[CW] CW lives

Ken Brown ken.d.brown at hawaiiantel.net
Tue Jun 29 03:13:54 EDT 2010


A couple of snippets from Washington Post article about recently busted 
alleged Russian spies.

> But for the most part, they contacted each other the old-fashioned 
> way, through furtive exchanges in city parks, or with bags of cash 
> hidden along country roads, and even by radio with Morse code.

> But the FBI must have been clapping its collective hands when it 
> discovered the primitive radio techniques the Russians were using: 
> high speed "burst transmissions.” The Cold War-era technique requires 
> the sending party to record a coded Morse code message on a tape, then 
> shoot it through the air in a millisecond.
>
> They were easy picking for the FBI, once it knew where to listen: Bugs 
> in the defendants’ residences picked up “the irregular electronic 
> clicking sounds associated with the receipt of coded radio 
> transmissions,” its affidavit states.



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