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The Burial Cycle — Disinformation Workflow as Observed (provisional)

The Burial Cycle — Disinformation Workflow as Observed (provisional) Researcher's reconstruction of the burial cycle by which credible disclosure signals are submerged; drafted from the Bennewitz precedent (1979-1988) and cross-checked against contemporary Lampreysong / MAR-26-013 case material. Petri net form. Provisional — not for citation. the burial cycle — disinformation workflow as observed (provisional) — researcher's working diagram; Petri-net form. drafted Nov 2024. PROVISIONAL researcher's notebook — vol. VII subject: the practice of burial sources: Bennewitz '79-'88 (primary) — general direction of token flow: signal → burial → S1 SIGNAL EMERGES credible source — researcher / creator / FOIA T1 assess S2 ASSESSED FOR THREAT TIER (internal review) T2 skip below threshold S3 IGNORED [under-threshold] T3 enter queue tier ≥ 2 / actionable S4 ACTIVE CONTAINMENT QUEUED (the playbook engages) T4 deploy stigma shield T5 elevate cutout S5 STIGMA SHIELD DEPLOYED adjacent crackpot ↑, academic critics funded, synthetic memos S6 CUTOUT CREATOR ELEVATED [reconstructed] a discrediting channel, pushed adjacent T6 apply legal/career pressure [if escalation needed] S7 SOURCE LEGAL/ CAREER PRESSURE [reconstructed] visits, audits, retraction demands, job loss T7 source decays S8 SOURCE BURNS OUT / RECANTS / SILENT cf. Bennewitz 1988 T8 burial complete S9 BURIED signal drops below public detection floor — terminal nominal — T9 archive [retain 25 yrs] S10 ★ BURIED BUT NOT FORGOTTEN in the archive; re-surface in 1-2 gens? T10 [failure mode] containment fails escape: outpaces shield S11 ★ SIGNAL OUTPACES BURIAL compression-event class — escalate to GAMMA convocation drawn from Bennewitz '79–'88 case primarily; cross-checked Aquarius '87 + MOO '84. — RC T7 — 'source decays' — is the part the playbook treats as the most variable. some sources do not decay. some sources accelerate. — RC the failure mode S11 is the open question. Compression Event class. the practice does not have a worked-out protocol — see Hartwell/Pratt thread Oct 2024. Sandberg memo to Pratt is the moment the practice acknowledged it was losing ★ S11 is what we are watching now — RC, 11.2024 JK — disagree on T8: not 'burial complete' but 'recursive stigma maintenance' — burial is an ongoing process, not a discrete state. N.B. — the "credible source" can be any of: FOIA filer, working journalist, defected program participant, technical researcher. apparatus does not discriminate at intake. — MV, marg.note — legend — place (state) transition [reconstructed] token (live signal) attested arc failure-mode arc for working notes only — not for circulation. researcher's own copy.

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