[Spooks] a little something

[Chris Smolinski]

This actually is a Spy Numbers Station 9or Spy Letters in this case!) It
is MOSSAD, Israeli Intelligence, ENIGMA ID E10.

http://www.spynumbers.com/profiles/index.html?ENIGMA=E10 for details


On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Arik Hesseldahl wrote:

> Not really a numbers broadcast, but, similar, so I wanted to share this
> interesting thing I heard with the list membership for comments.
>
> I first caught it at 0203 UTC on 3-23-2002.
> 11.566 MHz to 11.568 MHz (signal strength tended to shift between these two
> freqs during the broadcast)
>
> It was a female voice, slight British accent or possibly with a French
> accent. For several minutes she repeated the words " ECHO- ZULU-INDIA"
> several times over several minutes. I stepped away and grabbed a pad and
> pen, and returned just as she said "MESSAGE MESSAGE MESSAGE." She then
> proceeded to read off a long list of words like "XRAY, NOVEMBER, BRAVO,
> CHARLIE, ZULU, YANKEE, CHARLES, WHISKEY, TANGO, KILO, GOLF, DELTA, SIERRA
> UNIFORM" and so on. I also happened to notice that among them were "Quebec"
> (pronounced it "kay-BEK" or "Qweee-beck"; my notes aren't clear) Also
> "VICTOR" sounded like "VEEK-tore," hence my suspicion about the French
> accent, leading me to believe it was a Canadian transmission of some kind.
>
> The transmission continued until 0225 UTC, at which time she said "END OF
> MESSAGE. END OF TRANSMISSION" and the signal cut out. Sorry, I didn't have
> any recording equipment with me at the time.
>
> My guess is Canadian. Any other ideas?
>