[HCDX] Number station busted

["Eike Bierwirth" <Eike.Bierwirth@xxxxxx>]

Hi all,

according to an interview this morning on Germany's Deutschlandfunk, the Russian spies that have been arrested in the U.S. also used shortwave transmissions for number broadcasts in morse code. Although the allegation documents which are downloadable at http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/June/10-nsd-753.html do not explicitly mention transmission activity, the use of SW number broadcasts from Moscow is described. The whole document is worth reading as a classic spy story, here is the SW-related part (in document #2):

[begin quote]
27. Radiograms are coded bursts of data sent by a
radiotransmitter that can be picked up by a radioreceiver that
has been set to the proper frequency. As transmitted, radiograms
generally sound like the transmission of Morse code. As is set
forth below, the Illegals have communicated with Moscow Center by
means of radiograms.

28. For example, as a result of the 2006 Boston
Search, technicians recovered the Boston Conspirators' Electronic
Messages. Approximately five of these messages describe the
sending or receipt of an "RG." Based on my training, experience,
and participation in this investigation, I believe that "RG"
connotes "radiogram."

29. In a similar vein, large numbers of the New Jersey
Conspirators' Electronic Messages mention the sending or receipt
of an "RG." For example, a January 2009 message from Moscow
Center for the New Jersey Conspirators reads, in relevant part:
"Pls, make sure your radioequipment [sic] for RG rcptn is in
order. We plan to send a couple of test Rgs [.]" Based on my training, experience, and participation in this investigation, I
believe that "RG" and "Rg" connote "radiogram."

30. Furthermore, during the 2006 Seattle Search, law-enforcement
agents entered the Seattle Apartment and observed
there a radio that can be used for receiving short-wave radio
transmissions. In addition, agents observed and photographed
spiral notebooks, some pages of which contain apparently random
columns of numbers. Based on my training, experience, and
participation in this investigation, I believe that the radio in
the Seattle Apartment was used by the Seattle Conspirators to
receive radiograms â and that the spiral notebook contains codes
used to decipher radiograms as they came in.

31. Finally, throughout 2003, law-enforcement agents,
acting pursuant to judicial orders, intercepted aural
communications taking place inside the Yonkers House. On at
least five occasions in 2003, this aural surveillance revealed
their regular electronic clicking sounds associated with the
receipt of coded radio transmissions. Based on my training,
experience, and participation in this investigation, I believe
that the clicking electronic sounds heard in the Yonkers House
are the sounds of a radio transmission being received from Moscow
Center. In addition, the aural surveillance indicated that, on
or about May 6, 2003, J.L., the defendant, told V.P., the defendant, that he was "receiving" "radio" "from over there."
[end quote] [names shortened as the defendants' privacy is protected by the German press codex, which should be respected as they are "presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty" by the rule of law -- eb]



Enjoy reading!
Eike








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