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The case of the "Gaul", the trawler lost off Northern Russia in the 'seventies and still the subject of speculation as to whether it was involved in activities other than fishing gave rise to the following comment in the form of a letter from a reader in Birmingham in the Daily Mail of 22-January;-
"Intelligence staff failing to find evidence of the Trawler Gaul's involvement with espionage is a bit like Reynard saying he was nowhere near the chicken coop when two dozen Rhode Island Reds met their fate".
Good to see that such cynicism now prevails even in Middle England!
A letter in the Daily Telegraph of 4-March in which the writer described his activities as a sub-editor on a Royal Navy publication and his run-in with the Navy security branch who were afraid that his copy tapped out on an electronic typewriter might be accessed by outsiders in some way despite his protestations to the contrary was signed by a Rob Mannion. I thought the name seemed familiar and then I realised; of course, Rob Mannion is the editor of "Practical Wireless". An excellent article on the Eddystone 940 receiver in the May issue, by the way.
A chance tuning in after 11 PM on Monday 8-March to the commercial radio station Talk Sport found the nightly "James Whale Show" in progress, not with the usual tiresome rant against the London Congestion Charge, speed cameras, the BBC opposition and so on but with an interview and a phone-in session with a guest speaker, David Shayler. Subjects covered included the "Echelon" system used to monitor the telephone network and the internet, the Official Secrets Act, the statement that there are thousands of Al Qaeda members in the UK having been allowed into the UK during the late 'nineties despite warnings from French Intelligence and the opinion that by blundering into Iraq Mr Bliar has made Britain more of a terrorist target, not less.
Obituary;- the Daily Telegraph of 1-April carried an obituary of Lise Villameur who died at the age of 98 a few days earlier, one of the first female agents to be parachuted into France by SOE in 1942. She set up a network right under the nose of the Gestapo, later returned to England and then went back to France in 1944 to organise sabotage of transport and communications in support of the D-Day landings, having a lucky escape on one occasion when she was in the process of transporting some quartz crystals for use in a radio set located in a neighbouring village when she was stopped and searched by the Germans who failed to notice them.
[Tnx POSW]
Back in the mid 70's I was setting up a new office in Euston Square, right adjacent to the Tower, and needed to get quite a lot of bulky equipment installed - two 16 tonners of it - so had arranged for the installation teams to be on site for 04.00z to minimise disruption for the other tenants.
Early starts were no problem as the company owned a 5 bedroom house in Ealing at which any of our "non London" people working in the Greater London area stayed, including myself and the Managing Director, over the years it proved far cheaper than hotels.
My two drivers, of the "old school" -on time every time -, the installers and myself, arriving at about 03.30 decided to enter the site from the rear entrance via Albany St. and the service road at the rear of Thames TV.
However the service road was blocked by some heavy lifting gear working on what now is another underground car park, after a quick recce by all the decision was made, "up Euston Rd, over the pavement, straight across the square, no problemo", with the slight inconvenience of two concrete bollards unthoughtfully placed on the proposed route - surgically extracted by the installation teams(later recycled to our Head Office car park), valiantly led by the resourceful and inventive Gary & Bryn, and the aid of some scaffolding planks "loaned" by the builders.
At this point let me introduce my drivers, always full of the traditional timeless dry humour of a British "grafter".
Fred, 5ft 1in, 8 stone, who if told "I need a window in there" was quite capable of creating the necessary opening with his bare fists, and extremely proud of the Bostrom Drivers Seat that I had specifically manufactured for him.
Chris, 6ft 3in, 52in chest, who's brain was totally incapable of registering the words "you can't do that", probably inherited it from his dad - 17 kids by 5 wives.
To continue:- As truck 1 was well over the pavement and moving towards the Square a couple of chaps came running out of the Tower shouting at Chris " mind the ducks, mind the ducks, mind the ducks" (to the bemusement of the rest of us who hadn't seen a duck since driving past Regents Park) and stupidly stood in front of his truck, Chris stuck his head out of the window and said "what **** ducks" and as these chaps showed no sign of moving Chris politely enquired whether they'd ever been run over by a 16 tonner, when they replied in the negative he retorted "well if you don't shift your arses you're about to get the experience of a lifetime" at which point they made a strategic withdrawal and never bothered us again.
