Lies.

This was (in my opinion), by far, the most interesting document of the ones we that we had to choose from. I mean, what's cooler than a spy? I guess in this case the spying going on wasn't so cool, seeing as Benedict Arnold was spying for the British. It was still very interesting though. One of the letters I read was all about how much Benedict Arnold was supposed to get paid for being a spy and the other was full of information about the American troops and their locations. I learned that the code systems used during those times were really very complex. The letters were made up mostly of numbers which referred to the page, line, and word counts for a pre-determined book that the decoder used to fill in the blanks in the message. I was surprised that Benedict Arnold literally just sold out the nation that he started out fighting for. If he had been successful it would have a been a devastating blow to the American quest for freedom. Luckily he was found out and exposed for the traitor he was.