Numbers Stations
99% Invisible
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The Evil Twin of a Shortwave Station
A hard-core group of listeners continued to obsessively tape and analyze these stations. Think of them catching nicknames like The Boardman and Bulgarian Betty. You segment tracks the numbers from monitoring times, a journal for hardcore radio listeners. They're encrypted messages to somebody. We think it's to spies, we hope it's just a spies, nothing more sinister than that.
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