Object

Langley's Falsified Documents

Stack of printed documents from CIA's Langley headquarters, engineered as forged material for disinformation. Special Agent Casper presents them during the urgent night briefing on the White House Colonnade. Bartlet, Leo, Fitzwallace, and Jordan scrutinize the pages as the group debates deploying them in a cover operation tied to the Johnson County standoff and KSU bombing response, their stark black text promising fabricated evidence amid tense operational planning.

2 appearances

Purpose

Forge disinformation to support a CIA cover operation concealing true events

Significance

Propels the briefing's shift to cover-up strategy, compelling Bartlet to claim sole command while Jordan flags war-crimes risks, cementing the scene's core clash between security imperatives and rule-of-law limits

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments

S4E3 · College Kids

Bartlet Seizes Command — Domestic Standoff and Legal Reckoning

Langley's falsified documents are proposed by Fitzwallace as tools for an international cover story to hide U.S. culpability in a covert assassination; they represent planned state deception rather than existing evidence.

Before: Not produced; described as a ready Langley capability that could be fabricated.

After: Considered an approved option in discussion; moves from hypothetical to active planning.

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S4E3 · College Kids

Manufactured Narrative and the Cost of Secrecy

Langley's falsified documents are proposed by Fitzwallace as part of a manufactured cover story to divert blame for a covert assassination; they function narratively as the concrete instrument of institutional deception under consideration.

Before: A capability at Langley's disposal (unproduced/ hypothetical in the briefing).

After: Moved from theoretical to operationally proposed; authorization status is ambiguous—contemplated for dissemination to foreign theaters.

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