[NetBehaviour] The Puzzle at CIA Headquarters

marc marc.garrett at furtherfield.org
Mon Jun 20 18:12:15 CEST 2005


*The Puzzle at CIA Headquarters*

Cracking the Courtyard Crypto (U)

David D. Stein

Editor's Note: In the late 1980's, under a GSA program, the CIA 
commissioned Washington artist, James Sanborn to create a series of 
sculptures for CIA's new Headquarters building. Working together with Ed 
Scheidt, who was soon to retire from the Office of Communications, 
Sanborn created a sculpture named "Kryptos" (Greek for hidden) that was 
dedicated in 1990 and now resides in the northwest corner of the 
courtyard. The curving verdigris scroll contains an 865-character coded 
message that seems to flow out from a petrified tree and is located near 
a water-filled basin bordered by various types of stones. In the 
following article, David D. Stein describes how he has deciphered most 
of the secret message contained within the sculpture.

more...
http://elonka.com/kryptos/mirrors/daw/steinarticle.html

other info:

The code itself is fascinating. Some more links in Extended.

Link to an NPR story about the sculpture:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4684720

Also, a (rather annoying) site who's author claims to have broken the 
entire code:
http://members.aol.com/SciRealm/KryptosSolutions.html
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