Numbers Stations: A Bad Day to be a Cuban Spy
By Thomas, The SWLing Post
While band scanning last Sunday (September 8, 2014) I stumbled upon the Cuban numbers station HM01 on 11,530 kHz at 17:30 UTC.
It’s always intriguing to hear shortwave numbers stations, but I prefer those that stick to pure vocal number strings;
HM01 has numbers with digital bursts between number sets, which is a
more fatiguing listening experience. Nonetheless, I kept it playing in
the background as I tooled around the radio room Sunday afternoon,
putting away supplies from my recent three week road trip.
Cuban “Numbers Station” Broadcast to Some of Its Spies — Recorded Last Week
"The lack of any accent in the voice of the Atención station was
explained in December by Jorge García Vázquez, a Cuban in Berlin who has
been researching the links between Havana and the STASI, the former
East Germany’ intelligence service. A Jan. 10 1977 letter in the
STASI archives shows Cuban intelligence Maj. Eddy Herrera had requested
the equipment for a numbers station, preloaded with the Spanish words
for one through zero, Attention, Goodbye and Final, Garcia Vazquez
reported.."
