When looking closely at my paper copy of the 1980s LDS triple combination index, I discovered something in the entry for "Book of Commandments" (the original name of the Doctrine & Covenants). It has the following reference:
67:7 the Lord counsels to study B. of C.
But that's not what verse 67:7 says. Here is that verse and the surrounding ones:
5 Your eyes have been upon my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., and his language you have known, and his imperfections you have known; and you have sought in your hearts knowledge that you might express beyond his language; this you also know.
6 Now, seek ye out of the Book of Commandments, even the least that is among them, and appoint him that is the most wise among you;
7 Or, if there be any among you that shall make one like unto it, then ye are justified in saying that ye do not know that they are true;
8 But if ye cannot make one like unto it, ye are under condemnation if ye do not bear record that they are true.
9 For ye know that there is no unrighteousness in them, and that which is righteous cometh down from above, from the Father of lights.
Why is there a printer or publisher error pointing directly at this verse? I think it's because the publishing field has likely had access to content creation software since the 1980s, software that could duplicate specific writing styles the way any child can these days with ChatGTP. Because some publishers could produce writing that sounded like the Doctrine & Covenants, they could feel justified in not believing the very scriptures they were printing.
If I am correct, that would explain a lot of the published material coming out of Utah these days. Shallow gospel interpretations that constantly push a myth of "prophetic infallibility" on us have become the norm, when The Book of Mormon itself clearly teaches that church leaders don't always know about bad things going on in the world and even in the LDS Church (see Mosiah 26:9, where Alma, the prophet of the Nephite church didn't know about iniquity in the church and had to be told of it). It appears some nonbelievers in Church media services don't want us to question anything they say as they pretend to be faithful enough to fit in in Salt Lake City.
[Update 2/16/2025: I found another significant-looking typo in the triple combination index. This one points to a KGB connection to supposed signs and poisons in use by super-secretive groups within the LDS Church. I know, incredible, right? But keep in mind that the index was put together in the early 1980s when the USA and the USSR were pointing nuclear missiles at each other and relying on the idea of "mutually assured destruction" to keep the other side from hitting the launch buttons. A little messing with a staunchly anti-Communist, pro-military church (especially one whose adherents avoid most kinds of substance abuse) is hardly something the Soviets would have been ethically above doing.
I'll lay out the details:
1) The index entry for "refrain" erroneously indicates that Alma the Elder ("Alma1") lectured his son Corianton; it should have said Alma the Younger ("Alma2"), the actual father of Corianton.
2) Double-cancellation on the index entry for Alma1 (including the "1" as the start of the references and not considering it to be part of the entry title) gives the following string of letters and numbers: z0jwcyghpr2945ond. Dividing the numbers by 26 and using the remainders to get the corresponding letters of the alphabet, I get zzjwcyghprgond; using the doubled letter correspondence trick, that gives mjwcyghprgond.
From the index entry title, "Alma", I do doubles-cancellation and get "LM" to indicate which cipher to use. Applying the "LM" cipher to mjwcyghprgond, I get lobvzrqigrjku. Combining the two strings of letters and removing the ones that form words (joke, gap, argon, and lobe), I am left with mydvzrqigrjku.
Application of the v trick (start at the v and move to the front and back sides) gives dzyrmqigrjku.
Then, application of the z trick (zigzag from the ends in towards the z) gives dukjrgiqmry. Turn it upside-down to get pnk(rj)gibwjl. (The rj is left out as it tells us just that this clue is upside-down. Y upside down is the Greek letter lambda, or "l".) Sounding this out, we can read "pen KGB wjl."
Three-letter ciphers are something I recently started looking at. They can be made by imitating the shape of a slide rule. A cipher based on wjl looks like this:
A B C D E F G H I J K
Q P O N M L
R S T U V W X Y Z
Isn't that cool looking?
Going back and applying this cipher to lobvzrqigrjku, I get wj-tg-b-im-z-eq-re-mv-ot-eq-lw-k-hn. Removing the letters that form words (ream, vote, and cane), I am left with wjtgbimzeqqlw.
Double q is a d, so I now have wjtgbimzedlw.
Doing the z trick starting from the left side gives me wwjltdgebim, which (because ww=j and jj=w) is wltdgebim; turned upside-down, it reads wiqd(bp)tlm; leaving out the bp as an indicator that this clue should be turned upside-down, we get a string that appears to say "wicked teal M," which appears to be a cryptic clue linking naughty Masons in the LDS church to the color teal.
Doing the z trick to wjtgbimzedlw from the right side, I get wwljdtegbim, which is jljdtegbim. Turning it upside-down, I get w-iq-b-d-t-prlr. "W" frequently shows up in these kind of possible clues as an indication of a poison or toxin, so this clue can be read as "toxic to intelligence is the tea parlor." While a missionary in Poland in the mid 1990s, I saw the height and health differences between young men raised drinking lots of tea in Poland and LDS young men raised avoiding tea in the USA. I don't pretend to know whether the American boys were also more intelligent, but they were obviously much taller and healthier than their Polish counterparts. A KGB audience could easily believe that there was also an intelligence-damage connection with tea here.
Which came first? The teal and tea clues were intentionally inserted? Or, what I consider more probable, a printer inserted a call out by/to different subgroups in the KGB/CIA to get their attention and then some people who know what kinds of messages printers can send via typos and moderately basic ciphers spent a couple of decades "fulfilling" the "clues"? Communists know all about the need for patience and "long marches" through institutions they want to gut and destroy from the inside out.
A problem with secret messages is that they can be made to appear where they were not originally intended and the audiences who think they are "in on it" won't know they are being fooled because...secrets!]
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