Numbers Radio Stations

[Meatsau5]

8, 6, 7, 5...3 0 9

[nachoguy5]

THE NUMBAHS MASON! WHAT DO THEY MEAN?

[TheRamenMaster]

@nachoguy5 WAT DO YOOH PEPLE WANT FROM MEH?

[MAKER6450]

id never heard of this till i seen it on the tv show Fringe.

trippy

[youkjetil]

I won the lottery with this number, 44millions... 5 19 7 7 3 8 11 24 3 44 11

[auvar100]

@youkjetil LMAO!! are you serious?!??

[icegryphon]

@Kut3003

MDZhB, the buzzer almost acts like the Woodpecker.

Kind of like an OTH Radar. Still love how we don't know what it is used for.

Also Yes I Agree, To others who are reading need to Check out: Priyom.org

[ToiletBomberAlpha]

@icegryphon - UVB-76..I can't recall the frequency but it's easy enough to find. I used that one as a ring tone for a long time. Heh.

[ToiletBomberAlpha]

@icegryphon - BTW, thanks for the site link - that's got some really info on it.

[leoblazer74]

I used to receive these on an old TV that the speakers stopped working. I plugged in some computer speakers to it and when the TV was turned off, it would sometimes spit out these transmissions.

[dss103]

How I end up dis radio shit. Do my ass look like a secaret agent?

[DonSangre]

its radio free rosco!

[cmchfx]

They're really just the Spies lunch order. Even spies have to eat.

[kablahblah22]

WHAT DO THE NUMBERS MEAN MASON WHAT DO THEY MEAN

[Aang1]

7 1 5 9 3 2 5 Nikolotov Miriel 4 7 5 1 0 0 Nikolov Bruno Bruno Miriel 7 5

[TheMarksmenCat]

The USSR collapsed - or so the world thinks

[Ilkeyrion]

@TheMarksmenCat Soviet Union does not approve of American shennanigans!

Wait, Soviet Union? I thought you guys broke up!

That's what you think!

[mlovmo]

Can you STILL hear these stations on SW? I haven't heard them since the 1990s. When I listen to SW nowadays, all I hear are religious nutjobs and other fanatics. I remember the little girl's voice reading out numbers in German. That kinda creeped me out...

[kaczurda]

4 8 15 16 23 42

[XxD1EAN0TH3RD4YxX]

395 395 704

[UnforgivingDemon]

What do the numbers mean Mason?

[PeterStaal01]

Not to throw in some spam, but:

Visit my channel for some more indepth video's about these Number Stations.

Interesting report by the way.

[b1naryd1g1t5]

The messages transmitted are one-time-pads, which is the only method of provably unbreakable encryption. OTP's, while unbreakable, suck in a practical sense because the key has to be the same length of the text. This makes them only useful for broadcasting very short messages to people who cannot be caught with computers and such. Thus, numbers stations are an easy way to ensure that agents, no matter where they are, can receive orders without drawing suspicion.

[unrealeck]

"5 19 7 7 3 8 11 24 3 4 4 11"

Means sap the sentry at Red's entrance.

[TekoMuto]

the secret ice cream man project

[39651able]

@DanielChristy19 For the umpteenmillionth time: Codes and Cyphers are illegal for Amateur and Commercial Operators to transmit. Governments ( the ones that make these regulations that preclude the rest of us) get away with transmitting Codes and Cyphers because they are what they are...Governments. British Official was blowing smoke out his ass- His remarks do suggest some sort of behind the scenes wink wink nod nod agreements that set the tone for this type of activity- will never know.

[532131]

Pause at :40, Middlesex ftw! Lol

[EddieTheFishReturns]

Lincolnshire Poacher for the win, I say!

[jaffdudegoldhero]

Number stations are not scary it's the silence after listening to one.

