On this day in conspiracies

Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger, reacting to press accounts tying former CIA men E. Howard Hunt and James McCord to the Watergate burglary, signs a directive ordering all senior operating officials to report any current or past activities that might fall outside the agency's legislative charter.

Moro's body, shot eleven times, is found in the boot of a red Renault 4 on Via Caetani in central Rome, symbolically midway between the headquarters of the Christian Democracy and the Communist Party. The killing marks the bloodiest point of Italy's 'Years of Lead.'

The US Defense Intelligence Agency reports its assessment that the crash “was actually an assassination” conducted by Hutu military hardliners. These early US cables form one pole of the attribution debate, pointing inside Habyarimana's own camp.

Hare appears at the Disclosure Project news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, organized by Steven Greer, where about twenty former government and contractor personnel give UFO-related testimony. She describes the photo-lab exchange on the record, and the account enters wide circulation.

Retired FAA division chief John Callahan describes, at a press event organized by the Disclosure Project, how the case was reviewed at FAA headquarters and briefed to officials he says included representatives of the CIA and others, an account that revives interest in the encounter decades later.