From: #####
Subject: Strange thing
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 21:52:46 +0200
To: Nicholas Gessler

Hello Nick,

I´d visit a NVA-Museum (Nationale Volksarmee of the former DDR) near Berlin two weeks ago. There are no cipher machines, except a NEMA that belongs to the man from the museum.

We had long talks about the communication devices and special electronic like black box of a plain, spy devices, wire recorders, munition, aso.

One interesting device was an Russian identification microwafe transceiver with an internal cipher device. The man tried to open it when he got it and did stop this job for an other more important job.

Later he told someone that he plans to continue the job at the identification device. This man fortunately did know this device and told him, that there is an dynamite package inside that explodes, when the machine is not opened in a very special way. The package should destroy the internal key and perhaps the operator. They could open the machine together without blow up it.

A man from the Crypto AG told me that some people there also planned to install dynamite packages in their machines to save the internal key. Fortunately he and some others could avoid this. Otherwise the number of operators and cipher machine collectors were shurely decimated.

Best wishes, #####