You don't need 007's "Q" to listen in on coded broadcasts that are transmitted to spies in faraway places.Anybody can tune in to the world's top spy agencies talking to operatives in harm's way. All you need is a cheap shortwave radio receiver - the kind available at any drugstore.
Tune it to 6855 kHz or 8010 on the hour. You might hear a girlish voice repeating strings of numbers in a Spanish monotone.
"Nueve, uno, nueve, tres, cinco-cinco, quatro, cinco, tres, dos ... ," went one seemingly harmless message heard this week on a Grundig radio.
It was the Cuban Intelligence Directorate or Russian FSB broadcasting coded instructions from Havana to spies inside the U.S.
Snoop, Here It Is (New York Daily News, 26 Nov 2006)
For more on this fascinating topic, see the website SpyNumbers.com.
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