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  "generated_at": "2026-08-06",
  "source_catalog_id": 114,
  "title": "Proximal Origin authors' Slack messages — complete Senate production page index",
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    "excerpt_pages": 15,
    "description": "The separate 15-page file contains committee-selected messages. It is not a site-selected sample and remains deferred with the complete production so the selected material is not presented as independent evidence."
  },
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    "coverage_percent": 95.9,
    "method": "Existing PDF text layer inspected page by page; low-text and flagged pages received a separate visual privacy screen.",
    "limitation": "Keyword misses remain possible because attachments referenced in messages are not necessarily reproduced and some pages contain only a release stamp or image."
  },
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      "pdf_pages": "2–350",
      "dates": "April–December 2020",
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    },
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      "pdf_pages": "352–1040",
      "dates": "January–December 2021",
      "description": "Ongoing origin analyses, market and lineage evidence, media inquiries, public criticism, publication work, and private responses to outside claims."
    },
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    }
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    "furin-cleavage-site language": "94 pages, concentrated in the 2020–2021 discussion",
    "Proximal Origin paper": "53 pages, intermittent throughout",
    "Wuhan Institute of Virology or WIV": "169 pages, intermittent throughout",
    "intelligence-community references": "17 pages, intermittent",
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    "Fauci, NIH, or NIAID": "176 pages, intermittent throughout"
  },
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  "publication_status": "official_source_link_only",
  "privacy_disposition": "The complete production is not mirrored because two pages contain access-bearing URLs. The site does not reproduce those values. The selected excerpt file is deferred with it for context and selection-balance reasons.",
  "retention_policy": "The site publishes navigation metadata and the canonical Senate links but does not host either Slack PDF."
}