ENIGMA 2000 NEWSLETTER http://www.enigma2000.org.uk # Top Left: Christine Keeler, Centre: Newspaper headlines, Top Right: Mandy Rice-Davies, Bottom Left: Stephen Ward, Centre 16 Kensington Palace Gardens London, where Christine Keeler's Russian Naval Attaché lover Yevgeni Ivanov lived, Note the antennae, VGDSh caged dipole, centre loaded vertical and shorter VHF/UHF rods. Bottom Right: John (Jack) Profumo. 2013 represents fifty years from the ruination of Harold Macmillan’s Conservative Government due to a series of events caused by the relationship between Christine Keeler, a showgirl-cum-hostess and Dr Stephen Ward, a socialite osteopath whom she met late 1960. Through Ward’s socialite contacts Christine was introduced to the then Minister for War John Profumo, also called Jack. Christine also had a friend, Mandy Rice-Davies and Ward eventually took both to a party thrown by Lord Astor at Clivedon mid June 1961. There an attraction was struck between Jack Profumo and Christine after Stephen Ward made the introduction. As well as Jack Profumo, Christine was also introduced to Commander Yevgeni Ivanov, a Soviet naval attaché at the Russian Embassy in London who gave his address as 16 Kensington Palace Gardens.[Centre pic]. In March 1963 certain behaviours were become known about and question in Parliament Jack Profumo stated, "There was no impropriety whatever in my acquaintance with Miss Keeler and I have made the statement because of what was said yesterday in the House by three honourable members whose remarks were protected by privilege." In June 1963 Stepehen Ward was arrested for living off immoral earnings [ie charging for the services of Misses Keeler & Rice-Davies] and the matter boiled to a head for Profumo who resigned in the House a couple of days later. Stephen Ward’s trial at the Old Bailey ran through August 1963 with Dr Ward commiting suicide the day before the verdict. Mandy Rice-Davies escaped without trial but Christine Keeler was sent for trial for perjury December 1963, found guilty and given a sentence of nine months imprisonment. Christine and Mandy are still alive, Jack Profumo turned to charity work at the Toynbee Hall in London’s East End and passed away 9th March 2006, aged 91. Eugene Ivanov, who it th is said asked Christine to obtain details of our nuclear bomb, returned to Moscow and eventually died 17 January, 1994 aged 68. On talking about Ivanov’s request for details of our nuclear weapon Christine replied to a reporter, "I'm no spy, I just couldn't ask Jack for secrets." See also PoSW’s ‘Items of Interest in the Media ‘ ISSUE 78 September 2013 http://www.enigma2000.org.uk © All items within this newsletter remain the property of ENIGMA 2000 and are copyright. See last page also.1 Before we enter the ‘member contributions’ for whichENIGMA2000 is always grateful I have been asked to menton that I have received three complaints about certain members who never post anything then apparently take delight in suddenly appearing to correct others’ mistakes . Those complaining stated .... ‘that its a pity you don’t post your logs to Group.’ Please try to be a little more Group oriented Now onto our round-ups and analysis ................... Morse Station Roundup. M01 The regular M01 scheds continue to provide a challenging series of transmissions with their latest tactic of sending groups as a continuous stream of numbers & additionally now dropping an occasional number on the repeat group to further confuse the recipient. All good training for the CW enthusiasts among us. On Tue 30 July, they ended the month by sending the Tue scheds on the M01/2 schedule which meant that the wrong set of frequencies and call were used. Thanks to Jim (JkC) this was picked up early in the 1800z call up & both scheds were successfully logged. Good work Jim! M01a A rare catch since changing from a regular end of month schedule, now appears as a random transmission, identified by the current format of sending 5fig grp x 2 followed by 5fig grp x 3 (repeated). This example, on Aug 21 found by Jean-Paul (JPL) Thanks to our Morse monitors there are a good selection of M01b & M01c logs too. M08a Some scheds are still operational. Our regular stateside contributor AnonUS has sent us a comprehensive log of M08a transmissions received over the last two months, and has identified three regular schedules that are still in use. A splendid effort from AnonUS. M12 All back to a normal schedule now following the missing few days at the start of May. Still experiencing some technical issues from time to time, with occasional restarts and some clipping on some call-up characters. A new Thursday sched has appeared, found by Richard (RNGB), with ID 725 - an old call that has not been heard since January 2008. M14 A previously unknown format was heard by Richard (RNGB) on 10 July when a regular sched - usually machine sent, was sent by hand and containing errors. Was this a 'one-off'' caused by some technical or admin problem? M23 Several calls were reported in July, but no activity at all reported in August, although the hourly 'dash' was present on 7442kHz until the middle of August when that too suddenly ceased. M89 Continues to change and evolve with new calls and new freqs appearing regularly, while some of the older scheds cease to be used. Jean-Paul (JPL) providing the usual full logs and notes of changes found. M97 Following the June msg, SD 81, SD 88 was sent on 09 & 15 July, followed by SD 83 (17 & 31 July) & SD 84 (four sendings in Aug). What was at first thought to be a deviation from the incremental numbering of these msgs is now believed to be due to a simple numbering error. Beacons To complete the Morse section we have another selection of beacon logs, including a couple of 'rogue' beacons, one of which had several of us puzzled for a day or two. Hybrid Station HM01 From the British/European side there has been four person’s logs and it falls on PoSW to provide some insight as to the Cuban Hybrid’s behaviour from the British point of view. The expected US response, where reception of the station is somewhat easier, has sadly been minimal for our Cuban Desk via group logs but helped by our Argentine member. This is not good given the amount of American ‘members’ we actually have. If they consider this group as just a service for them, then perhaps they’d like to do the decent thing and remove themselves. Voice Stations Round up E06 Usual schedules seen although the Thursday 15 group transmission at 2030z seems to be difficult from South England. E07 Usual variable service from this station. Sun/Wed 1700z scheduleseems to be changing its freqs as seen during the past year, The strong signals experienced with the Mon/Wed sendings appears to have returned to its previous carrier/low audio offering we had come to expect although the local rising noise levels are not helping. E17z Logs as expected with usual length messages and some unexpected repetitions. E25 Thanks to both Douglas and Manolis for their logs as they research this station’s habits. If there is indeed a change its being addressed accordingly. Messages still apparent on 6140 and 9450kHz. E11 & FamIII Activity as expected. G06 As active as always; never disappoints as it sounds like so many of the now discontinued Cold War stations. S06/S06c/S06s Very active as usual and well reported. S21 Alive and kicking, with usually very variable signals. V02a Surprise logs submitted for both July and August 2 V07 Logs sent in by T, DanAr and Guy. V13 Logs submitted – good coverage across August V21 Quiet period but Babbler logged. Thanks to all our active members. Polytones Quick word of thanks to the members who assisited with the intercepts for these during certain problem .... notwithsatnding influences from British Rail, or whatever its calling itself this week. Nothing really noteable apart from the apparent problems with images appearing ±50kHz from nominal freq and others at +1 and +2kHz on the XPA2 unclassified on Tuesdays at 1900z. Total failure of the last sending after 27s intro on 27/08. The usually strong XPA2 m at 2000z that followed had weak, odd sounding signals. Note the sudden rise in Group counts during the last week of August as tensions rise for Syria. Is there a link here? Who knows? Report from ENIGMA2000’s German Branch (E2Kde) and the X06 team Hallo liebe Freunde und Kollegen von E2Kde und dem X06 Team (Hello dear friends and colleagues of E2Kde and the X06 team) Today we have 3 interesting news from Germany, which we’ll bring chronologically now as they came in, before the X06 logs will come as usual. Request for numbers tracks for music Numbers stations in music pieces are modern for a longer time. In August, another German experimental music band asked me for numbers station tracks for their music productions. I recommended the “JochenKopf.htm” page on Simon Mason’s website. There you can find a lot of my numbers station recordings from 1980- 90. In any case it’s better to bring different stations to the Conet Project, which is known to the most people. Numbers station referat on DX-camp Between September 12th and 18th, the “Rhein-Main-Radio-Club (RMRC)” will make its 52nd DX-camp in Wetzlar/Midwest Germany. On the “Camp Saturday”, September 14th, I will speak about the numbers stations. There I will bring a lot of my recordings, of course mentioning E2K and E2Kde.