FORTRESS AUSTRALIA - HIDDEN AGENDA

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AUTHOR'S NOTE

This r epo r t r e su l t s from two years of par tt ime i nve s t i g a t i on of r ecen t developments inAus t r a l i a which appear to in d ic a te th at someunusua l and urgen t p re pa ra tio ns a re tiUll::B madeto tu rn Aus t r a l i a in to a s e l f su f f i c i en t "sa fehaven . " The de t a i l s mentioned in th e r epo r thave been kep t as conc i se as poss ib l e to enabler eade r s to make up t h e i r own minds about th ewide ra ng in g e vid en ce which sugges ts a wel lo-rganised and d evelop ing plan of act ion aimeda t reaching cu lmina t ion by th e end of thepresen t decade . This r epo r t can be cons ide redas in te r im only as the p rocess i s ongoing andapparen t ly ga in ing in momentum. The au tho ri n t end s to con tinue h is in ve st ig a t io ns andpub l i sh add i t i ona l r epo r t s in the f u t u r e .

JUNE 30, 1996


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EMERGENCY SERVICESDurin g 1 98 9/9 0 c losed door d i scuss ions began between the Federa l

government in Canberra and a l l the Sta t e governments in view ofupgrad ing all Aus t ra l i an emergency s e rv i c e s . It was agreed t h a t promptac t i on would be taken to f a c i l i t a t e be t t e r co-ord ina t i on between a l le x is ti ng s er vic es and funds would be provided to a s s i s t with t r a in ingprogrammes, th e prov is ion of new equipment and th e r ec ru i tmen t ofadd i t i ona l f u l l t ime profe ss iona l s t a f f . Commun icat io ns were cons ideredo f primary importance and it was decided to e s t ab l i s h an Aust r a l i anwide s t anda rd system encompass ing a l l ex i s t ing se rv i ce s which a reFede ra l and Sta t e pol ice fo rces , metropo l i tan f i r e br igades . countryf i r e au t ho r i t i e s , ambulance se rv ices , rescue se rv ice s and o the rvolunteer emergency s e rv i ce s .

Basica l ly the r eo rgan i sa t i on seems to fo llow alo ng the l i n e s ofthe old Civ i l Defence Organ isa t ion and it i s i n t e r e s t i ng to note thesame old names a re being used aga in . The s t a t e s have been divided upi n to regions and each placed under th e command of a con t r o l l e r .A sub reg iona l con t r o l l e r i s responsib le to a cen t r a lreg iona l con t ro l l e r . From there it goes to s t a t e l eve l and then on toFede ra l l eve l cen t red 1n Canberra . As was the case with the o r ig ina lorgan i sa t ions each reg ian i s capable of opera t ing on it's own if thecha in of command should break down due to warf a re , c i v i l unres t orna tu r a l d i s a s t e r . Close l i a son has been arranged with a l l branchesof the armed se rv ices and in some i n s tances j o i n t t r a in ing programmeshave been a r ranged on a regula r b as is . H i l i ta ry r e se rv i s t s areencouraged to become voluntary emergency workers in t h e i r l o ca l a rea sas no t only t h e i r knowledge i s of use but it helps d ev elo p mutu al t r u s tbetween the community and se rv i ce personel in gene ra l .

During the pas t year the Federa l Government has encouragedvolun tary involvement of as many pr iva t e c i t i zens as poss ib l e . In t h i sway a r eg iona l con t ro l l e r a smal l s t a f f can develop a sub s t an t i a lorgan i sa t ion a t very low cos t .

Fur the r so ca l led cos t sav ings have been made by cen t r a l i s i ngemergency communicat ions in each s t a t e and ' p r i v a t i s i ng ' them byse l l i ng them o ff to an ou ts i de con t rac to r . Sta t e Government hasmoved the communicat ion systems covering Pol ice , Fire and Ambulances e rv i ce s under one roof a t g rea t expense to the tax payer and thenso ld them o ff to a company c al le d 'I nte rg ra ph I nc ' i s aspec ia l i s ed American communicat ions company sa id to be c lose ly connec tedto the United S ta t e s Nat ional Secur i ty Agency (NSA).

Of f u r t h e r in te re s t is the o r ig in s of some of the profe s s iona ls t a f f members who have been employed to develop and conso l i da te the


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- 2 -who were promoting its aims t h roughout Vic t o r i a .

When th e d ep re ss io n h i t Aus t ra l i a in 1929 the Vic tor i an governmentwithdrew its f i n anc i a l suppor t fo rc ing th e s t a f f to work on reducedwages and fo r th e NSCA to depend on p r iva t e con t r ibu t ion made by bigbus iness and some weal thy i nd iv idua l s . The o rgan i s a t ion surv ived and in1934 the government renewed it's con t r ibu t ion a l low ing the NSCA tof u r t he r expand itls ro le in th e community.

The second World War produced rapid growth in the o rgan i s a t ion andfo r the f i r s t t ime it became involved in mi l i t a ry mat t e r s , a ro l e itm a in ta in ed t hr ou g ho u t it's remaining h i s t o r y . By 1948 th e NSCA had ledto th e development of an en t i r e sa f e ty and s e cu r i t y indus t ry employ ingmore than 300,000 people .

