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 wanna know a super duper amazing secret digital communication method some CIA field agents use? 

gmail. 🤓

except a team will use the same account, leaving messages in the drafts folder in unsent emails, which are deleted when read. 
 Huh...why didn't I think of that... 
 Such an old technique. 
 ISIS did this:

Meet on private online server for 1on1 pvp game.
Shoot letters in walls for messaging.
Exit server 
 wooden signs in minecraft would
work. 
 You can set a server-side max value for things like bullet-holes, so they just dissapaer automatically when more impacts are happening,

They also used the email-draft-scheme, but that was insecure because of nsa-compromised email- servers/hosters.

Impacts are just coordinates in space, no real  letter will be saved on any device ever. 
 I'm sure central authority can set see your drafts?