Bangkok

Bangkok is the capital and largest city of the Southeast Asian nation of Thailand. On June 5, 1998, NSA Division's Lt. Colonel Nicholas Kudrow met with top United States' government officials at the US Embassy in Bangkok, to brief them on the effectiveness and operational potential of the original MERCURY code. Kudrow left the embassy and the city later that day, after receiving an urgent message from Dean Crandell and Leo Pedranski of then-nine year-old Simon Lynch's breach of the code; their message read simply as - "Mercury is Falling."