Igor’s documents led to the arrest of 39 suspects, of whom 18 were eventually convicted. This is now well-known historical fact.
Less well known is the subsequent work of a diligent RCMP investigator, Dudley Dunright, who suspected that one of the 21 suspects who were released was in fact the leader of the espionage ring. He went undercover and made friends with one of the released suspects, a Russian cipher clerk who had worked closely with Gouzenko. He gave him the code name Crypto Charlie.
Crypto Charlie gradually became a very credible source of information, and seemed intensely interested in helping Dudley find the ringleader. Together they narrowed the suspects down to 4, to each of which they assigned a code name. All 4, however, had very strong alibis to prove they were not Communists.
Then, on November 19, 1949, Crypto Charlie phoned him and in a hurried whisper told Dudley to meet him that night, at 11:30, in the NW corner of the second level of the Chateau Laurier parking lot. He had positive proof, he said, of the guilt of one of the 4 suspects – the ringleader.
Alas, when Dudley showed up in the garage that night, he found the still-warm corpse of Crypto Charlie. Clutched in his blood-soaked hand was a slip of paper that bore the numbers:
Dudley knew immediately which suspect Crypto Charlie had identified as the ringleader. An arrest quickly followed.
Determine the alpha-sum (A=1, B=2, etc.) of the ringleader’s code name and call this X. The cache, a preform, is 10X meters along a bearing of 10X mils* from the posted coordinates.
Note: I had not come across this type of cipher until doing research for this cache. Hope you enjoy it too.
Use the Checker below to see if your coordinates are within 3 m. of the cache.
* 6400 mils = 360 degrees