Espionage by the Numbers An introduction to Spy Numbers Stations by Peter Staal
May 10, 2015
Espionage by the Numbers
An introduction to Spy Numbers Stations
by Peter Staal
How they work
Who’s behind it / cases
Q&A
Peter Staal - february 2011
Anatomy of a message
OTP
Tables
How they work
Peter Staal - february 2011
Anatomy of a message
OTP
Tables
How they work
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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
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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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