ENCRYPTED CODES CRACKED...
The more I examine the nature of these codes and the concealment methods used, the more I realise how sophisticated for their time, they were. A tiny piece of paper torn from a book, with microcode inscripted into two words Tamam Shud. That torn slip was rolled up tight and pushed well down into a waist band fob pocket such that it would have been hard to discriminate between that rolled up paper and the seam of the pocket. The inscription on that paper was encrypted with a particular cipher that relied on morse code symbols and was only accessible by entering a 9 letter key phrase. The phrase was TamamShud. And what did the first part of this encrypted message tell us? It gave us these letters:
MTBI _ _ _ NETP
Those are 8 letters from a line on the code page that read in full:
MTBIMPANETP.
Here's the video that demonstrates how the code letters were found in the word TAMAM starting with the letter T:
The techniques are standard tradecraft, micro code hidden in larger letters visible under strong light. Even the way the torn slip was rolled up tight and pushed well down into a waistband fob pocket.
In relation to the decrypt, the big question is why would someone copy and encrypt those particular letters, MTBI NETP and then not only conceal them on the torn slip but then conceal the slip in his clothing? Any thoughts?
ReplyDeleteMaybe someone else put it in his pocket?
ReplyDeleteThat's certainly a potential answer to part of the question, I would agree with that. We are still left wondering why it was done in the first instance. It seems a fair bit of trouble to go to, it implies that our man or woman was familiar with morse code and other codes as well as the use of micro writing. Someone was well trained.
ReplyDeleteMakes you wonder which was written first, the microcode on the torn slip or the code page itself.
ReplyDeleteAs an observer, the code page left indentations on the back page of the book which suggests to me that the book was used to rest the paper which the code was written on. There was a Police report on here I think that said the back page of the book was missing. At some stage the words Tamam Shud were torn out of the book which had to be before the book itself was thrown into the chemist's car.
ReplyDeleteIt implies that the Somerton Man ditched the book after he had torn the slip out. There was a fair amount of micro code that had to be encrypted before it was written into the letters so that means he had time to do that. And that's as far as I got :)
That's assuming that the Somerton Man wrote the code into the slip. We don't know that for certain. Neither do we know that he encrypted and wrote the code page.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing we can say with a fair amount of certainty is that he wanted to conceal that slip. But even that isn't 100%, what if someone else put it there?
I think it would be good test each theory but only after we have found and decrypted all of the code on the slip.
Any progress with the decrypt?
ReplyDeleteYes, slow but steady progress. Hope to have something to show by mid week.
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