In 1976 a mys te r ious person named John Fre id r i ch j o ined th e NSCAas a sa f e ty o f f i c e r a t the Sta te Elec t r i c i t y Commis si on powe r s t a t i onin Yal lourn , Vic to r i a . Fre id r i ch was not h is r e a l name and to t h i s dayh is r e a l i d en t i t y has remained unknown. Due to h is high i n t e l l i g en c e .d i l i gence and a good measure of ass i s t ance from seve ra l powerful backers .pr inc ipa l l y the U.S. Cent ra l I n t e l l i g ence Agency (CIA), he quick ly rosethrough th e ranks and, desp i t e the fa c t h is background was a myth, and hed id no t even possess an A u s tr al ia n p as sp ort or va l id b i r th c e r t i f i c a t e ,he became the execu t ive d i r e c to r in 1982. His meteor ic r i s e to powercou ld only be desc r ibed as as ton i sh ing , however as t h e r e was p len ty ofmoney in it fo r everyone t he re were few compla in t s . When an oppos i t ionmember of pa r l i amen t ra i sed a ques t ion abou t th e appointment in the Househe was howled down by the government .

Fre id r i ch (CIA Code Name 'rAGO') took to h is new job l i ke a duckto w ate r . Money s t a r t e d to flow and th e NSCA plunged i n to anunpreceden ted per iod of expansioJl .

The NSCA headqua r t e r s were moved from plush o f f i c e s in S t . KildaRoad. Melbourne ( c lo se to the U.S. Consul Genera l ' s of f i ce in A lbe rtRoad which was then th e p r i n c i p a l CIA Sta t ion in Aus t ra l i a ) to Sa l e , acount ry town in G ip psla nd , Vic t o r i a . A complete a i r po r t was bU il t inWest Sale oppos i t e th e R.A.A.F. base s i tua t ed in East Sa le . No cos t wasspared and an e l abora te base which inc luded the l a rge s t hyperba r i c(decompress ion) f a c i l i t i e s in Aust ra l ia and an indoor horse r i d ing a renawas bu i l t in reco rd tim e. Any amount of money was made i n s t a n t l yava i l ab l e by th e government and banks . All t h a t was requi red was F r e i d r i c h ' ss i gna tu r e .

Toge ther with th e development of th e base came what can only bedesc r ibed as a pr iva te a i r f o r c e invo lv ing dozens of fixed wing a i r c r a f t ,both p rope l lo r and pure j e t , and dozens of he l i cop t e r s . In f a c t Fre id r i ch ' sp r iva t e he l i cop t e r , a Bel l 212, had prev ious ly been owned by Id i Amin!Apar t from th a t th e re was a marine sec t ion which purchased a number of

It


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- 3 -Omega bases in V ic to ria and Tasmania , and secondly prov ide deep seasubmarine r e scue f a c i l i t i e s fo r th e American nuc l ea r submar ine fo rcecons t an t l y pa t ro l l i ng th e Southern Ocean. There were seve ra l occas ionswhen they vere ca l l ed in to use he l i cop te r crowd con t ro l methods a tPine Gap and th e Gippsland Omega s t a t i on . It i s not known i f t h e i rsubmarine rescue f a c i l i t i e s were ever used.

The a s soc i a t i on with th e Eas t Sale RAAF base was a c lose one. Infact two senior RAAF of f icers sa t on the board of the NSCA. East Salei s a secure RAAF base and i s of ten used by NASA (U2 f l i gh t s ) and otherunexpla ined U.S. a i r c r a f t . It i s a l so the r epos i to ry of s ec r e t U.F.O.informat ion and was the base t ha t Frederick Valent ich a t tended fo r aspec i a l course r e l a t i ng to U.F.O. ' s before he disappeared over BassS t r a i t on 21s t October , 1978 while r epor t ing a close encounte r with al a rge U.F.O. So concerned was Valent i ch about what he had seen and beento ld a t Sale t h a t he emot iona l ly to ld h is paren t s sho r t l y a f t e rva rdst h a t they take me I should be O.K. so don ' t worry , they v i I Iprobably put me (Thi s vas to ld to the wri t e r by Guido Valen t i ch ,Frede r i ck ' s f a t he r , in l a t e Octo be r, 19 78).

It has been i n fe r red t ha t the NSCA was c lose ly involved with theU .F.O . problem and had a l l the equipment necessary to e f f e c t r e t r i e va l son land and from the g rea t ocean depths . They a l so ran t h e i r owni n t e rna t i ona l a i r l i n e which did no t account to anyone and moved peop le ,drugs and money in and out of Aust ra l i a . Fre id r i ch ' s ex pe r sona l p i l o tto ld the au thor t ha t he of ten flew him to a i rpo r t s in va r ious pa r t s ofAust ra l i a vhere he vould t r ans f e r to ano ther a i r c r a f t and d isappear .On one occas ion he flew to Essendon Airpor t in Melbourne where Fre id r i chto ld him to wai t . An execut ive j e t in U.S. colours and the CIA i n s ign iaon the t a i l landed sho r t l y af te rwards and Fre id r ich climbed aboard .Four hours l a t e r the plane re turned and Fre id r i ch va l ked back to h is ownplane and ordered the p i l o t to f ly back to West Sale . Apart frommentioning th e weather he sa id noth ing abou t the s t r ange f l i gh t . Thep i l o t also claimed t ha t he of ten rece ived order s to f ly toge the r with aback up p i l o t to d ese r ted a i r s t r i p s in the Austra l ian outback. Host ofthese s t r i p s were bu i l t during the second World War ye t , odd ly en ou gh ,a re still mainta ined by persons unknown. Another plane would be parkedt he re and the keys and i n s t r uc t ions as to what to do next would be inone of the wheel wel l s . The i n s t r uc t ions usual ly involved f ly ing to asecond a i r s t r i p where Fre id r i ch would be wai t ing with h is canvasovern igh t bag. He would then f ly Fre id r ich e i t h e r to Richmond RAAF basein New South Wales or back to West Sale . On th ree occas ions he had topick up Fre id r i ch from Pine Gap. Each t ime he flew a lone in a NSCALear J e t and made th e pick ups around 3 A.M. Even a t Pine Gap Fre id r i chwas always va i t i ng a lone on the vacan t a i r s t r i p .

