Re: [Spooks] Spooks Digest, Vol 183, Issue 17
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list I am still here. From: spooks-boun...@mailman.qth.net on behalf of spooks-requ...@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, June 22, 2020 1:09 AM To: spooks@mailman.qth.net Subject: Spooks Digest, Vol 183, Issue 17 Send Spooks mailing list submissions to spooks@mailman.qth.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to spooks-requ...@mailman.qth.net You can reach the person managing the list at spooks-ow...@mailman.qth.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Spooks digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Spooks Digest, Vol 183, Issue 7 (Dan Y-W) -- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2020 22:08:21 -0700 From: Dan Y-W To: Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations Subject: Re: [Spooks] Spooks Digest, Vol 183, Issue 7 Message-ID: <5ef03cc6.1c69fb81.9cb86.6...@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 I for one am happy to continue reading the newsletters and being part of this rather nostalgic medium.?The EMI in southern California is more of an impediment than it used to be.Best,Dan Y-W Original message From: H Forbes Date: 6/20/20 1:54 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations Subject: Re: [Spooks] Spooks Digest, Vol 183, Issue 7 Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this listYes I receive these emails and thank you for sending them. I read everyone, apols I don't contribute other than grateful thanks and huge interest,Hilary ?On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, 19:30 Curt Rowlett, wrote:> Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from> this list>> Thank you to everyone who replied to my inquiry (i.e., "Is this email list> still active?"). The numerous replies back proves that everyone is still> around, just that not much has been reported via the list lately.>> I mainly frequent the *HF Underground* board and various Reddit radio> categories these days. I'm also pretty active on my Twitter> feed (@Strang eBeacons). And as part of my radio hobby, I still monitor> favorite number stations and other interesting radio signals and> occasionally upload recordings on my YouTube channel.>> I tend to get most of the important radio news from the monthly "Spooks> Newsletter" and "Enigma 2000" newsletters, which I share on Twitter.>> I'm glad to learn that there are still plenty of folks out there on this> list.>> Enjoy the coming summer,>> Curt Rowlett / W9SPY>> On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 2:07 PM wrote:>> > Send Spooks mailing list submissions to> > spooks@mailman.qth.net> >> > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit> > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks> > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to> > spooks-requ...@mailman.qth.net> >> > You can reach the person managing the list at> > spooks-ow...@mailman.qth.net> >> > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is mo re specific> > than "Re: Contents of Spooks digest..."> >> >> > Today's Topics:> >> >??? 1. Re: Is this email list still active? (KD7JYK DM09)> >??? 2. Re: Spooks Digest, Vol 183, Issue 6 (David Levavi)> >> >> > --> >> > Message: 1> > Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2020 11:05:40 -0700> > From: KD7JYK DM09 > > To: Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations > > Subject: Re: [Spooks] Is this email list still active?> > Message-ID: <5eee4ff4.2020...@earthlink.net>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed> >> > "I've noticed a real slow down on this email list. Is it still active?"> >> > It would seem so!? Yes, it's not like it has been in years past.> >> > Kurt> >> >> >> > --> >> > Message: 2> > Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2020 21:05:35 +0300> > From: David Levavi > > To: spooks@mailman.qth.net> > Subject: Re: [Spooks] Spooks Digest, Vol 183, Issue 6> > Message-ID:> > > f1023v5lcmdtaa0lafedill...@mail.gmail.com>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"> >> > I have been subscribed to this list for quite a while and today is the> > first time I have seen any activity.> >> > David 4Z5ZQ> >> > On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 20:58 wrote:> >> > > Send Spooks mailing list submissions to> > > spooks@mailman.qth.net> > >> > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit> > > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks> > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to> > > spooks-requ...@mailman.qth.net> > >> > > You can reach the person managing the list at> > > spooks-ow...@mailman.qth.net> > >> > > When
Re: [Spooks] UNID CW ON 7092.24khz
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Back in the late 80s/early 90s there was a station that broadcast code practice at or around that frequency. It was associated with the Bhagwan Rajneesh, and supposedly transmitted from the area of his purim in Oregon. The content was taken from his writings and related material; it made for interesting copy. I was living in the SF Bay area at the time, and the signal was clear and strong, and the technique made it easy to copy. It was on pretty much all of the time, and switched speeds periodically; I used it to practice for my license test. I moved away from the West Coast in the early 90s, and didn't pay attention to this station after that, so I don't know how long it stayed on the air in that format. From: spooks-requ...@mailman.qth.net Subject: Spooks Digest, Vol 108, Issue 7 To: spooks@mailman.qth.net Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:00:08 -0500 Today's Topics: 1. Re: UNID CW ON 7092.24khz. (Martin VE3OAT) 2. Re: UNID CW ON 7092.24khz. (Ernie Rice) 3. Re: UNID CW ON 7092.24khz. (Zack Widup) 4. Re: UNID CW ON 7092.24khz. (Martin VE3OAT) -- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 12:44:33 -0500 From: Martin VE3OAT ve3...@storm.ca To: Spooks@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Spooks] UNID CW ON 7092.24khz. Message-ID: 50f2f281.4020...