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| − | '''Documents do go missing''', both accidentally and on purpose. Differentiating between the two can be hard in any individual case, but larger patterns are helpful in revealing the bigger picture. | + | '''Documents ''do'' go missing''', both accidentally and on purpose. Differentiating between the two can be hard in any individual case, but larger patterns are helpful in revealing the bigger picture which shows this to be a standard tool of [[statecraft]]. |
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==Document destruction== | ==Document destruction== | ||
{{FA|Destruction of evidence}} | {{FA|Destruction of evidence}} | ||
| − | [[Destruction of evidence]] has a long history within the [[CIA]]. For example, in 1973 outgoing [[CIA Director]] [[Richard Helms]] ordered the destruction of all documents relating to the [[MK Ultra]] programme. | + | [[Destruction of evidence]] has a long history within the [[CIA]]. For example, in [[1973]] outgoing [[CIA Director]] [[Richard Helms]] ordered the destruction of all documents relating to the [[MK Ultra]] programme. He was frustrated by documents which had found their way to other arms of the US government. |
CIA [[whistleblower]] [[John Stockwell]] reported that as [[CIA Director]], [[George H. W. Bush]] used requests by [[US congress]] to facilitate his destruction of documents.<ref>http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/656</ref> Bush is presumed to have ordered the destruction of all documents about his earlier CIA career, although at least 3 documents survived which later [[George H. W. Bush/Exposure|exposed him as a lifelong CIA operative]]. | CIA [[whistleblower]] [[John Stockwell]] reported that as [[CIA Director]], [[George H. W. Bush]] used requests by [[US congress]] to facilitate his destruction of documents.<ref>http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/656</ref> Bush is presumed to have ordered the destruction of all documents about his earlier CIA career, although at least 3 documents survived which later [[George H. W. Bush/Exposure|exposed him as a lifelong CIA operative]]. | ||
===By deep events=== | ===By deep events=== | ||
| − | [[Deep events]] are used to destroy documents in apparently unrelated cases. The supreme example of this was [[9-11]]. This provided a cover for the shutdown of many | + | [[Deep events]] are used to destroy documents in apparently unrelated cases. The supreme example of this was [[9-11]]. This provided a cover for the shutdown of many investigations which were problematic for the [[US deep state]]. Another example was the [[OKC bombing]], which damaged the Murrah Building. |
===FOIA requests=== | ===FOIA requests=== | ||
{{FA|FOIA}} | {{FA|FOIA}} | ||
| − | The extreme informational asymmetry between those who request and those who fulfil [[FOIA]] requests mean that it can be hard to discern stonewalling by a pattern of repeated disingenuous claims of "no responsive documents". | + | The extreme informational asymmetry between those who request and those who fulfil [[FOIA]] requests mean that it can be hard to discern stonewalling by a pattern of repeated disingenuous claims of "no responsive documents". The situation is improved for serial FOIA requesters. They not only have experience at phrasing such requests, but can cross-reference different responses. For example, the FBI's repeated claim that they had no documents about [[Gerald MacGuire]]<ref name=cmr>https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/gerald-c-macguire-37609/</ref> was belied by the fact that his name was mentioned in documents revealed in response to a request about [[Smedley Butler]].<ref>https://cdn.muckrock.com/foia_files/2017/06/07/File_1_Section_1_Serial__1.pdf</ref> |
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| − | The situation is improved for serial FOIA requesters. They not only have experience at phrasing such requests, but can cross-reference different responses. For example, the FBI's repeated claim | ||
==Repeating patterns== | ==Repeating patterns== | ||
| − | One recurring pattern is that reports compiled by junior, regional officials are passed up the chain of command only to vanish when they reach the | + | One recurring pattern is that reports compiled by junior, regional officials are passed up the chain of command only to vanish when they reach the senior levels controlled by [[deep state]] groups, in particular as regards topics useful for purposes of [[blackmail]] or other clandestine control. |
