WWII carrier pigeon message discovered in Surrey chimney

[Hans Tucker]

If you like stories about Bletchley Park, which was the United Kingdom's main decryption establishment [Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS)] during WWII, this might be interesting


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20164591

I wonder if the bird will be awarded the Dickin Medal

[Baddad]

:)It will be interesting to know the message contents.
Hopefully it will be made public. :)

Cheers:)

[Larryp]

Saw it on the tv news last night. The message was in code, so they have to find someone to decode it.

[GrahamL]

They have just worked out the code .

It reads

"I've been locked in my coup for two weeks now without seed and water
you barstards ,when are you going to let me out?"

[Danack]

Unfortunately, the message is very likely to have been encrypted with a one-time pad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad). Unless the pad still exists it will be impossible to decrypt the message, though either the agent who sent it may be identified who could have always wondered about a missing message, and the message may have been sent again if they failed to get a response from it.

[jjjnettie]

Speckled Jim!!!!

[Ric]

An interesting story, I hope they can decypher it.