I have also heard about underground bases in the south western part
of the United States, particularly Dulce, New Mexico and Nevada.
For further information by William Hamilton: CLICK HERE
ANTARCTICA
Article from a UFO Newsgroup
September 1997:
There are lines of magnetic force emanating from the South Magnetic
Pole. What is strange about the north and south poles is the way
in which the magnetic lines of force move. The magnetic lines off
force originate from a "hole" just off the coast of Antarctica.
There are Chilean and Peruvian scientists/bases being near or
along the route of UFOs emanating from inside the Earth. Many
UFOs fly directly south-north along South America. I could never
quite reconcile that with the Antarctic. But if one draws a line f
rom South America, through the Antarctic bases of Chile, etc
through the South Pole to the South Magnetic pole - then you get
a straight line. What's interesting about this potential "UFO route"
is that UFOs coming from Inside the Earth would end up flying over
the America South Pole base. However, the line of flight is
such that the only places in the Antarctic where you'd stand
a chance of seeing these UFOs is in the "Weddell sea" area where
South American countries have their bases and at the Scott Base
at the South Pole.
The other parts of the UFO route is somewhat offset from the
commonly traveled routes and so there's little chance of running
into UFOs by accident at any other places. That would explain why
the US Govt doesn't like visitors to the South Pole base: It's not that
the hole is AT or NEAR the South Pole base (as we originally thought),
but along the route from the real hole in the oceans off the coast.
Mount Weather
Underground government bases also exist for various reasons.
One of the them is nicknamed Mt. Weather and is just outside of
Washington, DC. Mount Weather and Underground Bases
CLICK HERE
Article about these bases:
Few Americans--indeed, few Congressional reps--are aware of
the existence of Mount Weather, a mysterious underground military
base carved deep inside a mountain near the sleepy rural town of
Bluemont, Virginia, just 46 miles from Washington DC. Mount Weather
--also known as the Western Virginia Office of Controlled Conflict
Operations--is buried not just in hard granite, but in secrecy as well.
In March, 1976, The Progressive Magazine published an astonishing
article entitled The Mysterious Mountain. The author,
Richard Pollock, based his investigative report on Senate
subcommittee hearings and upon "several off-the-record
interviews with officials formerly associated with Mount Weather."
His report, and a 1991 article in Time Magazine entitled
Doomsday Hideaway, supply a few compelling hints about
what is going on underground.
Ted Gup, writing for Time, describes the base as follows:
"Mount Weather is a virtually self-contained facility. Above ground,
scattered across manicured lawns, are about a dozen buildings
bristling with antennas and microwave relay systems. An on-site
sewage-treatment plant, with a 90,000 gal.-a-day capacity, and
two tanks holding 250,000 gal. of water could last some 200
people more than a month; underground ponds hold additional water
supplies. Not far from the installation's entry gate are a control
tower and a helicopter pad. The mountain's real secrets are not
visible at ground level."
The mountain's "real secrets" are protected by warning signs,
10 foot-high chain link fences, razor wire, and armed guards.
Curious motorists and hikers on the Appalachian trail are relieved
of their sketching pads and cameras and sent on their way.
Security is tight.
The government has owned the site since 1903; it has seen service
as an artillery range, a hobo farm during the Depression, and a
National Weather Bureau Facility. In 1936, the U.S. Bureau of
Mines took control and started digging.
Mount Weather is virtually an underground city, according to
former personnel interviewed by Pollock. Buried deep inside
the earth, Mount Weather was equipped with such amenities as:
--private apartments and dormitories
--streets and sidewalks
--cafeterias and hospitals
--a water purification system, power plant and general office buildings
--a small lake fed by fresh water from underground springs
--its own mass transit system
--a TV communication system
Mount Weather is the self-sustaining underground command center
for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The facility
is the operational center--the hub--of approximately 100 other
Federal Relocation Centers, most of which are concentrated in
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina.
Together this network of underground facilities constitutes the
backbone of America's "Continuity of Government" program. In the
event of nuclear war, declaration of martial law, or other national
emergency, the President, his cabinet and the rest of the Executive
Branch would be "relocated" to Mount Weather.
