State Deception
Cases where a government or state-level institution is documented concealing its true motives, actions, or the results of an operation. We investigate incidents where official denials are contradicted by declassified records, where government actions are concealed behind a cover story, and where state institutions actively hide their true intentions from the public.
The Sustained Attention Paradox – The Vigilance Trap
For 75 years, we've known human attention fails after 30 minutes. Yet industries demand hours of perfect vigilance, then blame 'human error' when people inevitably miss critical signals.
The Archive That Isn’t There – Investigating the Gaps in KGB History
One side burned their archives on the way out the door. The other side blacks out entire pages of what remains. When everyone is hiding the same kind of secrets, from the same period of time, it pays to ask why.
The Invisible Architects – Cold War Ops They Erased
Some of the Cold War’s smartest players weren’t superpowers. They were small nations running psychological ops, outmanoeuvring the giants, and vanishing their tracks. Here's how they did it.
An Unseen Threat – The Strange Death of Psychedelic Science
From CIA experiments to institutional censorship, this investigation tracks how ego dissolution went from medical breakthrough to taboo, and why it's still avoided in today's psychedelic revival.
Was Churchill the Warmonger – or the One Who Said No?
History’s moral compass isn’t easily broken. But some are determined to bend it. The campaign to recast Churchill as villain and Hitler as victim isn’t just a revision of the past; it’s a quiet war over truth, memory, and the foundations of belief itself.
Nazi Gold – The Theft, the Recovery, and the Missing Millions
Allied teams emptied the Merkers vaults in April 1945, yet the totals do not reconcile with known seizures and trades. We test the balance sheet using archives on Reichsbank movements and the Hungarian Gold Train.