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Former CIA Official Pleads Guilty in $194 Million Fraud Scheme
How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.
OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN
HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 3 HEADLINES
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7 Oct, 00:15 UTC
Former CIA official pleads guilty in $194 million government fraud scheme
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7 Oct, 06:37 UTC
Former CIA Official Pleads Guilty in $194 Million Government Fraud Scheme
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7 Oct, 18:14 UTC
Former CIA Official Pleads Guilty in $194 Million Fraud Scheme
WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER
From the first reports to the latest
- Nothing ran from the first third of the coverage to the last.
Entered the story later
- Nothing new took hold after the first third.
Figures reported with different numbers
- gold bars: $40 million (3 from 6 Oct 19:23) → $46 million (1 from 7 Oct 16:30)
- gold bars: 298 (3 from 6 Oct 19:25) → 300 (1 from 6 Oct 20:27)
- luxury watches: 35 (2 from 6 Oct 19:25) → 30 (1 from 7 Oct 16:57)
- holding company: $145 million (2 from 6 Oct 19:25) → $45 million (1 from 6 Oct 19:25)
Matched by pattern, not read: a different number can be a correction, a rising count, or two different counts.