Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist Jim Sanborn poses at his studio in August. - (Craig Hudson/For The Washington Post) Jarett Kobek was a “Kryptos” fan. Not ...

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. By John Schwartz John ...

This undated photo provided by the Central Intelligence Agency shows the 1990 dedicated sculpture "Kryptos" by James Sanborn at the Central Intelligence Agency in ...

BOSTON (AP) — When Jim Sanborn was commissioned to create a sculpture at CIA headquarters, he wanted to do something that spoke to its world of spies and secret codes. The result was a 10-foot-tall, S ...

Jarett Kobek was a “Kryptos” fan. Not one of the die-hards, working for decades to crack the final passage of the famous encoded sculpture at CIA headquarters — but in a dark period after the death of ...