CIA SPY STATION

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CIA-RDP90-00552R000404340001-7
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December 22, 2016
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July 7, 2010
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July 1, 1984
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/07: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404340001-7 BRASSTOWN MONITORING TIMES (NC) July 1984 CIA -SPY.STA TIO uncovered in Nicaragua' b %.a ty Vito Eehevarria agents on now to operate a transcri.pC form) that, were G ~- shortwave radio they have sent toMarlene by the CIA, Sc)-1984,..-_ given to her for her "as- instructing her where to ' - ' "..stem a y, monitoring to tune in on the frequen- that was allegedly. Intended Times readers were the first cies of 9074 kHz and 14421 for. Foreign Minister ones to find out the origin "kHz at it pm in order to D' .Escoto (the wine was a!- of one-,if the so-called "spy receive secret messages fr?n _legedly poisoned). Code number" stations,-revealed the CIA in Langley, VA. books were also shown con- to be transmitting from a ' . They supposedly taught raining four. digit groups military base outside of her how to use secret writ- ,that would be used to decode bilingual "newsmagazine" developing the writing, as from Managua, Nicaragua well as giving her a note- called Soberania,= which book whose pages, if neces- seemed to be a pro-Marxist, sary, could be chewed up and anti-American publication." would turn into chewing.guml ? - One of the articles in -' Brigade Commandant that magazine (May-June 1983 Lenin Cerna, chief of. the- issue)-vas titled, "Cri.inal- Nicaraguan State Security, CIA ring smashed in Nicara- -,presented in a news confer- infornation.that connects that the CIA delivered to Sony ICF-6500W receiver with with the recent discovery of ...Marlene. -On a' table stood,t, special notebook and writiug the,spy numbers station two wooden idols about 20 chemicals. Times. - _ = The stoty dealt 'with a woman named Marlene Moncada, " a Nicaraguan who -was al- legedly recruited. by the CIA to assassinate Nicaraguan Foreign 'Minister Miguel D'Escate back in 1982. Mar- lene, at "that time employed by the Nicaraguan embassy in Tegx.,cigalpa, Honduras, was allegedly tratned'by CIA be opened to reveal a tube-'story on the CIA's recruit- where the keys to,declpher.-:aeot~of HicaraguinCarlos the radio messages she was- Rodolfo"Icaza'Espinoza, who to receiver by radio were, _was given the same "working found. The spy messages -tools" as Marlene Moncada, would be written in four digit groups that make up the content of the radio messages. ,"Soberania",magazine also showed photos of-some of the radio messages (-In and was instructed to tune in on.14156 kHz and decipher radio messages for further instructions. ". ? If the Nicaraguans' story about the two alleged agents is true, then this, along -with -the April 1984 cover story on Monitoring Times will truly symbolize the breakthrough of reveal- ing the origin of at least one or two of the mysterious spy number stations and demonstrate bow the trans- missions from these stations affect political situations around the world. Indigenous wooden idol cc cealing cypher keys. `' Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/07: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404340001-7