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July 11, 2008

GSSA Spy School Level One - Cryptography: Messages in Print

If you need to get a secret letter to a fellow spy - you can highlight, circle or bold the letters that form your message in a page from a book, newspaper, magazine, or online article. Then make sure it gets in the right hands!

HOW TO DO IT:
To code:
Select your article, book or magazine.
Highlight, bold, or circle letter with in the message to create your secret message.
Deliver it to the receiver. (Perhaps you can use your pre-assigned dead drop!)

To decode:
Write down all the circled, bold, or highlighted letters in order.
Separate them into individual words...
and.... now you have your secret message!

Try to decode this:

from Profile: Alex Allen (answer below)

Alex Allan, who is seriously ill in hospital, is the colorful head of the UK's Joint Intelligence Committee.

As chairman of the committee, his role is to collate intelligence from MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, and brief ministers.

Mr Allan, 57, is a big fan of the 60s rock group the Grateful Dead, and in the 1980s windsurfed to work along the River Thames during a train strike.

He was appointed to the Joint Intelligence Committee despite having no background in the field.

Mr Allan runs a website for "Deadheads", fans of the Grateful Dead, which features a lyric and song search engine for work of the Californian rockers.




(All answers will now be printed backwards for security reasons!)
ANSWER: thginot 8 ta em teem (meet me at 8 tonight)

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