Word: impedimenta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military installation near the city. There he had been seized by security agents and a Soviet army officer, as "with trembling hands the spy aimed his camera and clicked away rapidly." Tucked into a body belt, they found eight rolls of film, road maps and other impedimenta, including some notebooks. Sample entries: "Near city I ate three sandwiches ... At 156 kilometers, it started raining . . . Encountered peasants." These seemingly innocent notations, explained the Russians, were really cunning cryptograms-"three sandwiches" meant "three military installations"; "156" was the license of an army truck; "peasants" meant "soldiers...