As a tribute to the late Havana Moon, who I corresponded with on a number of occasions, here is an
                              article written in his own inimitable style:

                                                             Tequesta almost gives up her secrets 
As "spy numbers" stations revelations go, Larry Van Horn did a fine job recently in Monitoring Times. He told of one such station apparently operating on the eastern coastline of Florida. As with most early reports of mystery stations, additional information eventually begins to surface in response to the many unanswered questions that had been raised. Van Horn's discovery raised just such questions. At this time I don't claim to have all the answers, and this certainly isn't "the rest of the story."

In fact, my information will undoubtedly only serve to raise as many questions as it hopes to answer in this tale of confusion, intrigue, numbers transmissions, ghosts,  misinformation,  disinformation, and you name it! I'll give you information on how to drive there yourself! And, if you can't find the time for a visit, I'll show you previously unpublished photos of the alleged home of this strange 4670 kHz source of mysterious transmissions in the Jupiter/Tequesta area of Florida. Readers are cautioned that the term "mystery sites" does not necessarily mean "numbers" sites!

Geriatric Jupiter/Tequesta ain't! It's "intrigue city," friends! Intrigue of a sort that's even unknown to UZI City (Miami)!
The Jupiter/Tequesta area is about a twenty to thirty minute drive (depending on traffic) to the north from West Palm Beach. Take Florida's Turnpike or 1-95 and turn off at the Jupiter exit and continue east to U.S. Highway 1. One of the first sights you will notice shortly after heading north on U.S.1 is the Jupiter Light! All sites described in this article are easily accessible from U.S. 1.

Yes, folks, we've been told of a four-digit "numbers" station in one of the few remaining pristine pieces of paradise that is known as Florida! I've been telling you of Florida sites for years and years, and saying that "numbers" stations of the four and five-digit variety abound in Florida. It's a "bitter pill" for some to swallow! So be it! How dare some few members of the sleazy five-digit crowd leave Havana!

A Trip To Tequesta
Nestled among the high-rise apartments and instant condo villages of Jupiter/Tequesta lurks a "numbers" ghost (or so we've been told) on 4670 kHz (2100 UTC) and heaven and NSA only knows what else And her home MIGHT JUST BE NORTH RATHER THAN SOUTH OF THE JUPITER INLET! It's also possible that her home might even be just a little to the northwest of the inlet! County Line Road in The Village of Tequesta to be exact! I have a bit of trouble with the reported location of 'just south of the Jupiter Inlet' And I'll tell you why in just a few paragraphs.

I know of no better word to describe this 4670 kHz YL than ghost! She is-without question-the unseen (and now unheard) inhabitant of the electromagnetic spectrum. At times this YL appears to some few of the living (in mental-visions, of course) in bodily likeness! In reality she has never been seen! Careful monitoring by a Tequesta, FL source indicates no "NUMBERS" activity on 4670 kHz at 2000 UTC and various other times for the past several months! This source says that only a "Phonetic Alphabet Station" has been heard on this frequency after 0200 UTC! And signal strength of these stations is reported to be very weak! And keep mind that 4670kHz was once a VERY ACTIVE "numbers" frequency! And 4670 kHz-some few times-paralleled with 4307 kHz!

Can you imagine that "once-upon-a- time" we were led to believe that this 4670 kHz YL's home was the Warrenton/Remington areas of Virginia! Maybe Florida is her winter home! And maybe there are many sites along the U.S. East Coast that at random times are home to 4670 kHz as well as other 'numbers" frequencies! Keep in mind that the least surprising possibility is often the most likely! There are strong indications of other mystery sites (not 'numbers' related) from some few members of various law enforcement officers of the Jupiter/Tequesta area who don't care to discuss these sites. The BIG QUESTION is why! And without question-these vague hints arouse my;.
curiosity!