What Does Congress Know about Mount Weather?
According to the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights
hearings in 1975, Congress has almost no knowledge and no
oversight --budgetary or otherwise--on Mount Weather. Retired
Air Force General Leslie W. Bray, in his testimony to the
subcommittee, said "I am not at liberty to describe precisely
what is the role and the mission and the capability that we
have at Mount Weather, or at any other precise location."
Apparently, this underground capital of the United States
is a secret only to Congress and the US taxpayers who paid for it.
The Russians know about it, as reported in Time: "Few in the U.S.
government will speak of it, though it is assumed that all along
the Soviets have known both its precise location and its mission
(unlike the Congress, since Bray wouldn't tell); defense experts
take it as a given that the site is on the Kremlin's targeting maps.
" The Russians attempted to buy real estate right next door, as a
"country estate" for their embassy folks, but that deal was
dead- ended by the State Department.
Mount Weather's "Government-in-Waiting":
Pollock's report, based on his interviews with former officials
at Mount Weather, contains astounding information on the base's
personnel. The underground city contains a parallel
government-in-waiting: "High- level Governmental sources,
speaking in the promise of strictest anonymity, told me
[Pollock] that each of the Federal departments represented
at Mount Weather is headed by a single person on whom is
conferred the rank of a Cabinet-level official. Protocol
ven demands that subordinates address them as 'Mr. Secretary.'
Each of the Mount Weather 'Cabinet members' is apparently
appointed by the White House and serves an indefinite term ...
many through several Administrations.... The facility attempts
to duplicate the vital functions of the Executive branch of the
Administration."
Nine Federal departments are replicated within Mount Weather
(Agriculture; Commerce; Health, Education & Welfare;
Housing & Urban Development; Interior; Labor; State; Transportation;
and Treasurey) as well as at least five Federal agencies (Federal
Communications Commission, Selective Service, Federal Power
Commission, Civil Service Commission, and the Veterans
Administration). The Federal Reserve and the U.S. Post Office,
both private corporations, also have offices in Mount Weather.
Pollock writes that the "cabinet members" are "apparently"
appointed by the White House and serve an indefinite term,
but that information cannot be confirmed, raising the further
question of who holds the reins on this "back-up government."
Furthermore, appointed Mount Weather officials hold their
positions through several elected administrations, transcending
the time their appointers spend in office. Unlike other
presidential nominees, these apppointments are made without
the public advice or consent of the Senate.
Is there an alternative President and Vice President as well?
If so, who appoints them? Pollock says only this: "As might be
expected, there is also an Office of the Presidency at Mount
Weather. The Federal Preparedness Agency (precursor to FEMA)
apparently appoints a special staff to the Presidential section,
which regularly receives top secret national security estimates
and raw data from each of the Federal departments and agencies.
What Do They Do At Mount Weather?
1) Collect Data on American Citizens
The Senate Subcommittee in 1975 learned that the "facility held
dossiers on at least 100,000 Americans. [Senator] John Tunney
later alleged that the Mount Weather computers can obtain millions
of pieces of additional information on the personal lives of
American citizens simply by tapping the data stored at any of
the other ninety-six Federal Relocation Centers."
The subcommittee concluded that Mount Weather's databases
"operate with few, if any, safeguards or guidelines."
2) Store Necessary Information
The Progressive article detailed that "General Bray gave Tunney's
subcommittee a list of the categories of files maintained at Mount
Weather: military installations, government facilities, communications,
transportation, energy and power, agriculture, manufacturing,
wholesale and retail services, manpower, financial, medical
and educational institutions, sanitary facilities, population,
housing shelter, and stockpiles." This massive database fits
cleanly into Mount Weather's ultimate purpose as the command
center in the event of a national emergency.
3) Play War Games
This is the main daily activity of the approximately 240 people
who work at Mount Weather. The games are intended to train the
Mount Weather bureaucracy to managing a wide range of problems
associated with both war and domestic political crises.
