Alaska payment conspiracy
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alaska-payment-conspiracy-241-3207727
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Alaska payment conspiracy
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The Alaska payment conspiracy, also known as the Orkney conspiracy, is a conspiracy theory that the Russian Empire never received payment for the Alaska purchase from the United States, and that instead the ship, the Orkney, that carried the payment in gold was detonated for insurance money by Alexander 'Sandy' Keith, a con artist and explosives expert. This conspiracy theory has been debunked in several ways.
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Conspiracy theory
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_payment_conspiracy
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2023-12-30T19:52:22Z
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