According to the MT report, the exact location of this 2100 UTC/4670 kHz four digit "numbers" station is 26 degrees, 56 minutes north and 80 degrees, 5 minutes west. It is also stated that this site is just south of the Jupiter Inlet. Here are a few other reasons why 'Just south" of the Jupiter Inlet is not a good bet. Just south of the inlet is DuBois and Carlin Park which are both open to the public. There's also Burt Reynolds Park and many high-rise apartments and condo villages along with a trailer park or two. And scattered among this melange you'll find the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre. But a near definite NO to a "numbers" station!

For reference purposes the coordinates of the Jupiter Light, according to the US Coast Guard, are: latitude 26-56-09 and longitude 80-04-09! The coordinates of The Village of Tequesta Police Department are: latitude 26-57-39 and longitude 80-05-40! These are the coordinates that appeared on their FCC license. The street address for the Tequesta Police Department: 357 Tequesta Drive. This location is a couple of miles in a northwesterly
direction from the inlet and Jupiter Light! It escapes me as to why the Jupiter Light WAS NOT used as a reference point in the MT story. How close to the Jupiter Light? What direction from the Jupiter Light? I would very much hope that the aerial examination of this site revealed the famous Jupiter Light! And how come no aerial photos? Certainly the three circular HF antennas mentioned forming a triangle would have been interesting! To have used the Jupiter Light or the two forks of the Loxahatchee River as reference points would have made things easier. But just to the north of Jupiter Inlet or even to the north and then west on County Line Road in The Village of Tequesta could
well be another story!

And there is a remote possibility that some type Of activity is happening just behind the Jupiter Light! Strange that an area once open to the public is now closed! And just behind the Jupiter Light
you'll find the transmit tower for the 294 kHz J" beacon. There is, however, a mystery site across
the street (north of Beach Road or C-707) from the Jupiter Light. It's the former site of a WWII Navy Intercept Station! It is said this site is now a part of the Cape Canaveral missile tracking network. Some say this is also the site of Cape Radio!

Tower of Power?
Clearly visible from Beach Road on this site is a tall tower! My source CLAIMS this is a 2182 kHz transmit/receive tower used by the U.S. Coast Guard, also a remote site for NMA Miami! I would not rule out the possibility of this tower being used for other types of interesting transmissions! Near the top of this tower is a strange looking dome shaped device. Knowledgeable sources tell me this is a low altitude Radar for tracking drug smuggling aircraft! Similar devices are atop high-rise condos and other towers all along the South Florida Coast. This site is just south and slightly to the east of Village Square Shopping Center on U.S. 1 in Tequesta. Portions of this site are visible from the Hardee's parking lot across U.S. 1 from Village Square. The Jupiter Light is also highly visible from this particular parking lot. This site, however, is located in Jupiter, rather than The Village of Tequesta. 

While searching this area, I was continually warned by various law enforcement officers to STAY AWAY FROM the site across from the Jupiter Light (north of the inlet)! I was once told that I might well have my (several bad words) blown off if I wasn't arrested first! Seems that the security people at this site have arrest powers and don't take kindly to people with cameras or frequency counters! Local law enforcement officers claim that even they WILL NOT set foot on this property! While the majority of the buildings are well hidden behind dunes and dense under-brush, a few white buildings and two telephone poles can be seen from Beach Road. Obviously a dipole was 'once-upon-a- time" strung between these two poles! A radome is also partially visible.

There is, however, no indication of a 2 GHz microwave antenna at this site! I suspect that it would be rather difficult to conceal a microwave tower at this particular location. No trespassing signs abound in this area! There is, however, a 2 GHz microwave antenna at another site on County Line Road about three miles or so from this Beach Road location This particular micro wave antenna has been tracked to another microwave site just about 20 miles to the north near Stuart Florida on U.S.1. From Stuart and about every 20 miles we have found Cape Canaveral microwave relay sites extending to Malabar, FL! And ALL of these microwave sites are clearly identified as being a part of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: RCA and Pan American World Systems are listed as operators or ALL of these microwave sites! NOTE THAT IT HAS BEEN SUSPECTED THAT SOME 'NUMBERS" TRANSMISSIONS EMANATE FROM MALABAR AS WELL AS PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE!

