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KRYPTOS

Part II

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ITWASTOTALLYINVISIBLEHOWSTHATPO
SSIBLE?THEYUSEDTHEEARTHSMAGNET
ICFIELDXTHEINFORMATIONWASGATHER
EDANDTRANSMITTEDUNDERGRUUNDTOANU
NKNOWNLOCATIONXDOESLANGLEYKNOWA
BOUTTHIS?THEYSHOULDITSBURIEDOUT
THERESOMEWHEREXWHOKNOWSTHEEXACTL
OCATION?ONLYWWTHISWASHISLASTMES
SAGEXTHIRTYEIGHTDEGREESFIFTYSE
VENMINUTESSIXPOINTFIVESECONDSNO
RTHSEVENTYSEVENDEGREESEIGHTMINU
TESFORTYFOURSECONDSWESTIDBYROWS

Section 2 of Kryptos we are told is to sound like an interrupted radio
transmission. This is my interpretatation of that section, and what I
believe to explain the placement of the X's. The use of X's in codes
is not uncommon to mark the end of statments. In this case, The X's seem
to appear at the end of almost every statement unless it happens to be a question, in which case the X is unneeded. Notice that X's were only used
if longer sentences were spoken. It would seem unnecessary to use so many
X's after shorter sentences such as "It was totally invisible" and "They should" or "Only WW."

So with that, using Alice and Bob for our example, we can read section 2
as follows:

Alice:

"It was totally invisible. How's that possible?"

Bob:

"They used the earth's magnetic field X

The information was gathered and transmitted undergruund to an unknown location. X

Alice:

"Does Langley know about this?"

Bob:

"They should It's buried out there somewhere. X

Alice:

"Who knows the exact location?"

Bob:

"Only WW. This was his last message X THIRTYEIGHTDEGREESFIFTYSE
VENMINUTESSIXPOINTFIVESECONDSNORTHSEVENTYSEVENDEGREESEIGHTMINU
TESFORTYFOURSECONDSWESTIDBYROWS

This is just my interpretation, nothing is set in stone. As for the "errors" , it was very common during transmissions
for sections of ciphertext to be garbled or interpreted incorrectly by the cipherclerk.