<t> Generally, you wouldn't want to waste the exosuit on someone as unimportant as the secretary, but in this case he happens to be someone with a really high covert ops skill that I eventually want to make the director of the secret service council. His age is close to the 65 year threshold, and I ...

I am unable to give the Ancient Exosuit artifact to my secretary because the secretary is the one who executes the strategem card, so he can't give it to himself.

If you're playing beta 6, maybe your difficulty is due to the problem reported in the thread titled "[1.05b6]SHQ totals in stats->unit supply wrong" in the Tech Support section of the forum? (I'd give you the direct link, but I'm not allowed to embed links in my posts yet.)

The stable release, 1.05 c

<r> I was delegating the mine in this hex to different zones since it was my only metal mine for a while. One time while it was delegated, the populace built a private metal mine there, and after undelegating I had both a public and private metal mine in the same hex that I both received metal from ...