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c. 800 The Donation of Constantine forgery debunked 0 cit. The Donation of Constantine was a document, later proven to be a forgery, that claimed Emperor Constantine had granted the popes authority over Rome and the Western Empire. It was produced around the eighth century and used for centuries to support papal claims to temporal power. politics / religion ●●●●
1903 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Forgery debunked 0 cit. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a proven antisemitic forgery that falsely claims to record a Jewish plot for world domination. It was fabricated in Russia and has been used ever since to incite hatred and violence against Jews. politics / society ●●●●
1903 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a proven forgery debunked 0 cit. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first printed in Russia in 1903, pretend to be the minutes of a secret Jewish plan to control the world's finance and governments. They are a fabrication, plagiarized from an earlier French satire that had nothing to do with Jews, and were exposed as a forgery by The Times of London in 1921. The whole idea of a Jewish plot to run world finance rests on this fake document and must be rejected outright as antisemitic invention. politics / society ●●●
August 1921 The Protocols Exposed as a Forgery debunked 0 cit. The Times of London demonstrated that the Protocols were plagiarized from earlier satirical writings and were a forgery. Despite repeated exposure, the fabricated text continued to circulate among antisemitic movements. politics / society ●●●
25 October 1924 Zinoviev Letter published debunked 0 cit. The Daily Mail published a letter purportedly from Soviet official Grigory Zinoviev urging British communists toward insurrection, four days before a general election. The letter was a forgery, and later research pointed to its likely fabrication by White Russian emigres and possible passage through figures with SIS connections. Its publication is widely believed to have damaged the Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald, though historians still debate exactly how it reached the press. politics ●●●
13 March 1962 Operation Northwoods Proposal debunked 0 cit. The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff drafted and formally proposed a set of false-flag operations, including staged terrorist attacks and a fabricated Cuban attack on a U.S. plane, meant to be blamed on Fidel Castro's government to justify a military invasion of Cuba. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara rejected the plan and it was never carried out. The proposal is documented through declassified Pentagon papers released in the late 1990s, not through any executed attack. politics / war ●●●
21 November 2006 Botched raid kills Kathryn Johnston in Atlanta debunked 0 cit. Atlanta narcotics officers used a no-knock warrant to break into the home of Kathryn Johnston, a 92-year-old woman, who fired once in fear and was killed in the return fire. Investigators found the warrant rested on a fabricated informant tip, and officers later admitted planting drugs and lying, drawing federal convictions. The case became a widely cited example of how paramilitary drug raids on bad information could turn deadly for innocent residents. politics / society ●●