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When the object forged is a record or document it is often called a false document. This usage of "forgery" does not derive from metalwork done at a blacksmith's forge, but it has a parallel history. A sense of "to counterfeit" is already in the Anglo-French verb forger, meaning "falsify".
Forgery is used by some governments and non-state actors as a tool of covert operation, disinformation and black propaganda.Letters, currency, speeches, documents, and literature are all falsified as a means to subvert a government's political, military or economic assets.
Forged evidence cannot only be used to convict the innocent or gaurantee conviction of the guilty, but also to have the guilty go free. The comment about the forensic evidence has no factual basis, and is simply hypothesis on the part of the author. There is no possible factual source to back up this generalization.
Acámbaro figures — over 32,000 ceramic figurines which appear to provide evidence for the co-existence of dinosaurs and humans; Archaeoraptor — the supposed "missing link" between birds and tetrapod dinosaurs; constructed by rearranging pieces of genuine fossils; AVM Runestone — a student prank that was believed to be an ancient Norse ...
After his death, it was discovered that he had forged many of his "finds", including murals and inscriptions used to discover the Çatalhöyük site. [1] [2] Edward Simpson (b. 1815, fl. 1874), Victorian English forger of prehistoric flint tools. He sold forgeries to many British museums, including the Yorkshire Museum and the British Museum
The German embassy in Bern felt compelled to deny the article and accuse the newspaper of having fallen for a forgery, which, according to subsequent evidence, was without doubt the case. [ 14 ] Shortly before the end of World War I, war mail forgeries of the values of 5, 10 and 25 Hellers of the then current postage stamp issue of Austria were ...
From 1963, at age 17, onward he repeatedly crafted forged documents on letterhead of United States Government agencies, including the White House, National Security Counsel (sic), and many others. He used these documents to substantiate wild plots of coups and invasions against African states by American forces.
Section 28 – Forging copies or certificates of records, process of courts not of record, and using forged process The words from "other than such clerk" to "knowing the same to be forged or" in the last place they occurred, were repealed as to England and Ireland by section 20 of, and Part I of the Schedule to, the Forgery Act 1913 .