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...Fake” is the true story of many fakes and a few fake stories about fakes. I love that description. In this case, truth is truly stranger than fiction. Welles’ creates a portrait of internationally known art forger Elmyr de Hory, who had recently been the subject of a bestselling biography by Clifford Irving called “Fake...
WEST GERMANY Prison for the Hitler Forger...
...bravado undiminished, Konrad Kujau, confessed forger of the notorious Hitler diaries, awaited the verdict of a Hamburg court by scrawling facsimiles of the Fhrer's signature. Kujau's mood grew more somber when Judge Hans-Ulrich Schroeder declared him guilty, along with former Stern magazine Reporter Gerd Heidemann, of defrauding Stern of $3.8 million between 1981 and 1983. The German weekly had purchased 60 volumes of the phony diaries in what it billed as the "scoop of the post-World...
...Joseph, the brother of Jesus," which they said placed the author in modern times. Hershel Shanks, editor of the Biblical Archaeology Review and a proponent of the tomb's authenticity, says he's not convinced. Adds Harvard paleographer Frank Cross: "If this is a forgery, the forger was a genius...
Just as the feds were wrestling with the forger's tale, an unsubstantiated but disturbingly specific report surfaced. According to an FBI intelligence source in the Middle East, terrorists were planning eight diversionary explosions in New York harbor on New Year's Eve, to be followed by one spectacular real attack, probably on the building that houses the U.S. Secret Service office in Manhattan. Tipped off by the FBI, the N.Y.P.D. called the U.S. Coast Guard, which closed the harbor to pleasure craft and scrambled a secretive 100-person Maritime Safety and Security Team from its base in Hampton Roads...