Milan Radio Operator Hears Possible CIA Codes

0:00On March 6, a 47-year-old amateur radio operator in Milan recently tuned into unusual shortwave broadcasts reciting numbers in Persian. He suspects they could be coded instructions from the CIA to agents operating inside Iran. Earlier this week on Tuesday, he first caught the signal, which seems to come from the Middle East. It runs daily at 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. UK time, sometimes lasting a full hour. So enthusiast worldwide are tuning in and debating the source. Some think it's aimed at spies in Iran dodging phone surveillance while others believe Iran might be reaching its own agents abroad. These number stations trace back to World War I and peeked during the Cold War when agencies use them for secure one-way messages. Unlike digital tools, they leave no trace since anyone with a radio could be the target. Even in today's cyber world, the broadcast persists because code books can be destroyed easily. Customers keep monitoring, adding entry to this old school spy tactic, adding entry to this old school spy tactic, adding entry to this old school spy tactic, adding entry