It would appear-from currently available evidence that US Customs, the USAF Eastern Test Range, Coast Guard and possibly the Navy's Atlantic Underwater Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC): have facilities at this location on Beach Road: just to the north of the Jupiter Light! It is unknown as to just what link AUTEC has with its facility in the old Federal Building in downtown West Palm Beach or the facility at Palm Beach International Airport (PBIA)! RCA is, however, a contractor to the AUTEC facility at PBIA. A satellite system has replaced the HF system at AUTEC's
PBIA site. There is no available evidence to suggest that RCA either owns or leases this property
across from the Jupiter Light or any properties in the Jupiter/Tequesta area! It is entirely possible, however, that RCA is one of the sub-contractors at this location. I have no problem, however, with the statement that RCA owns and leases to the Federal Government certain HF transmitters!

Let's take U.S.1 north from Beach Road to reach County Cline Road. You really can't miss it. It's clearly marked and The County Line Bar is where you make your turn to the west. Continue across the rail-road tracks and past Tequesta Park on the right. You'll come to a sharp right turn just as soon as you pass the River Edge Club on your right. You'll now be headed north and very shortly on your left you'll pass the exclusive River Ridge community. No Flamingo pink here, friends. Just a lot of blue! A short distance on the right side of the road is the South Martin County Volunteer Fire Department. And just past the fire station is a somewhat unbelievable site! It's the USAF Cape Canaveral Missile Tracking Station! You'll have travelled about two miles from the start of County Line Road as you come upon this site. What an awesome monstrosity to be located in such a ritzy and sedate country club area of Tequesta. And why such high visibility?

Rest assured that the residents of River Ridge are not at all happy about having to contend with a 'beast" with five heads! And it's not an uncommon site to see at least one of these five dishes pointed directly at one of the exclusive residences across the street in River Ridge! The USAF does want to be a good neighbour with this highly visible beast They really, really do! They have seen fit to illuminate the entire complex at night with eerie green
fluorescent security lights! This strange green lighting further adds to the ghostly and haunting qualities of Tequesta and County Line Road! And it's difficult to say exactly what evokes these feelings! The entire area is cordoned off by a high chain link fence. Surveillance cameras abound and NO TRESPASSING signs are numerous. Security personnel are armed with .45 caliber and 9mm weapons! Turn in to the entrance and ear piercing alarms can be heard several hundred feet away!

In addition to the five dishes, you'll find a HF dipole and radar. There's also a 2 GHz microwave link with a 800 MHz Yagi near the top of this microwave tower. This is pointed in a northwesterly direction. Two HF towers are located to the back and east of this site! Possibly these towers are the transmit facilities of Cape Radio. And may be just maybe-the 4670 kHz YL once made use of these towers! Signs at this site clearly indicate that RCA and Pan American World Systems are the prime contractors of this site! While RCA does not own or lease this site, it's possible that they do own some of the transmitters or other equipment inside this complex. The USAF leases this property that's located on Jonathan Dickinson State Park from the State of Florida! Scheduled completion date for this site is sometime in 1992! The area does, however, appear to be partially operational Some residents of River Ridge tell me that just a short time ago that 'Deep Space Probe" signs were evident! I, however, only have knowledge of 'Missile Tracking Site" signs! Another usually informed source tells me that they (the USAF) track many other things besides missiles from this site. This source even went so far as to mention UFO's! Martin County deputies tell me that under no circumstances are they allowed to enter this complex!

Another law enforcement official stated that the only way they could enter this property was by permission from the Base Commander at Cape Canaveral! It would appear that those who live inside this complex are well prepared to handle any emergency! A park patrol officer did tell me that he has noticed two or three SERIOUS security problems! No further details were given.  Next month we'll continue our snooping around for this 4670 spectre and take a look
at portions of a somewhat sinister 'numbers" letter that-to a degree may explain SOME aspects of "numbers" transmissions! And there's a look at a SUSPECTED domestic five-digit site as well as a visit to an other Florida MYSTERY SITE in South-west Dade County that Just MIGHT BE the home of KKN39 which is supposed to be near Washington.