| − | === | + | ===Lost and Found ID syndrome=== |
| − | + | {{FA|Lost and Found ID}} | |
| − | + | [[image:Ziad Jarrah's passport.jpg|thumbnail|280px|[[Ziad Jarrah]]'s passport, as reportedly found in the street having survived the [[9-11]] fireball that destroyed the plane's [[black box]]es.]] | |
| − | + | In [[2015]] [[Russ Baker]] coined the phrase "Lost and Found ID syndrome", observing a regular pattern in deep events. [[Passport]]s, he noted, tend to be conspicuous by their presence rather that their absence. <ref>http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/02/01/lost-found-id-oddity-terror-cases-stupid-sinister/</ref> The deliberate creation of a misleading document trail is a converse of the deliberate destruction of real documents. | |
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===VIPaedophile=== | ===VIPaedophile=== | ||
{{FA|VIPaedophile}} | {{FA|VIPaedophile}} | ||
| − | + | [[image:German VIPaedohpile Missing documents.png|right|440px|thumb]] | |
| + | [[VIPaedophile]] cases are both high profile and integral to one of the [[Supranational Deep State]]'s main control mechanisms. Therefore, incendiary blackmail material cannot be allowed to become publicly exposed, so documents often get lost or are destroyed. | ||
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| + | ====Germany==== | ||
| + | In [[2019]] a suitcase of CDs and DVDs from a [[child sex abuse]] case disappeared from a [[German Police]] evidence room.<ref>https://www.dw.com/en/child-sex-abuse-case-german-police-lose-suitcase-of-evidence/a-47625306</ref> | ||
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| + | ====UK==== | ||
| + | {{FA|UK/VIPaedophile}} | ||
| + | Various VIPaedophile-related dossiers have been compiled by [[UK police]] but were later "lost" by Whitehall, senior police, the [[SFO]] or [[intelligence agencies]]. | ||
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| + | In [[2014]], the [[UK Home Office]] reported having lost or destroyed 114 files relating to child abuse by senior [[politicians]].<ref>https://www.theweek.co.uk/uk-news/59305/home-office-loses-114-whitehall-child-sex-files</ref> The BBC reported in [[2015]] that "Abuse inquiry accidentally deletes victim submissions" because, as the inquiry stated , of a "change in our website address".<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34546338</ref> | ||
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| + | ====US==== | ||
| + | {{FA|US/VIPaedophile}} | ||
| + | "According to reports at the time, a trove of lewd photographs of children was found in the safe at [Epstein's] property. Court papers said that alongside photos were compact discs with handwritten labels including: “‘Young [Name] + [Name],’ ‘Misc nudes 1,’ and ‘Girl pics nude.”" The [[FBI]] photographed the items but did not take them, reportedly due to lack of a warrant. When they returned the items were not there, it emerged during [[Ghislaine Maxwell]]'s trial in 2021.<ref>https://vnexplorer.net/evidence-from-jeffrey-epsteins-safe-went-missing-after-fbi-raid-court-hears-in-ghislaine-maxwell-trial-eu20213245056.html</ref> | ||
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| + | ===War crimes=== | ||
| + | Evidence of [[war crimes]] regularly gets mislaid in [[bureaucracies]] in ways that prevent clear assignment of culpability. In November [[2019]] sources within the [[Dutch Ministry of Defence]] announced that they had "lost the definitive [[CENTCOM]] report" on the [[2015 Hawija bombing]].<ref>https://www.ad.nl/politiek/defensie-kan-rapport-over-burgerdoden-niet-vinden~a9ddc845/</ref> | ||
===CCTV=== | ===CCTV=== | ||
{{FA|CCTV}} | {{FA|CCTV}} | ||
| − | [[CCTV]] provides an extra level of deniability, since by design, CCTV cameras provide no indication of whether they are functioning correctly, so missing footage can be blamed on technical problems. This is regularly used to account for missing CCTV footage of deep events, including the [[7-7 bombings]], [[OKC bombing]], [[Diana Spencer/Assassination|unlawful killing]] of [[Diana Spencer]]. | + | [[CCTV]] provides an extra level of deniability, since by design, CCTV cameras provide no indication of whether they are functioning correctly, so missing footage can be blamed on technical problems. This is regularly used to account for missing CCTV footage of deep events, including the [[1994 London Israeli Embassy attack]], [[7-7 bombings]], [[OKC bombing]], [[Diana Spencer/Assassination|unlawful killing]] of [[Diana Spencer]]. |