@storm.ca Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed KC2TTK/M wrote : If memory serves, that's AARL's all Morse, all the time channel. The dead giveaway is if the keying rate increases from novice speeds to expert speeds over time. I kind of doubt ARRL would do that. They already have W1AW code practice sessions which are strictly by the FCC book. But someone else might do it. ... MartinVE3OAT -- Message: 2 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 13:12:27 -0500 From: Ernie Rice ranger2...@gmail.com To: Martin VE3OAT ve3...@storm.ca, Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations spooks@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Spooks] UNID CW ON 7092.24khz. Message-ID: 9f3030c2-b474-47d8-a7aa-9722c4d2c...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii What frequency and time (gmt) Ernie Sent from my iPhone On Jan 13, 2013, at 12:44, Martin VE3OAT ve3...@storm.ca wrote: Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list KC2TTK/M wrote : If memory serves, that's AARL's all Morse, all the time channel. The dead giveaway is if the keying rate increases from novice speeds to expert speeds over time. I kind of doubt ARRL would do that. They already have W1AW code practice sessions which are strictly by the FCC book. But someone else might do it. ... MartinVE3OAT __ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- Message: 3 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 13:48:37 -0600 From: Zack Widup w9sz.z...@gmail.com To: Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations spooks@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Spooks] UNID CW ON 7092.24khz. Message-ID: CANJxhWiaHm6HSyRpwx2x0NcbHSx-QLC4_cyF8LgJ1=n7hew...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 ARRL code practice is on 7047.5. The station referred to has been around for a long time. I don't know who owns or runs it. For a while it was sending religious messages in Morse code. I never listened long enough to hear an ID. :-) 73, Zack W9SZ On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Martin VE3OAT ve3...@storm.ca wrote: Visit http://mailman.qth.net/**mailman/listinfo/spookshttp://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooksto unsubscribe from this list KC2TTK/M wrote : If memory serves, that's AARL's all Morse, all the time channel. The dead giveaway is if the keying rate increases from novice speeds to expert speeds over time. I kind of doubt ARRL would do that. They already have W1AW code practice sessions which are strictly by the FCC book. But someone else might do it. ... MartinVE3OAT __**__**__ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/**mailman/listinfo/spookshttp://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.**htmhttp://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- Message: 4 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:23:21 -0500 From: Martin VE3OAT ve3...@storm.ca
[Spooks] Legendary CIA agent Bob Ames to get full biography
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Legendary CIA agent Bob Ames to get full biography, 30 years after bombing death By Jeff Stein Bob Ames is finally getting a book of his own. Washington author Kai Bird, co-author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of atomic scientist Robert Oppenheimer, is turning his sights on Ames, the legendary CIA operative who died in the 1983 bombing of the American embassy in Beirut. Crown-Broadway paid six figures for the book, scheduled for publication on the 30th anniversary of Ames' death, according to publishing sources. Ames was the closest thing the CIA had to James Bond, it's sometimes said. A year shy of 50 at the time of his murder, Ames makes at least a cameo appearance in most treatments of U.S. policy in the Middle East, as well as, in fictional form, the spy novels of Washington Post columnist David Ignatius and others. A full treatment of him is long overdue, many say. “Ames was the master player of the so-called ‘war of the secret services’ in Beirut, where spies and intelligence services crawled all over each other, and where nearly every shot, bomb or diplomatic move had a secondary intelligence implication,” The Post’s Bob Woodward once wrote. “In this world, survival at times meant balancing and hedging your double crosses.” Bird says, “Ames's life and career are legendary inside the CIA. He is known for his professional spy craft, his ability to recruit agents and his commonsensical analytical skills as a briefer of Ronald Reagan. He is also known as the agency officer who established a highly valued but controversial intelligence liaison conduit to the PLO as early as 1969.” Bird and Ames have a personal connection as well. “I knew him as a boy in Dhahran,” said the author, 58, whose father was an American diplomat in Saudi Arabia, and, later, Beirut, where they lived in the same embassy that would be destroyed by Hezbollah terrorists. “The last part of the book will be all about the embassy bombing,” Bird said. “I have the trial transcripts from a 2003 civil suit filed [by relatives of those killed] against the Islamic Republic of Iran. The witness testimony is very graphic, even, shall I say, cinematic.” __ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Spooks] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list I wouldn't want to belong to any organization that would have me as a member. From: spooks-requ...@mailman.qth.net Subject: Spooks Digest, Vol 81, Issue 22 To: spooks@mailman.qth.net Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:00:49 -0400 Send Spooks mailing list submissions to spooks@mailman.qth.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to spooks-requ...@mailman.qth.net You can reach the person managing the list at spooks-ow...@mailman.qth.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Spooks digest... Today's Topics: 1. Invitation to connect on LinkedIn (Ryan Foster via LinkedIn) 2. Automated Spy Numbers Loggings (Spy Numbers Robot) 3. Automated Spy Numbers Loggings (Spy Numbers Robot) __ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Spooks] Mysterious Russian 'Buzzer' radio broadcast changes
