Captain Hefling Quotes in Spies Like Us (1985)

Captain Hefling: [Talking about an encrypted transmission from the Chinese] That was a static-filled, triple-scrambled microwave transmission between 2 soldiers talking in mandarin Chinese.

Austin Millbarge: The Chinese were only using a simple polyphonetically grouped 20-square-digit key transposed in boustrophedonic form with multiple nulls. I broke it with this...

[Holds up a kid's cipher disk]

Captain Hefling: A drogan's decoder wheel? They put these into cereal boxes for kids.

Austin Millbarge: Yeah, I found it in a box of "lucky charms".

Captain Hefling: Break it down again with the machines!

Austin Millbarge: I already did.

[Shows him the decoded message]

Captain Hefling: Well... Then clean up your desk!