Possible Clues:

• Camouflage, as a message
• Scramble data for company in dire need
• Don't make a message plain
• Require decryption to read
• Officer in the first place briefly to turn to Morse?
• Create a cipher
• Do some cryptography
• Change characters in French poem about Charlie
• Put in cipher
• ... hence, having no beginning or end, poem causes scramble