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From: Kurt Albershardt
Date: November 17, 2004 1:35:04 PM EST
Subject: numbers stations

Shortwave radio bands, ignored by commercial broadcasters because of their
low fidelity, have long been home to government activity -- whether for
national broadcasts such as the BBC World Service, Voice of America and
Radio France International, or propaganda broadcasts from the likes of Radio
Havana or the U.S.-backed Radio Free Iraq.

Meanwhile, for the last 30 years an altogether more curious kind of
international station has been noted on the airwaves.

Across the world, high-powered transmitters with global reach are
broadcasting seemingly meaningless strings of numbers or letters, along with
a lot of buzzing and beeping noises.

Some have speculated that the signals from these "numbers stations" are
operated by drug cartels. However, it's more likely they're run by
intelligence agencies, as tacitly acknowledged by the British government,
and accidentally by the Cubans.

<http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65698,00.html>


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