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Subject: Re: "Numbers" stations (possible answers)
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Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 17:57:04 EST
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In article <2475@ihuxz.ATT.COM> parnass@ihuxz.ATT.COM (Bob Parnass, AJ9S) writes:
>In article <123.003505@adam.DG.COM>, Pete_Simpson@MERCURY.CEO.DG.COM
>writes on hearing shortwave broadcasts of coded number groups:
>
>These "numbers"	stations may be	found  on  several  frequen-
>cies,  with  both  males and females speaking in many langu-
>ages.
>

There is a rather long list of these frequencies, and what is said on them
(i.e., the languages and numbers, not the plaintext!) in the book Big Secrets,
which is a compilation of "secrets", such as the Kentucky Fried Chicken
formula.  I don't have a full reference, but it came out in 85 or 86 in a
largish yellow paperback.  If you can't find it, send me mail and I'll get the
complete info.  The author also thought that these were spy stations, but no
one is sure.

t

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