Comment: Cramer harks back to his ‘SM was a dastardly foreign spy’ proposition.
Just when you think the spying currency of this mystery is spent, our man nevertheless endures.
https://tamamshud.blogspot.com/2025/08/somerton-man-road-ahead.html
Especially given this mysterious development…
See how the phone number written on the back of the Freeman Rubaiyat was covered up.
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The Somerton Man .. 
Russian spy and I,
we both wonder why
the world is split in two.
(The spy was a femme fatale in the 1966 song)
Anyway…
SM was involved in espionage and probably other serious crimes in the US. He arrived in Sydney by Pan Am, had a domestic through flight to Melbourne, then Overland train to Adelaide. A trap was set, the US dealt with it cleanly in Adelaide
The answer won’t be found here, but will be found in the US
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Love your stuff, No 1 .. and long may it continue
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No. 1
I would imagine the archives of the OSS would be an interesting read? SM: someone who stepped out of line and was playing both sides at the same time? Someone who tried to reach a fellow contact in Adelaide after his cover was ‘blown’?
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SM did try to reach Jess as the contact and that was the trap which was set. Jess was a spy for a long long time. Not for the reds but for us. Gathering intel at Pakie’s Club and from Communist Party members. Bohos and intellectuals tend to align with Marxist ideals and Pakie’s Club was full of them. Still evident in the 60’s with uni students having Che Guevara adorning the walls of their pads. Jess wasn’t a commie but her cover was. She was a patriot. She could work as a honey trap. She could get inside the commie underground movement and find out what was going down. Her cover was blown by the persistent Feltus who was not in the inner circle, who went through the phone book methodically until he found her name from the phone number on the Rubaiyat. Boxall was in the inner circle and her intel went through him. She had to give his name to reveal the link. She was left alone because with her cover blown she would have been in danger from those whom she gathered information from. Boxall described her as having great courage which you would need to have if you were right up next to them with the risk of them finding out what you were really up to. But she probably thought it a bit of a game. After she was exposed by Feltus she had to go back to normal life and was more than likely rewarded and her and Prosper were able to move on.
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Now that the threat from Sanders has disappeared GC will feel free to write any crap that comes into his head – or to be more accurate any crap that he can manipulate AI to generate. Garbage in, garbage out.
As he stated in his last but one post:
“As everyone who has followed this blog knows only too well, the Somerton Man mystery has been a story steeped in gossip, conspiracy theories and false claims.”
Yeah, most of those theories and claims have come from you Gord.
Even Dave the Morgan seems to have given up the ghost. I predicted on this blog about six months ago that if Sanders and Morgan cashed in their chips CM would wither on the vine. That was before you deleted all me comments Pete!
It’s all enough to make a Pommie bloke like me think of joining Cheryl in the CWA. I’m already subscribed to The Australian Women’s Weekly but.
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I remember back in the day when old whatsisname put forward the proposition that PT was the key to the whole mystery, being a man of suspect commercial intentions regarding motor vehicles and who had serious surplus cash issues from time to time, in itself a touch unlikely given the post-war times. As a matter of fact there were more indications of possible shady dealings together with many unexplained non-actions by the local plod to make a man want to revisit those heady days.
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SteveH – Do you know how to bake scones? For Women’s Weekly bakes, you can’t beat their cakes! https://www.womensweeklyfood.com.au/baking/australian-womens-weekly-childrens-birthday-cakes-29679/
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