The likely truth: it only looked improbable in retrospect. At the time they didn’t know what was supposed to be hard, and there was no one around to tell them. They didn’t see themselves inventing a new science. They were playing the game day-to-day as best they could, as Fabyan always said. They were just trying to solve messages as they poured in and not get stuck. The mail from Washington contained a frothy mix of messages from
