the agency's own declassified documents now confirm every detail.
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
✓documentedFor 40 years, the U.S. government watched hundreds of Black men suffer from a treatable disease without treating them — and lied to their faces about it the entire time.
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Operation Mincemeat
✓documentedThe British disguised a homeless man's corpse as a fake officer to fool the Nazis about D-Day's Mediterranean cousin — and it worked.
2 entities on file
Operation Paperclip
✓documentedThe U.S. secretly recruited over 1,600 Nazi scientists after WWII — some with real SS ties — and built its space program around them.
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MKUltra
✓documentedThe CIA dosed its own citizens with acid. On purpose.
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Watergate
✓documentedThe break-in that ended a presidency.
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The 1971 FBI Media Burglary
✓documentedA group of ordinary citizens broke into an FBI field office, stole every document inside, and mailed them to journalists — the resulting leak is the entire reason the public ever learned COINTELPRO existed, and the burglars themselves stayed anonymous for over 40 years.
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The Nayirah Testimony
✓documentedA tearful 15-year-old girl testified before Congress that Iraqi soldiers were ripping babies from hospital incubators — the testimony helped build American support for the Gulf War, and it later came out that she was the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter, coached by a PR firm.
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CIA Black Sites and the Torture Report
✓documentedA bipartisan Senate investigation spent five years and reviewed six million pages of documents before concluding the CIA's post-9/11 interrogation program was more brutal than the agency had told Congress — and didn't produce the intelligence breakthroughs it claimed.
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Total Information Awareness
✓documentedThe Pentagon proposed building a single database to track nearly every American's emails, phone calls, medical records, and financial transactions in one place — using a logo showing an all-seeing eye watching the entire globe.
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The Church Committee
✓documentedA 1975 Senate investigation revealed the CIA had actually plotted to assassinate foreign leaders and the FBI had run a secret program trying to psychologically destroy Martin Luther King Jr. — and the resulting report is still the single most detailed public accounting of American intelligence abuse ever produced.
2 entities on file
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The Guatemala Syphilis Experiments
✓documentedU.S. government researchers deliberately infected Guatemalan prisoners, soldiers, and mental patients with syphilis and other diseases without their consent in the 1940s — and the experiments stayed hidden for over 60 years until a historian found the records by accident.
2 entities on file
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Unit 731
✓documentedA secret Japanese military unit conducted horrific human experiments on tens of thousands of people during World War II — and the United States granted the scientists responsible immunity from war crimes prosecution in exchange for their research data.
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Ruby Ridge
✓documentedFederal agents surrounded an Idaho family's cabin over a minor firearms violation — and an FBI sniper ended up killing the mother while she held her infant daughter, a death the government later paid $3.1 million to settle.
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Operation Fast and Furious
✓documentedA real U.S. government program deliberately let thousands of guns cross into Mexican drug cartel hands to track them — then lost track of most of them, and one turned up at the scene of a federal agent's murder.
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The Cambridge Five
✓documentedFive British men recruited at Cambridge University spent decades passing top-secret intelligence to the Soviet Union from inside Britain's own spy agencies — and one of them ran British counter-intelligence itself while secretly working for the enemy.
2 entities on file
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Operation Gladio
✓documentedNATO secretly armed and trained paramilitary networks across Western Europe to resist a Soviet invasion that never came — and Italy's own prime minister had to publicly confirm it existed after decades of official denial.
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Operation CHAOS
✓documentedFor nearly a decade, the CIA ran an illegal domestic spying program against American anti-war activists — inside the United States, which is explicitly outside the agency's legal charter.
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The Iran-Contra Affair
✓documentedReagan administration officials secretly sold weapons to Iran, then illegally used the profits to fund a rebel army Congress had explicitly banned funding.
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The Business Plot
✓documentedA retired Marine general testified under oath to Congress that wealthy businessmen tried to recruit him to lead a fascist coup against FDR — and a congressional committee said his account checked out.
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Operation Northwoods
✓documentedThe Pentagon once proposed staging terror attacks on Americans — then blaming Cuba.
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