One of the secrets allegedly passed to the Russians were methods the US uses to conduct electronic surveillance. Hanssen may have also confirmed some information passed to the Russians by Aldrich Ames, who sold secrets to KGB agents while working for the CIA.

An internal intelligence audit done by the FBI revealed the presence of a mole within the agency. This is when Hanssen was first suspected of being that very mole. Agents secretly obtained Russian documents which led to him.

Hanssen was based at the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC and was arrested at his Washington home. One of his previous posts was to perform surveillance on Russian government officials while in the US. The sad part is that another of his previous jobs involved advising the State Department about security.

I'm sure they learned a very important lesson from him.

Recently, a new station has popped up on the air. A station reading numbers in, get this, Roman numerals. It's doubtful the station is an actual numbers station, but most likely a pirate spoof. It's only been logged on 6950 and 6955, the two currently most popular pirate frequencies. The transmissions start out with a callup of III X VI which is repeated for several minutes, then ten chimes which sound like they're coming from either a church or grandfather clock, then five figure groups of Roman numerals.

When this station was first heard, it was thought that it was repeating 555 X 35 and then groups consisting of variations of 5, X, and 3. But it's apparent that what sounded like 5, X, and 3 is actually I, X, and V. Especially after pirate DXers were clued in by someone in the FRN chat room.

Could this be long-lost communications between Sparticus and Rome, bouncing around space for thousands of years, before the signal found its way back to earth? I'm sure if the Romans had numbers stations, it would probably sound just like this station.

The Roman numerals numbers station joins the Mexican food numbers station "taco, burrito, nacho..." and the foul-language Attention 69 station as clever parodies of these odd stations that officially don't exist. And I'm sure the parodies don't officially exist, either.

But just in case the station does officially exist, I would really love to have a studio copy tape of it (hint hint, whoever you are!).