What Happened to the Numbers Stations? - Spying by Numbers
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- Опубликовано: 28 янв 2020
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If you've ever listened to a shortwave radio you may have heard the strange creepy numbers stations just calling out numbers in synthesized voices with little tunes introducing and ending them. What is their purpose? and why are they still being used 70+ years after began to be heard? Are they calling out to spies and embedded agents around there world or are they just a relic of the cold war, in this video we look at the mysterious numbers stations.
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Imagine if a 80 year old sleeper agent who was just watching your video for fun got the message from the beginning to start protocol on the 50 year old mission.
‘You may have come across some weird broadcasts with no normal talking’ - Yes, that’s called ‘BBC Radio 1’
These people have no idea
Spy communication activity or non-activity is obfuscated by keeping an unused station on air and on schedule. Deploying a station only as needed could be a clue to your adversaries.
About four minutes into this video, you see a guy named Kendall Myers, convicted in 2009 of spying for Cuba. I knew him. In 1986 I had just gone to work for the U.S. State Department, and before my departure for Germany that spring, I took a class at the Foreign Service Institute called Western European Area Studies. Kendall Myers was our instructor. He worked for the State Department.
Transmissions coming from Bletchley Park and Guam: certainly we cannot know if UK or USA are involved, it could be anyone!
They're probably still around because your agent might be in a situation where they have no access to modern information technologies. You might get zero bars in the deepest jungle, but your short-wave radio will still get your orders from the numbers station. Or, a radio might raise a lot less questions than a sophisticated computer setup for an agent in a low-tech rural setting.
THE NUMBERS MASON, WHAT DO THEY MEAN!?!?
When things go bad, the old tech may surpass the new one.
I lived in the Golan Heights for about a year back in early 1980s. I used to put on the number station and fall asleep to it at night. It was obviously was a way to pass messages, but I found the sound of it hypnotic and it helped me to sleep.
I've had an obsession over these for many years and they still sound so creepy to hear. Swedish rhapsody is up there with the nightmare fodder.
Few years ago i arranged/compiled some of these CONET recordings to a soundscape piece because the whole topic of the Number Stations has such an eerie tone to it and in one way becomes really musical and the shortwave medium makes it feel like it's an organic creature trying to communicate.
in early 90's i was a radioelectronics enthusiast in Russia and it was pretty simple to receive very similar signals on a homemade radio. some of them were broadcasting in Morse code beeps that i havent deciphered. it did sound very mysterious and creepy, still don't know what they were for.
Perfect!!! Number Stations are my FAVORITE part of spy shit, I love how it's all real, it's all clandestine, and it all had real impacts on real people in the real world. No bullshit arg's or creepypasta here, just really creepy reality.
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I managed to decode one of the messages: “ A M A N H A S F A L L E N I N T O T H E R I V E R I N L E G O C I T Y”
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Fascinating stuff. I first came across numbers stations while playing with an old short wave receiver years ago, and had no idea what was going on. I’ve since learned, but your explanation is the best I’ve heard yet. Thanks!