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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: Fansome on April 19, 2013, 0152 UTC
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/feature/wp/2013/04/18/ana-montes-did-much-harm-spying-for-cuba-chances-are-you-havent-heard-of-her/
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Fansome - Thanks for sharing that! Unbelievable. The "Numbers Stations" portions of the story were particularly interesting and must have been child's play for her. I smell a movie deal out of this... Makes you wonder how many other Ana's are out there, only their names are of Middle Eastern extraction...
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Thanx for sharing, cool article..
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Fansome,
Good read, thanks for posting! Those who might want more info on 'Numbers' might have a look at this web page, actually several pages from that author.
http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/en/onetimepad.htm
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The FBI affidavit that goes into more detail:
http://cryptome.org/montes/montes092101.pdf (http://cryptome.org/montes/montes092101.pdf)
Cuban Agent Communications Failure of a Perfect System:
http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/papers/cuban_agent_communications.pdf (http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/papers/cuban_agent_communications.pdf)
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Etech and skeezix... Thanks for the links, they were very informative to say the least...
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Montes used the Sony ICF-2010.
So did the Alavarez's that were caught in 2006 after spying for Cuba for 30 years:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/19/professor.spy/
In the late 70's, there was a mother & son that tried to escape East Germany with the help of a Stasi agent as well as the West German BND. They used a numbers station to get their instructions from the BND.
http://radio-weblogs.com/0101986/stories/2002/01/21/ifItHadNotBeenFor15Minutes.html (http://radio-weblogs.com/0101986/stories/2002/01/21/ifItHadNotBeenFor15Minutes.html)
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why do these articles assume "no one's heard of" anything? as if we're a bunch of illiterate cave dwellers.
Someone else got busted and also using those Cuban numbers stations
http://cryptome.org/2013/04/marta-rita-velazquez.htm
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It says Velazquez also used the same radio as Montes. But, they don't specify which model. In all three of the reports of the spies (Montes, Velazquez, and Alvarez), it was never reported which radio it was specifically.
Found out it was the ICF-2010 from the the book "Ultimate Spy" (http://books.google.com/books?id=DjvNIfb4NNAC&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69).
Now I can say I have a spy radio. ;)
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Charge disclosed in Cuban spying against US
The Associated Press
Friday, April 26, 2013 | 12:17 a.m.
The Justice Department says a former legal officer at the State Department's Agency for International Development helped recruit a colleague to spy for the Cuban Intelligence Service against the U.S.
Marta Rita Velazquez, who now lives in Sweden, is accused of conspiracy to commit espionage by helping Ana Belen Montes get a job at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, where Montes engaged in espionage. Montes is serving a 25-year prison sentence.
A 9-year-old indictment against Velazquez was unsealed Thursday. She has remained outside the United States since 2002 and the U.S. has been unable to gain her return. The extradition treaty between the United States and Sweden does not allow extradition for political offenses, a category that includes espionage.
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Justice Department accuses U.S. citizen of being Cuban spy
Marta Rita Velazquez, now living in Sweden, recruited U.S. national security employees to work for Cuba, a newly released indictment says.
By Wes Venteicher, Los Angeles Times
April 25, 2013, 5:39 p.m.
WASHINGTON — Almost 30 years ago, two young women allegedly obtained fake passports in Europe for a clandestine trip to Cuba. Today, one is in prison serving a 25-year sentence for espionage; the other has taken shelter in Sweden.
On Thursday, the U.S. government stepped up its efforts to get that second woman, Marta Rita Velazquez, from Sweden to an American courtroom.
Velazquez, 55, a U.S. citizen born in Puerto Rico, was charged in 2004 with conspiracy to commit espionage for her role in recruiting Ana Belen Montes to give American secrets to Cuba, according to a previously sealed indictment that the Justice Department released Thursday. Montes is in prison, convicted of spying while she was employed at the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Since 2002, Velazquez has been in Sweden, where, the documents say, she at one time had a husband. Velazquez is aware of the charges against her, so there is no longer any reason to keep the indictment secret, a Justice Department official said.
Because espionage is considered a "political offense" under most international treaties, including the treaty between the U.S. and Sweden, the U.S. cannot simply seek Velazquez's extradition. Release of the documents, however, could build pressure on Sweden to return Velazquez to face charges here, where she would potentially face life in prison.
Velazquez operated from the 1980s until 2002 under the code name "Barbara," recruiting potential agents for Cuban intelligence, according to the indictment. She would "spot, assess and recruit U.S. citizens who occupied sensitive national security positions or had the potential of occupying such positions in the future to serve as Cuban agents," the Justice Department said in a statement accompanying release of the indictment.
The indictment focuses on Velazquez's relationship with Montes, who has admitted to revealing the identities of four undercover American intelligence officers who were working in Cuba.
Velazquez allegedly met Montes in the early 1980s as a fellow student at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, where she picked up on Montes' sympathies for Latin American countries at odds with the U.S., particularly Nicaragua. Velazquez quickly funneled Montes, who was then employed as a clerk at the Justice Department, into the Cuban intelligence service, the indictment alleges.
Velazquez, who was an attorney advisor at the Department of Transportation and later worked at the U.S. Agency for International Development, allegedly used political connections to get Montes a position at the Defense Intelligence Agency in 1985.
From the mid-1980s until she left the country, Velazquez received instructions from the Cubans through encrypted, high-frequency broadcasts and meetings with Cuban agents outside the U.S. and then passed those directions to Montes, the Justice Department said.
wes.venteicher@latimes.com
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So the Commies use SONY portables, eh?
Don't you have an SW-7600, Comrade Al?
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Wow. I'll never hear another numbers transmission the same way again.