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You are a secret agent who is undercover at the Kremlin. You receive a cryptic email (presumably from your boss) who was supposed to give you the code name of the agent who would be picking you up from the airport to bring you back home. As a sidenote, you are aware that most agent names are animals.

From: [email protected]
To: me
Subject: Banana Bread

Dear Person,
I am pleased to inform you that your banana bread's CV is exemplary if it is denied a position at its current job.

Sincerely,
ABCDE

So who is the agent that will pick you up?

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The agents name is

Raven

Because

We look at ABCDE. Go to the first occurence of A within the body of the mail, take the next character, which is R. Then continue from the current position to the next occurence of B, take the next letter (a), and so on

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  • $\begingroup$ Amazing! This is correct! $\endgroup$
    – Voldemort's Wrath
    Commented Aug 27, 2020 at 16:12
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    $\begingroup$ Note that the email address has a French word which clues this pattern, too! $\endgroup$
    – El-Guest
    Commented Aug 27, 2020 at 17:04
  • $\begingroup$ @El-Guest -- Yep! Après = after so "after ABCDE!" Nice catch. :):) $\endgroup$
    – Voldemort's Wrath
    Commented Aug 27, 2020 at 17:23

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