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| + | Occasionally, third party footage is confiscated, such as on {{911}}, when all known footage of the attack on the [[US Pentagon]] was quickly confiscated. As of December [[2018]], only a set of images from one low frame rate CCTV camera had been released. [[Jesse Trentadue]] states that he was given 26 pieces of CCTV footage, all of which with gaps in it just as the Ryder truck was passing.<ref name=cherylOKC>http://www.radio4all.net/files/cheryl@ct911truth.org/4212-1-OKC_2017_replaymp3.mp3</ref> | ||
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| + | ==Specific instances== | ||
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| + | ===NASA=== | ||
| + | On August 5, [[2006]], Richard Macey for the ''[[Sydney Morning Herald]]'' reported that "it is feared the magnetic tapes that recorded the [[Apollo program|first moon walk]] - beamed to the world via three tracking stations, including Parkes's famous "Dish" - have gone missing at NASA's Goddard Space Centre in Maryland.... Originally stored at Goddard, the tapes were moved in [[1970]] to the [[US National Archives]]. No one knows why, but in [[1984]] about 700 boxes of space flight tapes there were returned to Goddard."We have the documents to say they were withdrawn, but no one knows exactly where they went," Mr Sarkissian said."<ref>https://www.smh.com.au/national/one-giant-blunder-for-mankind-how-nasa-lost-moon-pictures-20060805-gdo42n.html</ref> NASA announced on July 16, 2009 – the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11's launch from Cape Kennedy that they believed the tapes had been erased. | ||
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| + | ===SEC=== | ||
| + | At some point in the early [[1980s]], shortly after [[George H. W. Bush]] became [[US Vice President]], the [[SEC]] reportedly lost its records of the filings of [[Zapata Petroleum]] from 1960-1966,<ref>https://www.thomhartmann.com/users/leighmf/blog/2012/07/zapata-oil-lost-years</ref> although it had records from 1955–1959 and again from 1967 onwards. | ||
| − | + | ===SFO=== | |
| + | The [[SFO]] stated in [[2013]] that it abandoned its investigations into the multi-billion dollar [[Al Yamamah]] arms deal due to losing 32,000 pages of data and 81 audio tapes.<ref>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-23622364</ref> It reportedly also lost several crates of evidence relating to the [[Asil Nadir]] case.<ref name=asilnadirandthemedia>http://asilnadirandthemedia.blogspot.com/?m=0</ref> | ||
| − | == | + | ===BBC=== |
| − | + | A [[BBC]] editor once stated that [[BBC/Censorship|the BBC couldn't give more details]] on its premature announcement of the [[9-11/WTC7/Destruction|destruction]] of [[WTC7]] due to having lost that tape.<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/02/part_of_the_conspiracy.html</ref> Later they reportedly found it again but have not answered the question about their [[foreknowledge of WTC7]]'s destruction.<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/07/controversy_conspiracies_iii.html</ref> | |
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| − | + | ===US Police=== | |
| + | [[Wayne Madsen]] reported in [[2005]] that "the Jersey City Police discovered their 911 system tapes on September 11, [[2001]] disappeared from their servers and archives after [[ISI]] took over the contract." <ref>https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/08/321316.html</ref> | ||
==Internet censorship== | ==Internet censorship== | ||
{{FAs|Internet/Censorship|Streisand Effect}} | {{FAs|Internet/Censorship|Streisand Effect}} | ||
| − | [[Internet/Censorship|Removal of documents]] from the [[internet]] is often technically difficult. Moreover it is risky due to the [[Streisand Effect]], since unsuccessful attempts to remove documents | + | [[Internet/Censorship|Removal of documents]] from the [[internet]] is often technically difficult. Moreover it is risky due to the [[Streisand Effect]], since unsuccessful attempts to remove documents draw more attention to them. |
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{{SMWDocs}} | {{SMWDocs}} | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
Latest revision as of 14:24, 11 October 2024
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| Files do go missing, both accidentally and on purpose. This article reviews some of the common patterns. |
Documents do go missing, both accidentally and on purpose. Differentiating between the two can be hard in any individual case, but larger patterns are helpful in revealing the bigger picture which shows this to be a standard tool of statecraft.
