TIL: There is a sculpture with four cryptic passages in it that stands outside the CIA's George Bush Center for Intelligence in Virginia
TIL: There is a sculpture with four cryptic passages in it that stands outside the CIA's George Bush Center for Intelligence in Virginia
3 out of the 4 passages have solutions to date.
George Bush Center for Intelligence, that's funny
When i was 14 i won a scholarship for school and was able to travel to Canberra and do some random crap.
Ontop of that we were able to put on a play for some high up generals and MP's.
I put in one joke that was basically "we have received intelligence from he USA... then someone intergects America has intelligence?"
Had the crowed in stitches.
Wired did a series of articles about this (before they turned into a shopping site) here is one from 2009. They're pretty fun to read, including how the NSA may have solved the first three before the CIA. I'm sure that went down well.
Wired isn’t a shopping site?
The creator said at some point that there is a typo that makes the 4th unsolvable or something.
Source? There are typos in all 4 puzzles, but they're intentional and clues to a further riddle.
I've solved the fourth one. It says, "We killed JFK. There, I said it."
Does it say what he was doing in Dallas November the 22nd 1963?
It looks like they already have two plaintext samples, would they be able to try Vignere keys that result in both plain texts simultaneously? Every other panel was solved with Vignere