From: an old friend on Jul 29, 10:17 am

cuting here from another thread not disputing you but you have a
reference for the below ad not heard it and wanted to follow up on it

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Hold up example: The late Colonel Rudolph Abel of the KGB, under
a cover name as an "artist" with a "hobby of amateur radio"
operating in NYC around the late 1950s-early 1960s. His HF radio
was used to send-receive encrypted information from the KGB. He
was exchanged for Francis Gary Powers, the missle-shot-down pilot
of a U-2. Abel used "one-time pads" for encipherment, virtually
unbreakable by anything since the encryption key was obtained from
natural random noise (or of "noisy" KGB clerk-typists)(take your
pick).

It's irrelevant whether Abel actually held any sort of amateur
radio license (he probably had a cover for one, no details on
that) but that was his cover excuse for having/using an HF radio
when arrested. Amateur radio in espionage activities! Not a
good PR thing but so long ago that most have forgotten it or
never knew.

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For a couple references on the above, the best one I have
is David Kahn's "CODEBREAKERS, A History of Cryptography,"
a non-fiction best-seller of the 1960s. Been reprinted in
soft-cover a couple times, once in hard-cover. Libraries
would have it. A couple inches thick in hard-cover. The
next reference is Francis Gary Powers' own biography. All
of that happened during President Eisenhower's term over 40
years ago...at the time an embarrassment to the United States
due to Eisenhower not admitting it at first. Headline stuff
then, much press. A search of "Rudolph Abel" will turn up
more on the 'web. Search also "one-time pads" for the
method of encryption/decryption.

The U-2 itself was made, but not fully assembled at Building
82 of Lockheed at (then) Burbank, CA, airport. It was a
large hangar-plus-office-space building just off of Winona
Avenue crossing the major north-south street of Hollywood
Way in the east San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles.
Building 82 was referred to as "the Skunk Works" in reference
to the "Lil Abner" comic strip and a local Burbank plastics
factory nearby that used to emit stinky smells (long since
moved). Heavy security outside but the building was in plain
view (along with the building number sign) for many years to
drivers on Hollywood Way. The Skunk Works was moved to
Palmdale in the high desert years ago and all Lockheed
Aircraft buildings have been razed at what is now Bob Hope
Airport (formerly Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport). I've
never worked for Lockheed but have worked for a couple
contractors who supplied avionics for Lockheed, desitined
for installation in some Skunk Works program (which ranges
from the original P-80 Shooting Star through the U-2 and
through the SR-71 Blackbird and on into part of the F-22
engineering, plus a few smaller ones). As far as I know,
many details of what went on at the Skunk Works and its
aircraft are still "sensitive" even though lots of
information on them have been made public.

By the way, both the CIA and NSA have virtual museums on the
Internet and considerable text on various newsworthy cases
of espionage of the last 70+ years. There's also a history
of military intelligence found at the Fort Huachuca, AZ,
website. Fort Huachuca is the M.I. training center and also
the UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) "flight school." It's
also the LAST place where the U.S. government teaches morse
code cognition as part of military intelligence electronic
intercept military occupation specialty training (four
different categories), all branches plus civilian government
workers. Needless to say, the morse code classes (all done
by computer programs now) are NOT a large part of the M.I.
school curriculum.

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