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AI Summary
- Numbers stations transmit coded messages via shortwave radio to spies and intelligence assets in the field, active since World War One and still operating today
- These transmissions sound cryptic to casual listeners but contain information only understood by intended recipients with proper decryption keys
- Intelligence agencies operate numbers stations illegally without government acknowledgment, yet authorities do not shut them down
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