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-08/25/russian-numbers-station-broadcast-changes Mysterious Russian 'Buzzer' radio broadcast changes By Duncan Geere 25 August 2010 The output of a mysterious radio station in Russia, which has been broadcasting the same monotonous signal almost continuously for 20 years, has suddenly changed. Numbers stations are shortwave radio stations that broadcast computer-generated voices reading numbers, words, letters or Morse code. Their purpose has never been uncovered, but evidence from spy cases suggests that they're used to broadcast coded information to secret agents. Over the past week or so, the output of one particular station that broadcasts from near Povarovo, Russia, increased dramatically. The station has a callsign of UVB-76, but is known as The Buzzer by its listeners because of the short, monotonous buzz tone that it normally plays 21 to 34 times per minute. It's only deviated from that signal three times previously -- briefly in 1997, 2002 and 2006. In early August, a garbled recording of a voice speaking Russian was heard by listeners. A few days later, on 23 August at 13:35UTC, a clearer voice read out the following message twice: UVB-76, UVB-76 — 93 882 naimina 74 14 35 74 — 9 3 8 8 2 nikolai, anna, ivan, michail, ivan, nikolai, anna, 7, 4, 1, 4, 3, 5, 7, 4, before returning to its normal broadcasting. Since then, a number of other distorted voices have appeared over the normal buzzing transmission, as well as knocks and shuffles, as if someone were moving things around inside the broadcasting room. It's believed that the transmission site has an open microphone, which occasionally picks up sounds from technicians working within the broadcast site. Various fans of the station have begun the process of trying to decode the signal. Interpreting the numbers as co-ordinates gives a location in the middle of the Barents Sea, between Norway and Russia, where there's large scale oil and gas production, and where the Russian army plans to test anti-aircraft missiles in the near future. Others suspect that it might be a transmission that signals the availability of another system -- like a dead man's switch, possibly even for Russia's Cold War-era Dead Hand fail-deadly system, which was to trigger ICBM launches if a nuclear strike from the United States was detected. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, it may have been repurposed. The transmissions continue, and are being documented on the Wikipedia page for the station. If you'd like to help, it's possible to listen in yourself, as one fan has rigged up a web stream of the signal. It's currently very busy, however, so if you have difficulty tuning in, then try again later. From: spooks-requ...@mailman.qth.net Subject: Spooks Digest, Vol 79, Issue 28 To: spooks@mailman.qth.net Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:00:37 -0400 Send Spooks mailing list submissions to spooks@mailman.qth.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to spooks-requ...@mailman.qth.net You can reach the person managing the list at spooks-ow...@mailman.qth.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Spooks digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: New voice tx buzzer? (Ryan Kirby) 2. S28 (russell0...@yahoo.com.au) 3. Automated Spy Numbers Loggings (Spy Numbers Robot) 4. Re: New voice tx buzzer? (Nick Smith) 5. Information on V2a/M8a/SK01/Radio Habana Cuba ringing sound (Nick Smith) -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:39:51 -0400 From: Ryan Kirby Subject: Re: [Spooks] New voice tx buzzer? To: Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations Cc: Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations Message-ID: 278a3cd6-07f9-4c92-9832-049215b29...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii V13 comes in very well on the hk radio on global tuners. I have a few recordings of it as well. The buzzer comes in well on the German ones unless conditions are poor. The issue with the buzzer is that it's honestly a very annoying freq to monitor 24/7. So I'm sure voice tx is more common than reported. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 27, 2010, at 4:08, Nick Smith wrote: Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list I agree as well. Looking back through the archives, I see a lot more discussion than there is now. On to your question... There is GlobalTuners, http://www.globaltuners.com/ . You can control the radios shared on that to listen to numbers stations. I use it quite a bit. If you'd like to hear something other than the easy to hear Cuban numbers
[Spooks] Before the CIA, There Was the Pond
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list July 29, 2010 AP IMPACT: Before the CIA, There Was the Pond By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 10:39 a.m. ET NEW YORK (AP) -- It was a night in early November during the infancy of the Cold War when the anti-communist dissidents were hustled through a garden and across a gully to a vehicle on a dark, deserted road in Budapest. They hid in four large crates for their perilous journey. Four roadblocks stood between them and freedom. What Zoltan Pfeiffer, a top political figure opposed to Soviet occupation, his wife and 5-year-old daughter did not know as they were whisked out of Hungary in 1947 was that their driver, James McCargar, was a covert agent for one of America's most secretive espionage agencies, known simply as the Pond. Created during World War II as a purely U.S. operation free of the perceived taint of European allies, the Pond existed for 13 years and was shrouded in secrecy for more than 50 years. It used sources that ranged from Nazi officials to Stalinists and, at one point, a French serial killer. It operated under the cover of multinational corporations, including American Express, Chase National Bank and Philips, the Dutch-based electronic giant. One of its top agents was a female American journalist. Now the world can finally get a deeper look at the long-hidden roots of American espionage as tens of thousands of once-secret documents found in locked safes and filing cabinets in a barn near Culpeper, Va., in 2001 have finally become public after a long security review by the Central Intelligence Agency. The papers, which the Pond's leader tried to keep secret long after the organization was dissolved, were placed in the National Archives in College Park, Md., in 2008 but only opened to the public in April. Those records plus documents obtained by The Associated