The numbers station is rated r under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. What are some numbers stations that are still active. Stream tracks and playlists from number station recordings on your desktop or mobile device. It was the centrepiece of a united states federal court espionage trial, following the arrest of the wasp network of cuban spies in 1998. The numbers station, directed by kasper barfoed the. The mysterious sound patterns and fact that their sources are a mystery is creepy. Home newsletters recordings files info links about. Most identified stations use speech synthesis to vocalize numbers, although digital modes such as phaseshift keying and frequencyshift keying, as well as. Soon, they find themselves in a lifeordeath struggle to stop a deadly plot before its too late. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
The stupidly simple spy messages no computer could decode. Saddled with the cias dirtiest jobs, the conflicted assassin receives his assignments via numerical codes transmitted over the radio. The atencion station of cuba became the worlds first numbers station to be officially and publicly accused of transmitting to spies. Characters suffer bullets, explosions and a fire extinguisher in the face. Then comes the body of the message, which usually consists of 4 or 5 number groups. E14 is a control station, only sending call ups with no messages. When heavily armed assailants lay siege to the compound. The movie is directed by kasper barfoed and featured john cusack, malin kerman, liam. But youre conscious of the fact that it all feels familiar and wondering why there isnt a little more to it. Mystery over the airwaves in the forgotten reaches of the shortwave band, strange voices read out endless strings of numbers.
The numbers station 20stream and watch online moviefone. Listen to number station recordings soundcloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create riga. There are more recordings of numbers station here on the internet archive. The numbers station is reminiscent of last years safe house in a number of ways, particularly the bleak, monotonous way the facility is presented and that it is nowhere near as secure as initially thought. May 28, 2000 the format of each numbers station varies among the broadcasters, but the usual format is some sort of signal at the beginning, such as a plain fivedigit number, three letters of the phonetic alphabet or a message such as atencion, grupo 52. The following weapons were used in the film numbers station, the.
Just enter number stations at the search make sure the word number is singluar and youll find about 80 of them on the seism netlable. The recording of a mysterious shortwave radio station or number station active between 2 and 3 a. Numbers radio stations category is a curation of 24 web resources on, spy numbers mailing list, numbers stations by, spy stations and cryptography. A united states court espionage trial came after the arrest of several cuban spies in 1998. Kasper barfoed directs this acitonthriller about a black ops soldier tasked with protecting a cia code agent. When a us secret intelligence base is attacked a cia agent and a cryptographer have to hold off. The spooky world of the numbers stations by olivia sorreldejerine bbc news magazine. Prosecutors in the united states said they were decoding numbers that came over the atencion. Apr 26, 20 the numbers station already available on videoondemand and out on dvd next month is several cuts above most movies that receive token theatrical releases shortly before or. Number station recordings free listening on soundcloud. What is suddenly heard on a shortwave receiving station is a 10minute message in morse code.
Rent the numbers station 20 on dvd and bluray netflix. The numbers station soundtrack from 20, composed by paul leonardmorgan. It was created to solve ambiguities in number station reporting, and classifies stations by language or type of signal. The sort of muddy, lowgrade thriller that would likely have gone straight to dvd without lead john cusack, the numbers station begins with a. Heres where cold war radio stations broadcast spies secret. We specialize in both russian and us military, intelligence, and radio history. Numbers station, the internet movie firearms database. After his latest mission goes disastrously wrong, veteran cia black ops agent emerson kent john cusack, 2012, is given one last chance to prove he still has what it takes to do his job. Another form of this station was identified as e14. Watch the numbers station 20 full movie free online. A numbers station is a shortwave radio station characterized by broadcasts of formatted numbers, which are believed to be addressed to intelligence officers operating in foreign countries. The conet project recordings of shortwave numbers stations. They are one of three twomen teams that maintain the station around the clock.
John cusack plays emerson kent, a reassigned cia agent who is tasked with guarding a civilian code operator employee in a cia substation in rural britain. According to the conet project, number stations were heard as early as world war i. Ze vergeten alleen om een interessant verhaal te vertellen want het plot is erg mager. The jammers would appear at either side of the transmission making it impossible to.
