Deep Dives Research Challenge | The CIA Library | Winners Announced (100SBD)!

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Deep Dives 2


The second Deep Dives Research Challenge has now come to an end and we’d like to thank all the participants who made a submission over the last two weeks.

To see the original research challenge post, click here

Official Participants


@thoughts-in-time
@richq11
@deliberator
@palikari123
@krnel
@yungchief


These are the accounts that made posts within the parameters of the challenge rules.

Unofficial Participants


@tarazkp
@v4vapid
#plagiarism

We’d like to acknowledge a special Deep Dives entry by the prolific
@tarazkp who made a unique contribution and insightful commentary.

Controlled: Blind, Deaf, Dumb

Our own, @v4vapid also contributed an investigation of George H. W. Bush, his CIA ties and questions about his whereabouts on the day JFK was assassinated in Dallas Texas.

Bush Counter Bush 1963

Winners

First Place Winner (50 SBD)


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Source

The Deliberate Attack on the USS Liberty
By @krnel

Second Place Winner (30 SBD)

CIA Venture Capital Firm In-Q-Tel
By @palikari123

Third Place Winner (20 SBD)

Heart of Darkness
By @richq11


A big congratulations and a tip of the hat to @krnel who's deep dive on the USS Liberty was expertly put together, well sourced, concise and clearly presented. Despite what the official record claims, it's plain to see that the attack on the USS Liberty was deliberate and this wonderful piece of research lays bare for all to see. Fantastic work!

We really appreciate all the contributors to the challenge and received valuable entries on a number of fascinating topics. We have to give a shout out to @palikari123 who was the winner of the very first Deep Dives and yet again turned in a hell of a piece on the CIA's In-Q-Tel. Keep up the great research!

This time around we also had another Steemian with firsthand experience with his subject matter. As a young man sent to fight in the Vietnam war, @richq11 witnessed up close the realities of the Phoenix Program and the targeting of civilian populations. A very important point highlighted by @richq11 is the fact that the declassified documents found in the CIA archive omit, holdback, or censor large portions of history.

Who controls the past, controls the future…

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A Word on Plagiarism


Over the last two weeks we encountered a significant amount of plagiarism using the #deepdives and #informationwar tags.

For the record, we at @deepdives have a zero-tolerance rule for plagiarism, there’s simply no excuse for trying to pass off someone else’s work as your own. We will not hesitate to proportionately flag accounts who engage in copy and paste posting using the #deepdives tag.

That being said, we’re not vindictive or out to destroy reputations and we certainly don’t enjoy flagging minnows. If you’re unsure about plagiarism or how to properly source your material take the time to see how others using the tag are sourcing and quoting their material.

We also hope that you enjoyed digging in the online FOIA CIA documents. We’ll be returning to the archive at a later date for more investigations.

As always, we love to hear from you. So please come visit us in the TWB Discord ‘the big dig’ channel or leave your feedback below.

https://discord.gg/fXNb6B

A Return to Wikileaks


As previously mentioned, the Wikileaks archive will once again be the primary archive of the next challenge. We'll provide more details on the next challenge as soon as we can. In the meantime don't hesitate to join us in the chat or drop by to make a suggestion.

The official start of the fresh dig will be announced in an upcoming post (hopefully in the next few days).

Best of luck, be safe, and keep digging!

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      ·  6 years ago (edited)

    As promised, I will be sorting out a steem basic income for =
    @thoughts-in-time
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    @krnel
    @yungchief

    Over the next few days , funds permitting, starting with thoughts-in-time today.

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      ·  6 years ago 

    Thanks for the wonderful gesture. Your generosity won't be forgotten...

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        ·  6 years ago 

      I have done all 5 of you now, all of you get the sbi. All good my frend

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          ·  6 years ago 

        Woohoo!

        Thanks man!

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            ·  6 years ago 

          My pleasure.

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              ·  6 years ago 

            Another great #deepdives challenge completed with some good entries, and I managed to get an entry in this time :P Thank you for the 1st place position :) Wo0ot!

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              ·  6 years ago 

            Congratulations! Well earned ;)

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              ·  6 years ago 

            Well done. I think you ticked all the right boxes in the challenge.

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                ·  6 years ago 

              Well, you've gone and done it- you ruined my perfect streak lol! This is the first time I won anything on Steemit. Congrats to @KrNel and @palikari123... Both excellent articles!!! I look forward to the next challenge!

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                ·  6 years ago 

              Great stuff. Love your take on the subject. Really interesting to read first hand experience about what really went on in Vietnam.

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                ·  6 years ago (edited)

              The weird part to me is that it seems like it happened just a few months ago... Now I look in the mirror and we've turned into the "old guys" we laughed at when we came back. Thank you!

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                ·  6 years ago 

              Another brilliant @deepdives here guys .. such a wealth of information and deep research, big respect to all involved and congratulations to the very worthy winners .. excellent work!!

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                ·  6 years ago 

              Ahhhh damn, I went MIA and missed the announcement! Congratulations to the amazing winning entry, but most importantly EVERYONE who partook in this wonderful research initiative. It's a great feeling to even be mentioned among some of the prolific and polished writer's on that list.

              Hello Wikileaks!

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                ·  6 years ago (edited)

              Congratulations on making it to the top again. Don’t forget to lay out your next entry in layman’s terms for us. 😁

              Congratulations everyone!

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                  ·  6 years ago 

                Thanks you 😂... Think I'm going to be hearing that one for a while!

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                    ·  6 years ago 

                  Massive congrats to the winners.

                  WHAT'S WITH THE MASSIVE TEXT? :-)

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                    ·  6 years ago (edited)

                  lol, MASSIVE error

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                    ·  6 years ago 

                  Is this of interest to u? Neo is working hard but as yet undiscovered.. he has a strong message and might be just up ur street! <3

                  https://steemit.com/legal-system/@neo-wiza/all-roads-lead-to-the-rome-part-3-of-5

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                    ·  6 years ago 

                  Man you got to teach me that one, I have never seen text that HUGE before lol.
                  Have a great day my friend.

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                      ·  6 years ago 

                    I am going to use this technique too. If I double the size, I can write half as much right?

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                        ·  6 years ago 

                      lol it was like the star wars prologue.

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                        ·  6 years ago (edited)

                      It's more suspenseful this way, don't you think?

                      You never know what word's coming next...

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                        ·  6 years ago 

                      I felt like it was the prologue to Star Wars except instead of scrolling it zoomed. Retag it 'art' and I am pretty sure @curie may come knocking ;)

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                          ·  6 years ago 

                        Congratulations to the winners. Your entries are superb and well detailed. I hope to do better in the next one

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                          ·  6 years ago 

                        Congrats to winners and participants
                        as it's not normally ones first instinct
                        to trawl through the agency's website!

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                          ·  6 years ago 

                        Congrats to the winners! Didn't have a chance to read them yet, will do that later..
                        Good to flag the plagariazed posts and people who abuse the tags!

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                          ·  6 years ago 

                        OMG, I have font envy!

                        Srsly, I can't read the post one letter at a time. Can you fix it?

                        Thanks for your tireless pursuit of truth (amongst much else)!

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                          ·  6 years ago 

                        Damn, I thought we fixed it! Is it still Ginormous????

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                          ·  6 years ago 

                        I have reopened it now, and it is fixed.

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                            ·  6 years ago 

                          Why is everything in LARGE Fonts?!?!?

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                              ·  6 years ago 

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                                ·  6 years ago 

                              Congrulations to all winner and participating :)

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