Part 1 of a series reassessing the documentary record behind the 1933 Magenta narrative. TL;DR: Senior attention, urgency, secrecy, rivalry, and missing records were routine in Allied technology exploitation. A retrieval claim must show what this baseline cannot explain. Next: Magenta, 1933. AI assistance disclosure: I use AI to help research and draft, read the sources it turns up, and revise the post through further research and editing. Source links are included so readers can assess the e...