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(Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 11:07:22 +0100)
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Ana Belen Montes, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for spying for Cuba. This was one of the rare cases in which numbers stations played a role as she was listening to V02 transmissions from Cuba. She used shortwave radio and pay phones to communicate with their handlers.
Use of shortwave radio has been mentioned in other cases as well, but in this case the numbers stations were actually stated.
The FBI has opened an attaché office for the FBI in Beijing. Chinese officials praised the opening of the FBI office, calling it a sign of success in the two countries' efforts to combat global terrorism and organized crime.
In the Washington Post, Richard Richter, president of the US Radio Free Asia, wrote that "Chinese authorities are tightening control" over news and information. "They're working harder to block the Internet and jam Radio Free Asia [RFA] and Voice of America [VOA]. China has also barred RFA from stationing any reporters on its territory and rebuffed VOA's bid to increase the size of its tiny Chinese staff."
The BBC World Service confirmed that for months, Chinese authorities have been banning its broadcasts in Mandarin, Uighur and Tibetan languages.
<source: China Reform Monitor No. 472, October 25, 2002>
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