hopefully that got someones attention. and that's exactly my question.

the rulebook states conspiracies can be removed before they are won, and dragged into the deep removes any non-unique card, which conspiracies in my understanding are not.

so…… does Dragged into the deep remove Combing the archives??

I would say yes, it would send a conspiracy to the bottom of its owner's deck.

Though, I am not sure about that actually. The rule book is a bit odd and says that if a conspiracy leaves play for any reason other than being won, it goes to the discard pile.

i saw that too, but i'm sure the rulebook says a lot of things that are superceded by card effects. that's the only part that breeds confusion.

It goes to the bottom fo the deck. Remember the golden rule, when a card effect directly contradicts the rulebook the card effect takes precedent.