home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15The Spooks' Secret Sculpture Garden
-
-
- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Daniel S. Levy
-
-
- Secrecy at CIA headquarters extends all the way to the
- courtyard. Kryptos, a granite-and-copper sculpture by
- Washington artist Jim Sanborn, was quietly installed last
- November near a new building on the agency's grounds. Taxpayers
- financed the $250,000 work, but that does not guarantee public
- access. Sanborn's sculpture features a 2,000-character encoded
- message that is believed to have been penned by a well-known
- writer whose name has not been disclosed. Besides the artist
- and the author, only CIA director William Webster knows what
- the top-secret phrase says, according to an agency spokesman.
- The CIA does not allow the general public to visit its
- Langley, Va., compound, so Kryptos is on view only for
- employees or authorized visitors. Ironically, the Sanborn
- sculpture constitutes what the CIA calls its "Tribute to
- Information."
-
-
-
-
-
-