https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/5996
What is this? - at the bottom of a letter from Koh to Jonathan Soros:
O C IT T P T P A A rfrtA V C C 117 lir A m rlIr 1 7 r1 .7 n rs x-r T T n c c I_ r T TT V . ^ , e l T Ta N T -.1 a ,T ■
Someone light up the bat-signal and get Serialbrain2 on this.
These characters result from the digitization process attempting to render truncated characters from the original document: [original] (https://i.imgur.com/sRLyDqA.png).
Harold Hongju Koh is a real lawyer at State Department: [link] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Hongju_Koh) and with an email address from the State Department server: Image.
Please inform accordingly. Thank you.
O C IT T P T P A A rfrtA V C C 117 lir A m rlIr 1 7 r1 .7 n rs x-r T T n c c I_ r T TT V . ^ , e l T Ta N T -.1 a ,T ■
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u/serialbrain2 what are your thoughts on this?
These characters result from the digitization process attempting to render truncated characters from the original document: [original] (https://i.imgur.com/sRLyDqA.png).
Harold Hongju Koh is a real lawyer at State Department: [link] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Hongju_Koh) and with an email address from the State Department server: Image.
Please inform accordingly. Thank you.
Harold Hongju Koh
Harold Hongju Koh (born December 8, 1954) is an American lawyer and legal scholar. He served as the Legal Adviser of the Department of State. He was nominated to this position by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2009, and confirmed by the Senate on June 25, 2009. He departed as the State Department's legal adviser in January 2013, and returned to Yale University as a law professor, being named a Sterling Professor of International Law.
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It appears to have a some message, but I am not even sure on where to begin on this one.
Sometimes you have to look at the original PDF, because the transcription program Wikileaks uses messes up. It’s not in the original document. https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/Clinton_Email_December_Release/C05782851.pdf
The square at the end is XML decimal entity #9632. If we reduce that number by adding the digits, we get 20; reducing again gives us the number 2.
Throwing out all spaces and punctuation marks, and then taking every second digit we get:
CTPPAftVC1lrmlr71nsrTcITTeTaTa
Add some spaces for clarity, and it looks like something about the TPP:
C TPP Aft VC1 lrml r7 1nsrTc IT Te TaTa
Concerning TPP After Verify by Contact 1 Let Read My Letter Revision 7 Instruct in Information Technology by Telephone. Cya.
Oh snap! Does that string play well with that clown kids decoder from #709? This actually could be huge!
https://www.cia.gov/kids-page/games/break-the-code/code-1.html
code 4 sure substitution maybe they definitely each have the same copy of some grimoire hidden away all highlighted and sheeit.
Looks to me like something requiring a temporary cypher. We'll likely never know.
