Nightly News   |  November 23, 2012

This code is for the birds

A World War II code delivered by carrier pigeon is stumping today’s cypher specialists. Can you break it? NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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>>> great britain needs the help of any code breakers out there, trying to learn a message sent by carrier pigeon during world war ii . it is a hand-written message, never making its way to a recipient. it was discovered all these years later in a chimney. they think that carrier pigeon was used during the war, including behind enemy lines . british intelligence agents say they can't figure it out. so if anyone is good at it, we put it on the website.