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* The identity of Deep Throat, the principal informant of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein who helped unravel the [[Richard Nixon|Watergate scandal]], was a mystery for thirty years. In ''[[All the President's Men|All the Presidents Men]]'' he's portrayed as an anonymous figure in a trenchcoat; in the film ''[[Dick]]'' (1999) "he" is actually two teenage girls. In 2005 Deep Throat was revealed as former FBI Associate Director Mark Felt whose motives were likely revenge against Nixon for not promoting him to replace Hoover.
* Carlos the Jackal is the [[Big Bad]] of [[The Bourne Series (novel)|the Bourne Series]], which presents him as a [[Diabolical Mastermind]] and attributes a number of assassinations to him, including that of [[Who Shot JFK?|JFK]]. The actual Carlos was captured a few years ago, and is now viewed as more of a bumbling [[Smug Snake]] whose past reputation was highly exaggerated. This also account for most of the differences between the books and the movies (he had been caught by that time).
* Imperial Japanese "Comfort Women" are widely mentioned in fiction, but after decades of never bothering to examine it closely because the Imperial Japanese did enough warcrimes they were never given the benefit of the doubt, historians finally started examining the case and completely failed to find any actual evidence they existed outside of Korean propaganda, instead finding that Korean kidnappers and Korean ''parents'' sold women to Korean owned brothels that were simply visited by Japanese soldiers. The South (yes, the supposedly free ''South'' is as much like ''[[Brave New World]]'' as the North is like ''[[
** Several widely repeated stories from within the Nanking massacre, most notably the famous "contest to kill 100 people with a sword" are considered fake, causing historians to push the exclusion from modern sources because their fakeness throws skepticism on everything else.
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