Moscow Rules #1: The Escape Mystery Cache
Moscow Rules #1: The Escape
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This is a cryptogrpahic challenge cache. What's the cipher? May be the following story will help to solve the puzzle, or maybe it won't. You never can tell with spy-masters. The co-ordinates refer to the point where the following tale unfolded:
Isn't it strange how time flies? It was nearly 40 years now, since I stood on this very spot, looking out towards Frenchay Hospital. Back then I was odd-bins duty officer for Peter Guillam and his scalp-hunters. Here we stood, the two of us, on the hill above Hanbrook waiting for the final act in a drama that had seen us chasing a group of spies from one end of the UK to the other. Sadly I can't tell you what they had attempted to do only that the Nihilists had been pretty keen to sneak a peak inside a certain aircraft company.
To be honest, they weren't being all that subtle about getting in, which was how we were able to roll up the entire group. We caught most of them attempting to go over the fence near Catbrain, and the ring leaders we ran to ground as they attempted to get out of bristol. We intercepted their car as it was approaching junction 1 of the M32. What didn't go according to plan was when Canada Bill let one of them escape across the carriage way and into the scrub below us.
By the time he caught up with her; one Elana Ostrakova, nominal second secretary with the Russian Trade Delegation and leader of the band of spies - she'd hidden most of the evidence and refused point blank to tell us where she'd stashed it. About the only clue we found was a long string of numbers. We of course handed it straight to the cipher-section, but I can't remember if they every made anything of it.
What I do remember is the dressing down, Mr Guillam gave us that day in Bristol. “Moscow Rules, always remember we are playing by Moscow Rules.”? He stormed “Never forget Moscow Rules. Even that old reprobate Vladimyr never forgot to play by Moscow Rules.”
To find the cache you will need to decode Elana's message if you wish to find the location of the cache:
46 86 66 48 56 67 54 97 37 44 70 55 74 57 68 68 66 74 83 26 73 88 44 94 79 57 58 85 74 74 55 73 76 72 77 60 48 94 75 67 95 27 73 96 53 86 97 48 98 84 46 95 57 62 56 52 85 98 56 88 104 78 83 35 74 100 52 66 88 76 96 96 74 86 27 54 96 43 87 88 40 85 104 68 83 23 62 87 63 58 87 56 94 106 66 74 55 83 58 44 74 57 68 86 94 38 94 45 63 88 44 56 70 38 64 96 48 95 54 82 58 36 85 76 48 56 77 66 63 43 65 76 34 57 79 56 58 86 57 103
Happy Hunting.
**Note 18/05/2013 - Elana's message has changed, you will need to rework the code. D/T rating changed from 5/1.5 to 5/2.5.**
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Frpgvba 6 qbrf abg nccebir bs uvagf, be qb gurl?
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