Re: This Has Been On My Mind For Decades-Any Insight From The Board?
Reg
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Simple. It was a domestic intelligence program and the letters, designed to be innocuous to anybody reading them, contained a short phrase or single word that you would need an encryption key to find. It's likely that this word or phrase would only be understood by the intended recipient and may have been information or more likely an instruction to look in another designated text. Anything from a newspaper to a book of poetry. Due to the infrequency of the letters several methods of communication were likely being used to pass information between the parties and some of those methods were only employed as red herrings that were meant to be monitored. The infrequency tips you off to this because it shows they were feeling out which modes of communication were compromised and going to great lengths to assure they had some that were not. It is also likely that the information being passed was about another individual inside the company or a US politician. The letters were probably a system set up by your father's friend and another operative so that they might communicate without others in the company being aware of their communications. A way to control the intelligence and develop assets outside company eyes. Your father was in no way involved and was thought to be a trusted asset that would not tamper with the system of communication. Exactly as David described, a dead drop. So even if you had read a letter it would have seemed harmless:Dear Rudy, It was great to see you at the cottage! After you left Phil misplaced his keys, again. Big surprise, right? Oh well, it made us think of you and we had a good laugh. Give our best to Susan. We'd love it if we could all get together sometime, if only, if only! I know we're dreaming but it would be so nice. Love, Phil & Margie
Looks pretty innocent but with the right key you could hide plenty in there. Let's use a simple one, first letter in the last word of every sentence. That will give you a name and let's pretend that the couple that signed the letter indicates the next meeting will be at night (PM) at a predesignated location on an already set date. Of course, I'm just kidding with all of this but I bet for a second you were thinking hhhmmmmmm...
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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Simple. It was a domestic intelligence program and the letters, designed to be innocuous to anybody reading them, contained a short phrase or single word that you would need an encryption key to find. It's likely that this word or phrase would only be understood by the intended recipient and may have been information or more likely an instruction to look in another designated text. Anything from a newspaper to a book of poetry. Due to the infrequency of the letters several methods of communication were likely being used to pass information between the parties and some of those methods were only employed as red herrings that were meant to be monitored. The infrequency tips you off to this because it shows they were feeling out which modes of communication were compromised and going to great lengths to assure they had some that were not. It is also likely that the information being passed was about another individual inside the company or a US politician. The letters were probably a system set up by your father's friend and another operative so that they might communicate without others in the company being aware of their communications. A way to control the intelligence and develop assets outside company eyes. Your father was in no way involved and was thought to be a trusted asset that would not tamper with the system of communication. Exactly as David described, a dead drop. So even if you had read a letter it would have seemed harmless:Dear Rudy, It was great to see you at the cottage! After you left Phil misplaced his keys, again. Big surprise, right? Oh well, it made us think of you and we had a good laugh. Give our best to Susan. We'd love it if we could all get together sometime, if only, if only! I know we're dreaming but it would be so nice. Love, Phil & Margie
Looks pretty innocent but with the right key you could hide plenty in there. Let's use a simple one, first letter in the last word of every sentence. That will give you a name and let's pretend that the couple that signed the letter indicates the next meeting will be at night (PM) at a predesignated location on an already set date. Of course, I'm just kidding with all of this but I bet for a second you were thinking hhhmmmmmm...
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
