The Enigma of Kryptos and The CIA.

[alexisfree]

What does it say about the Central Intelligence Agency that its agents can crack the secret codes of enemy nations but can't unravel a coded sculpture sitting outside their cafeteria window?
It says, perhaps, that artist Jim Sanborn, who created the cryptographic sculpture named Kryptos that sits on CIA grounds, could have a career in covert operations if he ever grows tired of stumping the experts.

It's been nearly 15 years since Sanborn installed the 12-foot-high, verdigrised copper, granite and wood sculpture inscribed with four encrypted messages at the CIA's Langley, Virginia, headquarters in 1990. And it's been seven years since anyone made progress at cracking its code.

But publication of the novel The Da Vinci Code has renewed interest in solving the puzzle because author Dan Brown made two veiled references to Kryptos on his book's dust jacket. Brown's publisher sponsored a contest around the references, and Brown has hinted that his next book, which takes place in Washington, D.C., may feature the sculpture in some way......
"We have lots of different theories that we're chasing down," Dunin said of her band of sleuths, which includes some CIA employees. "But there's no way we'll know whether we're on the right track until something comes loose."

Kryptos isn't a complete mystery. Parts of it have been solved.

In 1998, CIA analyst David Stein cracked three of the four coded messages after diddling over the problem with paper and pencil for about 400 hours spread over many lunch breaks. Only his CIA colleagues initially knew of his success, since the agency didn't publicize it. A year later, California computer scientist Jim Gillogly gained public notoriety when he cracked the same three messages using a Pentium II.

read more at:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66334,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2



This image shows the four sections of encrypted text on Kryptos.


This side view of Kryptos shows CIA offices in the background. The pool at the sculpture's base has a pump that sends water swirling around the pool in a circular direction.

[Elidor]

1. Pretty cool stuff

His Cyrillic Projector is beautiful:


http://elonka.com/kryptos/cyrillic.html

[alexisfree]

2. It is!!!

What is this means?....an extraterrestrial message?...the secret for a free source of energy? one will never know..:freak:

[RockStar]

3. very interesting story. I wonder what the final code will be??

[Al-CIAda]

4. Facinating...thanks for postiing...

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
-Albert Einstein

[NAO]

5. "The Occult Cryptocracy processes the Group Mind of the Masses..."

mainly through ritual psychodrama. The alchemical and Rosicrucian command dogmas were literary works. In the course of receiving the establishment's accounts of...(the news)...a mental virus is implanted in many percipients. The hypodermic needle in this case is nothing more startling than a campfire story, only the campfire is the crackling electrical current of a television and the story is of our extinction."

So opens "Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare" by Michael A. Hoffman. It is an extremly interesting book, very odd, but utterly facinating.

And the publisher's blurb on the back cover:

"From 007 to 2001, from Dealey Plaza to the Apollo Moon Flight, from the barrel of a Bulldog .44 to the corridors of the pyramids of Sirius; from the secret symbolism of Jack the Ripper to the public symbolism of the first atomic bomb blast, this work illuminates the crimes and command ideology of the masonic Cryptocracy, where ground zero meets the zero hour in a bestial crucible of ritual murder, human alchemy and demonic invasion."

"Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare takes the reader to the core of a cosmic cryptogram, a dark Oz where the ancient fables become modern memes for the psychological contagion and devastation of humanity, and where the stratagem the author terms "Revelation of the Method" becomes the key to the finale of the mysteries of the ages."

It's not your average ho-hum expose of the CIA, nor is it your average lurid book about the occult...

[alexisfree]

6. I will look it up!...thank you.