EVD-404
U.S. State Department, 28 August 2006: public-diplomacy page on 'top' 9/11 conspiracy theories
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Provenance
- Source
- U.S. Department of State — The Top September 11 Conspiracy Theories (28 August 2006)
- Date
- 2006-08-28
- Page
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- SHA-256
- cfbcbcadcd13c04eb1fb7fd50ff540c71cefe6a4a9ad159e301ad0793f69d830
- Classification
- unclassified
- Copyright
- unknown
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Observation
On 28 August 2006 the U.S. State Department published an official webpage rejecting the main 9/11 conspiracy-theory claims then in circulation.
Interpretation
Public diplomacy, not a new test. Derivative of Commission and NIST. Independence is low by design.
Source text
OBSERVATION: In late August 2006 the State Department published a webpage aimed at foreign and domestic audiences listing and rejecting prominent 9/11 conspiracy theories. It is a communications product. The underlying measurements are Commission and NIST work already stored as EVD-100–EVD-107. INTERPRETATION: Official origin is not a quality bonus. A rebuttal page does not add new physical evidence. It does document that by 2006 the U.S. government treated the theories as a public-diplomacy problem. Score it as process/communications, not as a second engineering study.
Hypothesis linkage
State Department restates official airliner-and-fire account.
State Department rejects demolition as a communications line, not a new test.