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The Curious Case of Columbo's Message to Romania Part 2

Decoder Ring

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The Probability of Finding the Letterman Message

CNN's John Sutter has been trying to find the message from Colombo. He says Romanian archival material is in general hard to access and digitized for the public. The state TV network, TBR, had no system for organizing its archives; film stock was intentionally repurposed by 1980s. "Lady Luck showed up because out of the blue, that 15 second video tape showed up on a television news program"

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