[DrMotorDude]

At 2:18 "No government has ever acknowledged numbers stations..." NOT TRUE

See- Ana Montes case. US Justice Dept. reported "She received instruction from Cuba via encrypted shortwave transmissions and coded numeric pager messages." AND, WHICH "British official" said, "...They are illegal to listen to..."?

[39651able]

@DrMotorDude Ana Montes is in some sort of facility in Texas for those with special needs- as in Mental. I noticed a couple of Ana Montes on FaceBook (the Silhouette)...was tempted to try and make contact; however she does creep me out- thought better of it. Isn't it Walter Kendal Meyers who just went to prison for the rest of his life? at least whats left of it. I repaired KW-7 and KG-13 Crypto Machines- I'd like to choke Walker, as would a lot of People.

[DrMotorDude]

@39651able She's in the mental ward of a federal prison. She doesn't stand a chance of getting out for a very long time. The facebook accounts are most likely NOT really her as 99.9% of prisons don't allow internet or cell phone use. I don't know about Walter Meyers but I'll read up on him.

[39651able]

@DrMotorDude I am assuming a bit about this Federal Prison; but that's what it sounds like to me. I didn't think Her release date was that far off. Listened to a Radio show recently; one of the callers was calling from Lompoc Federal Prison- as an Inmate. As a College Student, I toured the Federal Facility in San Diego years ago- colored jump suits, Pool Tables, TV's- nothing would suprise me. Old Man Meyers received Encrypted Morse Code from Cubans. Example is in this Video- M8a.

[39651able]

@DrMotorDude at 0:29 in this Video. Walter Meyers received training in Morse Code in His U.S. Army days. You notice on the page: AR AR ... this means end of message. The message for the next agent: WGUTN is coming up. Cubans use an abbreviation technique called "Cut Numbers" invented by Western Union back in the day. In this version WGUTN would convert to Agent ID # 58402 actual message 150 5 number groups. Some is bogus, some not. 250 Agents/Handlers in U.S. Any Questions?

[DrMotorDude]

@39651able Is the KG-13 similar to the KYK-13? (small, portable?)

[39651able]

@DrMotorDude Never heard of it; however the KG-13 isn't small and portable- 250 pounds... and now very obsolete- just google KG-13 to see what it looks like. By the NSA's own admission the crypyological Wars back in the 1970's and 80's were lost- USS Pueblo and Walker Spy Ring didn't help matters at all. Due to compartmentalization and concept of:"Need to Know" no telling how much damage was done. I did my itty bitty little part; Field maintainance in smelly green tents.

[ThePOKOkitty]

SCOUT IS SPY!

[ITSbigwillystyle]

The stations are under the ocean!!

[m0ja]

Maybe it is actually a radio broadcast from the future trying to communicate with us. If the trick is just to propel something faster than light to send something to the past, then this might be the answer:

current.com/technology/9030178­6_scientists-make-radio-waves-­travel-faster-than-light.htm

[triaxiom]

So anyone found the ultra secret device yet?

Also is that what that was on that one Moby tune?

[LAVERDADSUPREMA1]

wtf is fringe,, numbers stations r not spy shit,,, is global communication between different countrys, thats y they r in to many languajes but keeping same pattern, govs just dont want us to know what they r really talking about,,, spy?? thats just counter-intelligence, they r actually talking shit like "hey lets invent a new type of influenza, develop a global info management about it and make them all buy medication"

[eleftherios11]

@LAVERDADSUPREMA1 well,couldn't they use something simplier?

like a secure shell transmission?

doesn't make much of a sense...

you may be right though

[LAVERDADSUPREMA1]

wtf is fringe,, numbers stations r not spy shit,,, is global communication between different countrys, thats y they r in to many languajes but keeping same pattern, govs just dont want us to know what they r really talking about,,, spy?? thats just counter-intelligence

[SGMAN19]

Is it just me or did after watching fringe then finding out that number stations are real kind of freak you out now?

[liptonx]

fringe lol 

[gvsfgdf]

THIS VIDEO IS NOW CLASSIFIED AND ANYONE WHO WATCHES IT WILL BE TAKEN CARE OF.