It was a lso wel l known t ha t the U.S. Airforce conducted j o i n tt r a i n ing e xe rc is es v ith the NSCA and there were s ev er al re po rts of the


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- 4 -passpor t and immedia te ly re tu rned to the U.S.A. where he now l i v e s underano the r name. Frank Nugan l o s t a grea t aea l of money and t h r ea t ened toexpose th e opera t ion i f he was no t re im b urs ed . T his was a se r i ou s e r ro ras he was sho t dead a few days l a t e r with a .300 magnum hunt ing r i f l e .

As the Cold War came to a c lose it was decided to dump the NSCA.Suddenly it was revealed t ha t hundreds of mi l l i on s of do l l a r s had beenmisappropr ia ted and Fre id r i ch was blamed. The West Sale base was closedand hundreds of t r a ined and high ly ex perien ced p erso he! were d ismis sed .Fre id r i ch i n i t i a l l y went in to h id ing as he knew f u l l wel l t ha t when suchs e c r e t o pe ra tio ns a re c losed down th e c leaners come in and any po t en t i a lembar rassments are quickly e l imina ted . Fre idr ich played h is cardsco r rec t l y and su rfaced to face charges of bank f raud and o the r commercia lcr imes . While on ba i l he supposedly commit ted su i c ide which, of course ,was most convenient to everyone i nvo lved . However, the re were s t rongi nd i ca t i ons t h a t he was no t dead but had been quickly withdrawn to theU.S.A. j u s t l i ke Michael Hand and a un iden t i f i ed corpse from the c i tymorgue had been put in h is p lac e. S evera l po l i ce o f f i c e r s who t a lkedabou t t h i s were to ld t ha t they would be d is m is se d w ith ou t pension r igh t si f they ment ioned it aga in . Everyone shu t up.

But what of a l l t ha t t r a ined s t a f f ? Within weeks o f the NSCA c lo sedown many o f them were absorbed i n to o ther government s e rv i c e s and theorgan i s a t ions they had helped to t r a i n . Many o th e rs a re now involved inthe new rap id ly developing Sta te emergency s e rv i c e s . No doubt , l i ke theo ld Civ i l Defence Organisa t ion per sonne l , most of them wi l l have kep tt h e i r American con tac t s and are f i rmly par t of the secu r i t y o ld boysne twork . Never the les s NSCA t r a ined o f f i c e r s a re co ns id ere d the bes t int h e i r f i e ld and a re fu l ly capable of pu t t ing organ i s a t ions t oge the rquickly and e f f e c t i v e l y . This seems to be what they a re doing a t thepresen t t ime .

There a re in d ic at io n s th at a f u l l y ope ra t iona l , co-o rd ina ted na t ionwide rescue and emergency se rv ice must be ready fo r any even tua l i t y by1998/99 a t the l a t e s t . The reason fo r such haste i s not c l e a r but itappea rs t ha t something i s expected to happen by the end o f the decadeand as fa r as humanly poss ib le the government wants to be ready fo r it.This seems to fit in with o ther prepara t ions being made by the Federa land Sta t e po l i ce force and the armed s e rv i c e s .THINGS MILITARY

The Aust ra l i an Submarine Corpora t ion has j u s t launched it's secondCol l in s Class submarine and a fu r the r s ix are due fo r de l iv ery by 1999.Thei r co s t i s es t imated a t around one b i l l i on do l l a r s each . There a replans to produce many more fo r f r i end ly nat ions in South Eas t Asia andi f poss i b l e keep the enormous ly eXlnmsive f ac to ry in con t inuous product ion


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- 5 -r e bu i l t to br ing them up to the l a t e s t s t anda rd s . The co s t per a i r c r a f ti s abou t t h i r t y mil l ion do l l a r s . More than for ty a i r c r a f t are involvedin t h i s r e fu rb i shmen t programme.

In l a t e 1995 the army moved it's southern armoured div i s ion fromVic to r i a to the Northern Te r r i t o ry . The government s t a t ed a t the t imet h a t as they d id not expec t an invas ion from the An ta rc tic th er e was nopo in t in keeping them in the Southern pa r t of Aus t r a l i a . Does t ha t meanthey expec t an a t t ack from the North?

In January , 1996 a source in the U.S.A. advised t ha t the army hadplaced a l a rge order fo r Jeeps spec i a l l y prepared to r e s i s t chemicaland b io log i ca l warfare agen t s . The exact number i s not known but it i sunders tood to be in the hundreds . Simi la r veh ic les were used by theAmerican f o rce s in the Gulf War. Why should they be conSidered a v i t a ladd i t i on to th e a rmie ' s i nven to ry of equipment in Aust ra l i a? Del iverywi l l take place over the nex t two year s meaning it wi l l be completed bymid 1998. No mention of t h i s orde r has been made by any of theAust ra l i an media o r any government au tho r i t y .

