From ve3oat at storm.ca Thu Dec 7 13:54:23 2023 From: ve3oat at storm.ca (Martin VE3OAT) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 13:54:23 -0500 Subject: [Spooks] =?utf-8?q?From_The_Guardian_=3A_=22Juanita_Castro=2C_sis?= =?utf-8?q?ter_of_Fidel_and_Ra=C3=BAl_who_worked_with_CIA=2C_dies_aged_90?= =?utf-8?q?=22?= Message-ID: <0e116197-ee8c-4eca-98e8-17d4d5c22a96@storm.ca> From The Guardian newspaper, journalist Maria Antonieta Collins is quoted as saying : "the CIA used her [Juanita Castro] to smuggle messages, documents and money back into Cuba hidden inside canned goods. They communicated with her via shortwave radio, playing a waltz and a song from the opera Madame Butterfly as signals that her handlers had a message for her". Does anyone remember those transmissions? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/06/juanita-castro-dead-fidel-raul-sister-anti-communist From wc.heilman at gmail.com Fri Dec 8 00:57:15 2023 From: wc.heilman at gmail.com (wc heilman) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 22:57:15 -0700 Subject: [Spooks] =?utf-8?q?From_The_Guardian_=3A_=22Juanita_Castro=2C_sis?= =?utf-8?q?ter_of_Fidel_and_Ra=C3=BAl_who_worked_with_CIA=2C_dies_aged_90?= =?utf-8?q?=22?= In-Reply-To: <0e116197-ee8c-4eca-98e8-17d4d5c22a96@storm.ca> References: <0e116197-ee8c-4eca-98e8-17d4d5c22a96@storm.ca> Message-ID: <46CC3944-7A78-4E39-9229-CA513FB8EB2F@gmail.com> Auditable has Juanita?s book, in Spanish , sigh, no English version. Clayton Heilman ?If you can?t measure it, you can?t improve it.? -Peter Drucker On Dec 7, 2023, at 11:55, Martin VE3OAT wrote: ?Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list From The Guardian newspaper, journalist Maria Antonieta Collins is quoted as saying : "the CIA used her [Juanita Castro] to smuggle messages, documents and money back into Cuba hidden inside canned goods. They communicated with her via shortwave radio, playing a waltz and a song from the opera Madame Butterfly as signals that her handlers had a message for her". Does anyone remember those transmissions? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/06/juanita-castro-dead-fidel-raul-sister-anti-communist ______________________________________________________________ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From deserthawk1990 at hotmail.com Fri Dec 8 01:12:27 2023 From: deserthawk1990 at hotmail.com (Chris Malboeuf) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 06:12:27 +0000 Subject: [Spooks] =?utf-8?q?From_The_Guardian_=3A_=22Juanita_Castro=2C_sis?= =?utf-8?q?ter_of_Fidel_and_Ra=C3=BAl_who_worked_with_CIA=2C_dies_aged_90?= =?utf-8?q?=22?= In-Reply-To: <46CC3944-7A78-4E39-9229-CA513FB8EB2F@gmail.com> References: <0e116197-ee8c-4eca-98e8-17d4d5c22a96@storm.ca> <46CC3944-7A78-4E39-9229-CA513FB8EB2F@gmail.com> Message-ID: No, but are there any recordings of those transmissions? Sent from my iPad > On Dec 7, 2023, at 9:58 PM, wc heilman wrote: > > Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list > > Auditable has Juanita?s book, in Spanish , sigh, no English version. > > Clayton Heilman > > > ?If you can?t measure it, you can?t improve it.? > -Peter Drucker > > On Dec 7, 2023, at 11:55, Martin VE3OAT wrote: > > ?Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list > > From The Guardian newspaper, journalist Maria Antonieta Collins is quoted as saying : > "the CIA used her [Juanita Castro] to smuggle messages, documents and money back into Cuba hidden inside canned goods. They communicated with her via shortwave radio, playing a waltz and a song from the opera Madame Butterfly as signals that her handlers had a message for her". > > Does anyone remember those transmissions? > > https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/06/juanita-castro-dead-fidel-raul-sister-anti-communist > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Spooks mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Spooks at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ > Spooks mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Spooks at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From alex at ritson.org Fri Dec 8 06:16:26 2023 From: alex at ritson.org (alex at ritson.org) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 11:16:26 +0000 Subject: [Spooks] =?utf-8?q?From_The_Guardian_=3A_=22Juanita_Castro=2C_sis?= =?utf-8?q?ter_of_Fidel_and_Ra=C3=BAl_who_worked_with_CIA=2C_dies_aged_90?= =?utf-8?q?=22?