Havana Moon

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William T. Godbey, KB2OOR, aka "Havana Moon" (SK)

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Havana Moon was the pseudonym used by William (Bill) Thomas Godbey, KB2OOR, who passed away in 1996. Godbey was a former NSA intelligence officer. After leaving the NSA in the early 1960s he worked in commercial radio and as a reporter and freelance journalist. He lived for many years in the West Palm Beach area, moving later to Briarcliff Manor, Ossining, NY. Godbey started investigating the mysterious Spy Numbers Stations in 1976 and over the years published the results of his activities in a number of books and magazines targeting the shortwave listeners market. In the 1980s he travelled in South Florida and used radio direction finding equipment to trace numbers broadcasts to antenna setups at the West Palm Beach airport, in nearby Tequesta and at the Homestead Air Force Base. According to Godbey, all these transmissions were aimed at the Caribbean.

Godbey was a regular contributor to Popular Communications and authored the books "Los Numeros" and "Uno, Dos, Quatro - A Guide to the Numbers Stations", published by Tiare Publications. He also contributed to "The ACE", the monthly bulletin of the Association of Clandestine Radio Enthusiasts, from 1989 to 1993. Around 1989 Godbey also distributed a list of Spy Numbers Stations and associated frequencies, both in printed format and as a Commodore 64 computer file. His pen name was based on a 1983 music album by Carlos Santana, hinting that at least some numbers stations were transmitting from Cuba.

Publications

  • Havana Moon: "Los Numeros", Tiare Publications, Lake Geneva
  • Havana Moon: "Uno, Dos, Cuatro - A Guide to the Numbers Stations", Tiare Publications, Lake Geneva, ISBN 0-936653-06-X, 1987
  • Havana Moon: "Stylistic Ramblings - Mysterious voices, forked tongues, Elvis and dictionary codes", Popular Communications, July 1988
  • Havana Moon: "Spy Numbers Anomalies - conjecture on overmodulation and distortion", Popular Communications, August 1988
  • Havana Moon: "Bad Moon Rising, or, We've got your number", Popular Communications, March 1989
  • Havana Moon: "The Ghost of County Line Road", Popular Communications, October 1988, p. 14-17
  • Havana Moon: "Tequesta (almost) gives up her secrets", Popular Communications, November 1988, p. 30-32
  • Havana Moon: "Racing with the Moon", Popular Communications, April 1989, p. 33
  • Havana Moon: "KKN39: A magical mystery tour", Popular Communications, February 1990, p. 20-22
  • William T. Godbey: "Cloack and daggering", Popular Mechanics, November 1976, p. 8

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