Codes, Criminals, & Spies

Getting Started

You are a Special Agent of the NBI (the National Bureau of Investigation). You have been assigned to the K Gang Task Force, a group of agents working jointly with the Federal Security Agency. Your job is to investigate and decode secret telephone calls and email messages that are being sent by a group of criminals and spies who are suspected of smuggling drugs from Freedonia into the United States. They have then been using the profits to buy important documents from dishonest low-level government officials. We have to stop them!

You intercept the following email message. It sounds suspicious. Maybe it conceals a secret message. Can you figure it out?


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