CIA Kryptos Auction: Anonymous Bidder Pays Nearly $1 Million for Secret to Decode Sculpture NYT: Science By:John Schwartz 20 November 2025 at 22:18 The creator of the Kryptos panels, Jim Sanborn, sought to unburden himself of the puzzle, and then discovered before an auction he had archived its solution in the Smithsonian. © Kevin Wolf/Associated PressJim Sanborn, the artist who created the Kryptos sculpture, at the International Spy Museum in Washington earlier this month.
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