Kryptos: The Sanborn Sculpture at CIA Headquarters
** Kryptos in the Turkish News **

25 June 1999 Friday

CIA's mystery was being solved

Foreign News Service

In the CIA's Headquarters garden, the mysterious/encoded sculpture which decorates it, almost placed the organization's prestige in danger.

In the USA's Virginia state, at the Headquarters, the message upon the 'Kryptos' named sculpture, was asserted to be unbreakable, but the rumor about it being broken made the CIA worried.

Because in Greek "hidden, secret" is the meaning of 'Kryptos', the 'insolvability' of the code was symbolizing the CIA's strength.

In 1990, former CIA agent (sic) Jim Sanborn designed on the sides of Kryptos the secret 865-letter code, that even the CIA could not solve.

Asserting that he had solved almost all of the code on his home computer, computer engineer Jim Gillogly , used a program that he designed himself.

The Los Angele'an Gillogly's program uses techniques remaining from the 1930's.

The computer programmer's assertion, the last part unsolved, the code's first lines consist of a poem, words about Tutankhamen's tomb, and map coordinates of the CIA Headquarters.

Kryptos' creator Sanborn, however, only says that it is "a riddle within a riddle", with the true meaning known only when it is complete.

The puzzle's true answer is known only by the designer and the CIA directors, who keep the answer in a safe.

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