Our dedicated Op has been on double-shift since 0600, and it's New Year's Eve. He'd like to be out downing champagne with that cute new girl from the passport office, but instead he's stuck in the attic, working on his 3rd pack of unfiltered Camels, who knows how many cups of excellent West German coffee, and listening for signs that the Soviets are going to make their move tonight. There's a lot of chatter on the nets...

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TAPE LOG  ·  REEL 7  ·  STATION FRANKFURT  ·  31 DEC 1968
FOOTCONTENT / REMARKS
000Czech Radio — Prague, 0012Z, New Year's broadcast, 1968
040Soviet Numbers Station — 5-figure groups, male voice, 11.5 MHz
057Russian Vocoder — encrypted traffic, origin unknown
074In a Jar — radioprinter, unresolved
087Stepper — multi-frequency tone sequence, automated origin
NOTECuts courtesy of Klingenfuss.org and Priyom.org