http://news.discovery.com/history/coded-message-pigeon-121105.html Analysis by Rossella Lorenzi Discovery News Nov 5, 2012 British intelligence agents are working on deciphering a coded message that has remained a secret for nearly 70 years -- attached to the leg of a hero World War II carrier pigeon. Found in the chimney of 17th-century home in Bletchingley, Surrey, the bird's skeleton was found in 1982 when the home's current owner David Martin decided to restore the fireplace. "I started finding bits of a dead pigeon. We thought it might be a racing pigeon until we spotted a red capsule," Martin told reporters. The small red cylinder contained a mysterious cigarette paper-sized encrypted message. Unseen for three decades, the message "is deemed so sensitive, that codebreakers at GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) are now frantically trying to decipher it," Bletchley Park, a center where during World War Two top secret codebreaking work was carried out on behalf of the Allies, said in a news release. [...] ______________________________________________ Visit the InfoSec News Security Bookstore Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.orgReceived on Tue Nov 06 2012 - 01:32:02 PST
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