Much love,

Your friends at the KGB and NSA

[gvsfgdf]

@TheMissingTooth Someone's been watching fringe :D

[SukhoiSu37Terminator]

How numbers stations are musical is beyond me.. They're fuckin' creepy!

[manny298]

This is how the government is going to be arresting people.. If you ever listened to any number station report, recording and/or transmission you are subject to arrest and taken to a secret prison. You will basically just disappear.

[90deweydog]

that frinking radio is a spy

[nextceo2k2]

@cosmoline626 well.. you sat here for 3 minutes and watched the video

like the rest of us. i assume that makes you a part of the 'people', too.

[mouse264]

Even if they ARE spy transmissions, they're still creepy as all hell to hear.

[joetri10]

that is the best question to ever ask... Why are these number stations still around?...

Will we ever get an answer?.. Before its to late

[Witzigerjoker]

3 8 4 6 9 0 5 9 0 9 2 3

Mooom! I'm so scaared!

[mouse264]

@Witzigerjoker Wait, is that a translation? D:

[Cats777]

"There shouldn't be any numbers stations."

That's implying there aren't any spies anymore.

[guthywoodry]

Only over educated British tight-arses would try to persuade anyone that it was illegal to hear things.... -How f***ing stupid can they get ? Is there no limit to Britishness ??

-Imagine the legions of clerics it takes to monitor, record & analyse what is 99% meaningless crap. You get an idea of what this is all about: Intelligence services unloading mountains of meaningless crap on each other that needs to be minutely analysed -Just in case it might mean something.

Welcome to Hell....

[voy303]

@guthywoodry Why so British?

[guthywoodry]

@voy303

Try Asking Gareth Williams.... -He was found, Dead, in a bag, in Pimlico, London. -August 2010.

No One, including Scotland Yard's greatest forensic specialists, have any idea what killed him.

-Gareth Williams was an Intelligence analyst for GCHQ.

He got an 'invite' to work for MI6 in London.

-He never got out alive.

[voy303]

@guthywoodry

I was saying something to your "Is there no limit to Britishness ??" line

[pmarie2003]

"The Cold War is over so there really shouldn't be number stations." I wish I was that naive.

I wonder how they deliver the one-time dictionary?

Being an announcer for this seems like it would be the ultimate job for a loner /introvert like myself.

Where do you work?

In an office on the other side of the city, for a madeupnamecompany you've probably never heard of. I'm a switchboard operator. (Yeah, that's it.)

[guteo]

4 8 15 16 23 42

[N0rthwestRadio]

Illegal to listen to? Now that's a knowledgeable mind. sarcasm

[VocaloidWolf]

this is so weird...why are there number stations..? this is kinda creepy, weirdly the voices on number stations sound kinda the same. WEIRD RIGHT?!?!?!?!?

[ddhboy2]

@VocaloidWolf the voices are artificial, hence why they sound uniform and a bit off.

[LikaLaruku]

I have the Conet Project CDs. I think the "creepy" sounds are relaxing.

[linutas]

1:24 he said fuck work

[SgtZippzapp]

@linutas clock work, not fuck work

[UK31337]

@linutas "Clockwork"

[musicvideosthatsuck]

Fascinating topic but this is one of the most poorly edited news stories I've ever seen...constantly interrupting the sources, and what's with those goofy special effects? BTW, spies were never exclusive to the cold war. They don't call spying the world's 2nd oldest profession for nothing.

[G0IFI]

It's technically illegal to transmit them. No ident, nothing. Unauthorised frequencies. So by the same token the govt. agencies transmitting them would be liable to prosecution.

I doubt they'd prosecute anyone for listening. You just can't help finding them, and without knowing what they are, how does anyone know they're illegal to listen to? If the agencies involved admit to running them and THEN tell us we can't listen to them, quoting the relevant act, then that's a different matter.

