The FBI CW Radio Network

by Alvin H. Grobmeier, CDR, USN (Ret.)

Anyone having questions or comments on this topic is invited to contact CDR. Grobmeier.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation operated the FBI CW Radio Network beginning in early 1957 and ending in June 1976.

There were two sites, one for transmitting and one for receiving usually located several miles apart. Locations were as follows:

• Albany
• Albuquerque
• Anchorage
• Atlanta
• Baltimore
• Birmingham
• Boston
• Buffalo
• Boston
• Buffalo
• Butte
• Charlotte
• Chicago
• Cincinnati
• Cleveland
• Columbia
• Dallas
• Denver
• Detroit
• El Paso
• Honolulu
• Houston
• Indianapolis
• Jackson
• Jacksonville
• Kansas City
• Knoxville
• Las Vegas
• Litttle Rock
• Louisville
• Memphis
• Miami
• Milwaukee
• Minneapolis
• Mobile
• Newark
• New Haven
• New Orleans
• New York
• Norfolk
• Oklahoma City
• Omaha
• Philadelphia
• Phoenix
• Pittsburgh
• Portland
• Ramona (for the San Diego FBI office)
• Richmond
• Sacramento
• St. Louis
• Salt Lake City
• San Antonio
• San Francisco
• San Juan
• Savannah
• Seattle
• Springfield
• Tampa
• FBI Washington, DC field office
• FBI Headquarters, Washington, DC.

Radio call signs were assigned by the Federal Communications Commission. The Ramona/San Diego station was asssigned the call sign KMG 22.

Source: United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, letter of February 14, 1979 to Commander A.H. Grobmeier, US Navy (Ret.)

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Updated on April 7, 2008 at 19:46 by Albert LaFrance

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