...THE SOMERTON MAN...
WAS A SPY...
Today you can see the proof, the torn slip image has at last been brought to a point where all can view the tiny block capital letters and some numbers carefully handwritten into each of the letters of the typed phrase, TAMAM SHUD.
Followers will know that this tiny piece of paper was found rolled up tight in what is known as a 'Secret' fob pocket inside the waistband of the trousers worn by the SOmerton Man when he was found the morning of December 1st, 1948.
If you look carefully inside each letter in the larger image below you will see the written in characters. It has been very skilfully done and someone took a little time to do it. It leaves a question as to exactly how that could be done given that what we see in the image is black writing against a black background. There is an answer to that issue and it will be posted here in the coming days:
The prime examples of the writing are to be found in the slope of the first and second letter A. Once you have been able to view and focus on those two the writing in the other letters becomes obvious.
The actual size of the torn piece is 47 mm wide. That means that the writing within the letters is approximately .7 mm in height with some being as small as .3mm in height which is quite achievable.
Three of the 5 letters in TAMAM. Code visible
THE IMPLICATIONS
The significant implications to publishing of these images, the technique is a known tradecraft method of concealment and the fact that the slip itself was hidden, rolled up tightly, and pushed down into the secret fob pocket so that it was hard to find and retrieve adds to that. The slip would have been hard to discern from the seam of the pocket.
It means that everything associated with the man's possessions found on him and later in the suitcase was more likely what is known as 'litter'. Items deliberately placed there to confuse any subsequent investigation.
It means that everything associated with the man's possessions found on him and later in the suitcase was more likely what is known as 'litter'. Items deliberately placed there to confuse any subsequent investigation.
The missing labels from his clothes are another tradecraft sign as in fact is the probable deliberate use of an unidentifiable poison.
The earlier revelation that according to an analysis of the tide that morning, the man's body should have been wet supports the view that he was placed there after the 4.34 am Spring tide, hours after he died.
THE CODE REVEALED
Some weeks ago I posted a partial decrypt of the code found in the slip at that time. incredibly the first word TAMAM contained 8 of the 11 letters from line 3 on the Somerton Man code page: MTBI NETP. Since that time I have been able to recover more letters from the typed words on the slip and will publish those in the coming days.
This man was not Carl Webb.
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Hadn't seen this blog before yesterday. The tiny writing is real by the look of it. How much has been decoded?
ReplyDeleteAll the characters I have found have been sorted into each typeset letter, one of the issues is just what sequence should they be in which means I look at 3 or 4 potential sequences for each letter. Some of the background 'noise' is a little problematical but gradually working through those matters. Right now and as mentioned in the post I had earlier published a partial decrypt that showed 8 of the 11 letters found in line 3 of the Somerton Man code. That line in full reads:
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The decrypted version showed the letters MTBI NETP. With these better quality images I am finding more micro letters which are clearer and therefore give us a more accurate decrypt. Still need a few days to complete that work. Might publish the results on a letter by letter basis, perhaps a letter a day.
Looks like its been written from the left, that would make the writer right handed. Is that more writing underneath the dark writing?
ReplyDeletewhat i don't understand is that there are a lot of shades of grey and black in these images
ReplyDeleteIt's about printers and how they control ink to form other colours. So, a basic printer tends to have 4 cartridges of ink. Black, Cyan, Magenta and Yellow. Black is not black so to speak, there are various shades or depths of black. It is common for some printers too use a mix of Cyan, Magenta and yellow to form a shade of black or dark grey. The cartridge containing black as a stand alone colour, or absence of colour to be more precise, is 100% black, no colours whatsoever. The sequence of delivery to the print out always has the 100% black last, it is applied over the previous colours.
ReplyDeleteIn the case of micro writing, within its image file, the camera captures the tiny pencil written letters and numbers as a darker shade of black. That's how we get to view it, the printer interprets the darker pencil marks as a deeper shade of black. Hope that makes sense.
If you were dealing with actual hard copy of the torn slip for example, prior to it being photographed, you have to ask how the person that wrote the code strings was able to see where they were writing and further ho would someone else be able to see those same strings of code against the black background? The practiced writer would know how to place letters and numbers against black but it may also be that the background on the original was a lighter shade and after writing in pencil on the surface they simply added another layer of black ink. Recovering the hidden code is another issue. It could be done with sodium hypochlorite for example. Another thought is that coloured filter lenses could have been used.
If you’re amongst followers of this post, the micro code can be seen as the deepest black in each of the images of the letters.
ReplyDeleteThe images are pretty clear, each and every letter in the TAMAM SHUD phrase contains microcode, to be precise it was identified by the this decoder site as being a MORBIT cipher. This was originally termed as a 'Fractionated Morse' cipher as it blends text and morse code to produce the cipher itself. The code taken from the TAMAM SHUD slip was entered, identified and then it produced the decode or the 'crack'. It showed the letters MTBI NETP immediately recognisable as being from the 3rd line of the code page. Thus it is fair to say that the torn piece code, is cracked. If there are any professional code experts out there who would like to discuss this I will be more than happy to do so. Not only is it cracked, I was the first one to actually find it concealed as it was within the torn slip letters.
ReplyDeleteI can see the letters and numbers on my iphone. Its a code and it was hidden. Where's the problem?
ReplyDeleteHere's the cipher identifier website.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.dcode.fr/cipher-identifier
A good and reputable site, it also found the Acrostic word DANETTA in the first paragraph of the letter left by TIBOR KALDOR.
I can see it, its almost as if the moaners expected it to be immediately readable. Wake up fellas it was a concealed code, they didn't want it to be found so they hid it. Oh Dear.
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