Eighteenth edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter

(Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 16:04:00 +0200)

Spruch [G20] Memory lane

One of the most unusual stations of the past was 'the Spruch', a German language station that used a number of different pieces of music as interval signals, each song belonged to a 'Spruchnummer', which was most probably the agent's id.

Spruchnummer	1	Schubert Serenade
Spruchnummer	2	a saxophone piece (don't know the title)
Spruchnummer	3	Brahms Waltz
Spruchnummer	4	Mexican Hat Dance
Spruchnummer	5	Atlantis by the Shadows
Spruchnummer	7	We Get Ideas by Louis Armstrong
Spruchnummer	10	Bach's Toccata in D minor
Spruchnummer	17	Red Balloon by The Dave Clark Five

Message format:
Achtung, Spruchnummer 1, Gruppenzahl 42, Zeit 60900, Achtung Spruch Geht, followed by 42 5FG's, followed by "Ende Ende".

The time (Zeit) was a date/time group. 60900 = the 6th, 0900 hours Central European Time.