The politics of contact-corroboration

Antara had not elaborated on the RBI museum visit because she was not sure whether one was allowed to discuss such things. ('The story of contact-corroboration included Robert Heinlein and the 1942 Wannsee Conference', FACSIMILE blogpost, November 18, 2025.)

The RBI museum displayed outmoded equipment and artifacts, from bond-printing machines to currency note-stitching machines from the British colonial era and later. 

That it might connect to similar practices in the United States or American individuals who had worked against the lease family in Ukraine or advised the White House against the legit lease, well, Antara hadn't immediately thought of that.

That the RBI museum might have been hinting at the blackmails that kept Antara's parents in India after the 9/11 attacks, that if they had immigrated to the US then the NRIs and Indian students wouldn't, there'd be far less anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, it took a while to make these connections.

It was Antara's mistake, she was discussing currency and Ukraine and the 9/11 attacks, what else was the RBI museum talking about?

Of course, we were also subtly changing the rules of the game in the process. If Antara was unable to solve the puzzles of the RBI museum, she wouldn't be eligible for citizenship, whereas she was born and raised in India and should have been eligible for all rights available to citizens.

If Kim Philby's biographers became more powerful than Philby himself, things would take a downturn.

ii. The RBI museum was apparently a hint about the National Cash Register Company, established in the United States around 1884. It manufactured cash tills and cash registers back in the day, what would one deduce from that? 

That the National Cash Register Company didn't believe in the lease family? Or that it thought that the lease family lacked financial acumen, that the lease family didn't know how to design a mechanised cash register?

There was no way of verifying any of the above. Antara had visited the RBI museum in good faith, she didn't know it was a trap. Antara had never heard of the National Cash Register Company of the US, what if it was a disinformation campaign? What if the lease family or other Europeans had suggested the mechanised cash register but an American manufacturer stole the idea? 

The sincere efforts of Kolkatans to take Chetla to superstardom was grinding the life out of the rest of us.

Given the National Cash Register Company of the United States was taken over by AT&T in 1991, given AT&T was restructured in 1996, given AT&T was the IITian's best friend, one would have to assume that a Wall Street intelligence desk was not desirable unless the country was the United States. It was a nasty idea, it was illegal, it was deplorable, how could the intelligence of Wall Street conmen become the guiding principles of any country? 

(Please pay attention, Antara was not mentioning the name of any country.)

iii. We didn't have the time or the luxury to be vague. We'd have to mention that the visit to the RBI museum was planned by families from the Bhowanipore-Hazra-Kalighat area of south Kolkata, no matter where these families resided in the present day. They were friends with the Bidens/Tripura, such a convoluted route to attack the Treasury, such elaborate covers could not be devised without help from the Bidens.

In 2021, Antara had been astounded by Biden's return from retirement to become US President. That year, she did extensive work on United Press International, a news agency established in 1907, how the Bidens might be connected to it. The following was from her earlier work:

"With the Hearst Corporation as minority partner, United Press International continued under Scripps management till 1982."

Elsewhere, Antara's work had stated, "...it was unfortunate that the lease family in Ukraine was never liked by William Randolph Hearst, it affected Lightoller's behaviour on the RMS Titanic."

iv. If Bhowanipore-Hazra-Kalighat-SP Mukherjee Road were Hearst's friends and the legit lease's enemy, then things became simpler for Antara. Her preceding generations had suffered as Hearst's victims, she was suffering the same fate.

It allowed Antara to assume the loyalty and camaraderie of US officials who had faced the 9/11 attacks, that Pune had not managed to cause any damage that couldn't be solved.

November 18, 2025.