The Art of Fakery
Let’s chat about the code.
The image you are seeing here is not what DS Leane saw when he was examining the back cover of the Freeman Rubaiyat as it was only after using ‘ a large magnifying glass’ did he make out ‘capital letters written in faint pencil.’ (GF)
Leane decided to photograph the original faint pencil code.
No copy of this photograph has ever been made public.
This photo was then marked over with what looks like printer’s ink or possibly one of the detectives’ pens.
This was then photographed and this second photograph was distributed to the press and is what we are looking at here. A jpeg image of a photo of a photo of an overmarked copy of the original faintly pencilled code. This is all we have, all anyone has.
Now we have an unprincipled faker (aka ‘The Rotarian’) who by use of current day technology is trying, and unfortunately succeeding (I was initially fooled) in convincing the gullible that despite all this layering, the original ‘faintly pencilled code’ hid another code.
Not only that, this gentleman has reproduced his hidden code in stark imagery. Just like magic, and we all know magicians fool nearly everybody nearly all the time with their tricks of the trade.
Just like magic, what was faint is now BOLD.
The Somerton Man .. 
When a copy is marked up with a pen by police to show everyone what was written, that is all you have to work with. There can never be any hidden codes revealed and there isn’t. Which means there are no hidden messages either and that is why no messages have ever been shown to exist
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Exactly .. all he has done is artfully create letters from the image of the ink overlay.He certainly shows some skill in photo shopping.
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As Tommy Cooper used to say: “Just Like That”
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Clive, I believe ‘The Rotarian’ has suggested some improvements in your general attitude.
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Really? fame at last, I’ll have a word with my psychiatrist
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Mr Bowes,
I have always been against most of Cramer’s ideas, but today I found something about a “defectors suitcase”. This was a package give to defectors in the 1960s (I think by ASIO). I know this is well after the body on the beach, but thought perhaps unofficially it was something that existed before that. Among other things it had in it pencils (of at least 2 different varieties), toothbrush, razor and other assorted toiletries. It’s not an xact match to SM’s suitcase (in fact far from it), but it certainly opens some interesting speculations with a little bit of similarities.
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Interesting information on this case (no pun intended), Probably the ‘defectors suitcase’ idea started soon after WW2, when the Soviets were sabre rattling etc. I say interesting, because in October 2017 I talked to Paul Lawson. I asked Paul if the suitcase, found in the railway station belonged to the SM, he replied no it didn’t. He also advised me that the suitcase, shown in the photos, was not the same suitcase found in the railway station. Out of the blue, in July 2018 I received a phone call from Paul’s lady friend. Paul now denied that the suitcase did not belong to the SM.
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Paul Lawson … died 2021 aged 103. Hope I do as well.
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Hope I last a good, few more years, not sure about 103. Only knew Paul
for a couple of years or so, I’m glad I did.
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Name’s Pete … where did you find the info? Belay that, I just found this. And thanks for the heads up.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-28/spy-secrets-what-its-like-working-in-the-shadows-for-asio/11743100
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Somewhat obscure comment I know but when the H C Reynolds card was removed from the suitcase by a porter was it to remove/protect the id of the defector? A person who was in Oz in ‘48 and ‘66.
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Nick Pelling has a post on Reynolds dated 15 March 2013, and as usual the research is solid ..
Reynolds was born in Tassie so it’s not likely he was a defector.
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With respect Peter, you know that didn’t work back then and it hasn’t improved since. But diplomatic immunity is a bitch.
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Might be worth taking a look at the post
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Jestyn ? Did she ever call herself that ?
The signature doesn’t even look like Jestyn. There’s certainly no clear letter y nor is there a clear letter n. They just don’t look like y and n and the y down stroke looks like the letter p she does without the loop
The signature always looked like J E s tompson to me
Jessica Ellen and JES and tompson
It’s a bit of a trick on her part with the letters she used. She was intelligent. She’s saying she’s Jessica Ellen and Jes tompson even though it’s Thomson. She can’t call herself the wife of Thomson but she wants to show the relationship is there. She’s in love with Prosper and she’s the de facto. She’s cryptic about that in the signature
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There’s every chance she knew Prosper from Mentone …
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Sorry DA, when you start with W instead of M, and use an I instead of an oblique (ML/ABO), and I starting the bottom line instead of ditto marks (“TTMTSA), you’ve got nothing
Following along the hypothesis that the “code” is simply the first letters of words in a poem Charles Webb penned (after all it is in a book of poetry with four-line verses), with the help of Microsoft Co-pilot AI software, I managed to compose the following poem that fits all the letters:
WRGOABABD
WTBIMPANET
MLIABOAIAQC
ITTMTSAMSTGAB
Whispers resonate, gently over a brook, a babbling dream,
Winds travel, birds in migration, painting anew nature’s exquisite tapestry,
Mysteries lie in ancient books, offering answers, instilling a quiet calm,
In twilight, time makes the stars appear majestic, sharing tales, granting a blessing.
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In order to reinforce that theory you would need to find another example of a poet doing the same thing, fair enough?
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Has he flipped ? Hidden codes that a recipient would never know was there, would never be able to extract, and what’s more would never be able to decode into a message either
Nobody’s buying it
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