US Cartographers Inadvertently Created a House of Horrors in South Africa

> In 1999, when the agency was known as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, it provided a map and satellite imagery analysis to the U.S. military that was used when NATO mistakenly bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade; agency analysts reportedly failed to recognize the building as an embassy.

That's a nice story they like to tell, but an alternative and compelling reading of the events is that it was an intentional act. It was undertaken because important components of a F-117 stealth fighter that had crashed days before were known to be in the embassy at that time and the US was trying to prevent them from making it back to China intact.