I continue to feel discomfort; ill at ease with some of the mysterious sites, facilities, and people in the Jupiter/Tequesta area in Florida. There's a haunting and ghostlike quality in the air around Tequesta. It's difficult to put it on a magazine page so that you can catch the exact feeling without being here. So, too, is at least some of my discomfort caused by some of the tantalising things said and left unsaid by others who have attempted to unlock the mysterious transmitter in the Jupiter/Tequesta area that sends coded messages, apparently to espionage agents. Why had there been no references made to prominent local geographic reference points such as U.S. Highway 1, the U.S. 1 drawbridge, the "Beacon J" antenna? Surely, a personal visit to the Jupiter/Tequesta area, or even a cursory examination of aerial photos would have revealed these and other reference points I have discussed last month. According to what others would have us believe about this area, there are supposed to be three circular HF antennas positioned in a triangular formation. I didn't see them; couldn't find them where they were claimed to be, south of the Jupiter Inlet. How do you hide something like that?

There was supposed to be a passive repeater to the south of Jupiter Inlet. No way! Care to make that north or northwest of Jupiter Inlet? The site just north of Jupiter Inlet and Light does have possibilities. This is a spot across Beach Road, or C-707. During WWII, it used to be a U.S. Navy intercept station. And let's not rule out the nearby USAF site on County Line Road in the Village of Tequesta. But south of Jupiter Inlet? I think not. I've carefully examined aerial photos of this area and couldn't find anything even remotely resembling circular HF antenna systems, although it was easy to spot the lighthouse, inlet, the Intercoastal Waterway, U.S. 1, the drawbridge. Yet, despite these things, the basic information that cited the Jupiter/Tequesta as the location of a mystery transmitter sending
out four-digit coded messages was a job well done. Still, I could easily nitpick over the claims that onetime pads are used to de-crypt the messages. And some of the statements quoted from Mario Casagrande's interview in an Italian weekly were slightly out of kilter.

However, the feature in last June's Monitoring Times did specify that mysterious transmissions were taking place on 4670 kHz at 2100 UTC from 26 degrees, 56 minutes north, by 80 degrees, 5 minutes west. Although these coordinates would have been more useful had they been tied to visual reference points, I have no doubts whatsoever that at one time some 4670 kHz transmissions came from somewhere in the vicinity of these coordinates. The question is the exact and specific present location of the mysterious Tequesta area 4670 kHz numbers transmitter. Much to my chagrin, I'm simply not certain. At this time, I'm partial to the site on County Lineroad. My instincts say so, although I have no real proof. During WWII, Nazi U-Boats sank the tanker Republic offshore just north of Jupiter. Many other ships followed in deadly succession. The U.S. Coast Guard was on constant watch of the coastline, especially because of the Navy Intercept Station and other coastal installations in the area.

It was during this period that civilians were not allowed on the beaches at night. The inlet was closed in the winter of 1942 and stayed closed for the duration of WWII! U.S. Coast Guard personnel continually patrolled the beaches on horseback. Jupiter became used to nightly blackouts and heavily armed combat troops. Then it was over; some years later, the tracking of missiles(?) became the next activity in this area around the historic Jupiter Light. So, the Village of Tequesta would come into existence in 1957. Rest assured that this "ghost" will attract villainous figures with the initials KGB and DGI (Cuban Intelligence) to the areas of Jupiter/Tequesta, River  Memorial Park, Tequesta Pines and North River Plantation! Could be that some of these villainous figures will even stop for pizza and a bottle or two of Corona at County Line Bar before proceeding west on County Line Road?