Contents
Document destruction
- Full article: Destruction of evidence
- Full article: Destruction of evidence
Destruction of evidence has a long history within the CIA. For example, in 1973 outgoing CIA Director Richard Helms ordered the destruction of all documents relating to the MK Ultra programme. He was frustrated by documents which had found their way to other arms of the US government.
CIA whistleblower John Stockwell reported that as CIA Director, George H. W. Bush used requests by US congress to facilitate his destruction of documents.[1] Bush is presumed to have ordered the destruction of all documents about his earlier CIA career, although at least 3 documents survived which later exposed him as a lifelong CIA operative.
By deep events
Deep events are used to destroy documents in apparently unrelated cases. The supreme example of this was 9-11. This provided a cover for the shutdown of many investigations which were problematic for the US deep state. Another example was the OKC bombing, which damaged the Murrah Building.
FOIA requests
- Full article: FOIA
- Full article: FOIA
The extreme informational asymmetry between those who request and those who fulfil FOIA requests mean that it can be hard to discern stonewalling by a pattern of repeated disingenuous claims of "no responsive documents". The situation is improved for serial FOIA requesters. They not only have experience at phrasing such requests, but can cross-reference different responses. For example, the FBI's repeated claim that they had no documents about Gerald MacGuire[2] was belied by the fact that his name was mentioned in documents revealed in response to a request about Smedley Butler.[3]
Repeating patterns
One recurring pattern is that reports compiled by junior, regional officials are passed up the chain of command only to vanish when they reach the senior levels controlled by deep state groups, in particular as regards topics useful for purposes of blackmail or other clandestine control.
Lost and Found ID syndrome
- Full article:
Lost and Found ID
- Full article:
In 2015 Russ Baker coined the phrase "Lost and Found ID syndrome", observing a regular pattern in deep events. Passports, he noted, tend to be conspicuous by their presence rather that their absence. [4] The deliberate creation of a misleading document trail is a converse of the deliberate destruction of real documents.
VIPaedophile
- Full article:
VIPaedophile
- Full article:
VIPaedophile cases are both high profile and integral to one of the Supranational Deep State's main control mechanisms. Therefore, incendiary blackmail material cannot be allowed to become publicly exposed, so documents often get lost or are destroyed.
Germany
In 2019 a suitcase of CDs and DVDs from a child sex abuse case disappeared from a German Police evidence room.[5]
UK
- Full article: UK/VIPaedophile
- Full article: UK/VIPaedophile
Various VIPaedophile-related dossiers have been compiled by UK police but were later "lost" by Whitehall, senior police, the SFO or intelligence agencies.
In 2014, the UK Home Office reported having lost or destroyed 114 files relating to child abuse by senior politicians.[6] The BBC reported in 2015 that "Abuse inquiry accidentally deletes victim submissions" because, as the inquiry stated , of a "change in our website address".[7]
US
- Full article: US/VIPaedophile
- Full article: US/VIPaedophile
"According to reports at the time, a trove of lewd photographs of children was found in the safe at [Epstein's] property. Court papers said that alongside photos were compact discs with handwritten labels including: “‘Young [Name] + [Name],’ ‘Misc nudes 1,’ and ‘Girl pics nude.”" The FBI photographed the items but did not take them, reportedly due to lack of a warrant. When they returned the items were not there, it emerged during Ghislaine Maxwell's trial in 2021.[8]
War crimes
Evidence of war crimes regularly gets mislaid in bureaucracies in ways that prevent clear assignment of culpability. In November 2019 sources within the Dutch Ministry of Defence announced that they had "lost the definitive CENTCOM report" on the 2015 Hawija bombing.[9]
CCTV
- Full article:
CCTV
- Full article:
CCTV provides an extra level of deniability, since by design, CCTV cameras provide no indication of whether they are functioning correctly, so missing footage can be blamed on technical problems. This is regularly used to account for missing CCTV footage of deep events, including the 1994 London Israeli Embassy attack, 7-7 bombings, OKC bombing, unlawful killing of Diana Spencer.
