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Puzzle 46: This is a closely guarded secret within the inner
circle of General Sir Henry Clinton, a group that my agents
cannot penetrate.
Puzzle 47: Oh, yes, I know of the plans that you had to deliver
Kentucky to Spain. I know a great many things that are not
widely known, including your secret renunciation of American
citizenship, the oath of allegiance that you made to the Spanish
throne, and the annual pension that you receive from Madrid.
Puzzle 48: With the conviction of Vallandigham this week for
“uttering disloyal sentiments”, we need to change tactics and
strategize for the larger picture.
Puzzle 49: I am discovered, and that Wilkinson is set to testify
against me. None of the rest of you are known, and so it shall
remain.
Puzzle 50: . . . Bickley must think that the establishment of the
Knights of the Golden Circle is his own brainchild.
Puzzle 51: Mr. Halligan has been serving as a double agent
for the Soviet Union for many years, in which position he has
compromised many delicate diplomatic negotiations.
Puzzle 52: I know that retasking intelligence satellites over
American soil is a sensitive issue. I suggest that you retask the
satellites in such a way that they have to fly over American
territory to other locations; the scans can then be performed
in passing, as it were.
Puzzle 53: . . . they discovered the new evidence that I planted
in Halligan’s home and office, as they had discovered what I
planted earlier in the month.
Puzzle 54: The call you picked up this afternoon, when some-
one asked for a nonexistent office, was placed by one of my
associates; the record of that call will substantiate your story
about an anonymous telephone tip.
Puzzle 55: It takes your enemy and your friend, working
together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and
the other to get the news to you. Mark Twain
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Puzzle 56: If a secret piece of news is divulged by a spy before
the time is ripe, he must be put to death together with the
man to whom the secret was told. Sun Tzu
Puzzle 57: Propaganda: that branch of the art of lying which
consists in very nearly deceiving your friends without quite
deceiving your enemies. Francis M Cornford
Puzzle 58: The public say they are getting cynical about poli-
ticians; they should hear how politicians talk about them.
George Weldon
Puzzle 59: . . . properly accounting for his expenses while fighting
in Canada, even though Arnold’s receipts were lost in battle.
Puzzle 60: . . . circumstances are such as to compel me to
reconsider my position. I now wish to broach the possibility
of changing my allegiance to the side of His Majesty the King.
Puzzle 61: You will immediately send patrols to search without
raising alarm the area from West Point, south past Tarrytown,
from September twenty-first through the twenty-ninth.
Puzzle 62: You, and the rest of the Spectrum agents — Red,
Yellow, Blue, Orange, and all the rest — as well as myself are
the Inner Circle.
Puzzle 63: What a dramatic death! As an attorney for the
defense in a murder case, Clement tries to re-enact the shoot-
ing in an attempt to show how the victim had actually shot
himself by accident — and Clement proceeds to shoot himself
by accident!
Puzzle 64: The man by whom I send this message shall be
your liaison with me.
Puzzle 65: After a few years of field experience, with your FBI
record of catching double agents, you would be a natural for
a transfer to the office of the Directorate of Intelligence that
focuses on counterintelligence.
Puzzle 66: . . . not to print off the computer screen on which
my messages appear. Your careful attention to follow detailed
instructions as dictated to you makes you a very valuable
asset in any organization.
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Puzzle 67: The worst government is often the most moral. One
composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But
when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. H L
Mencken
Puzzle 68: History teaches us that men and nations behave
wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
AbbaEban
Puzzle 69: There are a terrible lot of lies going around the
world, and the worst of it is half of them are true. Winston
Churchill
Puzzle 70: I courted one Miss Peggy Shippen while I was sta-
tioned in Philadelphia. This would be the same Peggy Shippen
who is your wife.
Puzzle 71: As a gentleman myself, of course I give safe passage
to your wife and family.
Puzzle 72: You have no reputation to defend. Your family will
suffer the ignominy you have brought upon your name, for
now, and for always.
Puzzle 73: Yes, the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite
has facilities here and there throughout many states and ter-
ritories of the country . . .
Puzzle 74: Henceforth, have the public organization known as
the “Order of the Sons of Liberty”.
Puzzle 75: No doubt you will find it surprising to see me com-
municate with you in cipher. I assure you that my intentions
are most honorable.
Puzzle 76: It was not a happy face I saw. I saw your counte-
nance grow darker and darker, though you said very little.
When you left, I saw that your companion was somewhat dis-
pleased, as well.
Puzzle 77: Your role in getting unauthorized intelligence to me
has been exposed — I don’t know by whom.
Puzzle 78: Honor and Duty are the pole-stars of a Mason . . .
by never losing sight of which he may avoid disastrous ship-
wreck. Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma
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Puzzle 79: Interest in cryptography is not restricted to gov-
ernments and professional spies. Everybody enjoys a secret.
Martin Gardner
Puzzle 80: Confidant, Confidante, n. One entrusted by A with
the secrets of B, confided by him to C. Ambrose Bierce
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Puzzle 81: I hope to hear from this source soon.
Puzzle 82: . . . I visited West Point, and I took careful note of
several ways in which the defenses of this fortification can be
weakened to allow His Majesty’s Army to take this stronghold
without loss.
Puzzle 83: Tonight at dinner, under the influence of some
spirituous liquors . . .
Puzzle 84: . . . the British over the financial compensation he
would receive.
Puzzle 85: You have access to some of the assets that we
accumulated so many years ago, and many contacts. I shall
leave it to you to bring about what dreams you can.
Puzzle 86: . . . found a new land, one in the south and the south-
west, one built on cotton and sugar, on tobacco and coffee . . .
Puzzle 87: Despite the brave face that I put on events in
public, as I mentioned briefly during our conversation, the
war goes badly.
Puzzle 88: And, having accepted that unhappy possibility, we
must do what can be done to prepare for the next conflict —
for a next conflict there must be.
Puzzle 89: . . . whether you are the kind of man whom I can
trust with this kind of information. If so, I will have more such
information to share. If not, I shall never communicate with
you again.
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Puzzle 90: Because the caches themselves are in lightly popu-
lated hill country or outright wilderness areas, there should
be relatively little interference to obscure the gravitometric
signal.
Puzzle 91: . . . who serve your enemies while serving in posi-
tions of trust in American intelligence and law enforcement.
Puzzle 92: Be faithful . . . to the promises you make, to the
pledges you give, and to the vows that you assume, since
to break either is base and dishonorable. . . . Be faithful to
your country, and prefer its dignity and honor to any degree
of popularity and honor for yourself; consulting its interest
rather than your own . . . Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma
Puzzle 93: I seek in particular a British officer, one Major John
André.
Puzzle 94: You have clearly learned of my plans. I can only
say that I did what I did for my country — although it may not
seem so at the moment.
Puzzle 95: . . . compared her beauty to that of the silver moon
at the full, for clarity, for brilliance, and for her beauty’s abil-
ity to stir the very soul of man.
Puzzle 96: I have entrusted this to you as the walls collapse
around me.
Puzzle 97: Their private activity should focus on giving aid to
the South, to discouraging enlistment in the Northern Army,
even to sabotage in the North.
Puzzle 98: Let’s take the name change a bit further, and iden-
tify with the original American Revolution.
Puzzle 99: For the good of the country, I beg you, do not
ignore this message.
Puzzle 100: Money couldn’t buy friends but you got a better
class of enemy. Spike Milligan
Puzzle 101: I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered every-
where. William Congreve
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