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- <text id=91TT0592>
- <title>
- Mar. 18, 1991: The Spooks' Secret Sculpture Garden
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Mar. 18, 1991 A Moment To Savor
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- The Spooks' Secret Sculpture Garden
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- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Daniel S. Levy
- </p>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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