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The Kryptos sculpture is unveiled

3 Nov 1990

A coded sculpture at CIA headquarters

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Artist Jim Sanborn's sculpture Kryptos at CIA headquarters carries four coded passages. The first three were solved, but the fourth has resisted every attempt so far.

The status of the fourth passage is the part that is still open.

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