The encrypted message below is from The Day Before the Berlin Wall: Could We Have Stopped It? (page 112). The first three people to send the correct decryption to the contact eAddress at the bottom of this page will each receive a copy of the ASA novel Voices Under Berlin: The Tale of a Monterey Mary, signed by the author. Please use "Crypto Contest" as the subject line of your eMail.
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While hardly as difficult as the fourth segment on the Kryptos sculpture by American artist Jim Sanborn at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), this coded message may prove entertaining to the cryptanalysts among the readers of T.H.E. Hill's novels. It is a 'paper and pencil' system of a type that was actually used by the Russians. There is enough depth for a solution.
