THE TAMAMSHUD MYSTERY, SOMERTON MAN; THE CONVERGENCE, THE PIECES FALL INTO PLACE, IT'S ALL ABOUT THE CODE, IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT THE CODE & A NEW BREAKTHROUGH...

....CONVERGENCE....

.....The diagram above sums it up. Thanks to the recent input of our new group member '73' and the ongoing input and advice from the other members of our group through this journey, we can now clearly visualize the core of the Somerton Man case. And whilst the identity of the Man certainly has relevance, it is only a part of the puzzle. We are awaiting the results from the coroner's investigation but it would be true to say that we may never know this man's identity. My view is and has been for some time, that he is not Carl Webb.

We will however know the circumstances leading up to hu death. We will know the details of the messages contained on the code page and just what it was that the man had written in the Nihilist Cipher on the torn slip, TAMAM SHUD.

The recent information that proves the existence of a listening station and intercepts being passed on to Naval Intelligence in Melbourne has been extraordinarily useful. Whilst the volunteers will have passed on many such intercepts, they would not know what those messages were and who may have sent them. I am sure that they would also not be in a position to speak of such messages and that is to be expected and respected.

In the background to the diagram, there are numerous agencies, as yet not positively identified, who may be involved they would include, MI5, MI6, CIA, Australian Military Intelligence, Mossad, Czech Intelligence, the various 'special branch' wings of the State police, the subversive squads and more

THE NEW BREAKTHROUGH

At this point, I would like to make everyone aware that having spent a lot of time on the Tamam Shud slip and learning about how ciphers can be double-encoded,, I have been able to show and prove that the microcode on the code page is a NIHILIST cipher as used by the Soviets in the 1940s through until the 1950s. Both the torn slip and the code page used the same cipher.

Here's a screen grab of the Cipher Identifier showing the groups and the result, a 100 % finding of the NIHILIST Cipher:

Here's the full TAMAM SHUD phrase extracted ciphertext:

And here is the 'Cipher Breaker' out put:

I have highlighted part of the break, it shows the word 'MENTIES'. The issue here might be that if I had wrongly transcribed or if the Somerton Man had wrongly transcribed one of the cipher text letters, that word could be MENZIES.

THE ANALYSIS, AN UPDATE

The latest news on the analysis work is that having identified the code page was also written in the Nihilist Cipher, there are some direct comparisons, one of which is the fact that the first group of cipher text found in the torn slip had 6 characters, all numbers and the first group of the microcode found in the first letter M, also has 6 characters and again all numbers. This is important because thanks to the information written up by Alexander FOOTE, ( A member of the Soviet Spy Group, ROTE DRIE) we know that the Soviets specified that the first key in their messages should contain 6 letters and further that they should be from the top 8 most frequently used letters of the English alphabet.

The focus is on breaking the first key cipher. When we have that we will know the intended recipient of the message by title but not by name. We will also be able to see the numbers associated with the keyword/second key needed to crack open the entire cipher text. Those numbers are very likely a book code, they will comprise a page number, (2 digits), a line number (2 digits), and finally a word number,(single digit)a book code. The question will be which book? Will it be as simple as the Rubaiyat?

That is the theory, but there is a possibility that there could be another level of complexity in the cipher text as in the breaking up of the messages with the use of both letters and numbers.

The next step is to break the second key cipher. Again, thanks to Alexander Foote, we know how the second key was constructed and where it might be found.

THE BOXALL RUBAIYAT

Once the torn slip and code page have, hopefully, been decrypted, attention will be turned to the Boxall Rubaiyat to uncover the nature of the microcode written by both Alf Boxall and Jestyn. It does necessarily follow that, even if the code is shown to be Nihilist, that Alf and Jestyn were Soviets, there are reasons to believe that Jestyn may well have been a 'sparrow', someone planted in the CPA to obtain and pass on information to Military intelligence, Alf Boxall.

SUMMATION

Obviously, the work has yet to be completed, the decrypt is on its way, and just what that contains we do not know. Will it mention names? Will it mention secrets?  Will it find yet another layer of code?

I am aware that there are a few groups overseas looking at the cipher text as I write this post. It could be that they will be the first to crack the messages and that's OK, the main thing is that they get it cracked and I would be more than happy to thank them for their work.