The CIA's Dark Search for the Ark of the Covenant, and the Ark of Gabriel Explained.

a reply to: Popoll

The Xfiles episode Closure reaired on comet last night.


CIA is a covert organization so this is obviously part of the remote viewing "screen"

From the Scottish Gaelic Sorcha ("light, radiant") Faal: the Dark and Barren Place.

Children lost, looking for the light in the wrong place..

a reply to: Skinnerbot

I was thinking something a little more localised. Just looking at the guidelines the CIA set out for the commission:

Art at the CIA should reflect life in all its positive aspects.
It should engender feelings of well-being, hope.
It should be forceful in style and manner.
It should be worldly yet have identifiable American roots in concept, materials, representation, and so forth.

I'm not sure hidden Masonic lodges were what they had in mind. I may be wrong. If those existed would an artist even be privy to that? Even an artist in receipt of a $250,000 commission (wow!). Not sure what his costs were, mind.

The CIA evidently didn't have a translation of the text when the sculpture was erected - they only asked for one later when it gained publicity and were concerned the content could embarass them. Seems unlikely that figuring out K4 will reveal anything too dramatic.

a reply to: BrucellaOrchitis

"local" is a state of mind.
The analyst Gillogly who brute forced the disclosed parts of the Kryptos sculpture with a computer was a systems expert who worked for the Rand corporation, wrote a pretty decent chess program and cracked the Thouless cipher.
As you noted it seems strange that someone with such strong code breaking skills didn't bother trying to solve K4?
Or maybe he just new his limits and realized he should stop after seeing too much.

a reply to: GENERAL EYES

how much stuff did we dig up in iraq, looking for
THE EMERALD TABLETS, and other libraries
under the ancient sumerian palaces during
25 years of war in iraq??

tthen totally obliterate the town of mosul to
cover up their crimes, and deface monuments
so nobbody else can find those places even with a map

video is filled with fart noises and static constantly because they censor totally normal words. Unwatchable.

a reply to: Ohanka

Starts out with potential references to East Africa Protectorate circa 1907.
With a comment like that you realize what will happen if they ever make an X-files movie with Fox Mulder investigating Fort Harvie..
Its SOP, the CIA gave death threats to 5 year olds telling them they are going to find their bones in the desert.

originally posted by: Skinnerbot
"local" is a state of mind.

Possibly. But the co-ordinants also point to a spot less than a couple of metres away - adjacent to the main entrance to Langley. Which could be just a simple "you are here" reference or it could be the entrance to a tunnel or Mithriaic temple or the location of the ark of the covenant even if you like.

The odds of it being any of those are slim IMO but I wouldn't want to spoil anyone else's fun.

originally posted by: Skinnerbot
The analyst Gillogly who brute forced the disclosed parts of the Kryptos sculpture with a computer was a systems expert who worked for the Rand corporation, wrote a pretty decent chess program and cracked the Thouless cipher.
As you noted it seems strange that someone with such strong code breaking skills didn't bother trying to solve K4?

NSA and CIA code-breakers have also, allegedly, given up. All the previous ones have been broken without the key. I think you need the key to break K4. The others could be broken with brute force, something about K4 means it cannot.

That's my guess anyway.

originally posted by: Skinnerbot
Or maybe he just new his limits and realized he should stop after seeing too much.

It was Stop-watch not Stop-clock, the MI6 name for the Berlin Tunnel project. The CIA called it Gold which is why I thought the previous text was feeding into K4. And since "Berlin" and "Clock" follow on from one another, I've shelved my tunnel theory.

Carter discovered the entry to the tomb on 4th November and knew by the end of play that day that it was unplundered.

It wasn't opened though, and the golden treasures within revealed, until the 24th.



Also, I hadn't realised that we have another clue-word "northeast".

www.nytimes.com...

There is clearly an over-arching theme but that doesn't help with identifying the key I don't think but to be frank, my mind doesn't work like that, so I really wouldn't know.