V19 was a French numbers station. The station began by playing “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It raises a lot of questions why a numbers station would play a song from Evita, or why Spain even had a numbers station. The only recording that exists was featured on the Conet Project.
WTR21 was thought to possibly be a USA station since the callsigns WAA to WZZ were allocated to the them. However the format is not close to a CIA station at all, and the voice is distinctly French. It sounds like it could even be a live operator.
Message Recording
Message Format
| Intro | Preamble | Message | Repeat | Outro | ||
| “Don’t cry for me Argentina” |
“WTR21” | 281-54 560-32 … | *Short break* |
28154 56032 … | “WTR21” | Fin |
| Callsign, spoken as “Whiskey Tango Romeo veintiuno” | 5-digit single groups, spoken as two hundred eighty one, fifty four | 5-digit single groups, each digit read normally | Callsign, spoken as “Whiskey Tango Romeo veintiuno” | |||
| Played three times | Repeated for a few minutes | Repeated once | ||||
Numbers Station Summary
Nickname: WTR21
Activity: Inactive
Emission mode: AM
Voice Summary: Male voice, possibly live/pre-recorded or automated
Believed Country of Origin: Spain
Source
ENIGMA Newsletter Issue #15 (July 1998), Page 45
The Conet Project – V19 Recording
