[Spooks] Did anyone see the CNN story on Ana Montes

[Mike]

Could that scrap of paper instead be related to her use of pagers to 
communicate with her handlers? Didn't she use pay phones to send 3 or 4 
digit codes to specific pager numbers?



On 08/05/2016 07:41 PM, Tom Sevart wrote:
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>> I apologize for detracting from the wonderful tinfoil-hat nut-job
>> discussion, but has anyone here been able to decrypt any past recordings
>> of V02 or related transmissions from the time when Ana Montes was active
>> using the key below?
>>
>
> I would hope that the Cubans would be intelligent enough to not use 
> the same key for more than one message.  The NSA would barely have to 
> switch their computer on to break those messages.
>
> It does, though, show that the old V2a messages which contained all 10 
> digits are likely real messages, while the ones which never contained 
> the number 9 are likely dummy messages.  Or, I guess that particular 
> agent could have been given a key without a 9 on it for some reason. 
> But the dummy traffic explanation seems more likely.
>