CIPHERS AND SILVER BALLS

DOCID: 3928633UNCLASSIFIED ICiphers and Silver Balls in the American Revolul"ionMost school children learn all about the treasonable conduct of Benedict Arnold when he was incommand of the American forces at West Point, but they probably don 't learn that practically all of hiscommunications exchanges with Sir Henry Clinton, commander of the British forces in America, werein cipher or invisible inks. In his cipher messages, Arnold usually left a few words "en clair," the oneshe considered unimpo...