On both trucks finally arriving at the unloading point on the far side of the square Fred pointedly announced to all "we should have caught those ducks, I could have made us a nice meal for tonight’s dinner"(he was an accomplished cook), while Chris sarcastically remarked to me "this place is full of nutters, you should have put the office somewhere else", we all got stuck into the unloading and both trucks were away by 07.30 leaving the installers with a weeks work to get on with, and much speculation over the following couple of months as to who the ducks belonged to and why hadn't we seen them.
Now isn't life funny, 30 years or so later I'm reading Issue 21,bottom of page 30, when this episode comes flooding back and all becomes clear, those chaps must have been shouting "MIND THE DUCTS." No, not a made up story but 100% true and probably representative of how easy it is for misunderstandings to occur with the mix of dialects we have in the UK.
Fred has now passed on, Chris is in very poor health, Gary & Bryn work only part time, like myself, and the next time I see them I'll show them the article and we'll have a good laugh. [From an E2k member who wishes to remain 'Anon' - many tnx].
After 18 years in Gaol, 11 spent in solitary Mordechai Vanunu was freed. His crime? He spoke about Israel’s secret nuclear arms industry of which, as a tecnician, he was a part.
‘The Woman from Mossad’ is an excellent book which details how Mossad caught him. The woman, who no doubts fears exposure is no other than podgy 44 year old Cheryl Bentov who lives a quiet life in Orlando Florida with her husband. She is the pillar of the city’s Jewish community [of which Vanunu is probably glad] and has reverted to using her maiden name of Hanin. At the time of Vanunu’s betrayal she used the name ‘Cindy’ and passed herself off as an American.
Nice to know that whilst Mr Vanunu has been incarcerated she lived a comfortable lifestyle with all the best that America has to offer.
Mordechai Vanunu was named as the first whistleblower. However that cannot be – Clive Ponting was one such in 1982 concerning the sinking of the Argentinian Navy’s Belgrano and an early nuclear whistleblower, Ross Hesketh, passed on recently aged 82.
Ross Hesketh published his correct suspicions that British Nuclear Magnox generators were being used to produce plutonium for America on 30th October 1981. America had a shortage of plutonium at the time.
ENIGMA 2000 received an interesting letter via E as cut from a newspaper. We are unable to credit the newspaper involved but feel that it should be reproduced here:
IN THE wake of the Katherine Gun affair and Clare Short's allegations, we should not be surprised that Britain spies on her allies. The military attaches in our embassies might just as well be labelled 'the spymaster'.
Forty years ago, after I was demobbed from the Intelligence Corps, a colleague and I travelled by car back from Malaya. We were requested by the powers-that-be to log descriptions of the road bridges in Turkey, including details of road width, surface, construction and so on. If that's not spying, I'm Osama Bin Laden. Name and address supplied in original.
[I’ll bet Britain spies on the US and vice versa].
Chen Yulin, 53 who worked in Hong Kong has been sentenced to serve life by a Court in the southern city of Guangzhou. Mr Chen, it is reported, is accused of breaking Chinese law by discussing the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre with a British Agent and passing on telephone numbers for a local branch of Xinhua, the Chinese State News Agency where he worked. [Somewhat sad that as there are several of us on here who used to regularly intercept the tty transmissions before the Internet made the mode redundant. I used to almost wet myself with laughter when the MAP agency started off their transmissions with ‘Good Morning Subscribers’ and there we were, in our hundreds, getting the newscasts for bunce]. Mr Chen;s family have claimed that he was tortured and an appeal is being prepared by Chinese lawyers although he has not been allowed to see British diplomats.
The fact that the Chinese government announced that all foreign wireless devices [that includes mobile phones and portable computers] must use Chinese made encryption technology. This allows the Chinese access to Western Technology so they can make what used to be called, in amateur circles, a Chinese copy. All this bloke has done is * possibly * give away telephone numbers – an incredulity of double standard!
According to the Sunday Times, 07/03 Page10, a new MI5 department has been set up to deal with the threat of a surge of spying incidents that is reaching levels comparable to the cold war. This department is called 90MI.
A two page document [Restricted] circulated to key Whitehall officials details five incidents that have been disrupted and warns of ‘very many more’ that go undetected.
Civil Servants have been instructed to brief staff on the potential threat in Britain and overseas. The fears are that sensitive security information could end up in the hands of organisatiuons such as al-Qaeda.
