The CONET Project: spy station recordings reissued (fwd)

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*The **CONET** Project : spy station recordings reissued*
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In 1999, I wrote an article 

<http://boingboing.net/spyvspy.html> 

for the bOING bOING Digital site about the CONET Project, a multi-CD 
collection of mysterious "numbers stations" heard on shortwave. For 
decades, intelligence organizations have reportedly broadcast one-way 
messages to their agents in the field via shortwave, and the transmissions 
happen to sound weirder than any Stockhausen score or minimalist 
electronica you've ever heard -- a child's voice, or the obviously 
synthesized intonation on what's known as the "Lincolnshire Poacher" 
station, named for the folk song accompanying the numbers. Wilco's album 
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is named for, and samples, a numbers station. The 
CONET Project has been available for several years for free download from 
various places online, includingArchive.org

<http://archive.org/details/ird059>

Now, the original compilers, Irdial-Discs MMX, have re-released The Conet
Project in a special CD edition that includes the four original discs plus
a fifth CD containing recordings of very strange "noise stations."

<http://www.irdial.com/conet.htm>

Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations