(A) I saw the Hess article (February 1988) reference in “Atomic Time” and went back to read it. There’s another German connection. Twenty-five artists were asked “would you sell work to the CIA”. Mike Bidlo responded “I think maybe yes, I would consider doing a commission for the CIA, but only if it were to be a Hans Haacke”. Hans Haacke responded “I wouldn’t give them work because I cannot imagine anything that would express my feelings about the CIA being tolerated there. The only reason to accept would be to turn it into a public game; to make a piece which would be thrown out so it would become a public issue.” You can actually see some of the Haacke words reflected by Sanborn at CIA-RDP92G00017R000800010003-6 … “The artist considers all messages to be benign and aims to present a game for viewers”. (B) The references to how long this is supposed to last. On the one hand, the plan: “So anyway that will go on hopefully for a century, long after my death.” and “I wanted this piece to last into or through the 21st century.” and on the other, fear: “I assumed that people would figure it out in a matter of weeks”. At least, that’s how I’d reconcile the quotes. What sort of encryption system could last that long? This doesn’t fit in with the other quotes “Its intent was to last roughly five years”, “the last part, perhaps ten”, “Scheidt figured the whole puzzle would be solved in less than seven years” … the five, seven, ten are repeated in other places.