Uni ted S t a t e s B52 bombers , Fl5 and FI8 f i gh t e r s as wel l as ea r lywarning a i r c r a f t are now s t a t i oned in nor the rn Aus t r a l i a and a soca l l ed prac t i ce bombing range in the Northern Ter r i t o ry i s being usedby American, Aus t r a l i an , Indones ian and Singapore a i r f o r c e s . Singaporehas been a l lowed to s t a t i on a f i gh t e r squadron in Queensland andIndones ia i s conduc t ing regu la r mi l i t a ry exe rc i s e s with the Aust ra l i anarmed f o r c e s . The l a s t one involved sev en tho usa nd In do nes ia ns fo r twoweeks in Nor thern Queensland.

A whole new e ra in the r e l a t i onsh ip between Aus t r a l i a and Indones iaopened in December , 1995 with the s ign ing of a j o i n t defence t r ea t y bythe Aus t r a l i an and Indones ian governments . This t r ea t y con ta ins somevery unusua l and ambiguous l anguage . One po in t has a l r eady caused somedeba te as it in d ic ate s th at one par ty wi l l go to the aid of the o the r"due to any adve rse cha l l enge" . This could mean any th ing . Most c r i t i c simmedia te ly assumed Aust ra l i a would have to he lp Indonesia even in theeven t o f an i n t e r n a l problem deve loping in t h e i r coun t ry . They d id no tseem to th ink about the pos s i b i l i t y o f Aust ra l i a asking the Indones iansto help them in one of t h e i r i n t e rna l prob lems .

This s i t u a t i on i s d i squ i e t i ng as the people t h a t wri t e sucht r e a t i e s know what they a re saying so it i s un l ike ly the loose wordingwas j u s t a s l i p o f the pen. Also the r e su l t s of the survey which wasgiven to U.S. Marines a t Twenty-Nine Palms in Southern Ca l i f o r n i a ,wanting to know if they would shoo t on t h e i r own people , were s im i l a rto th e r e s u l t s of s e c r e t l y conducted surveys in Aus t r a l i a . They won ' tdo it! However the re are many fore ign t roops t ha t would, and t h i s has

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it pa r t i c u l a r l y in view o f the f a c t they would be first to be ove r r un .I f one l ooks a t a map o f Aus t r a l i a and South Eas t Asia the on ly wayboa t s sma l l o r l a r ge can qu ick ly ge t through to th e sou th i s v ia thewaterways t ha t d iv ide th e i s l ands of Indones ia . Any o the r route i slong and dangerous and most smal l bos ts would not surv ive such avoyage .

The speed with which t h i s new t r e a t y was en te red in to in d ic ate st h i ng s need to be a rr an ge d q uic kly and t h i s fits in with o the r r e cen tdevelopments .

On 4th January , 1996 news leaked out t ha t Singapore was going tot e rmina t e it's m i li ta ry t ra in in g ar rangements in Taiwan and with th eagreement o f th e Aus t r a l i a n government move it's programme toAus t r a l i a . Almost c e r t a i n l y a defence t r e a t y w i l l fo l low th e move whichwould f u r t h e r help s e a l o f f th e waterways to s ea f a r i ng m ig ra nts . F ur th erthe Singapor i ans a re in a very i n s e cu re a rea of th e w orld . su rroundedby mi l l i o n s o f Muslims and f ac ing th e p ro spec t o f Malays ia becoming af undamen t a l i s t coun t ry by th e end o f th e c en t u ry . Most r e ade r s wouldbe aware of S ingapo re ' s neo f a s c i s t sys tem and ext r eme methods o fdea l ing with a lmos t eve ry th ing e . g . an American boy was i n c a r c e r a t e dfo r th re e months and f logged fo r sp ray ing some pa in t on a c a r . A l o c a lc i t i z en was impr i s i oned fo r two yea r s fo r l i t t e r i n g e t c . e t c . Outs idet h r e a t s o f any kind make t h e i r mi l i t a n t regime very ne rvous . AsSingapor i ans a re bas i ca l l y Chinese th e Malays ians would be only toohappy to see "them d i s appea r . Could it be t h a t t h e r e a re p lan s to movea l a r ge pa r t of S ingapo re ' s 3 .000 ,000 p op ula t io n to Aus t r a l i a and savethem frem a f a t e worse than death? The i r mi l i t a ry so whyno t br ing t h e i r b r a i n s , banks and ho t e l s as w el l?COMMAND INTEGRATION OF AUSTRALIAN ARMED SERVICES

On th e 15th Janua ry , 1996 it was announced t h a t th e Aus t r a l i anarmy, a i r f o r c e and navy wi l l be p laced under s i ng l e command. A newpos t o f 'Commander Au str al ia n T h ea tr e ' (an odd cho ise o f name) isbeing c r e a t e d to coord ina t e th e coun t r i e s a i r l and and sea d efen cesunder a s i n g l e Commanding Of f i c e r .

A new s i t e i s being s e l e c t ed fo r th e e s t a b l i s hmen t o f a headqua r t e r sand t h i s i s expec ted to be in a secure area (poss ib ly underground) inNew S ou th W ales. As th e new headqua r te r s must be reasonably c lo s e toCanber ra it wi l l probab ly be s i t u a t ed in the ex t en s i ve undergoundfacilities in th e Snowy Mounta ins . These s e c r e t f a c i l i t i e s were b u i l ta t th e t ime o f cons t r uc t i on o f th e Snowy Moun tain s h yd ro e l e c t r i cscheme and t o t a l l y concea led from th e pub l i c . It i s a va s t systemcapab l e of suppor t ing thousands o f people and connec ted to Canber ra bya s e c r e t underground r a i lway .


