Spies Like Us (1985)
Stephen Hoye: Captain Hefling
Quotes
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Captain Hefling : [Talking about an encrypted transmission from the Chinese] That was a static-filled, triple-scrambled microwave transmission between 2 soldiers talking in mandarin Chinese.
Austin Millbarge : The Chinese were only using a simple polyphonetically grouped 20-square-digit key transposed in boustrophedonic form with multiple nulls. I broke it with this...
[Holds up a kid's cipher disk]
Captain Hefling : A drogan's decoder wheel? They put these into cereal boxes for kids.
Austin Millbarge : Yeah, I found it in a box of "lucky charms".
Captain Hefling : Break it down again with the machines!
Austin Millbarge : I already did.
[Shows him the decoded message]
Captain Hefling : Well... Then clean up your desk!