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(VLF can penetrate underwater}. To give some idea of their size, the largest commercial broadcasting station allowed puts out fifty thousand watts of power. The Voice of America has conventional stations which broadcast five hundred thousand watts. Yet the Soviet Union has a VLF station, EWB in Odessa, which is pouring out five million watts! And the U.S. VLF station at Cutler, Maine, is putting out two million watts. There are now 150 VLF stations all over this planet, and aside from a few atomic submarines and a bevy of spies, there's no one to listen. What are all these stations broadcasting? Well, station WWV transmits nothing but time signals...if anyone needs to set a watch. Teletypes are used by many stations exclusively. The teletype signal sounds somewhat musical, like bagpipes, over a loudspeaker. Voice transmission on the lower VLF channels is very difficult for a variety of reasons and not much of it is being done. Yet some amateurs with VLF equipment have reported picking up guttural, unintelligible voices at the very bottom of the scale around six KiloHerz. ‘All manner of strange (and often unexplained) radio sounds and signab mysteriously appear on VLF receivers,* noted the Radio-TV Experimenter, April-May 1967. (That issue gives details on how to build a VLF receiver for a few dollars.] The government is currently turning hundreds of square miles of Wisconsin into a massive VLF antenna, causing quite an uproar in that state. Everytime the VLF transmitter is cranked up, telephones for miles around go amok with false rings and strange noises. In fact, many of the telephone problems currently plaguing the United States can probably be blamed on VLF experiments. These very long waves of electromagnetic energy can and do seriously affect equipment operating in the lower ranges of the spectrum. Another culprit is the National Security Agency, the James Bond-ish organization that runs the CIA. We maintain a twenty-four-hour message service to our agents around the globe via VLF. These messages are broadcast in code on the higher VLF channels. A voice endlessly rattles off six-digit numbers. When the Cuban government arrested Humberto Carrillo Colon, an alleged CIA spy, in September 1969, they found a unique VLF transceiver in his possession. Cuban counterspies claimed they had been monitoring his transmissions for months and had broken the CIA code. Copies of Colon's alleged messages were released to the Havana newspapers and reprinted in Communist propaganda organs in the United States. A number of oddities are buried in the dense text of these purported communiques with the CIA. In April 1969, Colon is ee i. a reported a conversation with a Cuban official: 'On the way to the hotel he told me that I would be witness to something historical. THAT WITHIN SIX MONTHS THERE WOULD BE NO MORE MONEY -' (Capitals were used in the published quote). He allegedly saw ‘something strange, like a whale or large fish, that was no such thing, more like a minisubmarine or something like that’ at Vara-dero. On October 8th, 1968, during a visit to Holgiun, he reported: "About 8.30 I saw a shooting star. First I saw a. red light on the horizon very fast from right to left. I don't know what it was. I also saw a shooting star... I wasn't even drunk.' If the published reports are true - and of course, there is always room for doubt - then it would seem that CIA agents have been instructed to report anomalies and aerial phenomena. supposed to have