[jroc889]

@G0IFI the fcc has to know its going on think about how long they have been going for they just being all hush hush about it

[aurora990]

if it is illegal to listen numbers short wave radio stations, why would numbers stations broadcast on an unencrypted radio transmission? there are short wave radio listeners that know Morse Code and any "code" broadcasted on short wave radio.

[jhakhohbhy]

@aurora990 its not just ordinary morse code

[aurora990]

@jhakhohbhy oh okay. it is not the ordinary Morse code used by spy stations. it sounded like Morse code but now I know it is not ordinary Morse code. thanks.

[cosmoline626]

And just think... Somewhere out there there's probably some retired spy or government assassin who's watching these vids and laughing at how people make such a big thing out of what are probably just top secret, mundane, boring orders.

"Go here, go there, kill him, steal that..."

[yoseph125]

@cosmoline626 Really? But they sound so scary? Are there still government spies, what do they do?

[cosmoline626]

@yoseph125 LoL As long as there is more than one government on the planet, there will always be spies ;)

[G0IFI]

Spies do what they always did: send information back to their paymasters/government, or carry out and/or coordinate various actions ordered by their paymasters/government. Some of it can be considered pretty heroic from the point of view of keeping us safe, or it could be considered provocative and dangerous. A bit like the nuclear issue really. People working undercover in hostile nations to keep their governments informed of what goes on there has happened throughout civilisation. Always will.

[jhakhohbhy]

@G0IFI like a movie haha

[jhakhohbhy]

@cosmoline626 lol ur right dude, we are so dumb people, we can make those spy dumb too if we make our own number stations that they can't decipher either lol

[N0rthwestRadio]

@cosmoline626 Its just a fascinating pastime. Similar, yet more romantic, than dx'ing radio stations and collecting QSL cards from them.

[hmsrenown]

@N0rthwestRadio I might add one of these guys actually got a few QSL's from these numbers stations...one from Czech OLX, and 2 from British military

[Si3z3]

@cosmoline626 u left out send the package there ge m e my pizza gfet me my laundy were the fk is the sault why isnt it on the table -_- stop reading this

[finleyd]

More likely, "explain item x you filed in your expense report!" :-)

[MrCptGonzo]

@cosmoline626

Lol yeah probably.

[daladek]

@cosmoline626 you are spy!!

[buzzhorn1]

@cosmoline626 lol I bet there is. But how do we know your not a spy? cosmoline if that is your real name!

[MorroccoSurrogate]

I like it, too. I'd like to get that cd.

[u2basher]

During World War II the Jap Navy sent coded groups of five numbers each....each set of five numbers had a specific meaning such as "ring up flank speed on heading 217" or "contact logistics Borneo on 346 kc on midwatch"....these were known as "book codes" and were entirely different from the "Purple Code" or electromechanical (based on German Enigma) code machines used by the Diplomatic staff....the Japanese Naval Code was almost too easy for American cryptographers to break....Purple was NOT.

[Thetrutv]

dude i hate this things it sucks i have bean reading all night just to try understand what the point if damn fuck it

[grahamkeithtodd]

@u2basher strangely old son the british managed to brake the Purple code as you put it! look up STATION X at Bletchly park uk for the history of British code braking in ww2

[jimbobillybob1202]

they've gone far beyond that technology now, they can now listen in on you through your fm radio, me and my friend found this out one day, whoever was listening to us even communicated to us through the stereo, kind of messing with us, for the longest time i thought it must have been some type of ghost or something, till i realized it might be some type of government spy technology, its either a ghost or some sort of spy tech stuff, i dont think it was a ghost.

[FelixTheHouseFreak]

An FM radio has no capability of transmission dude...

[20122017]

@FelixTheHouseFreak you can transmit on any freq/mode if u have the equip

[FelixTheHouseFreak]

@20122017 The person i replied too was talking about a household FM receiver like you have in your bedroom or kitchen having the possibility of transmitting which is why i said that they cant do that.