Decisions are made in the "Situation Room," the base's nerve center,
located in the core of Mount Weather. The Situation Room is the
archetypal war room, with "charts, maps and whatever visuals
may be needed" and "batteries of communications equipment
connecting Mount Weather with the White House and 'Raven Rock'--
the underground Pentagon sixty miles north of Washington--as well
as with almost every US military unit stationed around the globe,"
according to the Progressive article. "All internal communications
are conducted by closed-circuit color television ... senior officers
and 'Cabinet members' have two consoles recessed in the walls of
their office."
Descriptions of the war games read a bit like a Ian Fleming novel.
Every year there is a system-wide alert that "includes all military
and civilian-run underground installations." The real, aboveground
President and his Cabinet members are "relocated" to Mount Weather
to observe the simulation. Post-mortems are conducted and the margins
for error are calculated after the games. All the data is studied and
documented.
4) Civil Crisis Management
Mount Weather personnel study more than war scenarios. Domestic
"crises" are also tracked and watched, and there have been times
when Mount Weather almost swung into action, as Pollock reported:
"Officials who were at Mount Weather during the 1960s say the
complex was actually prepared to assume certain governmental
powers at the time of the 1961 Cuban missile crisis and the
assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. The installation
used the tools of its 'Civil Crisis Management' program on a
standby basis during the 1967 and 1968 urban riots and during
a number of national antiwar demonstrations, the sources said."
In its 1974 Annual Report, the Federal Preparedness Agency stated
that "Studies conducted at Mount Weather involve the control and
management of domestic political unrest where there are material
shortages (such as food riots) or in strike situations where the FPA
determines that there are industrial disruptions and other domestic
resource crises."
The Mount Weather facility uses a vast array of resources to continually
monitor the American people. According to Daniel J. Cronin, former
assistant director for the FPA, Reconnaissance satellites, local
and state police intelligence reports, and Federal law enforcement
agencies are just a few of the resources available to the FPA
[now FEMA] for information gathering. "We try to monitor situations
and get to them before they become emergencies," Cronin said.
"No expense is spared in the monitoring program."
5) Maintain and Update the "Survivors List"
Using all the data generated by the war games and domestic crisis
scenarios, the facility continually maintains and updates a list of
names and addresses of people deemed to be "vital" to the survival
of the nation, or who can "assist essential and non-interruptible
services." In the 1976 article, the "survivors list" contained 6,500
names, but even that was deemed to be low. Who Pays for All This,
and How Much?
At the same time tens of millions of dollars were being spent on
maintaining and upgrading the complex to protect several hundred
designated officials in the event of nuclear attack, the US government
drastically reduced its emphasis on war preparedness for US citizens.
A 1989 FEMA brochure entitled "Are You Prepared?" suggests that
citizens construct makeshift fallout shelters using used furniture,
books, and other common household items.
Officially, Mount Weather (and its budget) does not exist. FEMA
refuses to answer inquiries about the facility; as FEMA spokesman
Bob Blair told Time magazine, "I'll be glad to tell you all about it,
but I'd have to kill you afterward."
We don't know how much Mount Weather has cost over the years,
but of course, American taxpayers bear this burden as well. A
Christian Science Monitor article entitled "Study Reveals US Has
Spent $4 Trillion on Nukes Since '45" reports that "The government
devoted at least $12 billion to civil defense projects to protect
the population from nuclear attack. But billions of dollars more
were secretly spent on vast underground complexes from which
civilian and military officials would run the government during
a nuclear war." What is Mount Weather's Ultimate Purpose?
We have seen that Mount Weather contains an unelected,
parallel "government-in-waiting" ready to take control of the
United States upon word from the President or his successor.
The facility contains a massive database of information on U.S.
citizens which is operated with no safeguards or accountability.
Ostensibly, this expensive hub of America's network of sub-terran
bases was designed to preserve our form of government during a
nuclear holocaust.
But Mount Weather is not simply a Cold War holdover. Information
on command and control strategies during national emergencies
have largely been withheld from the American public. Executive Order
11051, signed by President Kennedy on October 2, 1962, states that
"national preparedness must be achieved... as may be required to deal
with increases in international tension with limited war, or with
general war including attack upon the United States."
