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UVB-76 - The Buzzer - Archive Index

Every person and machine in the UVB-76 - The Buzzer research archive, as plain reference pages. For the interactive experience see the timeline, network and map.

Dossiers (16)

Akin Fernandez

Founder of Irdial-Discs; compiler of The Conet Project (1997), the definitive numbers-stat

Ana Belen Montes

Senior DIA analyst who spied for Cuba for 17 years via shortwave numbers messages; arreste

Ary Boender

Dutch monitor; made the earliest surviving recording of the Buzzer (1982); Numbers & Oddit

Chris Smolinski

American engineer; runs the 'Spooks' numbers-station mailing list and spynumbers.com

Claude Shannon

American mathematician; founder of information theory; proved the perfect secrecy of the o

David E. Hoffman

American journalist; author of The Dead Hand (2009), Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

Franz Kuzminsky

Chief designer of the Duga over-the-horizon radar (the 'Russian Woodpecker') at NIIDAR

Gerardo Hernandez

Cuban intelligence officer; spymaster of the Wasp Network exposed by the Atencion numbers

Mikhail Yangel

Soviet rocket chief designer; founder of the Yuzhnoye bureau that built the Perimeter comm

Nicholas Thompson

American journalist; author of the 2009 Wired feature on the Soviet 'Doomsday Machine'

Pieter-Tjerk de Boer

Dutch physicist (PA3FWM) who built the first WebSDR (2008), making the Buzzer listenable w

Rimantas Pleikys

Lithuanian broadcaster and ex-minister; author of Jamming (1998); channel-marker reading o

Simon Mason

British shortwave listener; author of Secret Signals: The Euronumbers Mystery (1991)

Stanislav Petrov

Soviet air-defence officer who judged the 1983 missile alert a false alarm, averting escal

Valery Yarynich

Soviet colonel; a developer of the Perimeter ('Dead Hand') retaliation system; key source

Vladimir Kotelnikov

Soviet radio scientist; sampling theorem; independent proof of one-time-pad secrecy (1941)

Machines & systems (18)

15A11 command missile

Rocket that broadcasts the launch order

Atencion / HM01

Cuban numbers station, V02a then digital

Cherry Ripe

Pacific sibling of the Poacher, E03a

Duga radar (Woodpecker)

Soviet over-the-horizon radar, 7-19 MHz

E07 'English Man'

Russian SVR English-digit station

E11 'Oblique'

Polish military numbers station, still active

Magnetic Fields

English numbers station using Jarre, E09

Perimeter ('Dead Hand')

Semi-automatic nuclear retaliation system

S06 'Russian Man'

Russian counting-man station

Swedish Rhapsody

Polish music-box numbers station, G02

The Conet Project

The 1997 4-CD archive of numbers stations

The Goose

Western Military District marker, 4310 kHz

The Lincolnshire Poacher

British numbers station, E03, from Cyprus

The Pip

Russian channel marker, 5448/3756 kHz; ENIGMA S30

The Squeaky Wheel

Russian channel marker; ENIGMA S32

The one-time pad

The unbreakable cipher every numbers station uses

UVB-76 / The Buzzer

The 4625 kHz channel marker; ENIGMA S28

WebSDR

Browser-based shortwave receiver network

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