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Solution goes on auction for CIA HQ's Kryptos sculpture that has stumped code breakers for decades

BOSTON (AP) — When Jim Sanborn was commissioned to create a sculpture at CIA headquarters, he wanted to do something that spoke to its world of spies and secret codes. The result was a 10-foot-tall, S ...
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Secret warriors : the spies, scientists, and code breakers of World War I / Taylor Downing

World War I is often viewed as a war fought by armies of millions living and fighting in trenches, aided by brutal machinery that cost the lives of many. But behind all of this an intellectual war was ...
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A mysterious note was discovered in the secret pocket of a dress from the 1880s. A decade later, someone finally cracked the code.

An archeologist found a silk dress from the 1800s with a hidden pocket concealing a secret code. A code breaker recently figured out the code was for telegraphed weather reports. Who owned the dress ...