[Spooks] Juanita Castro - Spooks Digest, Vol 194, Issue 1

Fri Dec 8 09:57:45 EST 2023

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.

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On Friday, 8 December 2023 at 06:16, spooks-request at mailman.qth.net <spooks-request at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

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> 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)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 13:54:23 -0500
> From: Martin VE3OAT ve3oat at storm.ca
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> 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
> 
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> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 22:57:15 -0700
> From: wc heilman wc.heilman at gmail.com
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> To: Martin Potter VE3OAT ve3oat at storm.ca, Shortwave Spy Numbers
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> Stations spooks at mailman.qth.net
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> 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
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> 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:
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> 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
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 06:12:27 +0000
> From: Chris Malboeuf deserthawk1990 at hotmail.com
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> To: Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations spooks at mailman.qth.net
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> Subject: Re: [Spooks] From The Guardian : "Juanita Castro, sister of
> Fidel and Ra?l who worked with CIA, dies aged 90"
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> 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
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> > 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
> > 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 11:16:26 +0000
> From: "alex at ritson.org" alex at ritson.org
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> To: Shortwave Spy Numbers Stations spooks at mailman.qth.net
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> 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
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> I was just so pleased to see a new message in my favourite group!
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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> > On 8 Dec 2023, at 06:12, Chris Malboeuf deserthawk1990 at hotmail.com wrote:
> > 
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> > 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
> > > 
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