Chapter 15
Answers to All
Cryptograms and Puzzles
In This Chapter
▶ Look up the answers to every puzzle in the book
▶ Check your work against these answers
Chapter 4
Puzzle 1: I propose that we meet personally to allow me to
convey to you my plans, maps, and so forth.
Puzzle 2: We have indeed established your credentials. Please
tell me more about what you wish to offer to the service of the
army of His Majesty the King.
Puzzle 3: . . . appointed the head of Secret Intelligence for the
British military forces who are fighting against the Colonial
patriots.
Puzzle 4: General Arnold has been slighted for promotion,
accused of diverting military funds for personal use, and oth-
erwise insulted by his associates among the rebel colonists.
Puzzle 5: With the advent of war, the agenda of the Knights
must change. Their public activity should focus on “peace,”
on fanning the flames of sympathy for the South and its cause,
on promoting the good sense of slavery.
Puzzle 6: Are you satisfied with a title like Governor — or
would something like “Duke” suit you better? Washington
would not accept the title of King; I do not have his prejudice
against titles of nobility — and neither, I think, do you.
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Puzzle 7: Had I been more seen, just a slight bit more visible,
among those who were gathering arms for my cause, then that
court would have convicted me, all those years ago . . .
Puzzle 8: I have always been interested to hear of your mili-
tary exploits, and especially to hear of your much less well-
known activities involving Kentucky — and the king of Spain.
Puzzle 9: . . . a substantial set of assets that dates back to the
Civil War, involving caches of precious metals, particularly
gold. We have a general idea of the locations of the metals
involved, and can pin down a cache to within a ten mile
radius, often less — but that is not much better than knowing
nothing.
Puzzle 10: Underneath the welcome mat outside your apart-
ment door, you will find a manila envelope with a file indi-
cating where you can discover evidence of Mr. Halligan’s
activities.
Puzzle 11: As always, there will be a substantial benefit to you
personally as we recover the caches. Please do take more
than the usual precautions that your staff suspects noth-
ing. Those who do, I am sorry to say, must be handled with
extreme prejudice.
Puzzle 12: Many, many years ago, as a security precaution,
several of the operatives of this organization adopted color
names as cryptonyms. Perhaps one day you shall be part of
our organization, and have such a cryptonym yourself.
Puzzle 13: If you would win a man to your cause, first con-
vince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of
honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the
great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you
will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of
your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one. Abraham
Lincoln
Puzzle 14: Concealment writing may take a host of forms.
Perhaps its oldest known application is found in the ancient
device of writing a secret message on the head of a slave and
dispatching the slave with his communication after his grow-
ing hair had covered the writing. Helen Fouché Gaines
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Puzzle 15: Thieves respect property. They merely wish the
property to become their property that they may more per-
fectly respect it. G. K. Chesterton
Puzzle 16: I can win an argument on any topic, against any
opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties.
Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don’t even invite
me. Dave Barry
Puzzle 17: I have another way into Clinton’s tent, which I have
been developing for some time.
Puzzle 18: It would be best to proceed without delay with my
plan to turn this stronghold over to His Majesty.
Puzzle 19: . . . confirm that the writer of that message is
indeed the esteemed General Arnold, victor of the Battle of
Saratoga.
Puzzle 20: . . . Dr. George W. L. Bickley to serve as the leader
and nominal founder of that group . . .
Puzzle 21: Doctor Bickley’s “invasion” of Mexico was unreliev-
edly disastrous. Replace him as head of the Knights of the
Golden Circle. (Keyword = MEXICO)
Puzzle 22: John Wickham, one of my attorneys, should be
known to you as “Orange”; should I not be able to escape my
current predicament, you shall report to him. (Keyword =
ORANGE)
Puzzle 23: I am an employee in the Directorate of Operations
in the Central Intelligence Agency. My supervisor is one
Burton Mannheim. My office handles the operations of field
operatives — basically, spies — in certain locations around
the world. (Keyword = BURTON)
Puzzle 24: You have identified Soviet and other Communist
agents at the Departments of State, Defense, Interior, and
Transportation . . .
Puzzle 25: I know in particular that you have a strong desire
to serve your country, to protect your country from enemy
agents, in particular to protect your country from double
agents . . .
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Puzzle 26: The first obligation of the demonstrator is to be legi-
ble. Miss Manners cannot sympathize with a cause whose signs
she cannot make out even with her glasses on. Judith Martin
Puzzle 27: The world is divided into people who do things and
people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the
first class. There’s far less competition. Dwight Morrow
Puzzle 28: Despite pleas from several of his aides, including
Hamilton that André be executed by firing squad as befits a
soldier, Washington ordered that he be hanged as a spy. He
was not in a sentimental or generous mood. (Joseph J. Ellis,
His Excellency: George Washington, 2008, p. 129)
Puzzle 29: General Washington, we have in our custody Major
John André, out of uniform, who was intercepted near Tarrytown
today on the way to British lines. (Keyword = WEST POIN[T])
Puzzle 30: A Commendation Given Under the Hand of George
Washington, Commander-in-Chief, The Continental Army. Let
all men know by these presents that Mrs. Alice Carroll did risk
her life for the cause of freedom in the service of her coun-
try The United States of America which is eternally grateful.
Though these thanks must be kept secret, our gratitude shall
last as long as our freedom.
Puzzle 31: I ask you to give safe passage to my wife Peggy and
my children, to Peggy’s family in Philadelphia.
Puzzle 32: Your Major André — caught, like Hale, in civilian
clothes behind enemy lines — the mark of a spy — shall meet
the same fate, by the rules of war. (Keyword = ORDEAL)
Puzzle 33: At the end of his stay in the oasis, the nomad folds
his tent and moves away; the caravan disappears from sight,
but continues its journey in silence.
Puzzle 34: Jefferson Davis, President, The Confederate States
of America
Puzzle 35: I have the blessing of a former commanding officer
of yours to communicate to you a request for assistance. If
you can spare an hour or two for conversation on a matter of
mutual interest, I ask your indulgence to meet me tomorrow
night at Heron’s Tavern, not far from your lodgings, beginning
at eight p.m. (Keyword = TAVERN)
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Puzzle 36: Unfortunately, I cannot impede you, either. I have
no proof of our conversation. This note will be left in a bottle
in a hole in a tree; I have no way to direct the authorities to
you. So, all I can do is refuse you, and that I do irrevocably.
(Keyword = HOLE)
Puzzle 37: It is crucial that my role in this identification not
be mentioned to your colleagues or superiors. I am in an
extremely sensitive position that must not be compromised.
Puzzle 38: There was clearly too much of a trail left by the
satellite repositioning to have fully covered your tracks.
(Keyword = TRACKS)
Puzzle 39: Commendation to Allison Carroll, Whose courage
and ingenuity in the face of adversity upheld the finest tradi-
tions of both the American intelligence community and her
own family. Though this nation’s thanks must be kept secret,
our gratitude shall last as long as our freedom.
Puzzle 40: A military operation involves deception. Even
though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though
effective, appear to be ineffective. Sun Tzu (~ 400 BC)
Puzzle 41: A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks
you ought to. Laurence J Peter
Puzzle 42: It is a fair summary of history to say that the safe-
guards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving
not very nice people. Felix Frankfurter
Chapter 5
Puzzle 43: . . . providing the British with military information
about the American patriots’ Continental Army, such as the
size and location of groups of Continental Army troops.
Puzzle 44: The word that we have from multiple agents placed
in the camp of the British, working independently of one
another, all points to the same conclusion.
Puzzle 45: Please send us notice as to whether this offer is
acceptable to you, along with your plans to turn over West
Point.
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