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'Weird little devices': First one listens to Cold War spy radio
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.
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A popular shortwave Russian radio station dubbed UVB-76 has been an enigma for decades. But its recent messages have turned it into a tool for Kremlin saber-rattling. Through a fog of static, at 4625 ...
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