...THE HIDDEN CODES...
The image above is of the torn slip of paper which was found tightly rolled up and pushed down into what was known as a 'secret' waistband fob pocket of the trousers worn by the Somerton Man when found on the beach on December 1st, 1948. This image was taken using reflected infrared and bright sunlight. I suggest that you look closely at each of the letters that you see on your screen. You will see that very small letters and numbers have been skillfully written into each of them. These micro letters and numbers have now been found to be NIHILIST cipher, a cipher created and used by the Soviets throughout WW2.More on that later in this post.
When found the slip didn't look like the image above it looked more like this image below:
The image above was taken under a microscope at Adelaide University in 2010 I believe. The good people at Adelaide University were given access to the slip for examination by ex-Detective Sergeant Gerry Feltus, a well-respected ex-SAPOL officer who once had the Somerton Man Cold case file on his desk.
Below are the actual dimensions of the slip, approximately 4.7 cm in width. not very large at all :
Importantly the University's examination had as its focus the nature of the paper on which the phrase TAMAM SHUD was printed.
Interestingly, they were not looking for any concealments which, as you can now see, were very clearly there.
The recovery technique as mentioned earlier, was to use a combination of reflected infrared light followed by a separate photograph taken in bright sunlight.
Was this a new technique? No, not at all, In fact, I first read of the method after I had found what appeared to be hidden writing within the letters of the Somerton Man code page. I actually found it within a 2011 released FBI document dealing with secret inks and concealments.
Here's a copy of each of the 4 pages of the 2011 FBI-released document, it describes 50 different methods of concealment known and used 100 years earlier in 1911.
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Item 44 discusses the use of microscopic writing across the face of postage stamps.
SUMMARY
This post and its contents show the enormous number of ways in which messages were and possibly still are concealed. The torn slip example shows a Soviet code was probably in use. I suggest that you first examine it thoroughly on screen, then download the image of the torn slip at the head of the page and examine it closely for yourselves.The precise methods I used is as follows:
1. Use the high-resolution source image from the Adelaide University
2. Print this image out a small size using an inkjet printer set to high quality and print it out onto bleed-proof paper. Do not touch this paper leave it on the printer output tray for about 10 minutes to enable it to properly dry.
3. When dry, take the image and a reasonable camera, an iPhone or Samsung S9 + or better, and, using an infrared lamp placed at varying angles, take some images of the printed-out TAMAM SHUD phrase. Then upload that to your computer or print directly from your camera if you have that facility, making sure that you once again print it out on an inkjet printer set to high quality and on bleed-proof paper and allow it to dry thoroughly in place.
4. Take this image in bright sunlight and take numerous photos at various angles from the front view and use the sunlight as a backlight. You should be able to see the results in your viewfinder immediately. Print it out as previously described and examine it.