Press in the past two years from the FBI, CIA and other agencies under the Freedom of Information Act portray a sophisticated organization obsessed with secrecy that operated a network of 40 chief agents and more than 600 sources in 32 countries. The AP has also interviewed former officials, family members, historians and archivists. The Pond, designed to be relatively small and operate out of the limelight, appeared to score some definite successes, but rivals questioned its sources and ultimately, it became discredited because its pugnacious leader was too cozy with Sen. Joseph McCarthy and other radical anti-communists. The documents also highlight issues still relevant today: the rivalry among U.S. intelligence agencies that have grown to number 16, the government's questionable use of off-the-books operations with budgets hidden from congressional oversight, and the reliance on contractors to undertake sensitive national security work. Created by U.S. military intelligence as a counterweight to the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA, it functioned as a semiautonomous agency for the State Department after World War II and ended its days as a contractor for the CIA with links to J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. The organization counted among its exploits an attempt to negotiate the surrender of Germany with Hermann Goering, one of Adolf Hitler's top military leaders, more than six months before the war ended; an effort to enlist mobster Charles ''Lucky'' Luciano in a plot to assassinate Italian dictator Benito Mussolini; identifying the location of the German heavy water plants doing atomic research in Norway; and providing advance information on Russia's first atomic bomb explosion. There were other tangible successes, such as planting a high-level mole in the Soviet secret police and, in a major operation code-named ''Empire State,'' the Pond paid a group of dissidents behind the Iron Curtain with CIA funds to obtain cryptographic systems to break coded messages from Moscow. But it was Pfeiffer's successful escape that was among the most high-profile operations, garnering headlines, although the Pond's role was kept secret for years. McCargar, a State Department official who secretly was the Pond's agent in Budapest, had been ordered to find a way to get Pfeiffer and his family out of the country. The Hungarian was the leader of a small but increasingly popular anti-communist party that had made gains in August elections, and he had begun to get death threats. McCargar coordinated the escape with the help of fellow State Department employee Edmund Price, also identified in the papers as working for the Pond. But it was McCargar, armed with a pistol, who drove them from Budapest, past four road blocks. At one, a Russian guard asked to see what was in the four crates.
[Spooks] FW: [UDXF] Off-the-grid communications
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list To: u...@yahoogroups.com From: eearl...@comcast.net Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:48:04 -0400 Subject: Re: [UDXF] Off-the-grid communications There is a possibility that I may know what this device was/is if someone wants to contact me OFFLINE or via phone 770 887 2687. Best Wishes Eric// KG4OZO Atlanta // ex VE6CRM Calgary. - Original Message - From: Al Fansome To: Sent: 28 July, 2010 12:55 Subject: [UDXF] Off-the-grid communications I have only listened to bits and pieces of this, but it sounds interesting. The Grenade is mentioned at about 7:07 into the talk. I'd be interested to know who these guys are and how they got hold of a Grenade. For the uninitiated, a Grenade is a legendary 10w AM HF transmitter, built by a pirate known as Radio Animal back in the 90s. From what I know, no more than few dozen were produced, and there seem to be maybe a half dozen or less still in use by a small number of pirates today. Message: 1 Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:56:58 -0400 From: The Doctor Subject: Re: [Spooks] Spooks Digest, Vol 78, Issue 26 To: Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations Message-ID: 4c50453a.9050...@virtadpt.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beaumont, Paul wrote: Embassy radio equipment, especially from the Iron Curtain, is nothing like Ham or in some cases, Military gear. It can be accessed remotely, reprogrammed and retransmit messages without any human intervention. They are really nice bits of kit too. A couple of years ago at a conference (The Last HOPE, July 2008) there was a panel on unusual communications methods (Off the Grid Voice/Data Communications, by bernieS and Skip Avery, and I think one or two other people). Near the end of the panel one of the presenters held up a shoebox sized shortwave transmitted that he called a grenade (if he gave the official name for it, I don't remember what it is off the top of my head). It was claimed that they were very sturdy and had been used to set up numbers stations a few times in the past. I don't know anything else about it, but visually it seemed to fit the description of military RF gear: big, sturdy, chunky, and probably able to take a 20 foot fall without breaking. If anyone's interested, the audio of the presentation can be downloaded (officially, legally, and for free) from here: http://www.thelasthope.org/media/audio/64kbps/Off_the_Grid_VoiceData_Communications.mp3 It's near the end of the recording; if anyone knows anything more about this transmitter I'd be interested in asking a couple of questions about it. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: http://drwho.virtadpt.net/ For my next trick: anvils. --Harry Dresden _ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1 Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/UDXF/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/UDXF/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: udxf-dig...@yahoogroups.com udxf-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: udxf-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ _ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccountocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 __ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Spooks] FBI: 10 Russian Spies Arrested in U.S.
