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Re: Code used by George Washington made available at last
At 07:35 PM 7/16/96 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
>There's an AP article by Carl Hartman saying that historians now have
>access to a secret handwritten code used by George Washington and
>Marquis de Lafayette. (It's a newspaper article that somebody
>across the train is reading; looks like today's SF Examiner...)
They probably declassified it a week ago, discovering that the "national
security" excuse no longer appeared to apply.
Jim Bell
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