[20122017]

@FelixTheHouseFreak thx for the clarification :)

[Awfulartist]

Aaaah, so that's the guy behind the Conet Project.

[DemonWarp65]

What is really creepy (to me anyways), is this all sounds like something plucked from Stephen Kings "Dark Tower" series. How do we know these stations weren't created by North Central Positronics? LOL

[JE5]

I remember picking one up on my cheap hifi in the late 80's and being very weirded out by the experience, then in the late 90's I recieved a promotional Conet Project CD from Irdial disks and immediately remembered that experience i'd had as a kid and i've been fascinated by them ever since.

[swedish27]

Very interesting! As an complete newbie to this field, could anyone with some experience in listening to these transmissions, give some advice on what basic recivers could be good to purchase?thanks

[MattExzy]

Check out some of my vids :) As for a radio, almost anything with single side band tuning will do - but even the most cheapest shortwave radio will pick up the Cuban numbers station, for instance, with a long wire antenna.

[iljonathan777]

Very curious, I'd vaguely heard of numbers stations but didn't actually know what they were.

I could believe some of them could well be broadcasting secret intelligence messages - equally the aim could be to waste the time of rival intelligence organisations by spamming the airwaves with meaningless ... er, number gibberish?

[bionicmisfit]

These ham ops saying "we don't know where they are coming from"...ever hear of a goniometer?...ever hear of triangulation? Remember CONELRAD?...it was purposely set up so that emergency signals could be fragmented and then widely scattered stations would each take preprogrammed turns transmitting individual fragments so enemy bombers could not home in on the signals...maybe that is what is going on here.

[Schoenberg12]

I hear numbers stations here in Mexico. I heard them while living in Seattle. In Europe. There are also numbers stations using "broad spectrum" modulation. Using spectrum analysis software you can decode them. Similar to the slow CW QRP so popular now.

[4405486]

Korean Numbers Station observed here Central California Coast- mornings on 6215 KHz. Music followed by female counter: sets of five numbers, about 5-6 minutes duration. Signal stronger than 5715 KHz parallel, maybe 200-250 Kw?

Signal (typical): fair to good, through noise and turbulence; some selective fade. Subject to weak co-channel interference and low frequency heterodyne (perhaps, Radio Balurdrte, Argentina 1 Kw ?)

Useable signal over superb Sea Water Circuit.

TNX

[LoriLasko]

Buy a good shortwave radio, and tune in. Listening is so fun.

[Met0llicA]

i think that listening to them is very creepy, i piss in my pants when hearing those sounds :( do u really believe thats fun?

[luigi2346]

That black guy (no offense) sounds like John Travolta.

[MNc99]

This video is awful. It skips and jumps about making the entire thing almost impossible to understand. Get better software!

[Pikapoo1]

0:50-0:56 and 2:40-2:46

ZOMG it's da ice cream man!

Yeah, I'v heard that recording before online... I dont remember where. I should google it.

[tijuas]

How is that english black dude named fernandez?, that's another mistery right there

[Schoenberg12]

PUes piensa: hay portugueses, españoles y latinoamericanos en Europa y en Africa. El mundo es muuuucho más grande que el pequeño mundo gringo o mexicanoo. saludos

[tijuas]

Solo bromeaba amigo, saludos.

[closer2192]

What's even more disturbing are the morse code letter stations, which are just low power stations infinitely spamming out morse code letters, possibly to keep the station open for later broadcasts.

[peterann1]

Numbers stations were low tech one ways, usually using a broadcast station like Radio Havana with a one time pad. Five letter groups often sent could be used with 'Enigma' coding machines found surplus....you can buy one in Dayton HamVention!!! All obsolete now with internet and cellphones except for isolated places....higher levels of encryption are on your PC. Here's something: take FIVE Single Letter Beacons with ONE Baudot character on each and transmit. 5 X 1 is one Baudot character.

