BBC
Our investigations stand on BBC's reporting. This page collects every story of theirs we cite, every page on this site that uses it, and how we graded each claim built on it.
The reporting we cite
15 stories, each opening at its source.
- BBC — Death in Dubai: #DubaiPortaPotty (BBC Africa Eye / World of Secrets)
- BBC — Delek Group controls Ithaca Energy, which holds a 20% stake in Rosebank
- BBC News — interview with Daniella Weiss on resettling Gaza (Apr 2024)
- BBC, Who is Ghislaine Maxwell? (December 2021)
- BBC on the sentencing and underlying counts
- BBC — HSBC to pay $1.9bn in US money laundering penalties
- BBC — CIA admits role in 1953 Iranian coup (Aug. 19, 2013)
- BBC News on the 1998 acknowledgment
- BBC, May 15, 2016
- BBC on the January 2022 stripping of titles
- BBC on the 2025 removal of the Duke of York title
- BBC on the January 30, 2026 release and its context
- BBC Culture — 'Was modern art a weapon of the CIA?'
- BBC News — CIA interrogations report sparks prosecution calls (Dec. 10, 2014, on the SSCI Torture Report release)
- BBC — Burnham's declared donations, including £25,000 from Gary Lubner toward his leadership bid (UK political-finance register)
Where their work appears on this site
- How the CIA Engaged in Unethical Human Experimentation →
- Death in Dubai →
- The $881 Million Wash →
- In Their Own Words →
- North Sea, West Bank →
- Jonathan Pollard: the largest documented US intelligence theft on behalf of a foreign ally →
- The CIA and Mandela →
- The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →
- CIA Crimes →
- The Epstein Class →
- Israeli Influence on the United States →
- The Dulles Blueprint →
- The Untouchables →
- Too Big to Jail →
How we graded the claims built on their work
17 FACT · 2 PROBABLY TRUE. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.
- Death in Dubai →
A two-year BBC Africa Eye investigation, not a TikTok rumor.
FACT - North Sea, West Bank →
An Israeli conglomerate, Delek Group, controls the company holding 20% of Rosebank — and stakes in 6 of the UK's 10 biggest fields.
FACT - In Their Own Words →
Daniella Weiss, settler-movement leader: 'Arabs will not stay.'
PROBABLY TRUE - North Sea, West Bank →
Delek is on the UN database of companies tied to West Bank settlements — a listing it disputes.
FACT - The Epstein Class →
Ghislaine Maxwell — the operational profile
FACT - The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →
Ghislaine Maxwell's December 2021 conviction
FACT - The $881 Million Wash →
HSBC stripped identifying data from wires to bypass US sanctions.
FACT - The Dulles Blueprint →
Iran 1953 — Mossadegh deposed, Pahlavi restored (Operation TPAJAX)
FACT - Jonathan Pollard: the largest documented US intelligence theft on behalf of a foreign ally →
Israel officially called the operation “rogue” for over a decade, then formally reversed that position in 1998.
FACT - The CIA and Mandela →
Mandela was arrested at a roadblock near Howick on August 5, 1962, disguised as a chauffeur on the Durban to Johannesburg road.
FACT - The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →
Prince Andrew stripped of military titles and royal patronages
FACT - The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →
The 3.5-million-page release, January 30, 2026
FACT - How the CIA Engaged in Unethical Human Experimentation →
The CIA did shape culture by covert design — the documented case is the Cultural Cold War.
FACT - North Sea, West Bank →
The contradiction: the UK just announced settlement sanctions — and is weighing a field that would profit a UN-flagged settlement-linked firm.
FACT - North Sea, West Bank →
The decision sits with Burnham's government — which leans toward more drilling, under pressure from more than one direction.
FACT - CIA Crimes →
The tip and the arrest: Rickard's 1962 phone call to South African police
PROBABLY TRUE - The Dulles Blueprint →
The torture memos — Sullivan & Cromwell’s successor firms inside the OLC
FACT - Death in Dubai →
Two women are dead: Monic Karungi and Kayla Birungi, falls ruled suicide, families dispute.
FACT - North Sea, West Bank →
Where we stop: the donor web and the Technion chain are guilt-by-association, and we refuse them.
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