...THE SOMERTON MAN...
WAS A SPY...
Today you can see the proof, the torn slip image has at last been brought to a point where all can view the tiny block capital letters and some numbers carefully handwritten into each of the letters of the typed phrase, TAMAM SHUD.
Followers will know that this tiny piece of paper was found rolled up tight in what is known as a 'Secret' fob pocket inside the waistband of the trousers worn by the SOmerton Man when he was found the morning of December 1st, 1948.
If you look carefully inside each letter in the larger image below you will see the written in characters. It has been very skilfully done and someone took a little time to do it. It leaves a question as to exactly how that could be done given that what we see in the image is black writing against a black background. There is an answer to that issue and it will be posted here in the coming days:
The prime examples of the writing are to be found in the slope of the first and second letter A. Once you have been able to view and focus on those two the writing in the other letters becomes obvious.
The actual size of the torn piece is 47 mm wide. That means that the writing within the letters is approximately .7 mm in height with some being as small as .3mm in height which is quite achievable.
Three of the 5 letters in TAMAM. Code visible
THE IMPLICATIONS
The significant implications to publishing of these images, the technique is a known tradecraft method of concealment and the fact that the slip itself was hidden, rolled up tightly, and pushed down into the secret fob pocket so that it was hard to find and retrieve adds to that. The slip would have been hard to discern from the seam of the pocket.
It means that everything associated with the man's possessions found on him and later in the suitcase was more likely what is known as 'litter'. Items deliberately placed there to confuse any subsequent investigation.
It means that everything associated with the man's possessions found on him and later in the suitcase was more likely what is known as 'litter'. Items deliberately placed there to confuse any subsequent investigation.
The missing labels from his clothes are another tradecraft sign as in fact is the probable deliberate use of an unidentifiable poison.
The earlier revelation that according to an analysis of the tide that morning, the man's body should have been wet supports the view that he was placed there after the 4.34 am Spring tide, hours after he died.
THE CODE REVEALED
Some weeks ago I posted a partial decrypt of the code found in the slip at that time. incredibly the first word TAMAM contained 8 of the 11 letters from line 3 on the Somerton Man code page: MTBI NETP. Since that time I have been able to recover more letters from the typed words on the slip and will publish those in the coming days.
This man was not Carl Webb.