[5hinmyoken]

look up "numbers station" on wikipedia

[faithm]

thats weird. i used to listen obessively to one station on the far right of the dial on am radio. not sure if it's on some certain kind of radio. i've heard radio stations count while they were switching formats though.

[BigBananaMan]

I've heard lots of things like that on my radio here in FL. I got a numbers station one time that would come back every day with a female voice. It's not a big mystery anymore. There was that one cuban spy network that was caught back in 98 and had their messages decrypted. The Cuban Five they were called, part of the Wasp network. It's always going to be either illegal or for important government secrecy. Something that someone wants to hide from everyone else.

[rkotm]

could be old radio broadcasts from the cold war that are not necessarily rebroadcast but the frequencies and sound waves from space loop them as in these waves are coming back from 30 years ago. it happens, but that wouldnt explain specifically why number stations are "rebroadcast" in my theory. just a simple thought.

[Resdon111]

Nah, one or two of the stations have been definitively traced to military bases (I believe its Lynconshire Poacher out of Cyprus)

[pwnage0013]

I have read that the reason they read off groups of numbers either in clusters of 4 or 5, is to make it easy for the person on the other end( a spy) to decode the message easier. That in fact they use codes made up of randomly picked numbers that are used only one time, making it mathematically impossible for even a CRAY computer to break.

[pwnage0013]

Dude these are not a joke! I have a cheapie SW radio and on almost ANY given night I can go out south of town away from all EMN interferences and hear Spanish Lady numbers calling and at times Letters Stations.

[peterann1]

Years ago, those transmissions contained coded commercial messages quoting market prices of raw materiels like rubber, fruit and tin. ENIGMA coding machine was designed for secure commerce. Spanish Lady codes costs for nice evening. .... .. .... ..

[amandalee7747]

Yeah, I really agree with that theory, at least in several cases, esp. the South american stations where they have p/u'd transmissions that don't seem to be taking it too seriously; ie; a live person clearly screwing up the messgae, people talking in the backround, laughing, etc. Why couldn't they have adopted a succesful method, like you say? Totally feasable (sp?).

[amandalee7747]

I have been into num. stations since my 1st SW radio in about 83, 84.. 2 bad I rarely p/u  anything these days. LOVE YOUR VIDEO A++++

[emmthreejonny]

What I'm curious about is why do they sometimes use little girls' voices?... There was even a transmission of Yosemite Sam saying, "Varmint, I'm a-gonna b-b-b-bloooow yah t'smithereenies!" on short wave. The whole thing is just weird. Back in the 90's we'd hear this kind of stuff on SW here in the Philippines and always wondered why it loops and recycles, sometimes we'd pick-up telephone conversations.

[amandalee7747]

They are often computer generated voices, coded things; like the Y. Sam, ans I imagine voices that no one would recognize, like a child's. It is so weird/creepy. I have been listening since I was a child in the 80's and got so intrested even then I was fascinated; then they got more & more rare. I found them oddly relaxing to listen to, kind of spooky though in a way too. in the Us I can hardly get anything these days. I can't afford expensive eqpmnt.

[emmthreejonny]

At one point listening to them in internet archive was relaxing.

[anak1]

While i was back in Phils (in Bacoor) at the beginnning of this year, I heard some weird number stations in Mandarin Chinese and (I think) Burmese on SW late at night: they seriously creeped me out! they're still operational...

[australiachile]

i think these are dead voices coming from years and years..which are translated by numbers trying to communicate with some living souls ,could be war dead souls.

[amandalee7747]

You're NOT being serious, are you? I hope this is sarchasm..

[mcquestion]

It might be covert communication, but it's not cold war related. Governments are still using modus operandi developed in the cold war, why not use this number station M.O. in current times?

[amandalee7747]

well, you hardly hear them like you used to, back in the 80's, early 90's.. some ppl. say drug runners are using this as a similar system to do their own thing- no, not your corner dealer either. could make some sense?

