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It happens all the time. When I worked as an engineer and a contractor to the Air Force all my studies had the government employee who assigned the project to me listed as the author. Sometimes at the end I would be listed as a contributor to the research. Often times all they knew about the study was what I wrote in the report, but they were listed as the director of the project and author of the report and presented it to their superiors as such.