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- 7 -The t a r g e t da te fo r having the SSQUQOO.OOO r eo rgan i s a t i on fu l lyopera t iona l i s by 1998/99. By t ha t t ime the machinery of a pol ices t a t e wi l l be f i rmly in p lace and it wi l l then be poss ib le to

i n t roduce d i c t a t o r i a l powers a t a moments no t i ce .COAST WATCH SERVICE

Since the second World War the Aust ra l i an Government has ope ra t eda coas t watch system a long the nor the rn coas t l i ne of the con t inen t . Ther e spons i b i l i t y fo r t h i s was i n i t i a l l y placed in th e hands of theAust ra l i an Navy and Airfo rce . In r ecen t years it became necessa ry togrea t l y inc rease th e capac i ty of the se rv ice to con t ro l i l l e g a l f i sh ing ,drug smuggl ing and th e f low o f i l l e g a l immigrants . To ach ieve a muchh igher l e ve l of s u r ve i l l a nc e th e system has been pa r t i a l l y ' p r i v a t i s e d . 'Like the NSCA, a pr iva t e South Aus t ra l i an company which opera tes al a rge number of a i r c r a f t has been con t r ac t ed to un der tak e co ntin uo uss u r ve i l l a nc e from th e North West to th e North Eas t and pa t r o l th e oceand iv id ing Aus t r a l i a from Indones ia and New Guinea. Over th e pas t twoyears the government has been very generous to t h i s con t r a c t o r bydona t ing a sub s t an t i a l number of f ixed wing a i r c r a f t and prov id ingi n t e r e s t f ree f inance fo r th e purchase of new a i r c r a f t from th e U.S.A.and Europe. As th e t r i c k l e of boat people has been i n c rea s i ng over th epas t few years the government appea r s to be ac t ing with some urgency.

The Navy and th e A irfo rce a re still involved in th e coa s t watch .th e p riv a te c o n tr ac to r being used as t h e i r ex t r a s e t of eyes . Normallywhen an a r r e s t tak es p lace it's th e Navy t h a t does th e j ob . Modernpa t r o l boa t s s im i l a r to those being used by th e U.S. coa s t guard a re incons t an t produc t ion in Western Aus t r a l i a and added to the Navy a t th er a t e o f around s ix per yea r .POLICE SERVICES AND THE PRISONS

Over th e pas t f ive years th e Sta t e and Fede ra l po l i ce fo rces havebeen undergoing a g rea t dea l of r eo rgan i s a t ion . New t r a i n i ng methodshave been adopted and ' s t a t e of th e art' equipment purchased a t veryhigh co s t . Advisory groups , mainly from th e American F .B . I . , have beenhe lp ing with the r eo rgan i sa t i on and it seems t h e i r adv ice has beentaken very s e r i ou s l y .

The Fede ra l Po l i c e a re changing t h e i r en t i r e s t r u c t u r e . In f u t u reonly th e sen io r admin i s t r a t i ve s t a f f in Canberra wi l l have r anks suchas ' I n spec t o r ' o r ' D i r e c t o r ' . All o the r s wi l l be desc r ibed a s ' Fede r a lAgen t s ' , no mat t e r what t h e i r previous s t a t u s was. This i s in l i ne withth e American sys tem. New l e g i s l a t i on i s env isaged to give th e newAust ra l i an F .B .I . fa r g re a te r powers than were en joyed by th e o ldFedera l Po l i c e Force and al low them to opera te on an Aus t r a l i a wide


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- 8 -As pa r t of the upgrading of the Sta t e p olic e fo rc es a l a rge r

number of o f f i c e r s are being sen t o versea s fo r spec i a l i s ed t r a i n i ng .As in the pas t , the major i ty of them a re sen t to th e U.S.A. fo rspec i a l i s ed courses with the F.B. I . and the In t e rna t i ona l Pol iceAcademy. This t r a in ing seems to involve eve ry th ing inc lud ing suchsubjec t s as 'Advanced In t e r roga t i on Methods. I

Other Airwing o f f i c e r s a re being sen t to a s pe cia l h e l ic op te rt r a i n ing school toge the r with mil i t a ty pe r sonne l and se lec tedc i v i l i a n s to l ea rn he l i cop t e r crowd con t ro l and o the r techn iques . Iti s planned to ' p r i v a t i s e ' the po l ice a i rwings by s e l l i ng them to ou t s idecon t rac to r s . Two la rge American companies have al ready made it c l e a rt h a t they want to buy t h i s pa r t of the bus ines s .

A ll po l ice fo rces e re coordina ted with the Sta t e EmergencyServ ices and have d i rec t con tac t s with Au s t ra l ia 's in te ll ig e n ceorgan i s a t ions . Itts one big happy fami ly .

Aust ra l i an pr i sons are being ' p r i v a t i s ed ' as qu ick ly as pos s ib l e .This i s very d i squ ie t ing as pr iva te pr i sons a re wide open to abusepa r t i cu la r ly if they f a l l i n to the hands of unscrupulous peop le . Thisseems to be what i s happening in Aus t r a l i a .

