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Alex Mason Speaking:

"Okey, because you people will not stop spamming the internet with that annoying phrase: "THE NUMBERS MASON! WHAT DO THEY MEAN!?" and since you people are obviously too stupid to look up the term Numbers Stations this is the moment you all have been eagerly waiting for. I AM FINALLY GOING TO TELL YOU IDIOTS WHAT THE FUCKING NUMBERS MEAN! SO PAY ATTENTION!"

"First a little history lesson: Back in the days of the Cold War radio spooks started reporting hearing strange broadcasts on the outer limits of the bands in obscure frequencies. Mysterious voices calling out random strings of numbers for seemingly no reason. These voices ranged from women to men and even children and the broadcasts were often coupled with snippets of music, noises, and beeps. You could hear them all over the bands in fact and they spoke in many different languages ranging from English, Spanish, Czech, Russian, German, Korean, and even Chinese."

"Now no one really knew what these broadcasts were for and there were many theories as to who was behind them and what their purpose was. And they ranged from Drug runners, to radio pranksters all the way to espionage. Because no one would ever talk about who was running these stations and not knowing what they were called, they eventually became known as the Numbers Stations. There are now multiple groups that are dedicated to monitoring and recording these stations one of them being the European Numbers Intelligence Gathering & Monitoring Association or ENIGMA 2000 which publishes a monthly newsletter."

"There was one person who decided to record, collect, and archive them and released them into a 4 ultimately expanded to 5 disc box set called the Conet Project taken from a Czech word misheard on one of these recordings. Achking Fernandes was his name and he owned an indie music labeling business called Irdial and he stumbled upon the Numbers Stations by accident and became obsessed with them. In fact you can download the entire 4 disc edition legally at . And like a moron I actually listened to the entire 4 disc edition of this box set. That brought back so many bad memories. I couldn't stop hearing the numbers in my head for weeks!"

"Eventually they got some nicknames like these:

Lincolnshire Poacher (the most famous one run by MI6)

Swedish Rhapsody

The English Lady

Oblique (Polish)

English Man (Polish)

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (MOSSAD)

Atencion (Cuban DGI)

The Gongs (Stasi)

Counting Station (CIA)

The Russian Man (KGB)

Bulgarian Betty

Spanish Lady (Stasi)

The Polytone Stations XPL, XPH, XPA, XPA2 (KGB, GRU, FSB)

Eastern Music Station (Egypt)

Magnetic Fields (France)

New Star Broadcasting (Taiwan)

Tyrolean Music Station (France)

Cherry Ripe (MI6)

to name a few."

"Another person Simon Mason yeah we both share the same last name unfortunately. Has a massive collection of Numbers Station related stuff and wrote Secret Signals The Euro Numbers Mystery. There is even someone who has access to an actual Numbers Machine too."

"Now out of all the theories about what these stations are for, espionage is the correct one. That is why they are sometimes called Spy Numbers Stations. And there is proof that Intelligence Agencies use them. Multiple Cuban Spies in the US were caught listening to the Atencion Numbers Station, and two more in Germany were caught listening to the XPA Polytone Station. There are declassified documents that confirm the use of Numbers Stations, some stations have been tracked down. There is even a German Document that explains how to decode a Numbers Station."

"You can even still hear them on the air today!"