However, Executive Order 11490, drafted by Gen. George A Lincoln
(former director for the Office of Emergency Preparedness, the FPA's
predecessor) and signed by President Nixon in October 1969, tells a
different story. EO 11490, which superceded Kennedy's EO 11051,
begins, "Whereas our national security is dependent upon our ability
to assure continuity of government, at every level, in any national
emergency type situation that might conceivably confront the nation..."
As researcher William Cooper points out, Nixon's order makes no
reference to "war," "imminent attack," or "general war." These
quantifiers are replaced by an extremely vague "national emergency
type situation" that "might conceivably" interfere with the workings
of the national power structure. Furthermore, there is no publicly
known Executive Order outlining the restoration of the Constitution
after a national emergency has ended. Unless the parallel government
at Mount Weather does not decide out of the goodness of its heart
to return power to Constitutional authority, the United States
could experience an honest-to-God coup d'etat posing as a national
emergency.
Like the enigmatic Area 51 in Nevada, the Federal government
wants to keep the Mount Weather facility buried in secrecy.
Public awareness of this place and its purpose would raise
serious questions about who holds the reins of power in this
country. The Constitution states that those reins lie in the
hands of the people, but the very existence of Mount Weather
indicates an entirely different reality. As long as Mount Weather
exists, these questions will remain. Mount Weather's Russian Twin.
By Patricia Neill
Matrix Editor-- Wanda@aol.com
On April 16, 1996, the New York Times reported on a mysterious
military base being constructed in Russia: "In a secret project
reminiscent of the chilliest days of the Cold War, Russia is
building a mammoth underground military complex in the Ural
Mountains, Western officials and Russian witnesses say.
Hidden inside Yamantau mountain in the Beloretsk area of the
southern Urals, the project involved the creation of a huge complex,
served by a railroad,a highway, and thousands of workers."
The New York Times article quotes Russian officials describing
the underground compound variously as a mining site, a repository
for Russian treasures, a food storage area, and a bunker for
Russia's leaders in case of nuclear war.
It would seem that the Russian Parliament knows as little about
Russian underground bases as the Congress knows about Mount Weather
in the United States. "The (Russian) Defense Ministry declined to say
whether Parliament has been informed about the details of the project,
like its purpose and cost, saying only that it receives necessary
military information," according to the New York Times.
"We can't say with confidence what the purpose is, and the Russians
are not very interested in having us go in there," a senior American
official said in Washington. "It is being built on a huge scale and
involves a major investment of resources. The investments are
being made at a time when the Russians are complaining they do
not have the resources to do things pertaining to arms control."
Where's the Money Coming From?
The construction of the vast underground complex in Russia may
very well become a cause of concern to the Clinton Administration.
The issue of ultimate purpose for the complex, whether defensive
(as with Mount Weather) or offensive (such as an underground
weapons factory) is not the only issue Mr. Clinton has to worry about.
The real cause for concern is that the US is currently sending
hundreds of millions of dollars to Russia, supposedly to help
that country dismantle old nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, the
Russian parliament has been complaining to Yeltsin that it
cannot pay $250 million in back wages owed to its workers
at the same time that it is spending money to comply with
new strategic arms reduction treaties.
Aviation Week and Space Technology reported that "It seems
the nearly $30 billion a year spent on intelligence hasn't answered
the question of what the Russians are up to at Yamantau
Mountain in the Urals. The huge underground complex being
built there has been the object of U.S. interest since 1992.
'We don't know exactly what it is,' says Ashton Carter, the
Pentagon's international security mogul. The facility is not
operational, and the Russians have offered 'nonspecific
reassurances' that it poses no threat to the U.S."
U.S. law states that the Administration must certify to Congress
that any money sent to Russia is used to disarm its nuclear
weapons. However, is that the case? If the Russian parliament
is complaining of a shortage of funds for nuclear disarmament,
then how can Russia afford to build the Yamantau complex?
America's Secret Bases Still Operational
August 5, 1998
By Thomas Hargrove, Scripps Howard News Service
The underground installations, ultra-secure manufacturing plants
and once-secret laboratories America needed to wage the Cold War
are still intact despite federal downsizing policies that have gutted
many other military and civilian programs.
