[Spooks] New question on NS

[Todd Dokey]

Yup,

I have some of the old surplus manuals on that procedure somewhere..

But when I obtained them, I wasn't  about to publish on SPECWAR guys..
they get kinda fussy about that.. ;)


On 3/17/14, Charles Bennett <bennettc at me.com> wrote:
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> I've been lurking on the list for awhile but haven't really had anything to
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> In the mid 70s I was, occasionally, what you guys refer to as a numbers
> station.    Not the kind that operates for months or years but the kind that
> pops up, runs for a week or two, and then stops.   I was working with 10th
> special forces in bad toelz Germany sending encrypted messages to teams In
> the field.  5 letter code groups, broadcast at particular times.   Sometimes
> it would be the same transmission for a day, sometimes it would change
> often.   I was at a remote station with a secure teletype and the messages
> would arrive pre encrypted so I did not know the contents.  I would then
> rebroadcast them in morse.
>
> Sometimes I would work the receiving end using high speed tape recorders.
> The teams would send encoded messages using a gra~71 encoder so even though
> it was morse code it was sent as a very high speed burst.   We would record
> that then slow the tapes way down on playback and create hard copies of the
> messages.   Again we never saw the unencrypted messages when we were
> receiving, just the 5 letter code groups.
>
> Just that you all might like that bit of trivia.
>
> Best
>
> Chuck
> WB8CEE
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>> On Mar 17, 2014, at 5:17 PM, Gian Romani <romanigian at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Thank you Todd!
>> ciao
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>> 2014-03-17 19:51 GMT+01:00 Todd Dokey <justcallmebuddy at gmail.com>:
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>>> Dividing numbers into 4 or 5 number groups is done for the same reason
>>> phone numbers get split up into groups -so you can remember the
>>> string.
>>>
>>> Its a cognitive science thing.
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