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Message likke a spy agent3/17/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() We assign a 1 to the first letter in the alphabet, then a 2 to the second, etc. Next, we turn the five words into a numeric code. For this part, we pick five words from our poem. Received latest drop need more detonators radio crystals and winter socks stop landing field compromised stop next moon period try field south of river stop agent taylor captured sent to fresnes stop malarkey cover blown request extraction at once stop plan to sabotage ball bearing factory in two weeks If you were really behind enemy lines, you’d be encouraged to mix up the language, but for this post, we’ll stick to English. Don’t read too much into this message-I’m just making stuff up. And it would be transmitted via Morse code, so no punctuation. For use with the poem code, a message needed to be at least 200 characters long. That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s Day. Shall think themselves accursed that they were not here,Īnd hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks We few, we happy few, we band of brothersįor he today that sheds his blood with me As an added bonus, Shakespeare’s copyrights have run out, so I can quote it on my blog without permission. In fact, I like it so much that my Shakespeare-quoting Englishman in Sworn Enemy and Deadly Alliance uses the band of brothers quote in both books. Agents operating in the Mediterranean area would often use novels, but the principle was the same. Agents operating in northern Europe would pick a poem and memorize it. Should you feel like trying it out, it will be up to you to look up Morse code, secure a radio, and find someone to transmit it to.Įarly in WWII, agents with SOE (a British wartime intelligence and sabotage agency) used what was called the poem code. This blog post will take you through the steps of encoding a message using double transposition, just like British and American spies did in WWII. ![]()
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