The Clinton administration during its first five years increased the
staff at the massive Cheyenne Mountain Air Force and Army complex
in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. That famous underground vault
where thousands of military strategists and technicians were, and
still are, prepared to fight World War III is undergoing a $1.7 billion
renovation to improve its computer systems that track missiles and
orbiting space vehicles.
Nearly as healthy are the Department of Energy installations still used
to assemble, refurbish and maintain the estimated 10,000 warheads in
the United States' nuclear stockpile. And more hale than ever are the
four major national laboratories that discovered atomic fission, the
much more destructive nuclear fusion and the means to develop them
into history's most dangerous weapons.
A Scripps Howard News Service study of federal civilian payroll records
at 10 of these facilities found that employment at these institutions has
declined about 8.8 percent during the Clinton administration. That's only
about half of the manpower reductions made throughout the military and
in the rest of the civilian government.
The so-called "peace dividend" predicted by former President George Bush
has come in modest drabs to the Cold War's high technology infrastructure
under Clinton. The 10 military bases, laboratories and production facilities
in the Scripps Howard study still maintained 25,191 workers in 1997. But
taxpayers received little benefit from these cuts because many of the jobs
that remained are among the highest paid in the federal government. The
study found that the total payroll at these 10 facilities grew during this
five-year period from $994.5 million to $1.14 billion, or a 15 percent rise.
Only one facility, the White Sands Missile Testing Range in New Mexico,
experienced a modest decline in civilian payroll costs. Total employment at
Cheyenne Mountain rose by 12 civilian jobs during this period, increasing from
6,646 workers in 1992 to 6,658 as of Sept. 30 last year. This small increase
makes the vast underground complex one of the few U.S. military bases to
increase in size during the 1990s.
Birmingham said the base still watches for the launch of any high-altitude
missile system anywhere in the world, and monitored Iran's launch of an
intermediate range ballistic weapon last month. The center also tracks
more than 8,500 objects in earth orbit to warn manned space flights of
possible collision threats, and assists the Justice Department and U.S.
Customs in illegal drug interdiction programs by trying to track aircraft
suspected of carrying narcotics. In addition, Cheyenne Mountain operates
military communication and navigation satellites that have become vital
to Western armies. "Space support basically allowed U.S. forces to perform
that famous 'left hook' operation (during the Persian Gulf War.) The Iraqis
assumed no one could navigate that well in the desert.
The Scripps Howard manpower study found that the huge Department
of Energy research facilities:
-- Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee,
Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in
northern California and New Mexico's Los Alamos
-- have survived despite White House downsizing policies.
These facilities were privatized decades ago and are operation centers
for commercial research contractors. Even so, Department of Energy
employees who remain to monitor the work performed at the labs have
suffered only modest declines, dropping from 1,961 federal workers in
1992 to 1,615 employees last year. The overall employment at these
laboratories is much, much larger. Only 77 workers at Los Alamos, N.M.,
are directly employed by the Department of Energy. But the vast lab
facility managed by the University of California employs about 10,000
non-government works.
The overall contract work at these facilities grew as the labs conducted
increasingly diverse research into basic physics with applications for
industry and other non-defense government agencies. But their original
mission of designing nuclear warheads, apparently, also has not suffered
despite international agreements like the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
The arms race with Russia is, officially, over. But the construction,
assembly and development facilities that built the warheads and test
the delivery systems continue with slightly reduced staffs.
Total employment declined by 8 percent at the Savannah River Site in
South Carolina, which produces bomb-grade uranium; the Pantex Plant
in Texas, which assembles warheads; the Redstone Arsenal complex in
Alabama ,which produced Cold War missile systems and continues to
design weapons for the U.S. Army; and the several secured facilities
scattered across the Nellis Air Force Bombing range in southern Nevada,
home of the Nevada Test Site. These four groups of facilities employed
14,182 civilian workers in 1992 and 13,045 as of last year.
The Scripps Howard study is based upon civilian payroll records maintained
by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and obtained by the Transactional
Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. The records provide
information about 2.2 million federal employees as of Sept. 30, 1992 and
for the 1.8 million employed on the same date last year.