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Note that the suspects were allegedly highly trained in short-wave radio operation and the use of codes and ciphers, including the use of encrypted Morse code messages. Links to the actual criminal complaints are at the web site. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/28/world/main6627393.shtml?tag=topnews NEW YORK and WASHINGTON, June 28, 2010 FBI: 10 Russian Spies Arrested in U.S. Suspects, Arrested in Four States, Were Highly-Trained Spies Seeking Access to Policy-Making Circles, FBI Says (CBS/ AP) Updated 4:52 p.m. ET Ten alleged Russian spies have been arrested in the United States, the result of a multi-year investigation in four states, the FBI said Monday. Eight of the 10 arrested were carrying out long-term, 'deep-cover' assignments the FBI said, while two had lesser roles in the Russian intelligence program. The arrests took place Sunday in Montclair, N.J., Yonkers, N.Y., Manhattan, Boston, and Arlington, Va. The New York and New Jersey defendants were expected to appear in federal court in Manhattan Monday. The Virginia defendants were to make court appearances in Alexandria. One additional defendant has been charged but remains at large. Their job, according to the court papers in the case, was to search and develop ties in policymaking circles in the United States. Criminal complaints state that the defendants had an overarching goal of becoming highly Americanized so as to be able to freely gather intelligence in the U.S. and to recruit sources who are I, or are able to infiltrate United States policy-making circles. The U.S. government intercepted a message from Russian intelligence headquarters in Moscow to two of the defendants, Richard and Cynthia Murphy. You were sent to USA for long-term service trip, the message from Moscow. Your education, bank accounts, car, house etc. - all these serve one goal: fulfill your main mission, i.e. to search and develop ties in policymaking circles in US and sent intels, the message added. The complaint states that such agents - known as illegals - are highly trained in foreign languages; agent-to-agent communications, including the use of brush-passes; short-wave radio operation and invisible writing; the use of codes and ciphers, including the use of encrypted Morse code messages; the creation and use of a cover profession; counter-surveillance measures and more. A brush pass is a covert hand-off of secret information, made as two agents brush past one another in public. All of the defendants are charged with conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. Attorney General, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. All but two of the defendants are also charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. The charges are filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. _ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3 __ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Spooks] THE WATCHERS: The Rise of America’ s Surveillance State
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list The New York Times February 23, 2010 Books of The Times The People We Pay to Look Over Our Shoulders By ERIC LICHTBLAU THE WATCHERS The Rise of America’s Surveillance State By Shane Harris Illustrated. 418 pages. Penguin Press. $27.95. At this very moment analysts at the National Security Agency some 30 miles north of the White House are monitoring countless flashpoints of data — cellphone calls to “hot” numbers, an e-mail message on a suspicious server, an oddly worded tweet — as they carom around the globe like pinballs in cyberspace. The snippets of information could conceivably lead them to Anwar al-Awlaki, a fugitive cleric in Yemen whose fiery sermons have inspired violent jihadists. Or to the next would-be underwear bomber. Or, much more likely in the needle-in-a-haystack world of cyber detection, it might lead to nothing at all — at least nothing of any consequence in determining Al Qaeda’s next target. This is the world of modern eavesdropping, or signals intelligence, as its adherents call it, and for many years it operated in the shadows. “The Puzzle Palace,” the 1983 best seller by James Bamford that remains the benchmark study of the N.S.A., first pulled back the curtain to provide a glint of unwanted sunlight on the place. And the years after the Sept. 11 attacks — a period in which the surveillance agencies’ muscular new role would lead to secret wiretapping programs inside the United States, expansive data-mining operations and more — gave rise to public scrutiny that made the place a veritable greenhouse of exposure. As each operation has come to light, an anxious public has wanted to know whether this powerful new surveillance model was undermining traditional notions of privacy and civil liberties. Just whom is the government watching? And who is watching the watchers? Nominally, the answer is all three branches of government: a secret court that approves surveillance warrants, Congressional oversight committees and the intelligence agencies themselves are supposed to be policing the spy-catchers to guard against abuses. But this rarely amounted to what lawmakers like to call “vigorous oversight”; in the Bush administration, in fact, the surveillance court and the oversight committees were intentionally bypassed on the most sensitive programs. More often, it has been left to outsiders — journalists, authors, civil rights advocates and privacy groups — to keep tabs on the watchers and to bring public scrutiny to once-secret programs. Indeed, it was outside scrutiny that brought attention to many of those at the heart of the debate, from Total Information Awareness, created after 9/11 to President George W. Bush’s warrantless wiretapping. For the spymasters, this spotlight was decidedly unwelcome. “The fact that we’re doing it this way,” Mike McConnell, a director of intelligence in the Bush administration, said a few years ago in the midst of the fierce public debate over government surveillance powers, “means that some Americans are going to die.” Mr. McConnell is one of the recurring characters in “The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State” by Shane Harris, but this is not a book that Mr. McConnell is likely to rush out to buy. Mr. Harris, with some success, does what Mr. McConnell and others in the intelligence world have found so objectionable: he watches the watchers. While Mr. Harris’s examination covers a fair amount of ground that has already been well plowed, it uses smart technical analysis and crisp writing to put the reader inside the room with the watchers and to help better understand the mind-set that gave rise to the modern surveillance state. “We have never lived in a time,” Mr. Harris writes, “when the government has had such remarkable technological ability to watch its own citizens.” The unlikely tour guide for this journey into the netherworld of surveillance operations is John M. Poindexter, the retired Navy admiral and former national security adviser who was the driving force behind the Total Information Awareness program, which would become a potent symbol of government overreach soon after 9/11. Mr. Harris, who writes about surveillance issues for National Journal, interviewed Admiral Poindexter 14 times in researching his book, and the insight into the intellectual framework that guided him provides one of the strengths of the book. Following “15 years in the wilderness,” after Admiral Poindexter’s involvement in the Iran-contra affair during the Reagan administration, Mr. Harris writes, he returned to government in 2002 as the point man in the effort to develop a data-mining program at the Pentagon that could put together all the disparate pieces of intelligence data — communications, travel, finances and more — to “connect the dots” and prevent another calamitous attack after 9/11.