The American Wackenhut Inc . seems to have no d i f f i cu l t y in ob ta in ingth e r i gh t s to run the pr ison system in Queensland, New South Wales andVic to r i a and it's expec ted they wi l l do th e same in a l l o the r s t a t e s .The f a c t t h a t Wackenhut Inc . i s sub j ec t to c r imina l proceedings in th eU.S.A. does not seem to concern any of our s t a t e admin i s t r a to r s .

The founder of the company, Mr. Wackenhut h imse l f i s d esc rib ed asa shadowy f igu re who prev ious ly was a sen io r o f f i c e r in the F.B . I . andstill has regu la r con t ac t with both the F.B . I . end C.I .A I t i scla imed t h a t h is main expe r t i s e was in the area of c l andes t i n e ope ra t ions .

Pr iva t i sa t i on o f the prison system wi l l save little or no th ing .It's main purpose seems to be to p lace con t ro l of these es t ab l i shmen t sin th e hand o f a fo re ign power. At the same t ime government au tho r i t i e sl o se t h e i r v i t e l , independent r i gh t to oversee th e conduct of thepr i sons and th e s e l e c t ion and con t ro l of those t h a t opera te them.

In the U.S.A. it has been proved t h a t Wackenhut has employedconv ic t ed c r imina l s as pr ison guards and t he re a re rumours t h a t theyhave been doing th e same th ing in Aus t r a l i a . Fur the r they have d ive r t edmi l l ions of do l l a r s of U .S. gov ern ment funds to t h e i r own use thusdepr iv ing pr ison inmates of drug r ehab i l i t a t ion and educa t i ona lprogrammes. In November, 1995 it was repor ted to th e New South Wales


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- 9 -I f t he r e r ea l ly a re in te rnmen t camps as many people su spec t th en ,due to the g re at d is ta nc es invo lved , it would be d i f f i c u l t to t r an spo r t

l a rge numbers o f people to them in t imes o f emergency. I t may be t h a tthey a re des igned fo r advance use and no urgency would be involveddu ring the per iod of initial occupancy, when th e l a r g e s t number ofpeople would be sen t to them. I f t h i s i s th e case then th e au t h o r i t i e smust have a de f i n i t e t ime frame in mind. Like every th ing e l s e i s itdur ing the l a t t e r pa r t of th e p re sen t decade?

In t imes o f emergency invo lv ing grea t d i s a s t e r s th e t r an spo r t a t i onof l a rge numbers o f r e s i s t a n t and in some cases hos t i l e people i sd i f f i c u l t . It i s fa r be t t e r to process them and place them underde t en t ion in a rea s c lose to the d i s a s t e r zones . But how does one bui ldl a r g e in te rnmen t f a c i l i t i e s near popula ted a rea s withou t the pub l i cno t i c i ng and c au sin g sc an da l and embar rassment t h a t th e au t h o r i t i e swould be ab le to dea l with? The answer was found to be qu i t e s imple .Tent camps l i k e those being used as c i v i l p r ison s in America (Arizona)could be purchased in k i t form complete w ith razo r wire and e l e c t r i cf enc ing and warehoused in each s ta te u n t i l r equ i r ed . A source in th egovernment advised the wri t e r t h a t he had heard a procurement programmehad been underway fo r th e pas t two year s and 'Wackenhut I n c . ' i s th ewi l l i ng s upp l i e r . In t h i s way it would be poss i b l e to s t o r e hundredso f p r i s on s around Aus t r a l i a t ha t would t ake no more than a few days tos e t up in any ava i l ab l e open space wi thou t th e publ ic having anyadvance knowledge o f them whatsoever . It's im po rtan t to cons ide r t h a tif t h i s system i s adopted in Aus t r a l i a it would have to be of s im i l a ri n t e r e s t in th e U.S. and o the r coun t r i e s . The pr i son expor t bus inesscou ld prove to be very p ro f i t a b l e indeed and no doubt 'Wackenhut I nc . Ii s f u l l y aware of such po s s i b i l i t i e s . In th e United S t a t e s a lone theya re making ove r $100 ,000 ,000 per year ou t o f t h e i r pr iva t e pr i sons ande xp or tin g p ris on camps in k i t form or a l lowing l i cenced manufac turewould r ep r e sen t a very n ice add i t ion to t h e i r ex i s t i ng bus ines sa c t i v i t i e s .THE OVERPOPULATION PROBLEM

Two s e n i o r o f f i c i a l s of Aus t r a l i a ' s Depar tment o f Fore ign Affa i r sto ld th e wr i t e r in l a t e 1995 t h a t th e g r e a t e s t problem fac ing Aus t ra l i aand th e world was overpopu la t ion . At th e p re sen t r a t e o f growth th eworld popula t ion wi l l exceed f i f t e en b i l l i o n by th e year 2015 which i scons ide red unsu s t a i n ab l e . Should the c l ima t i c changes con t inue andfood produc t ion become more d i f f i c u l t such popula t ion pre s su re s canonly lead to d i s a s t e r .

At the p re sen t t ime th e Aus t r a l i an popu la t ion i s around e igh t eenmi l l i on . The i nc r e a se of about ten m ill io n s in ce th e end o f th e Second


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- 10 -There i s growing c r i t i c i sm of the government immigra t ion po l icywhich, over the pa s t few years , has p laced enormous s t r e s s on thecoun t r i e s soc i a l s e rv i ces and produced an unacceptably high l e ve l o funemployment . To go on adding to t h i s problem could l ead to a soc i a lschism.The Fore ign Af fa i r s Department i s genera l ly aga ins t inc reased

immigra t ion and has s t rong ly advi sed the government to take everyadvanced precau t ionary measure to preven t i l l e g a l immigrants en t e r ingthe coun t ry . Like the Br i t i sh in Hong Kong the Aust ra l i an Governmenthas conc luded agreem ents w ith C hina, Vietnam and o the r south ea s tAsian coun t r i e s enabl ing prompt depor t a t ion of i l l e g a l immigrants tot h e i r homelands . Large hold ing camps have been es t ab l i shed innor the rn Western Aus t r a l i a and th e Northern Ter r i to ry which a represen t ly hold ing seve ra l thousand of these i l l e g a l s .