The splendid report in the Sunday Times, written by Adam Nathan, claims that Russian Intel officers were using the internet to monitor British military aircraft and target individuals with access to secret information. One such Russian officer tried to ‘cultivate’ a British official working in the aviation sector, offering him money for technical data. That spy has been returned to Russia, presumably persona non gratia. Another case recounted the contact made to a ‘junior’ police officer by Asian Intel Officers who tried to pressure the officer into revealing intelligence because of his cultural and family connections. A junior civil servant was targeted by an Intelligence officer from a Middle East country by exploiting a common cultural heritage.
On the up, it was also reported that one senior military intelligence chief said that it was fortunate that Britain is ‘blessed’ by a culture of loyal public service. “The vast majority of Whitehall would never betray their country” he is reported as saying.
Apart from pictures of the grand front entrance to Thames House [is it ever used – or is it just the Thorney Street entrance and steep stairway that is used], the Head of MI5, Mrs Manningham-Buller, there is a jolly good pic of Michael Caine as the down to earth cold war spy ‘Harry Palmer’ who saw action in the successful ‘Ipcress File’ and then in an almost acceptable ‘Funeral in Berlin’. Palmer was also featured in ‘Million Dollar Brain’ but Hollywood had got hold of the idea and ruined it. A follow on, ‘Bullet to Beijing’ started as the Ipcress File, showing Palmer doing a static surveillance. An acceptable movie. [Tnx E and PLondon].
In April 2002 a mobile phone call lasting less than a minute with no verbal comment was intercepted. The call was suspected as a signal between terrorists and traced.
In the course of investigations dozens of al-Qaeda members were snared causing the disruption of three attacks that had been planned for Indonesia and Saudi Arabia.
A Siberian student was recently arrested after he emailed the CIA telling them that a US subway was going to be blown up.
The email, sent during a computer class at a University in Barnaul, Siberia could well cost the student his freedom.
E sent in a piece from The Times dated 12/03. It would appear from the article that a 41 year old press secretary to a Democratic presidential candidate was charged with spying for Saddam Hussein’s regime and plotting resistance against the American occupation of Iraq. [At least she wasn’t plotting against all the other Nations presence there]. The spy, codenamed ‘Symbol Susan’ is said to have passed information to Iraqi intelligence officers between Oct 1999 and March 2002 through the Iraqi mission to the UN in New York.
She is claimed to have communicated with the Iraqi agents via email. She also claimed online that the steering wheel of her car was painted with acid causing her to scrub her hands with a toilet brush. Her face was also so badly burned her friends thought she might be badly scarred. If that isn’t bad enough she claimed her house was bugged with listening devices and cameras and that she survived several assassination attempts. Her next door neighbour apparently said ‘Symbol Susan’ lives in a fantasy world. [Thanks E, great article].
I promised myself there would be no caustic content this time round and then I find this advert in Metro. Well I don't know about you lot but I find work extremely boring; I have no promotional prospects and my mortgage will be finished in 3 years time. There is nothing to work forwards to and Dave on the 0608 summed the matter up nicely when he stated he didn't give a toss about his job.* Our seven men and two ladies strong group nodded in unison. So to set the record straight here is the latest offering from a place near Thorney Street [nice entrance though]. "It's second nature to protect the things you care about. So, if you value your country, working for MI5 [wot no Arabic] could be a realistic career option for you.."
Then it asks for at least 4 GCSEs at Grade C or higher. The full range of work for those Administrative Positions are of an 'exceptionally varied remit'. £14500+generous pension scheme, other benefits [such as the prestige of where you work, but you mustn’t tell anyone] and genuine career development opportunities [they must be the only genuine chances ever]. All for less than fifteen grand. They must be attracting schooleavers for money like that, but only ones who can speak English, Arabic and Sorani. Be computer literate and meld into the background. An ability to read and write might be an advantage! By the way, there will be a straightforward paper-based test during the process to check you have the potential to do the work.
*NAAFI is an excellent acronym for how our group feel: No Ambition And F***-all Interest! And it’s BIBI to I..n who has moved onto better things, a later train and left a massive chasm with the loss of his wit and anecdotal dealings with life in general.
Note: Must have degree, Field agent no more than 5’11” unless female then no taller than 5’8” [that lets my diminutive missus out of it at only 4’11”]. They must be able to ‘blend into the background’ and be ‘able to remain alert during long periods of inactivity and then increase their pace appropriately when necessary.’
