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Meanwhile, the search for a second occurrence of the Wow signal anomaly continues. Shostak says the SETI Institute’s Allen Telescope Array keeps listening. We all know that radio signals are powerful, and that some of the strangest sound can come from radio frequencies that are being monitored – by radio telescopes. A lot of people are still unaware that to this day, the cold war technique of sending numbers, chirps and chimes over the shortwave radio is used to alert intelligence agents in the field of some major event that is supposed to happen. Since World War I, it is believed that numbers being broadcast are secret codes that are sent to agents who are told to listen to a frequency to get their orders. When traffic is especially heavy on the radios, it is believed that some major event is about to take place whether it be a coup or a full on war. In June of 2010, the FBI arrested 10 people for allegedly serving for years as secret agents of Russia’s intelligence with the goal of penetrating U.S. government policy-making circles. People, I am sure, were shocked about this. It sounds like something straight out of a cold war blockbuster. They were asked by Russian intelligence to learn all they could about our nuclear weapons and where they are positioned, policies about Iran, White House rumors, CIA leadership turnover, the last presidential election and the Congress and political parties. What was the tool they used to receive their orders? It was a shortwave radio. It wasn’t sophisticated or high tech it was just a simple 1920’s era technology. The spies would sit down in front of their radios with spiral notebooks and write down a series of numbers.