SECTION KEY-FIGURES

Personnel Files

Profiles on the witnesses, the silencers, and the four people who tried to publish.

Founder of the Latter-day Saint movement. Dossier subject. Our working hypothesis: he knew exactly what he was holding.

Smith's successor. The man who moved the stockpile west, in three sealed wagons, at the centre of the pioneer column.

Smith's first scribe and second witness to the plates. The only insider whose private writings suggest he understood what he was transcribing.

A former Church History Department archivist who spoke to a committee investigator in 2003, on the condition that we never publish their name.

A composite profile of the seven institutions, and the two families, that have coordinated the suppression since 1844.