[mcquestion]

It could indeed. Often, criminals adopt successful methods from other organizations (well, good criminals do, anyway).

[mcquestion]

Another frightening thought...

terrorists?

Maybe adopting successful cold war methods?

Frightening thought.

[peterann1]

Reality is terrorists now use one-use cellphones not lacking the skill of a radio operator.

[w7d3g8n2zx54]

or recruit drug dealing black african niggers to do their work.

[peterann1]

NO. IT was long before Nigerians knew there was another source of light beyond a kerosene lantern. I have to assume you never worked the Firestone HF network of rubber plantations. I ask: how can you recruit people lacking in technologic skills on HF radio who soil their source of fresh water?

[Wa3ypx]

I recall something about the Firestone network, what did they do on HF?

[peterann1]

There was a day when rubber plant seeds were worth more than gold and that caught smuggling them out of South America could entail DEATH PENALTY. Like diamonds, someone eventually got some out. Rubber plants grow proliferlously in tropical enviroments and the Firestone family quickly established plantations throughout the world. To maintain production and shipping of latex billets they established one of the first commercial HF networks: fuel is worthless without a rubber tire. WB2SGT

[art0fwar]

LOL number stations, YOU FOOLS!! ever heard of echelon? hahahaaaaa

[pzwhite]

Why does it have to still be Cold War related? I see no reason why the same system wouldn't still be in effect but for some other secret international affairs. The Cold War is over.

[PoPoNellie]

Dead voices on air.......

[lune66]

So its a station that says numbers all day? whats so interesting about that? >_>

[amandalee7747]

lune66, if you just watched the attached video you'd see why there is a very lardge community intrested in numbers stations. To each his own, if you just happen not to find the mystery in it then you don't get it. no one is forcing you to find it intresting. Plus, they don't go all day, part pf the fun is finding them.

[Bullzeye95]

But yes, they still use the numbers stations. The US nabbed a bunch of Cuban spies in 2001 who were getting their orders from "Attencion", a numbers station out of Havana.

[emmthreejonny]

I heard about that too. But mostly these frequencies are traced from embassies.

[peterann1]

Few embassies and consulates MFU transmit such coded emmisions. Last biggie in USA was Telefunken in 1914 running fast CW paper tapes...ham experimenting with metal wire recording slowed down to dicover Morse Code. I'm old remembering old tech.

[Bullzeye95]

It's not a mystery. They're still going because all spy services still use so-called "free illegals" in most foreign countries. The illegals get their orders from the shortwave messages because with the one-time pads they might as well be shouting it from a loudspeaker, nobody's going to be able to crack it except the spy with the corresponding pad.

[RadioNorthSea]

Listened to numbers stations for many years.They were certainly in abundance during the cold war,but now we have another enemy as in middle-eastern terrorists.I think that for this reason the numbers stations are still in existance.

[princejosh101]

What movie was played in this video?

[dreammaker182]

Vanilla Sky has numbers station in the background of certain scenes because it adds "confusion" to the scenes...

[tpjv86b]

Vanilla Sky

[michtyme3]

The fast edits are too damned fast. Let experts speak in some depth before cutting to another visual every half a second. I won't click off, honest.

Nice to see a number stations presence on youtube though

[ravnar101]

Humanity has planned for world destruction a long time ago, this is just another way to secretely communicate. Except this way is old, decades old, and still around, why? is perhaps the ultimate mystery.

[GuruLarry]

It could still be being used as noones cracked it yet.

[mumblingmutant]

What is this stuff called? What websites talk about this?

[incurableparanoiac]

just search for 'conet project'

[argenteum]

I thought it would be worth adding that you can (legally) download the whole of the four CD Conet Project for free from the Internet Archive. It's well worth getting.

[amandalee7747]

mumbliingmutant- just google numbers stations, you'll get tons. The 'spooks' page is good, and you can buy the entire Connet project deal on CD.