The service also states that it would prefer applicants who drive to be able to read street maps. [Hang on – I can’t drive and I can read maps and find my way about a city using a compass and dead reckoning – can’t I Mac? All these skills and I have to listen to number stations to get my kicks].
Better than that – and sent in by E after this piece was written, ENIGMA 2000 received:
SWEEPING CHANGES ANNOUNCED AT GCHQ.
“Part-time cleaner/domestic support £16903 pro-rata [including current allowances].
Some of the work we do makes front page news. Some of it remains strictly behind the scenes. But whether you read all about it or not, we play a vital role in helping protect the UK from threats such as crime, drugs and terrorism. We want you to go under the covers in our London Office and ensure it’s clean and tidy. Duties aren’t set in stone, so you should be flexible and willing to lend a hand wherever we need it.”
Only those perspective cleaners who can read Morse at 40wpm with immediate typewritten transcription abilities need apply. You will also need to be familiar with encryption keying used by a variety of Military Forces world wide and be able to crack all modern algorithm based cellular telephone communications and the like.
Preference will be given to those cleaners who are intimately familiar with the ‘Datacrypter 2000 range’, speak Somali, Farsi, Serbo-Croat and a host of other ‘Refugee/Asylum’ type lingos.
If unable to convince us of your British citizenship you must have an idea when you first sneaked into Great Britain*. This can probably be ascertained from when you took your first haul of drugs from the NHS or entered your first public paid home. [Cashing of food vouchers is also an indication as is your first purchases of mobile phones, designer label clobber, trainers-and all the other quality footwear British nationals cannot afford]. We will check with the ex-Minister of your status – so no lies please.
The successful cleaning applicant will be able to recover data protected by ‘Kilgetty 2K’ whilst unauthorised to do so and be able to quickly hack ‘Guardisk’ without access to the security module and contactless smart card. The ability to crack such a system, as used on a Toshiba 4000 Series CDS laptop, lost in a certain Tapos Bar on the evening of 3rd March 2000, near Vauxhall Cross [PHd vital research? … never in a month of Sundays] whilst pissed out of your brains would be a plus.
GCHQ values diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our work. [Tnx to E for the advert and KW for his caustic wit].
Here’s a cracker from the Daily Mail. 03/03 Page 39
The headline LEAKING BRITAIN says it all when the strapline proclaims ‘Sailor visits 39 ports and never has to show his ID.’
[Thanks E, another belter].
An unmarked Boeing 727-100 seized on 08/03 when it landed in Zimbabwe by that countries military. It contained 64 men alleged to be mercenaries along with army uniforms , boots , sleeping bags and radio equipment but no arms. The 727 did belong to a Kansas based company but was sold a few days ago to a South African company who appear to be very publicity shy indeed. For more details see <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3547883.stm>
As always a mention of radio equipment was made and on the TV news there was a brief glimpse of a Thuraya satellite phone and what looked like Motorola handhelds. Has anyone else seen any longer TV reports on this subject ? If so did you see any HF equipment at all? Answers please to E2k. It was later announced via a few newspapers that the 60 or so ‘mercenaries’ that included an ex SAS officer may well be executed in this apparent plot to overthrow Mr Mugabe [not news but more likely conjecture]. One particular piece of evidence proudly displayed was a pair of bolt croppers.
A multinational exercise has been run in Greece and hundreds of international troops, including British and US commandos are taking part in operations running from Crete to Greece's Balkan border. A chemical mock attack has already been run at an Athens metro station.
The safety of athletes and visitors is said to depend on a communications system termed C4I. This C4I system is not complete but is known to work on 'the basis of thousands of signals from cameras and microphones to hi-tech sensors installed in every venue, vehicle and vantage point, all feeding back to one nerve centre.' A source has claimed that the system will only be 85% ready . With all this going on can we expect to see the US Athens Embassy's KWS78 gracing the airwaves again on certain freqs?
Wonder if they have an emergency transceiver behind the cisterns of a first floor toilet as a certain building in Beirut did?
Recently announced is that British armed police will guard our athletes [didn’t mention that crime on the community at home will probably rise as a result].