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <243AEC65-566F-4EE4-ABBF-2EB612848567@ritson.org> I was just so pleased to see a new message in my favourite group! Sent from my iPhone > On 8 Dec 2023, at 06:12, Chris Malboeuf wrote: > > ?Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list > > No, but are there any recordings of those transmissions? > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Dec 7, 2023, at 9:58 PM, wc heilman wrote: >> >> Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list >> >> Auditable has Juanita?s book, in Spanish , sigh, no English version. >> >> Clayton Heilman >> >> >> ?If you can?t measure it, you can?t improve it.? >> -Peter Drucker >> >> On Dec 7, 2023, at 11:55, Martin VE3OAT wrote: >> >> ?Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list >> >> From The Guardian newspaper, journalist Maria Antonieta Collins is quoted as saying : >> "the CIA used her [Juanita Castro] to smuggle messages, documents and money back into Cuba hidden inside canned goods. They communicated with her via shortwave radio, playing a waltz and a song from the opera Madame Butterfly as signals that her handlers had a message for her". >> >> Does anyone remember those transmissions? >> >> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/06/juanita-castro-dead-fidel-raul-sister-anti-communist >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Spooks mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Spooks at mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Spooks mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Spooks at mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ > Spooks mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Spooks at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From eclogae at proton.me Fri Dec 8 09:57:45 2023 From: eclogae at proton.me (Thormusik) Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2023 14:57:45 +0000 Subject: [Spooks] Juanita Castro - Spooks Digest, Vol 194, Issue 1 Message-ID: Wow, the end of (yet another) era! I do remember those transmissions. I was just a wee lad when I first heard them. Of course, I had no idea what they were at the time. It was before I kept a SW log, so I also don't remember freqs, but I do remember it was always late at night where I lived then, on the US east coast. ?Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them". ~Marcus Aurelius ProtonMail?securely encrypted email from Switzerland. On Friday, 8 December 2023 at 06:16, spooks-request at mailman.qth.net wrote: > Send Spooks mailing list submissions to > spooks at mailman.qth.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > spooks-request at mailman.qth.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > spooks-owner at mailman.qth.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Spooks digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. From The Guardian : "Juanita Castro, sister of Fidel and Ra?l > who worked with CIA, dies aged 90" (Martin VE3OAT) > 2. Re: From The Guardian : "Juanita Castro, sister of Fidel and > Ra?l who worked with CIA, dies aged 90" (wc heilman) > 3. Re: From The Guardian : "Juanita Castro, sister of Fidel and > Ra?l who worked with CIA, dies aged 90" (Chris Malboeuf) > 4. Re: From The Guardian : "Juanita Castro, sister of Fidel and > Ra?l who worked with CIA, dies aged 90" (alex at ritson.org) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 13:54:23 -0500 > From: Martin VE3OAT ve3oat at storm.ca > > To: spooks at mailman.qth.net > Subject: [Spooks] From The Guardian : "Juanita Castro, sister of Fidel > and Ra?l who worked with CIA, dies aged 90" > Message-ID: 0e116197-ee8c-4eca-98e8-17d4d5c22a96 at storm.ca > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > From The Guardian newspaper, journalist Maria Antonieta Collins is > quoted as saying : > "the CIA used her [Juanita Castro] to smuggle messages, documents and > money back into Cuba hidden inside canned goods. They communicated > with her via shortwave radio, playing a waltz and a song from the > opera Madame Butterfly as signals that her handlers had a message for > her". > > Does anyone remember those transmissions? > > https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/06/juanita-castro-dead-fidel-raul-sister-anti-communist > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 22:57:15 -0700 > From: wc heilman wc.heilman at gmail.com > > To: Martin Potter VE3OAT ve3oat at storm.ca, Shortwave Spy Numbers > > Stations spooks at mailman.qth.net > > Subject: Re: [Spooks] From The Guardian : "Juanita Castro, sister of > Fidel and Ra?l who worked with CIA, dies aged 90" > Message-ID: 46CC3944-7A78-4E39-9229-CA513FB8EB2F at gmail.com > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Auditable has Juanita?s book, in Spanish , sigh, no English version. > > Clayton Heilman > > > ?If you can?t measure it, you can?t improve it.? > -Peter Drucker > > On Dec 7, 2023, at 11:55, Martin VE3OAT ve3oat at storm.ca wrote: > > > ?Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list > > From The Guardian newspaper, journalist Maria Antonieta Collins is quoted as saying : > "the CIA used her [Juanita Castro] to smuggle messages, documents and money back into Cuba hidden inside canned goods. They communicated with her via shortwave radio, playing a waltz and a song from the opera Madame Butterfly as signals that her handlers had a message for her". > > Does anyone remember those transmissions? > > https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/06/juanita-castro-dead-fidel-raul-sister-anti-communist > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Spooks mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Spooks at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 06:12:27 +0000 > From: Chris Malboeuf deserthawk1990 at hotmail.com > > To: Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations spooks at mailman.qth.net > > Subject: Re: [Spooks] From The Guardian : "Juanita Castro, sister of > Fidel and Ra?l who worked with CIA, dies aged 90" > Message-ID: > CY8PR20MB54991143201AAB3D3CAB9282CA8AA at CY8PR20MB5499.namprd20.prod.outlook.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > No, but are there any recordings of those transmissions? > > Sent from my iPad > > > On Dec 7, 2023, at 9:58 PM, wc heilman wc.heilman at gmail.com wrote: > > > > Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list > > > > Auditable has Juanita?s book, in Spanish , sigh, no English version. > > > > Clayton Heilman > > > > ?If you can?t measure it, you can?t improve it.? > > -Peter Drucker > > > > On Dec 7, 2023, at 11:55, Martin VE3OAT ve3oat at storm.ca wrote: > > > > ?Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list > > > > From The Guardian newspaper, journalist Maria Antonieta Collins is quoted as saying : > > "the CIA used her [Juanita Castro] to smuggle messages, documents and money back into Cuba hidden inside canned goods. They communicated with her via shortwave radio, playing a waltz and a song from the opera Madame Butterfly as signals that her handlers had a message for her". > > > > Does anyone remember those transmissions? > > > > https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/06/juanita-castro-dead-fidel-raul-sister-anti-communist > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Spooks mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:Spooks at mailman.qth.net > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Spooks mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:Spooks at mailman.qth.net > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 11:16:26 +0000 > From: "alex at ritson.org" alex at ritson.org > > To: Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations spooks at mailman.qth.net > > Subject: Re: [Spooks] From The Guardian : "Juanita Castro, sister of > Fidel and Ra?l who worked with CIA, dies aged 90" > Message-ID: 243AEC65-566F-4EE4-ABBF-2EB612848567 at ritson.org > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > I was just so pleased to see a new message in my favourite group! > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On 8 Dec 2023, at 06:12, Chris Malboeuf deserthawk1990 at hotmail.com wrote: > > > > ?Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list > > > > No, but are there any recordings of those transmissions? > > > > Sent from my iPad > > > > > On Dec 7, 2023, at 9:58 PM, wc heilman wc.heilman at gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list > > > > > > Auditable has Juanita?s book, in Spanish , sigh, no English version. > > > > > > Clayton Heilman > > > > > > ?If you can?t measure it, you can?t improve it.? > > > -Peter Drucker > > > > > > On Dec 7, 2023, at 11:55, Martin VE3OAT ve3oat at storm.ca wrote: > > > > > > ?Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list > > > > > > From The Guardian newspaper, journalist Maria Antonieta Collins is quoted as saying : > > > "the CIA used her [Juanita Castro] to smuggle messages, documents and money back into Cuba hidden inside canned goods. They communicated with her via shortwave radio, playing a waltz and a song from the opera Madame Butterfly as signals that her handlers had a message for her". > > > > > > Does anyone remember those transmissions? > > > > > > https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/06/juanita-castro-dead-fidel-raul-sister-anti-communist > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > > Spooks mailing list > > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks > > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > > Post: mailto:Spooks at mailman.qth.net > > > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > > Spooks mailing list > > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks > > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > > Post: mailto:Spooks at mailman.qth.net > > > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > > Spooks mailing list > > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks > > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > > Post: mailto:Spooks at mailman.qth.net > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > ______________________________________________________________ > Spooks mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/faq.htm > Post: mailto:Spooks at mailman.qth.net > - > Visit http://www.spynumbers.com/ for complete information about Spy Numbers Stations > > > End of Spooks Digest, Vol 194, Issue 1 > ************************************** From w9sz.zack at gmail.com Fri Dec 8 10:12:53 2023 From: w9sz.zack at gmail.com (Zack Widup) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 09:12:53 -0600 Subject: [Spooks] =?utf-8?q?From_The_Guardian_=3A_=22Juanita_Castro=2C_sis?= =?utf-8?q?ter_of_Fidel_and_Ra=C3=BAl_who_worked_with_CIA=2C_dies_a?= =?utf-8?q?ged_90=22?= In-Reply-To: <243AEC65-566F-4EE4-ABBF-2EB612848567@ritson.org> References: <243AEC65-566F-4EE4-ABBF-2EB612848567@ritson.org> Message-ID: Me too! I wasn't aware of these transmissions, and at that time, I was a youngster exploring shortwave. I stumbled on the Cuban numbers stations but missed a lot of other things like this. There was no internet at that time to provide info on numbers and spy stations. There may have been publications sent by mail, but I wasn't aware of those, either. Zack Virus-free.www.avast.com <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 5:16?AM alex--- via Spooks wrote: > Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from > this list > > I was just so pleased to see a new message in my favourite group! > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On 8 Dec 2023, at 06:12, Chris Malboeuf > wrote: > > > > ?Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe > from this list > > > > No, but are there any recordings of those transmissions? > > > > Sent from my iPad > > > >> On Dec 7, 2023, at 9:58 PM, wc heilman wrote: > >> > >> Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe > from this list > >> > >> Auditable has Juanita?s book, in Spanish , sigh, no English version. > >> > >> Clayton Heilman > >> > >> > >> ?If you can?t measure it, you can?t improve it.? > >> -Peter Drucker > >> > >> On Dec 7, 2023, at 11:55, Martin VE3OAT wrote: > >> > >> ?Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe > from this list > >> > >> From The Guardian newspaper, journalist Maria Antonieta Collins is > quoted as saying : > >> "the CIA used her [Juanita Castro] to smuggle messages, documents and > money back into Cuba hidden inside canned goods. They communicated with her > via shortwave radio, playing a waltz and a song from the opera Madame > Butterfly as signals that her handlers had a message for her". > >> > >> Does anyone remember those transmissions? > >> > >> > https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/06/juanita-castro-dead-fidel-raul-sister-anti-communist > >> > >> > >> ______________________________________________________________ > >> Spooks mailing list > >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks > >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > >> Post: mailto:Spooks at mailman.qth.net > >> > >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > >> ______________________________________________________________ > >> Spooks mailing list > >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks > >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > >> Post: mailto:Spooks at mailman.qth.net > >> > >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Spooks mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:Spooks at mailman.qth.net > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ > Spooks mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Spooks at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html