The Conspiratory

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On this day in conspiracies

The dated turning points behind the case files: assassinations, crashes, leaks, votes, and the moments a theory was born, each drawn straight from a file's sourced timeline. We only place an entry on a day the record actually names.

  1. 1990
    Operation GladioGovernment & Intelligence

    Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti confirms Gladio's existence to Parliament, describing it as a secret 'structure of information, response and safeguard,' disclosing 127 dismantled arms caches and a list of 622 people said to have been involved, and stating that comparable networks existed in other NATO countries.

  2. 2025
    Poland "lost sovereignty" narrativeGovernment & Intelligence

    The Estonian disinformation monitor Propastop publishes an overview of the narratives Russia uses against Poland, noting that a large share of Poles have been exposed to the claim that Poland lost its sovereignty by joining the EU, and mapping the "puppet," "warmonger," and "lost independence" themes.

  3. 2025
    Louvre heist AI 'CCTV' fakesHoaxes & Pop Culture

    AFP’s forensic debunk, echoed by the EU disinformation hub CEDMO, reports that a reverse image search surfaced a French-language TikTok version of the clip in which the “Sora” logo is still visible, and flags visual anomalies: a filming hand reflected in empty space and a burglar stepping to a spot with nothing to support his weight.

Drawn from 1,911 dated events across our case-file timelines. Dates reckoned in UTC.