[HCDX] The Conet Project - Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations [ird059]

[Zacharias LIangas <zliagas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Conet Project - Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations [ird059]
http://archive.org/details/ird059/
http://www.irdial.com/conet.htm
For more than 30 years the Shortwave radio spectrum has been used by the worlds 
intelligence agencies to transmit secret messages. These messages are transmitted by 
hundreds of Numbers Stations.

Shortwave Numbers Stations are a perfect method of anonymous, one way communication. 
Spies located anywhere in the world can be communicated to by their masters via 
small, locally available, and unmodified Shortwave receivers. The encryption system 
used by Numbers Stations, known as a one time pad is unbreakable. Combine this with 
the fact that it is almost impossible to track down the message recipients once they 
are inserted into the enemy country, it becomes clear just how powerful the Numbers 
Station system is.

These stations use very rigid schedules, and transmit in many different languages, 
employing male and female voices repeating strings of numbers or phonetic letters day 
and night, all year round.

The voices are of varying pitches and intonation; there is even a German station (The 
Swedish Rhapsody) that transmits a female child's voice!

One might think that these espionage activities should have wound down considerably 
since the official end of the cold war, but nothing could be further from the truth. 
Numbers Stations (and by inference, spies) are as busy as ever, with many new and 
bizarre stations appearing since the fall of the Berlin wall.

Why is it that in over 30 years, the phenomenon of Numbers Stations has gone almost 
totally unreported? What are the agencies behind the Numbers Stations, and why are 
the eastern European stations still on the air? Why does the Czech republic operate a 
Numbers Station 24 hours a day? How is it that Numbers Stations are allowed to 
interfere with essential radio services like air traffic control and shipping without 
having to answer to anybody? Why does the Swedish Rhapsody Numbers Station use a 
small girls voice? 

These are just some of the questions that remain unanswered.

Now you will be able to hear this unique and extraordinary phenomenon for yourself, 
as Irdial-Discs releases THE CONET PROJECT: the first comprehensive collection of 
Numbers Stations recordings released to the public.

This Quadruple CD is an important historical reference work for research into this 
hitherto unreported and unknown field of espionage. The CDs contain 150 recordings 
spanning the last twenty years; taken from the private archives of dedicated 
shortwave radio listeners from around the world. 

There's more information in the included PDF booklet and via the official site for 
this 4xCD collection.

http://delicious.com/gr_greek1/zak (all my pages )




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