NEW ADMINS APPOINTED!
Great news for all serious followers of the Somerton Man case, the 'An Empty Glass' wiki at Fandomhas been adopted and new administrators have been appointed.
They had a big job on their hands and having cleared the pages of numbers of troll comments and banning two particular trolls, the pages have a great new look and even more sound information and examples. Thankfully, both trolls have been banned from a number of blogs and forums including this one, An Empty Glass, Big Footys and more, due to their unpleasant and aggressive behaviours.
Here's a few links to pages that hopefully will be of interest:
Skripov Case, Example Invisible Ink.
Skripov was a Soviet official based in Sydney, he used invisible ink to communicate with Kay Marshall whom he thought was an ideal recruit for the Soviets. Kay Marshall was, in fact, an ASIO agent. Note the invisible ink message is in plain English and in block capitals. This was the standard method used to communicate with agents in the field.
In the example below, you see invisible ink being used by a German Abwehr agent in WW2, he communicated with Dusko Popov who turned out to be a double agent. Note the use of plain language (French) and block capitals.
Both cases can be explored further with more images on the Anemptyglass wiki, address below
1. https://anemptyglass.fandom.com/wiki/SECRET_INKS_%26_SECRET_WRITING Examples of secret inks and secret writing with the Skripov case featured prominently, a stunning pic of the actual secret ink message that Skripov sent to Kay Marshall who was actually an ASIO agent. the note to Kay Marshall was, as was always the case with Soviet officials writing to potential recruits, was written in block capitals and in English and in another example, in French.
2. https://anemptyglass.fandom.com/wiki/BLACK_WOOLLEN_SOCKS An unusual WW1 case study of the use of invisible inks cunningly contained in a pair of socks! Maybe that's why the Somerton Man had only 1 pair of socks?
3. https://anemptyglass.fandom.com/wiki/ACROSTIC_%27DANETTA%27_SOMERTON_MAN_CODE_PAGE A great description of how the Somerton Man code contained the mysterious code name 'DANETTA' Includes the decode method used to find it
4. https://anemptyglass.fandom.com/wiki/ACROSTIC_%27DANETTA%27_SOMERTON_MAN_CODE_PAGE A copy of the original 'DANETTA' code found in Tibor Kaldor's last letter. It shows exactly how it was concealed, the method used and the use of an online acrostic decoder to find it in the first instance.
Both I and Clive will be playing a big part in working with the wiki, we also have a number well experienced Somerton Man researchers as part of the team, we acknowledge the help of the great peope over at the Big Footy forum for their input and first-class thinking.
A great insight into an unusual aspect of the operations of SOE in WW2. Just how did they make sure that the clothes their agents wore, were a fit for the regions they were dropped into? Not as easy as you might think, at one stage they were outfitting as many as 16 agents a day. Here's the link:
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