Coded WWII Message Found on Pigeon Remains

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Analysis by Rossella Lorenzi
Discovery News
Nov 5, 2012

British intelligence agents are working on deciphering a coded message 
that has remained a secret for nearly 70 years -- attached to the leg of 
a hero World War II carrier pigeon.

Found in the chimney of 17th-century home in Bletchingley, Surrey, the 
bird's skeleton was found in 1982 when the home's current owner David 
Martin decided to restore the fireplace.

"I started finding bits of a dead pigeon. We thought it might be a 
racing pigeon until we spotted a red capsule," Martin told reporters.

The small red cylinder contained a mysterious cigarette paper-sized 
encrypted message.

Unseen for three decades, the message "is deemed so sensitive, that 
codebreakers at GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) are now 
frantically trying to decipher it," Bletchley Park, a center where 
during World War Two top secret codebreaking work was carried out on 
behalf of the Allies, said in a news release.

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