Shortwave Numbers Stations are a perfect method of anonymous,
one way communication. Spies located anywhere in the world can be
communicated to by their masters via small, locally available, and
unmodified Shortwave receivers. The encryption system used by Numbers
Stations, known as a “one time pad” is unbreakable. Combine this with
the fact that it is almost impossible to track down the message
recipients once they are inserted into the enemy country, it becomes
clear just how powerful the Numbers Station system is.
These stations use very rigid schedules, and transmit in many different languages, employing male and female voices repeating strings of numbers or phonetic letters day and night, all year round. The voices are of varying pitches and intonation; there is even a German station 'The Swedish Rhapsody' that transmitted a female child's voice!
These stations use very rigid schedules, and transmit in many different languages, employing male and female voices repeating strings of numbers or phonetic letters day and night, all year round. The voices are of varying pitches and intonation; there is even a German station 'The Swedish Rhapsody' that transmitted a female child's voice!
One might think that these espionage activities should have wound down
considerably since the official “end of the Cold War”, but nothing could
be further from the truth. Numbers Stations, and by inference, spies,
are as busy as ever, with many new and bizarre stations appearing since
the fall of the Berlin wall.
Why is it that in over 45 years, the phenomenon of Numbers
Stations has gone almost totally unreported? What are the agencies
behind the Numbers Stations, and why are the eastern European stations
still on the air? Why did the Czech republic operate a Numbers Station
24 hours a day?
How is it that Numbers Stations are allowed to interfere with essential radio services like air traffic control and shipping without having to answer to anybody? Why did the “Swedish Rhapsody” Numbers Station use a small girls voice?
These are just some of the questions that remain unanswered.
How is it that Numbers Stations are allowed to interfere with essential radio services like air traffic control and shipping without having to answer to anybody? Why did the “Swedish Rhapsody” Numbers Station use a small girls voice?
These are just some of the questions that remain unanswered.
Now Irdial-Discs is releasing The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations / 1111,
a special edition of the legendary and first ever comprehensive
collection of Numbers Stations recordings to be made public, now
augmented and updated with a new 5th CD of previously unreleased recordings.
This Quintuple CD is an important historical reference work for research into this hitherto unreported and unknown field of espionage. Many of the stations on the CD have ceased operations, and can no longer be heard. The new package consists of the 4 original Conet Project CDs containing 150 recordings of Numbers Stations spanning the twenty years up to the release of the original set in 1997, an 80 page, perfect bound booklet, 4 post cards, plus a new 5th CD of 26 previously unreleased recordings of bizarre 'Noise Stations', and a new 8 page booklet accompanying the 5th CD.
This Quintuple CD is an important historical reference work for research into this hitherto unreported and unknown field of espionage. Many of the stations on the CD have ceased operations, and can no longer be heard. The new package consists of the 4 original Conet Project CDs containing 150 recordings of Numbers Stations spanning the twenty years up to the release of the original set in 1997, an 80 page, perfect bound booklet, 4 post cards, plus a new 5th CD of 26 previously unreleased recordings of bizarre 'Noise Stations', and a new 8 page booklet accompanying the 5th CD.
Download for free at archive org
https://archive.org/details/ird059
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