Re: [Spooks] Numbers feature on the internet
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list A minor correction: this should be http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/numbers-station-07-31-08 -- Message: 4 Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 13:04:01 +0200 From: Jochen Sch?fer jochen.schup...@gmx.de Subject: [Spooks] Numbers feature on the internet To: Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations spooks@mailman.qth.net Message-ID: 6.2.1.2.0.20090521130051.034a8...@pop.gmx.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Hello all, here is an interesting web feature about numbers stations and Chris Smolinski, the Spooks owner. You can find it at: http/www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/numbers-station-07-31-08 There you can also find something about Simon Mason, our historical numbers friend. Enjoy! 73 Jochen KOPFF _ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd1_052009 __ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Spooks] RE: Spooks Digest, Vol 59, Issue 8
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Al Fansome has left the building. From: spooks-requ...@mailman.qth.net Subject: Spooks Digest, Vol 59, Issue 8 To: spooks@mailman.qth.net Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:01:55 -0500 Send Spooks mailing list submissions to spooks@mailman.qth.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to spooks-requ...@mailman.qth.net You can reach the person managing the list at spooks-ow...@mailman.qth.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Spooks digest... Today's Topics: 1. Richard Siglow/Rochester/IBM is out of the office. (Richard Siglow) 2. Automated Spy Numbers Loggings (Spy Numbers Robot) 3. Automated Spy Numbers Loggings (Spy Numbers Robot) 4. Automated Spy Numbers Loggings (Spy Numbers Robot) 5. Automated Spy Numbers Loggings (Spy Numbers Robot) -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:08:24 -0600 From: Richard Siglow siglo...@us.ibm.com Subject: [Spooks] Richard Siglow/Rochester/IBM is out of the office. To: spooks@mailman.qth.net Message-ID: of9091b47b.cd5b3a9e-on86257524.0037b3a5-86257524.0037b...@us.ibm.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII I will be out of the office starting 12/19/2008 and will not return until 01/05/2009. Please have a merry Christmas a happy new year. I'll take my Thinkpad home, but will only occasionally check on Email. -- Message: 2 Date: 19 Dec 2008 23:03:00 - From: Spy Numbers Robot csmolin...@erols.com Subject: [Spooks] Automated Spy Numbers Loggings To: spooks@mailman.qth.net Message-ID: 20081219230300.31248.qm...@zais.pair.com These loggings were submitted to the Spy Numbers Station Database on 2008-12-19 by Barry Sandefer, Paris, TN, USA. Freq ENIGMA Day MMDD UTC Mode Comments -- --- -- - 4028V2a Fri 12192008 0100AM 58381 33201 54531 5417V2a Fri 12192008 0200AM 58381 33201 54531 8096M8a Fri 12192008 1300CW 42411 24412 25632 8096M8a Fri 12192008 1400CW 42411 24412 25632 5771V2a Fri 12192008 1500AM in TFC very weak here 4506M8a Fri 12192008 1600CW 28282 34301 07112 17515V2a Fri 12192008 1600AM 37271 42341 14121 17435V2a Fri 12192008 1700AM 37271 42341 14121 8097M8a Fri 12192008 1800 MCW 50842 60362 37641 8097M8a Fri 12192008 1900 MCW 50842 60362 37641 7554M8a Fri 12192008 2000CW 01152 14472 55112 7887V2a Fri 12192008 2000AM 06681 52652 31652 6855V2a Fri 12192008 2100AM 06681 52652 31652 7481M8a Fri 12192008 2200CW 08471 02052 42701 7519M8a Fri 12192008 2200CW 06462 11131 2 8135M8a Fri 12192008 2300CW 06462 11131 2 The Spy Numbers Database is an effort to create as complete a record of Spy Numbers Station transmissions as possible. You can submit your loggings to the database, and search the database. Details are available at http://www.spynumbers.com/numbersDB -- Message: 3 Date: 20 Dec 2008 03:24:27 - From: Spy Numbers Robot csmolin...@blackcatsystems.com Subject: [Spooks] Automated Spy Numbers Loggings To: spooks@mailman.qth.net Message-ID: 20081220032427.20679.qm...@zais.pair.com These loggings were submitted to the Spy Numbers Station Database on 2008-12-20 by DXman, USSR. Freq ENIGMA Day MMDD UTC Mode Comments -- --- -- - 4625S28 Fri 12192008 2027am Buzzer. 2680M22 Sat 12202008 0203cw 4xz. 4880E10 Sat 12202008 0210am The Spy Numbers Database is an effort to create as complete a record of Spy Numbers Station transmissions as possible. You can submit your loggings to the database, and search the database. Details are available at http://www.spynumbers.com/numbersDB/ -- Message: 4 Date: 20 Dec 2008 03:52:26 - From: Spy Numbers Robot csmolin...@blackcatsystems.com Subject: [Spooks] Automated Spy Numbers Loggings To: spooks@mailman.qth.net Message-ID: 20081220035226.42656.qm...@zais.pair.com These loggings were submitted to the Spy Numbers Station Database on 2008-12-20 by DXman, USSR. Freq ENIGMA Day MMDD UTC Mode Comments -- --- -- - 3840E10 Sat
[Spooks] RE: Kracker Radio Is Over Out (for real?)
