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This article is not considered a psychological operation. It reports on the accidental destruction of a 1,000-year-old Native American intaglio in Arizona's Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge by a Department of Homeland Security contractor building a border wall. The site, sacred to the Tohono O'odham Nation and comparable in cultural significance to the Nazca lines, was damaged despite prior knowledge of its location and ongoing protection efforts.