The fo re ign Affa i r s Department e s t ima t e s t h a t th e re a re twentymi l l i on Chin ese p eo ple alone who want to move to Aus t r a l i a by anymeans a t t h e i r d i sposa l should they ge t the chance .THE RABBIT PLAGUE

From th e t ime Br i t i sh s e t t l e r s in tro du ce d th e common Europeanr abb i t to Aus t r a l i a it has been a pe s t . With no na t u r a l enemies itbred a t a t remendous r a t e and by the mid nine teen th century it hadbecome a t remendous problem to fa rm ers th roughout the co lony . Rabbi tsd estro y c ro ps , denude land of na tu r a l vege ta t ion and d ig mi l l i ons o fburrows which l ead to land degradat ion and e ros ion e ve ntu al ly tu rn in gr i ch farm l and to de se r t . Unt i l the 1950 's th e only way to con t r o l themwas by shoo t ing . poisoning and t r app ing . By t h a t t ime the i n f e s t a t i onhad reached c r i s i s l eve l caus ing an es t ima ted red uc tion in foodproduct ion o f around 20%.

In the mid 1950 's a group of s c i e n t i s t s in the CommonwealthSc i en t i f i c and I ndu s t r i a l Research Organ isa t ion (CSIRO) discovered av iru s ca l led Myxomatosis t h a t would only i n f e c t and k i l l r abb i t s andcould eas i l y be spread by mo sq uito 's . A fte r ex te ns iv e t e s t i ng it wasre l eased and with in a mat te r of months the r abb i t popu la t ion was undercon t r o l . They d ied in t h e i r tens of mil l ions and the land s t a r t ed tor egene r a t e .

Some twenty f ive yea rs l a t e r it was found t h a t the r abb i t popu la t ionwas deve lop ing r e s i s t ance to Myxomatosis and an en t i r e new s t r onge rbreed o f r abb i t s was s t a r t i ng to i n f e s t the c ou ntry . Once aga in fa rm ershad to s t a r t po is on in g . s ho ot in g and t rapp ing to keep th e r abb i tpopu la t ion down.

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happened. The v i rus mys te r iou ly jumped to the mainland and much tothe de l i gh t of the farmers immediate ly s t a r t ed to des imate ther abb i t popu la t ion with a morta l i ty r a t e of more than 95%. The v i rusi s now rap id ly spreading th roughout Aus t ra l ia and has. in only a fewmonths , reached Queensland some two thousand miles away. The e f f e c tshould be to v i r t u a l l y wipe out the r a bb i t popula t ion by 1998 whichwi l l a utoma tic al l y in cr ea se food produc t ion by a t l e a s t 10% by theend of the decade .

It i s rumoured t ha t to avoid years of pub l ic i nqu i r i e s and neverending delay the " ac cid e nt al " r el ea se of the Cal i e i v i rus was not inany way acc i den t a l . I f a d i s a s t e r occurred food produc t ion would beo f prime impor tance thus any f a c to r t ha t could presen t an unmanagableproblem a t the tim e sho uld be e l imina ted as fa r in advance as pos s i b l e .It seems the has te wi th which the CSIRO acted i nd i ca t e s the t ime i ssho r t .

So fa r th e re seems to be a wide var ie ty o f prepara t ions being madet h a t a l l have s im i l a r t ime tab le s . From m i li ta ry s er vic es to foodproduct ion s t rong e f f o r t s are being made to have every th ing opera t inga t it's peak by the end o f the decade. Does t h i s i nd i c a t e an i n t r i c a t ecoord ina ted p lan or it i s j u s t coinc idence?BUSINESS INVESTMANT IN AUSTRALIA AND THE LOOTING OF THE BANIS

Over the pas t f iv e years American corpora t ions have become thel a r g e s t of a l l fo re ign i nve s to r s in th e Aust ra l i an economy. They havepurchased la rg e se ct io ns o f the food i ndu s t ry , r ang ing from the farms toth e su pe rm a rk ets , mining and raw mate r i a l produc t ion and process ing ,eng inee r ing , computer and e l ec t ron i c s manufac ture , r e t a i l i ng , t r an spo r t ,adve r t i s i ng , the pr in ted media, t e l ev i s i on and r ad io , ho te l s andr e s o r t s . This has been added to ex i s t i ng major inves tments in banking ,autom obile m an ufac tu rin g. th e aero sp ace i ndus t ry , in su rance and manys e rv i c e i ndu s t r i e s .

