Proof: Former CIA officer pleads guilty to stealing nearly $200M in gold bar case

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-07T02:22:17Z","headline":"Former CIA officer pleads guilty to stealing nearly $200M in gold bar case","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"abcnews","url":"https://abcnews.com/Politics/plea-hearing-set-former-cia-officer-allegedly-gold/story?id=137015337","v":1}

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SHA-256: 708bd841af835feb7497df721900d0b09f40ad58a65b5afea58a67101014e956

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970275, mined 2026-10-07 02:46 UTC.

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The record pageCaptured 2026-10-07 02:30 UTC — view the capture.
The story pageCaptured 2026-10-07 00:52 UTC — view the capture.

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Hash the record: sha256sum headline-708bd841af83.json prints 708bd841af835feb7497df721900d0b09f40ad58a65b5afea58a67101014e956. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
Drop headline-708bd841af83.json and headline-708bd841af83.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-708bd841af83.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 5 min after it was first seen.