MI5 'renegade' Shayler gave a talk in Birmingham University, in the Arts Building at 1400z on 10/03/04. The talk was entitled 'Anarchy in the UK' and concerned the case of the GCHQ whistleblower Kathryn Gun whose own case was dropped earlier in the month. This talk given by the renegade agent, who was jailed for breaching the Official Secrets Act, was free and also open to members of the public.[This piece put in especially for AnonNI who does not have a Bogside accent as we mistakenly inferred in the last NL and for which we offer our apologies[!] I do still have that txt sent 9th May 2003 at 1158:22 concerning a self publicist too- that had an Ardoyne accent]!
On 15th March 2004 four suspicious letters were sent to London Diplomatic missions. Officials of the targeted missions reported the letters contained a white powder that was subsequently sent for forensic analysis by Scotland Yard. One affected diplomatic mission was the Saudi Embassy.
At the same time London Underground lines were closed for security alerts as passengers saw forgotten luggage and raised the alarm. A vase at Harrow on the Hill closed the Metrpolitan Line north of Wmbley Park, A bag of Cushions at Goldhawk Road closed the Hamersmith and City Line in the rush hour, a sleeping bag in a black bin liner accounted for Stonebridge Park station and [here’s the best one] the District and Circle Lines were suspended at Mansion House following a report of an abandoned black canvas bag with Arabic writing. Luckily under cover anti-terrorism officers are travelling on our trains to protect us but the Deputy Chief Constable for the British Transport Police, Andy Trotter [an excellent officer as is the BTP Chief Constable Ian Johnstone] said the best defence is the vigilance of the three million passengers who use the system every day.
What about trains on the surface – not heard anything about them yet.
Following the terrible events in Spain the newly elected Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has pledged to withdraw Spanish troops from Iraq by the summer. On 20th April British media reported that Spanish troops had started their withdrawal.
Later the media reported that British troops will be filling their duties.
A number of British newspapers reported what the troops have claimed and know all along. Poorly prepared and poorly supplied meant insufficient chemical filters, required levels of detection and protection and suchlike. There were insufficient body armour, boots and suitable clothing, desert kits arriving weeks after the fighting had begun. Some reports noted shortages of ammunition and medical supplies.
I’ll bet the politicians who sent our troops to war incorrectly supplied would soon crib if any of the 17 bars in the Houses of Parliament ran out of peanuts, gin, angostura bitters and whisky.
52 Former Ambassadors, High Commissioners and Governors has sent a letter to TB [Excellent initials given what he is doing to Great Britain] . making their critical thoughts known concerning Iraq and our governments policy which is ‘doomed to failure.’
The letter is worth reading; its signatories include many Ambassadors to Arabic countries – Algeria, Egypt Yemen, Oman, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan.
Of course, and as ever, TB will know much better.
According to a recent advert, 'Working in the Diplomatic Service, you must be prepared to serve anywhere in the world.' It then goes on about training and repeated three year postings.
Then it states 'In addition to London, vacancies may also be available in Hanslope Park, Near Milton Keynes.'
What's that about then?
A Police Raid in Manchester supported by Security Services resulted in ten persons thought to be plotting to bomb a Manchester Premiership football ground or shopping centre.
According to the report in the Times 20/04 electronic surveillance suggested a possible attack aimed at a ‘large gathering of people’.
ID cards could be carried in 2yrs rather than by the 2013 claim by Ministers. The cards would carry biometric information to match fingerprints and other information to a national database.
The US have also been suggesting that we have more time to bring in biometric passports to enhance their security.
Personally they can get stuffed ‘cause I have no intention of ever going to America [KW]
PLondon wrote, “Blunkett has spelled out a 10 year plan for the step-by-step introduction of ID cards, in the end we will all be expected to carry one. It appears that services – such as health care and state benefits, will not be available unless you show your card.”
The CIA apparently warned British Secret Intelligence against using the 45 minute claim because they regarded it as flawed.
Apparently George Tenet, the CIA Director, referring to the claim as the “they-can-attack-in-45-minutes-s**t”
[Amazing really – the common garden Brit in the street knew GB was in no danger from Iraq as there were no delivery systems capable of doing the job. Mind you, given Israel’s popularity with Mr Bush, you can see why Iraq was invaded. SCUD].
“If our troops had the support and kit that the yanks have we could do the job in Iraq properly on our own and with a lot of success”
[Dave the car-park meter man].
