Lecture - Espionage by the Numbers: Introduction to Number Stations - Delft University 2011
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Espionage by the Numbers
An introduction to Spy Numbers Stations
by Peter Staal
How they work
Who’s behind it / cases
Q&A
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Anatomy of a message
OTP
Tables
How they work
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Anatomy of a message
OTP
Tables
How they work
Peter Staal - february 2011
Anatomy of a message
Interval/callsignHeader
- Agent-ID- Message size
5/4 Figure groupsRedundancy
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Anatomy of a message
Interval/callsignHeader
- Agent-ID 328 912- Message size 11 66
5/4 Figure groupsRedundancy
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Anatomy of a message
Interval/callsignHeader
- Agent-ID 328 912- Message size 11 66
5/4 Figure groupsRedundancy
Peter Staal - february 2011
Anatomy of a message
OTP
Tables
How they work
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One-Time-Pad
One-Time-Pad
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One-Time-Pad
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One-Time-Pad
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One-Time-Pad
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One-Time-Pad
74265 34925 23426 cyphertext18593 47499 45877 OTP------------------------------ +82758 71314 68293 cleartext
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One-Time-Pad
74265 34925 23426 cyphertext18593 47499 45877 OTP------------------------------ +82758 71314 68293 cleartext
Add (or substract) without carry
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Anatomy of a message
OTP
Tables
How they work
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Tables
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Tables
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Tables
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Tables
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How they work
Who’s behind it / cases
Q&A
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Andy TowerSpokesman British Department of Trade and Industry- 1997
“These are what you suppose they are.
People shouldn’t be mystified by them.
They are not for, shall we say, public consumption”
Telegraph, January 14, 1997
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Who’s behind it / cases
Law Enforcement cases
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Who’s behind it / cases
- Erwin van Haarlem / Vaclav Jelinek – arrested 1988 by British Special Branch
- WASP-network - arrested 1998 by the FBI - FBI copied decoding software in 1995
- Cuban Five (arrested 2001)
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Who’s behind it / cases
- Ana Belen Montes (arrested/charged September 21, 2001) - a Senior US Defence Intelligence Agency analyst Affidavit: “… and received her instructions through encrypted shortwave transmissions from Cuba”
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Who’s behind it / cases
Kendall & Gwendolyn Myers - arrested and indicted June 4, 2009
Kendall Myers (agent 202): top intelligence analyst at the State Department.
Gwendolyn Myers (agent 123 / E-634).
Spied for about 30 years for Cuba.
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Who’s behind it / cases
Meet the MyersPeter Staal - february 2011
Who’s behind it / cases
Russian Spy Ring (2010)
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Who’s behind it / cases
Russian Spy Ring (2010)
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Who’s behind it / cases
Russian Spy Ring (2010)
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Who’s behind it / cases
References in literature
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Who’s behind it / cases
References in literature
- Defector / whistleblower
- Declassified documents- Let the other guy do the talking
- Former employees
- End of the Cold War- End of Soviet Union- End of East-Germany
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References in literature Spycraft: Robert Wallace & H. Keith Melton
“The one-way voice link (OWVL) described a covert communications system that transmitted messages to an agent's unmodified shortwave radio using the high-frequency shortwave bands between 3 and 30 MHz at a predetermined time, date, and frequency contained in their communications plan.”
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References in literature CIA, Inc.: Espionage and the Craft of Business Intelligence F. W. Rustmann, Jr.
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Who’s behind it / cases
References in literature
- Defector / whistleblower
- Declassified documents
- Former employees
- End of the Cold War- End of Soviet Union- End of East-Germany
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Declassified documentsPolish Ministry of Interior (MSW) II Department (Counterintelligence)
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Declassified documents
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Declassified documents
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Declassified documents
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Declassified documents
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Declassified documents
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Declassified documents
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Declassified documents
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Declassified documents
Speech / Morse generator Peter Staal - february 2011
Questions & Answers
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