In November 1970, a woman was found burning in a remote Norwegian valley. She had eight fake identities. Every label had been cut from her clothing. Every bottle near her body had its label scraped off. Soot was found in her lungs — meaning she was alive when the fire started. Bergen police ruled it a suicide. She was never identified.

This is Case 134/70.

For the full visual reconstruction — the documents and photographs shown side by side — the case file is open at https://youtu.be/4CZHk72_C7A

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THE DEAD DROP ARCHIVES
Forensic documentary. Primary sources only. New case files open regularly.

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PRIMARY SOURCES — THIS EPISODE
— Bergen Police Case File 134/70 (partially released)
— Norwegian Armed Forces classified file, December 1970 — Onarheim memo (declassified)
— Gades Institutt autopsy report, January 7, 1971
— Toxicological Institute report, January 2, 1971
— NRK Investigation, 2016 — Marit Higraff: https://www.nrk.no/hordaland/isdalskvinnen
— BBC/NRK "Death in Ice Valley" podcast, 2018
— NZZ investigation, June 2023 — François Genoud lead

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THE ARCHIVE
Full visual reconstructions: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDeadDropArchives
Unredacted source documents + annotated research logs: https://patreon.com/c/DeadDropArchives
Case Files Dispatch newsletter: https://deaddroparchives.substack.com
Join the investigation (Discord): https://discord.gg/deaddroparchives
Reddit: r/DeadDropArchives

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For over fifty years, the CIA and West German intelligence secretly owned the world's most trusted encryption company. More than 120 governments bought its machines believing they were buying neutral Swiss security. Every message was readable — to the people who built the back door.

This is the case file — a primary-source reconstruction: the purchase, the codenames, the intercepts that shaped the Iranian hostage crisis, the Falklands War, and the 1986 Berlin bombing response, and the investigation that finally forced it into the open in 2020.

For the full visual reconstruction — the documents shown side by side — the case file is open at https://youtu.be/lNseVbl8yy0

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THE DEAD DROP ARCHIVES Forensic documentary. Primary sources only. New case files open regularly.

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PRIMARY SOURCES — THIS EPISODE — CIA History Staff — The Intelligence Community's Source (MINERVA post-mortem, declassified 2020) — Washington Post / ZDF / SRF joint investigation, February 11, 2020 — Ronald Reagan — Address to the Nation, April 14, 1986 (American Presidency Project / Reagan Presidential Library) — Res Strehle, Verschlüsselt: Der Fall Hans Bühler (Werd Verlag, 1994) — John Ferris, Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ (Bloomsbury, 2020) — Crypto Museum documentation (cryptomuseum.com) — Swiss Federal Assembly GPDel final report, November 2020

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THE ARCHIVE Full visual reconstructions: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDeadDropArchives Unredacted source documents + annotated research logs: https://patreon.com/c/DeadDropArchives Case Files Dispatch newsletter: https://deaddroparchives.substack.com Join the investigation (Discord): https://discord.gg/deaddroparchives Reddit: r/DeadDropArchives

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The archive is open. deaddroparchives.com

On April 26th, 1986, at 1:23 in the morning, an operator at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant pressed the emergency shutdown button. It is designed to stop the reactor. The reactor exploded forty seconds later.

The Soviet investigation blamed the operators. The IAEA's revised report, published five years later, did not.

This is the case file — a primary source reconstruction of what the documents actually show: the design flaw, the prior knowledge, and the five-point revision that changed the official account.

For the full visual reconstruction — the documents and diagrams shown side by side — the case file is open at https://youtu.be/tB41lpLOpZQ

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THE DEAD DROP ARCHIVES Forensic documentary. Primary sources only. New case files open regularly.

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PRIMARY SOURCES — THIS EPISODE — IAEA Safety Series No. 75-INSAG-7: The Chernobyl Accident — Updating of INSAG-1 (1991): https://www.iaea.org/publications/3598/the-chernobyl-accident-updating-of-insag-1 — IAEA INSAG-1: Summary Report on the Post-Accident Review Meeting (1986) — Soviet Academy of Sciences Report on the Chernobyl Accident (1991) — Legasov Tapes — V.A. Legasov post-accident testimony (1988) — KGB Documents — Ukrainian State Archives (declassified) — Shcherbina Government Commission Report (1986) — Dyatlov, A.S. — Chernobyl: How It Was (1995 ed. + trial testimony)

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THE ARCHIVE Full visual reconstructions: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDeadDropArchives Unredacted source documents + annotated research logs: https://patreon.com/c/DeadDropArchives Case Files Dispatch newsletter: https://deaddroparchives.substack.com Join the investigation (Discord): https://discord.gg/deaddroparchives Reddit: r/DeadDropArchives

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The archive is open. deaddroparchives.com