Read the excerpt from "Tools of the Spymaster."
Which statement is best supported by text evidence from
the excerpt?
General Clinton, concerned about what General Howe was
planning and doing, made use of a mask to write a secret
message in a letter to General Burgoyne.
Before writing the letter, Clinton had placed an hourglass-
shaped mask on a piece of paper and then had formed the
secret message within that shape.
o General Howe was embarrassed by his mistake.
General Clinton hoped that General Burgoyne could
help him.
The Americans read General Clinton's letter to General
Burgoyne.
The Americans did not have the mask to read General
Clinton's letter
The unmasked letter had enough false information in it to
fool any American who happened to see it. But when
Burgoyne viewed the letter with the mask, he read Clinton's
view of the real situation: Howe has made a bad move;
don't have enough men to do anything about it.