Re: Code used by George Washington made available at last

At 07:35 PM 7/16/96 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:

There's an AP article by Carl Hartman saying that historians now have access to a secret handwritten code used by George Washington and Marquis de Lafayette. (It's a newspaper article that somebody across the train is reading; looks like today's SF Examiner...)

They probably declassified it a week ago, discovering that the "national security" excuse no longer appeared to apply. Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com