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Yes, I think it's safe to say that Kracker Radio and WBNY are no more. The person that ran them finally came to the conclusion, rightly so, some might say, that pirating was beyond his limited skills. It's a shame; he tried very hard, but a man's got to know his limitations. -- Message: 4 Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:52:58 -0500 From: Martin G Choquette Subject: [Spooks] Kracker Radio Is Over Out (for real?) To: Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I know some members of Spooks would be interested in this. Should we wish him good luck? This is what appeared on the rec.radio.shortwave list: hello, my name is larry will jr., i'm from maryland as some of you might know. i've been the voice of kracker radio and commander bunny and a few others over the years. IN MY OLD AGE I'VE FOUND THAT THIS HOBBY HAS JADED ME MORE THAT ANYTHING! what started out as fun has really turned me into an angry old man.i never thought a hobby like this could effect someone in such a negitive manner. i've found that the broadcasting has not been fun for the last few years. so after become a very angry person,i've just decided to wash my hands of it all togather.everyone of you who listen to me are a bunch of idiots.you could never appreciate my programming.there was no respect for me or my station.so i'd like to just say fuuk you all,please dont write me anymore. this is the end,any broadcasts from this point on will only be rebroadcasts by someone else. i'm done with this sorry azz hobby becuse you've all shown yourselfs to be pieces of crap. enjoy your pitiful lives and when you think of me you go fuuk yourself GOODBYE, -KRACKER kracker radio And on the SW Pirates group: hi my names larry will jr. and i have been the voice behind KRACKER RADIO for years now. its come to the point that my personal demons have finally became out of control and i need to leave this behind for my own mental health and well being.for years i have belittled people as commander bunny and other parodys i play.this has turned me into an evil self centered person,angry person who has started enjoying attacking other people.i believe pirate radio has been a curse upon me.at first it was all fun and games,but after a while it changed something inside me.i dont like what pirate radio has turned me into so i've just decided to turn it off,for good. any broadcasts you hear from now on will only be rebroadcasts from someone else.i'd like to thank all the people who made it fun,i hope you still have all those qsl's i've sent you. i'm old ,tired,angry,and i wont be needing any of you anymore. GOODBYE, KRACKER, KRACKER RADIO. _ Shed those extra pounds with MSN and The Biggest Loser! http://biggestloser.msn.com/__ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/faq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net - Visit http://www.spynumbers.com/ for complete information about Spy Numbers Stations
[Spooks] test
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Am i here? _ Get the power of Windows + Web with the new Windows Live. http://www.windowslive.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_powerofwindows_012008__ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/faq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net - Visit http://www.spynumbers.com/ for complete information about Spy Numbers Stations
[Spooks] North Korea Resumes Jamming Broadcasts
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list May 24, 2007 North Korea Resumes Jamming Broadcasts By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 8:43 a.m. ET SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Communist North Korea has resumed jamming short wave radio broadcasts from outside the country after a break of several months, an international media watchdog group said. The reclusive country has been trying to block such broadcasts -- by groups such as the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia -- for nearly half a century, but the jamming had been in substantial decline since last July, Reporters Without Borders said in a statement released Wednesday. On May 11, however, North Korea began stepping up its jamming of independent and dissident broadcasts. The group denounced the jamming as a ''violation of international law.'' ''The Pyongyang regime is trying to stop North Koreans from getting news other than that served up by the regime,'' said the Paris-based organization, which champions the cause of free media. Human rights activists and groups critical of North Korea's totalitarian regime have tried for decades to influence public opinion in the isolated country by bombarding it with propaganda and news broadcasts. Last month, North Korea denounced news from the outside world as aimed at destabilizing the regime and ordered tougher restrictions on videocassettes, written material, cell phones and CDs entering the country, Reporters Without Borders said. The new crackdown may be linked to last week's test run of train service between the divided Koreas, the first time trains had crossed the heavily fortified frontier since the 1950-53 Korean War, the group said. The statement did not explain why North Korea's jamming started to decline last year, but it said that serious energy shortages in the poverty stricken country have prevented round-the-clock interference of all frequencies. Targeted broadcasts include those from Free North Korea Radio, Voice of America, Open Radio for North Korea, Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Chosun -- all based in South Korea or the United States, the group said. _ More photos, more messages, more storageget 2GB with Windows Live Hotmail. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-usocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_2G_0507 __ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/faq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net - Visit http://www.spynumbers.com/ for complete information about Spy Numbers Stations
[Spooks] WWII Code - Breaking Building to Be Razed
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list March 9, 2007 WWII Code - Breaking Building to Be Razed By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 6:31 p.m. ET DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- A building the military used as a top-secret code-breaking lab during World War II will be demolished, the University of Dayton announced Friday. The university, which owns the property, said the decision was made after a study showed the building had lost its historical integrity because it had been extensively remodeled and is not eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. From 1942 to 1945, the Navy used the building as a lab for designing and building sophisticated code-breaking machines, including the NCR Bombe, credited with helping crack German U-boat codes. ''This was a difficult decision and one that we don't take lightly,'' said university President Dan Curran. ''We respect the passion of those who want to preserve the building. Ultimately, with the help of professionals, we concluded that there's not enough left of the original building to preserve and restore.'' The university plans to memorialize the building's history in some way, possibly with public art, a plaza or a museum-type display. It is not yet known where the memorial would be located. _ Find what you need at prices youll love. Compare products and save at MSN® Shopping. http://shopping.msn.com/default/shp/?ptnrid=37,ptnrdata=24102tcode=T001MSN20A0701 __ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/faq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net - Visit http://www.spynumbers.com/ for complete information about Spy Numbers Stations
[Spooks] Good book
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list A little OT, and I may have mentioned this before, but I am just finishing a good book on famous untranslated texts, called Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts, by Andrew Robinson. Lots of interesting stuff about famous decipherments, as well as extant undeciphered writings. _ Win a Zunemake MSN® your homepage for your chance to win! http://homepage.msn.com/zune?icid=hmetagline __ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/faq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net - Visit http://www.spynumbers.com/ for complete information about Spy Numbers Stations
[Spooks] Re: [OT] good book on crypto?
