A CIA Secret with a Fanatical Following Is Found in a Smithsonian Vault

A CIA secret with a fanatical following is found in a Smithsonian vault

Sculptor Jim Sanborn opened his email account one day last month expecting the usual messages from people claiming to have solved his famous, decades-old puzzle. Sanborn’s best known artwork, Kryptos, sits in a courtyard at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. A sculpture that evokes and incorporates secrets, Kryptos displays four encrypted messages in letters cut through its curving copper sheet. Since the agency dedicated it in 1990, cry…

A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault

John Schwartz in the New York Times: The sculptor Jim Sanborn opened his email account one day last month expecting the usual messages from people claiming to have solved his famous, decades-old puzzle. Mr. Sanborn’s best known artwork, Kryptos, sits in a courtyard at the C.I.A. headquarters in Virginia. A sculpture that evokes and incorporates secrets, Kryptos displays four encrypted messages in letters cut through its curving copper sheet. Sin…