About

Room 641 is a working archive of case files on conspiracy theories. Each file takes a theory seriously enough to state its strongest form, then checks it against the record: the theory is decomposed into atomic, individually-checkable claims; each claim is researched against tiered sources — primary documents first, then peer-reviewed work, mainstream investigative journalism, advocacy media, and last, social media; and each claim and the file as a whole receive a calibrated verdict. Every file ends with where it could be wrong. The full rules are in the methodology.

The name

The archive is named for Room 641A — the secret room inside AT&T's San Francisco building at 611 Folsom Street, exposed by whistleblower Mark Klein in 2006, where NSA splitter cables intercepted internet-backbone traffic. The claim that the U.S. government was conducting warrantless mass surveillance of the internet was once dismissed as a conspiracy theory. It was true, and the evidence was eventually entered into court.

That is the thesis here. Take the file seriously, examine it rigorously, follow the evidence. Sometimes the file is empty. Sometimes it is Room 641A.

Provenance

The case files are produced by a Claude Code skill that follows the methodology, with helper tooling that archives every secondary source to the Wayback Machine so citations don't rot, extracts text from primary-source PDFs, and pulls transcripts from video and podcast sources.