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Goat373
Intermediate Member
Username: Goat373
Post Number: 312
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 8:57 pm: | 
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You
don't need 007's "Q" to listen in on coded broadcasts
that are transmitted to spies in faraway
places.Anybody can tune in to the world's top spy
agencies talking to operatives in harm's way.All you
need is a shortwave radio reciver-the kind available
at any drugstore.Tune it to 6855 kHz or 8010 on the
hour.You might hear a girlish voice repeating strings
of numbers in a spanish
monotone.Nueve,uno,nueve,tres,cinco,cinco,quatro,cinco,
tres,dos..."went one seemingly harmless message heard
last week on a grundig radio.It supposedly was the
Cuban intelligence Directorate or Russian FSB
broadcasting coded instructions from havana to
spiesinside the U.S.Turn the dial up to 11545kHz and
you might hear a few notes of an obscure english folk
song called "lincolnshire poacher,"followed by a voice
repeating strings of numbers .Thats belived to be
british m16 broadcasting from cyprus.On 6840 kHz,you
may hear a voice reading groups of letters.Thats a
station nicknamed "E10"WHICH IS suspected to be
israel's Mossad intelligence.*********,who has
tracked the spy broadcasts for 30 years,runs
spynumbers.com and the"spooks"e-mail,where"number
stations"hobbyists dutifully log hundreds of
clandestine shortwave messages transmitted evevy
month.While hobbyists guess at the meaning of each
cryptic message or which spy service sent it,it's no
mystery to intelligence officials,who confirmed the
purpose is espionage.The signals are too strong to be
made by amateurs and are often on licensed
frequencies. *****,author of best selling
books on intelligence ,believes number stations
are''simple but effective"spycraft.its extremely
effective"agreed a senior intelligence official ."if
you have a one time pad ,the code cant be broken,and
you can send out dummy broadcasts as much as you want
to confuse your enemy."A one-time pad" is the key to
unlocking coded shortwave messages that the CIA calls
OWVL"ONE WAY VOICE LINK."It cant be cracked because
it's known only to the sender and the recipient and
just once before its destroyed,said CIA legend Tony
Mendez.Ive had a lot of experience hiding one time
pads so you could get them into denied areas,"said
Mendes ,now retired.Mendes said he would often imprint
the code on microfilm or even a cigarette wrapper.Once
inside the target country,a CIA asset could make a
shortwave receiver out of simple
materials.The(shortwave)voices are not real people they're computer generated ,"he added.In miami prosecutor alleged in a court hearing last
summer that the cubans received shortwave messages in
five digit groupings.An FBI interview transcript shows
alvarez admitted going into his bathroom on fridays to
listen at 11. |
Kid_vicious
Senior Member
Username: Kid_vicious
Post Number: 2331
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 11:57 pm: |
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goat, this is really cool!
thanks for the info. i have always enjoyed listening to the number stations, but did not know for sure what they were.
i will be checking that site out soon.
very interested in any more info you have.
where did you find the info at the very end of your post?
matt |
Starface
Advanced Member
Username: Starface
Post Number: 941
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Friday, December 01, 2006 - 2:38 am: |
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very interested
Starface
KI4NBE
CEF476
CVC14
Ham181 |
Tech833
Moderator
Username: Tech833
Post Number: 1533
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Friday, December 01, 2006 - 10:33 am: |
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I have been listening to numbers stations for over 20 years. Some SWL's and DXers listen exclusively for numbers stations as their hobby. Some even try to crack the code! |
Goat373
Intermediate Member
Username: Goat373
Post Number: 313
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Friday, December 01, 2006 - 8:16 pm: |
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it came from an artical in a local publication here in charleston...the rest of it i typed up in my own words so as not to violate copyright laws.
i thought it was pretty neat myself. All the info i have right now...but im sure more its to be had...this story hit the presses in charleston's "The post and cuorier." after the story about the death of the russian spy made press. |
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