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CIA Declassified Documents

In its Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room, the CIA recently made accessible the U.S. Government's six oldest classified documents. The documents are from the World War I era and describe how spies concealed information by secret writing. Method #25 from document 6 is dipping a toothpick in common milk and writing between the lines of an ordinary letter. Ironing the letter with a hot flatiron supposedly reveals the concealed writing.

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