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Sanborn's Covert Operations Fragments

Scattered around the country are various "Covert Operations Fragments" by sculptor Jim Sanborn. These are pieces that were made out of pulped CIA documents, into which Sanborn stamped encrypted text.

There are two large ones at the Zola Spy Restaurant. Sanborn said that these are two halves of the same piece.

Keith Edkins' transcript and decrypt of the Zola fragments

SciRealm see the entry for Zola Spy restaurant at:

http://members.aol.com/SciRealm/KryptosDetails.html

here is the decryption procedure showing each step

http://members.aol.com/SciRealm/COFzola.html

These are all images of one half:

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And these are images of the other half:

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There is also a piece in the Federal Reserve Board Art Gallery:

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See Keith Edkins' transcript of the Additional Fragment at the foot of this page for comments on this fragment.

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An additional image of a Covert Operations Fragment is here:

  • http://elonka.com/kryptos/sanborn/slides/images/CovertOperationsCyrillic.jpg
  • Covert1 - David Wilson's transcript of this Covert Operations Fragment.

  • Covert2 - Keith Edkins' transcript of this Covert Operations Fragment and the related FRB fragment.


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