During the later months of 1986, while preparing the final manuscript of my book, UNO, DOS, CUATRO, I was forwarded a somewhat mysterious and unsigned letter with a Florida postmark! This letter dealt with my research into "numbers" transmissions. There were some very sinister over- tones in that letter! Here are a few excerpts of this mysterious letter" First of all, the Spanish 4-digit transmissions are for the most part, (emphasis mine -HM) disinformation by U.S. Intelligence. I might add that these transmissions have been directly linked on numerous occasions to DOD installations, and is generally well known and considered to be a minor inconvenience to the Cubans."

This writer also made mention of the five-digit Spanish transmissions. Here's a portion of those mentions: "The Spanish 5-digit number transmissions are run by DGI (Cuban Intelligence). They have an established net that includes several U.S. installations as well as facilities on Cuba. However, one should note that a small portion of these type transmissions are sponsored by anti-Castro Cuban terrorists both in this country and in Cuba." My correspondent continued: "There has been, for example, one 5-digit Spanish numbers station run by DGI in South Florida for nearly 15 years. Most of the time, this station has been located in various residences in the Hialeah area. Other times in Key Largo, etc. The occupant takes great strides to conceal its identity as it is moved around quite a bit (which tends to give NSA Miami a bad time) and by engaging in signal laundering. These techniques are too numerous to list here. This writer even made mention of the crypto systems in use! This mystery person said: "The code format is typical of KGB nets with some step/pattern variation, but nevertheless one can tell that distinctive "made in Moscow" (by KGB 8th Directorate alma mater). I'm familiar with this code formula and have seen a copy of the code book and instructions."

 
Feel free to reach your own conclusions on the above.
Meanwhile while in Cypress Gardens, FL in early April of 1985, I was amazed at the signal strength of a 4030kHz "numbers" transmission! The time was 1530 UTC and the antenna of my Sony 2001 was fully collapsed. The signal strength of this five-digit transmission was amazing! Daytime transmissions on Saturdays and Sundays on 3090 and 5080kHz (now-for the most-dormant) were extremely well received in the vicinity of Ocala, FL! The five-digit  Spanish  transmissions  and five-character MCW transmissions were thought to be coming from a site near the Kennedy Space Center or Patrick Air Force Base!  Additionally, strong daytime signals in excess of S9 were once monitored on 3090 kHz in the vicinity of Pensacola, FL and Mobile, Al! A Boca Raton, FL source once told me there was a possibility of 1330 and 0500 UTC five-digit Spanish on 4825 kHz (no longer used by AUTEC) coming from a site
very near Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, FL! There's also Hialeah, Fl and Keys! The Keys, They are America's islands of intrigue! The traffic from "numbers" stations?

Think of these number groups as you would a "shell game!" Just about any time of the time of the day or night you'll hear two and often three transmissions at the same time on different frequencies. The big question: which frequency has the real traffic? Think "shell game" when you think "numbers!" In UZI City (Miami) there is the U.S. Army Communications Service Detachment. This site is located just west of the Metro Zoo. The site description is: Three fenced lots and two wooden buildings. Two lots contain HF log periodic antennas. A large number of VHF/UHF directional and omnidirectional antennas on buildings and towers. My source tells me that-at one time- high speed encrypted RTTY on 149 MHz was being transmitted north from this location. A Wackenhut security guard armed
with a .38 cal. revolver and UZI-or so my source says-patrols this compound on foot! The man with the UZI does not answer questions! Could This Be The Home Of KKN39 on 4857.2 kHz?

Rest assured that where you find a station with a KKN prefix, you'll find a "numbers" station nearby! And I do mean frequency wise! And here's a somewhat ominous thought for you to think about: Why-after 25 years -has no individual who was at one time associated with a "numbers" station ever come out of the cold? Just what keeps their lips sealed? Is it money, or what? You'll often hear the following words if you visit the Jupiter/Tequesta area in search of the 4670 kHz ghost: "This is a secure US Government installation and a TOP SECRET security clearance is required to enter. I'm sorry. Now please leave!" I've heard these words. I've also heard worse words! So be it!
Time now for a Tecate and. Havana Moon y Amigos 00932