Despite
all our advancements in military intelligence, it turns out a simple coded
message can still prove indecipherable. That's what British officials have
learned after coming across a secret document from World War II that was
attached to a pigeon courier — the skeletal remains of which were recently
found in England. The message contains 27 blocks of five letters that would
appear totally randomized to most people. Experts at intelligence agency GCHQ
don't doubt there's real correspondence hidden within the text, yet translation
is all but impossible without the accompanying codebook that would have been held
by the message's intended recipient. Just who that was also remains a mystery;
the document, written by a "Sjt W Stot," lists only "X02"
in the "to" column.
Pigeons
were frequently dispatched with sensitive messages during World War II, with
the British ultimately using them to carry thousands of notes during the war.
Clearly those responsible for crafting these codes knew just what they were
doing. Even with the technological resources available to intelligence workers
today, we're essentially left clueless as to what this piece of paper was meant
to say all those years ago.
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