Apart from collating reports from fellow German number monitors Jochen, who is looking after our German Branch has posted some interesting information he has received from one of his monitors:
"One of the books is written by Werner Stiller (his story is mentioned on one of Simon's pages) and is called "In the center of espionage" (Mainz, 1986). In this book he covers information about the BND and their numbers stations. Also Oliver [the monitor]mentioned another book, which deals with the Mossad stations. There is something written about the IDs and the fact that messages were changed only one time a week.” Jochen adds, “That dictates the agent in every case has the possibility to hear the message at least one time.”
The text about the IDs of the Mossad stations (we call them E10) in the book "The Mossad" by Victor Ostrovsky, is coming from the chapter "The beginners". Ostrovsky reports there from an essay about "transmitting of secret news". There is reported: "The Mossad transmits news via radio, letter, phone, drops in dead letter boxes or during personal meetings".Then he reports about Mossad's IDs. [Jochen later advised, along with some G06 reports that that the German Central Library for the Blind in Leipzig has a talking book version of this book].
Much more interesting is the book, written by Werner Stiller: "In the centre of espionage". In four images he shows "the two most frequently used receivers for encrypted messages: the Grundig Satellite, Grundig Ocean Boy", papers about encrypting of messages and code boards(? - Codetafeln). On these boards you can definitly see numbers in 5-figure-groups. Stiller reports, that he got new code boards, because the old ones seemed to be not enough. So you can presume, that the one-time-pad methode was used, as also we numbers stations friends think about it. In another image you can see one further encrypting machine. There you can see the encoding of letters and numbers: A = 0, E = 1, I = 2 etc.
On the right sight you can see 3-figure code numbers, unfortunately not very good to recognize, cause the printing is very small (Ditter printing), but it seems, that "127" is standing for "order", "019" for "address", 217 for "Berlin", 802 for "location of meeting" etc.
Jochen writes:
"Although I don't know this book, I think, this is ONE example for encoding messages. Stiller further reports, that he only got messages very irregularly.
But there also were fixed times of transmission. Stiller: "To guarantee a sure reception, every message was repeated a few times within a recent period, but every time with another ID and on another wave band". It's interesting, that he also writes about often used frequencies for these messages.
Once, the radio of one of Stiller's female accomplices was failing eventually breaking down. Stiller didn't ask the BND to give him a new radio, but he ordered Helga (his accomplice), to buy a new one with "bright shortwave reception possibilities". So he knows, that the numbers station transmissions are not sent in the normal radio metre bands, and that they perhaps can not be received by other radios.
To confirm the reception of numbers stations transmissions, Stiller always sent cards or letters, for instance birthday cards. That is comparable with the QSL cards, which are used by radio amateur's and BC listeners.
It's interesting, that both Stiller and Ostrovsky report about the repeated transmission of the same message within a recent period."
[Tnx Jochen]
On, April 20th, 20.05 UTC, there was a program on MDR TV [Another known programme was "Top Spion Toppas" - and featured on Simon' Mason's site).
This time there was the first part of the series "Tausche Ostagent gegen Westagent" (exchange eastern agent contra western agent).
This program described the story of Mr. Eberhard Fitkenhauer, a normal citizan of the GDR, who was asked by the CIA to report about Soviet troups' movements in the GDR.
Later Fitkenhauer was prosecuted for 13 years in jail, after he was released he was exchanged against eastern agents at the Glienik Bridge, "Glienicker Brücke".
As a way of communication the MDR brought imitated numbers stations transmissions. The format is similar to G5, but male voice and cheap imitated, so not worth enough to submit it to the files section or to Simon. But here is a very short part of the program, in which they used this cheap imitated format, inbetween shortwave radio noises with the introduction tone of Radio Moscow, as it was earlier, and the interval signal of Kol Israel.
My next action will be to mail the MDR to inform them, that there are a lot of numbers stations available on several websites. I am very surprised they didn't ask someone from the numbers stations movement for original sound samples - or their colleagues of the other German stations, which presented programs about numbers stations in the past.
[A relevant soundbite can be found in the 'Files' section of Group in 'Articles of Interest']
E2k Thanks to Daniel for his piece and to Jochen for his work for E2kDe
Via email, Jochen reminded us:
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NOTE: ENIGMA 2000 will not be carrying any stories concerning America’s shame at the pictures of torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
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