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Mathematical Cryptology by Wayne Patterson. It's a little old, but still very interesting. I particularly liked the discussion of why the very first public key system, the knapsack algorithm, failed. _ Get free, personalized commercial-free online radio with MSN Radio powered by Pandora http://radio.msn.com/?icid=T002MSN03A07001 __ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/faq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net - Visit http://www.spynumbers.com/ for complete information about Spy Numbers Stations
Re: [Spooks] 6877 AM 2230z
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list You're thinking of Deliverance. It reminds me of a film where two guys communicated by talking guitars location was hillbilly country and the one actor I think may have been David Soul - I'm definitely not a film buff !!- but that guitar duo is very well known. Mike L __ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/faq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net - Visit http://www.spynumbers.com/ for complete information about Spy Numbers Stations
[Spooks] Online Amateurs Crack Nazi Codes
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list Online Amateurs Crack Nazi Codes BBC News (03/02/06); Blenford, Adam Software powered by grid computing has cracked one of the German ciphers from World War II that stumped both Allied code breakers during the war and cryptography enthusiasts since the publication of the ciphers in 1995. Encoded in 1942 by an updated German Enigma machine, encrypted German ciphers led to major Allied losses in the North Atlantic. Stefan Krah, a German violinist with a yen for open-source software and cryptography, began the renewed quest to crack the German codes out of basic human curiosity, despite their relative lack of historical significance. Drawing on the years of work by veteran amateur cryptographers, Krah wrote a code-breaking program that he published on the Internet, drawing the interest of around 45 users who volunteered their machines for the project. The project now runs on 2,500 independent machines. It took just over a month to decode the first of the three ciphers, in which a German submarine reported that it was submerging and relayed the last recorded enemy position. The Enigma machine employed an array of rotors and electrical contents to uniquely encode messages, confounding the celebrated Allied cryptographers at Bletchley Park in the UK. The transmissions were scrambled further as plugboards swapped pairs of letters as the message was being encoded. Krah's software combines algorithms with raw computing power to reproduce the possibilities of the plugboard swaps, while systematically wading through the rotor setting combinations. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4763854.stm __ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/faq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net - Visit http://www.spynumbers.com/ for complete information about Spy Numbers Stations
[Spooks] Prof, Wife Accused of Being Cuban Agents
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list January 9, 2006 Prof, Wife Accused of Being Cuban Agents By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 5:33 p.m. ET MIAMI (AP) -- A Florida college professor and his wife, a university administrator, were accused in federal court Monday of using their academic positions for decades as cover to spy on Americans for Cuba's communist government. Carlos Alvarez, 61, a psychology professor at Florida International University, and Elsa Alvarez, 55, used an encryption system to communicate with their handlers via short-wave radio and carried messages to and from Cuba, said federal prosecutor Brian Frazier. ''These were highly placed and very well-regarded operatives in the United States,'' Frazier said. The couple were charged with acting as agents of Fidel Castro without registering with the U.S. government. Frazier said Alvarez had spied for Cuba since 1977 and his wife since 1982. Neither was charged with the more serious offense of espionage, and FBI agents said there was no evidence they provided classified or military information to Cuba. Much of what they provided involved information about the U.S. political situation, prominent Cuban-Americans in South Florida and the names of at least one FBI agent, Frazier said. The couple were ordered held without bail Monday after prosecutors warned that they might leave their five children and flee to Cuba if released. Neither defendant entered a plea, and another hearing was set for Jan. 19. They were arrested Friday, months after giving statements to the FBI last summer about their contacts with Cuba, prosecutors said. Alvarez is identified on the Florida International Web site as an associate professor in the educational leadership and policy studies department. Elsa Alvarez is described as a coordinator in the social work training program, specializing in psychological treatment, crisis intervention and group psychotherapy. The indictment marks the latest turn in the cloak-and-dagger underworld of espionage between the United States and Cuba, much of it taking place in South Florida where thousands of Cuban exiles live. In August, the convictions and sentences of five alleged Cuban spies were thrown out by a federal appeals court, which said the five were unfairly tried because of intense publicity, community prejudice and inflammatory remarks by prosecutors. The defendants insisted they were spying on Cuban exiles opposed to Castro, not on the United States itself. __ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/faq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net - Visit http://www.spynumbers.com/ for complete information about Spy Numbers Stations
[Spooks] Re: Rodent Revolution
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list There are probably many, many Al Fansomes in this world; if you do a Google, I am sure that you will get tens of thousands of results. So, it is impossible to say if I am the one that the Rodent Revolution mentioned. On top ofthat, he fact that I am just a humble, almost anonymous DXer argues against it. | Are you the Al Fansome mentioned in the first Rodent Revolution message? | | :-) | | Zack __ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/faq.htm Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Visit http://www.spynumbers.com/ for complete information about Spy Numbers Stations
