Nadia Raymond

But then, within a couple of days, they start getting some strange reports from the field offices.

Workers calling in saying, what's going on?

People are showing up here saying we marked them as dead?

They're definitely not dead.

He knew the chief information officer's staff did it because that was the only office that could process these deaths the way they were processed, all at once.

Jeremiah says all 6,000-some people had been marked as having died on a single day, March 8, 2025.

He couldn't believe they had done this.

The process of getting resurrected, that's what they call it when you're accidentally killed in the death master file and need to be brought back to life.

It's not simple.

You have to go into your social security office in person and prove you're alive.

And sometimes it takes multiple visits as you keep encountering new corners of your life where some institution or other is still convinced you're dead.

Jeremiah doesn't tell the field offices that the 6,000 or so were secretly killed by the chief information officer's office or that DHS requested it.

He's like, let's not dwell on the mess.

Let's just fix it.

And let's fix it the way we normally would, as any other mistake in the Death Master file.

Which meant it was up to each one of these 6,000 or so people to come into their local field office and prove they're alive.

So that's what was happening on the ground.

Meanwhile, from above.

DHS was telling you that they wanted the 6,000 to remain dead.

When these 6,000 fake deaths happened, the Washington Post found out and published a big story.