CIA SPY STATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404340001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 1, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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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. `'
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