Occasionally, third party footage is confiscated, such as on September 11th, 2001, when all known footage of the attack on the US Pentagon was quickly confiscated. As of December 2018, only a set of images from one low frame rate CCTV camera had been released. Jesse Trentadue states that he was given 26 pieces of CCTV footage, all of which with gaps in it just as the Ryder truck was passing.[10]
Specific instances
NASA
On August 5, 2006, Richard Macey for the Sydney Morning Herald reported that "it is feared the magnetic tapes that recorded the first moon walk - beamed to the world via three tracking stations, including Parkes's famous "Dish" - have gone missing at NASA's Goddard Space Centre in Maryland.... Originally stored at Goddard, the tapes were moved in 1970 to the US National Archives. No one knows why, but in 1984 about 700 boxes of space flight tapes there were returned to Goddard."We have the documents to say they were withdrawn, but no one knows exactly where they went," Mr Sarkissian said."[11] NASA announced on July 16, 2009 – the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11's launch from Cape Kennedy that they believed the tapes had been erased.
SEC
At some point in the early 1980s, shortly after George H. W. Bush became US Vice President, the SEC reportedly lost its records of the filings of Zapata Petroleum from 1960-1966,[12] although it had records from 1955–1959 and again from 1967 onwards.
SFO
The SFO stated in 2013 that it abandoned its investigations into the multi-billion dollar Al Yamamah arms deal due to losing 32,000 pages of data and 81 audio tapes.[13] It reportedly also lost several crates of evidence relating to the Asil Nadir case.[14]
BBC
A BBC editor once stated that the BBC couldn't give more details on its premature announcement of the destruction of WTC7 due to having lost that tape.[15] Later they reportedly found it again but have not answered the question about their foreknowledge of WTC7's destruction.[16]
US Police
Wayne Madsen reported in 2005 that "the Jersey City Police discovered their 911 system tapes on September 11, 2001 disappeared from their servers and archives after ISI took over the contract." [17]
Internet censorship
- Full articles: Internet/Censorship, Streisand Effect
- Full articles: Internet/Censorship, Streisand Effect
Removal of documents from the internet is often technically difficult. Moreover it is risky due to the Streisand Effect, since unsuccessful attempts to remove documents draw more attention to them.
References
- ↑ http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/656
- ↑ https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/gerald-c-macguire-37609/
- ↑ https://cdn.muckrock.com/foia_files/2017/06/07/File_1_Section_1_Serial__1.pdf
- ↑ http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/02/01/lost-found-id-oddity-terror-cases-stupid-sinister/
- ↑ https://www.dw.com/en/child-sex-abuse-case-german-police-lose-suitcase-of-evidence/a-47625306
- ↑ https://www.theweek.co.uk/uk-news/59305/home-office-loses-114-whitehall-child-sex-files
- ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34546338
- ↑ https://vnexplorer.net/evidence-from-jeffrey-epsteins-safe-went-missing-after-fbi-raid-court-hears-in-ghislaine-maxwell-trial-eu20213245056.html
- ↑ https://www.ad.nl/politiek/defensie-kan-rapport-over-burgerdoden-niet-vinden~a9ddc845/
- ↑ http://www.radio4all.net/files/cheryl@ct911truth.org/4212-1-OKC_2017_replaymp3.mp3
- ↑ https://www.smh.com.au/national/one-giant-blunder-for-mankind-how-nasa-lost-moon-pictures-20060805-gdo42n.html
- ↑ https://www.thomhartmann.com/users/leighmf/blog/2012/07/zapata-oil-lost-years
- ↑ http://www.bbc.com/news/business-23622364
- ↑ http://asilnadirandthemedia.blogspot.com/?m=0
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/02/part_of_the_conspiracy.html
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/07/controversy_conspiracies_iii.html
- ↑ https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/08/321316.html
