PROSPER LINK TO TIBOR
Many will remember this ad, it was placed by Prosper Thomson on 18th December 1948 in the Adelaide Advertiser. Many have remarked on how strange this ad was. A very valuable gold watch, which the Tudor was, in fact, the company was later bought out by Rolex, yet strangely no day, date or time that the watch was lost and nothing precise about the location. More about that a little further down the page.
As you know Clive and I have been working hard at this particular Tibor Kaldor lead for some time and the issue of the acrostic code found more than 18 months ago reared it's head once again in the post previous to this one. Not only had we found an acrostic coded name but we also found a strict numerical sequence for the carrier words and letters within that code, 4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10.
The ad above reads as follows:
"CITY or suburbs. Tudor gold watch. Nearly new, good reward. Thomson, 90a Moseley St, Glenelg X 3239"
Now let's look in particular at the first 4 words:
"CITY or suburbs. Tudor gold watch. Nearly new, good reward. Thomson, 90a Moseley St, Glenelg X 3239"
Inside those first 4 words, "CITY or SUBURBS. TUDOR" are the letters of the name TIBOR, could that be a coincidence do you think? Well, before you make that decision, let's take a look at the placement of those letters within the carrier words:
T = 1st letter in Tudor
I = 2nd letter in City
B = 3rd letter in Suburbs
O = 4th letter in Tudor
R = 5th letter in TudorThis ad appeared on the 18th of December, just 4 days after Tibor's apparent suicide.
Yet again, as in Tibor's last letter and the acrostic name, we have another strict numerical sequence pointing out the letters and resulting in the name:
1,2,3,4 and 5
What's more, the same approach has been used as in a reversed sequence, the letters move from right to left positions and then back again to the right. In Tibor's last letter, the letters moved from towards the end of the shortened paragraph to the first line of the message and then back down again.
Is this part of the unraveling that we have been working towards? Before we can be absolutely certain, there is more to do and follow up on not the least of which is the yet to be released post on more words found in Tibor's last letter and they also follow a logical sequence.
What do you think Pete Bowes?
It was a standard tradecraft practice for seemingly dumb ads to be placed as a form of clandestine communication, Prosper's ad certainly appears to fit the bill.