Theres a bot that announces events from the schedule with a link to a web sdr to listen to them. The most popular number station naming system was devised by the european numbers information gathering and monitoring assocation enigma, a number station research group active in 19932000, and later maintained by enigma 2000. In the numbers station, a joyless sinsofthegovernment thriller, cusack sinks to new depths of meditative glumness to play a blackops agent nursing a guilty conscience. Numbers stations are mysterious shortwave radio stations, broadcasting streams of numbers or letters using the phonetic alphabet, by voice, morse or digital tones. With john cusack, malin akerman, liam cunningham, richard brake. The numbers station is a 20 american action thriller film, starring john cusack and malin akerman, about a burnedout cia black ops agent assigned to protect the code operator at a secret american numbers station somewhere in the british countryside. The messages are usually groups of four or five numbers or letters and are typically repeated by reading each group twice or repeating the entire message. We recently caught up with goren, who continues to hunt for numbers stations occasionally. The number stations are a high energy rock band from southern ontario. Mar 07, 20 a black ops agent john cusack and a code operator malin akerman assigned to a remote cia broadcast station, must work together to stop an attack that could change the world as we know it. The first time you hear a number station, its a great feeling. But he also saves the other main character, performing emergency medical procedures on her blood is shown. I hear the number stations still on the hf radio bands still, who knows what they are, all kinds of ideas float around and its from that why i bought this dvd, seen it twice.
Brian and jason have been scanning the air waves for sstv signals for two months, but what they found was something else. The numbers station is a 20 britishamericanbelgian action thriller film, starring john cusack and malin akerman. Grey assigns him to a bland job to protect code operator katherine malin akerman in a number station near suffork, england. A black ops agent john cusack and a code operator malin akerman assigned to a remote cia broadcast station, must work together to stop an attack that could change the world as we know it.
I remember listening to number stations on my short wave radio when i was a teenager and the cold war memories come flooding back. Released by moviescore media in 2015 mms15010 containing music from the numbers station 20. One such compilation has become the conet project, a four cd set of numbers station recordings from the past 30 years, released in 1997 by irdial discs. When a disgraced cia operative is sent to protect a code operator at a remote broadcast station, the two must cooperate to stop a deadly global plot.
A stereotypical espionage thriller, the numbers station is competent enough but isnt very engaging. Heres where cold war numbers stations broadcast spies secret codes. The numbers station already available on videoondemand and out on dvd next month is several cuts above most movies that receive token theatrical releases shortly before or. E05 was another station that had issues with being the victim of intense jamming attempts. Apr 16, 2014 the spooky world of the numbers stations by olivia sorreldejerine bbc news magazine. One morning, they arrive and are attacked by mysterious gunmen. Also try entering just the word conet and you might find more related stuff. The numbers station trailer starring john cusack and malin akerman feb 12, 20.
It emits sounds similar to an 8 bit music, for at least 3 minutes, then the signal ends fading in white noise. And how they are a symbol of war, specifically nuclear war, like when spies used them in the cold war. Rent the numbers station 20 starring john cusack and malin akerman on dvd and bluray. Grey kills a young girl which leaves kent struggling with the morality. The numbers station is a competent film and it does manage to create some tension. Cusack en akerman doen hun best, maar kunnen ook weinig. A disgraced black ops agent is dispatched to a remote cia broadcast station to protect a code operator. Like if you found an isolated number station sending signals and it was abandoned. Especially just starting out, priyoms irc channel is handy. Mar 18, 2012 the first official public accusation of using number stations to transmit information to spies was the atencion. Parents need to know that the numbers station is a thriller in which one of the main characters is a trained killer who shoots and kills many people.
Hello, we are the numbers stations research and information center, a project that is dedicated to the research, monitoring, information gathering, and publishing about numbers stations, military stations, and other shortwave radio phenomena. In most cases, no one knows for sure what the purpose of the stations are, but. Its more of a low budget actionespionage type of film about a group of terrorists laying siege to a numbers station. All critics 27 top critics 7 fresh 8 rotten 19 john cusack replays his role as a lethal operative with occupational angst for a routine thriller with a female cryptographer at secret cia site. Released april 26th, 20, the numbers station stars john cusack, malin akerman, liam cunningham, richard brake the r movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 29 min, and received a score of 39 out of. The numbers station 20 emerson, a disgraced cia agent, guards katherine, a code operator, in a top secret cia installation in britain. Number stations interactive background noise machine.