These shortwave radio stations are used to maintain almost untraceable communications when the internet is down. Cuba has the ...

Numbers stations - those ghostly shortwave broadcasts where synthetic voices read strings of digits into the void - have been sending one-way coded messages to intelligence agents since World War I.

The mysterious Persian-language transmission began about 12 hours after the start of the US-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran. It was jammed five days later. Is it a coded message for US agents in ...

Numbers stations are a mysterious phenomenon of shortwave radio dating back to the Cold War. The radio signals are secret messages sent by intelligence agencies to undercover spies all over the world, ...

Shortwave radio listeners around the world have reported hearing mystery broadcasts in Persian on a new 'numbers station' ...

The regime is overmatched militarily, but still has tools for returning fire.

There are many reasons why old spying methods like number stations are used in an era of encrypted messaging apps, satellites ...

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The station — first spotted by short-wave trackers who christened it V32 — is the first to have been identified broadcasting in Farsi in a quarter of a century. One briefly went live during the US ...

For all their talk of cooperation and shared interests, the nations of the world put an awful lot of effort into spying on each other. All this espionage is an open secret, of course, but some of ...

There are all kinds of shortwave radio stations in the world, but WBCQ seems unique. Allan Weiner at the foot of the rotatable antenna installed in 2018. Located in Monticello, Maine, WBCQ is an up-to ...