American inves tment has now en te red a new s t age . Due to theeconomic cond i t ions caused by a vas t loss of cap i t a l dur ing the secondha l f o f the 1980 's the Fede ra l and Sta te gov ernmen t h av e been forcedi n t o a massive p r i v a t i s a t i on of a s s e t s to provide cash to repay loansand i n t e r e s t (mainly to the U.S.A. and Japan) . So fa r a l l manner ofpubl ic utilities have been sold o f f inc lud ing the en t i r e e l e c t r i c a lpower and d i s t r i bu t i on sys tems of Vic to r i a and New South Wales toAmerican buyers fo r b i l l i on s of do l l a r s . The o the r s t a t e s a re morethan eager to fol low s u i t . I t i s c le a r th a t apa r t from normal bus ines sinves tments America i s now keen to buy the i n f r a s t r u c t u r e of thecount ry and i s progres s ing very rap id ly in t ha t d i r e c t i on . There a res t rong in d ic at io ns th at e i t h e r Pac i f i c Be l l or AT & T wi l l buy theen t i r e Aust ra l i an t e lephone system fo r around t h i r t y f ive b i l l i on


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- 12 -key f ac to r s in the form of the s en s i t i v e American bases were v i t a lto the success of t h i s major under taking. Also as th e es t im ate dcos t s were expected to fa r exceed the combined cos t of the ManhattanPro j e c t and NASAls mission to the moon vas t funds had to be foundw ithou t th e pub l i c ' s knowledge. But how do you f ind more than at r i l l i on do l l a r s and keep it s ec re t? C e rta in ly it can l t be par t of anyl e g i t ima t e gov er nmen t b udge t as no one in t h e i r r i gh t mind woulds tand fo r it. The only way i s to s t e a l it and l a t e r blame ther e su l t i ng d i s a s t e r on economic misca l cu l a t i ons and unscrupulousen t r ep r eneu r s . If government r egu l a t o r s wi l l ing ly involve themselvesin such a scam t here would be no way of prevent ing it. Obviously , nos i ng l e government could a f ford such a huge dep le t ion of itls cap i t a lbase but th e combinat ion of a number of governments who were a l l pa r tof the same club could , even though the outcome would be ce r t a i neconomic r ecess ions and the poss ib le deaths o f mi l l i ons of people inth i rd vor ld coun t r i e s which suddenly found they could no longer obta inf i n anc i a l a id from th e developed world.

Perhaps co inc iden t a l l y the Labor government headed by Rober tHawke deregula ted the aus t r a l i an economy t u rn ing it i n to a f i n anc i a lI f ree fo r all' j u s t a t th e r igh t t ime . From 1984 to 1989 money pooredou t of the banking system and overseas borrowing skyrocke ted . However,a l o t of the new cap i t a l seemed to be doing very little apa r t frommaking a few i nd iv idua l s very r i ch . Also an unusual number ofgovernment o f f i c i a l s were tak ing e ar ly re ti r em e n ts and vanish ing overseasto new l i ve s of luxury in the sou th of France , the U.S.A. and theCaribbean .

So much money was removed by 1989 t h a t seve ra l bankingi n s t i t u t i o n s col lapsed the most prominent being the Sta t e owned banksof New So uth Wales, Vic tor ia and South Aus t r a l i a . I t i s es t ima ted t h a tove r a l l l o s s e s , most of which could not be t raced amounted to morethan two hundred and tventy b i l l i on do l l a r s .

The l a s t i ng e f f e c t of th i s s i t u a t i on has been a lack of ava i l ab lec ap i t a l , enormous i n t e r e s t r a t e s and an a lmost permanent s t a t e ofeconomic r e c e s s i on . I f the money was Aus t r a l i a l s con t r i bu t i on toSnI then hopefu l ly it wi l l be worth it in the long run .

Rumours have pers i s ted in Aus t ra l i a t h a t a l l the i n i t i a l SDIexper iments and developments were success fu l and a l a rge pa r t of th esystem i s fu l l y opera ted and con t ro l l ed by Amer ica ' s s e c r e t Aust ra l i anand Anta rc t i c bases . - 13 -


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SECRET BASES AND OTHER MACHINATIONI t is wide ly accep ted t ha t th e demise of the Whitlam l abo rgovernment in 1975 was brough t abou t by th e d i r e c t i n t e rven t ion of

the American C.I .A . and NSA in Aust ra l i an domestic a f f a i r s . Thereasons were c l ea r . Whitlam resen ted the f a c t tha t America 's s ec r e tbases a t Pine Gap, Narrunga and North West Cape had been e s t ab l i s h eda s a r e s u l t of agreements made with the prev ious conse rva t ivegovernment and fo r a l l i n t en t s and purposes apa r t from very lowl e v e l 1 i e s on , Aus t ra l i ans were exc luded from them. This was th e he igh to f the Cold War and the re was genuine concern among members ofgovernment and the pub l i c a t l a rge t ha t Aus t r a l i a could be sub j e c t tomajor nuc le a r a t t ack a s a r e s u l t of having t hese bases on t h e i rt e r r i t o r y . This fea r was no t unfounded.

According to r epo r t s a t th e t ime Whitlam had cons t an t l y pressu redthe American government to al low Aus t ra l i ans to t ake a g re a te r ro le inth e ope ra t ion of the bases and to have f u l l access to the i n t e l l i g en cethey ga t he r e d . He a lso wanted to a l t e r the t e rms of the agreement toput Aus t r a l i a in charge . Such demands were too much fo r the Americanadmin i s t r a t i on to t o l e r a t e so orde r s were given to des t ab i l i s e andge t r id of the government . I t i s i r on i c t h a t Pine Gap played a keyro l e in Whit lam 's de s t r u c t i on by ac t i ng as the main c a r r i e r of s e c r e tcommunicat ions between Wash ingt on and Aus t ra l i a dur ing t h i s pe r i od .The no to r ious yO'Jng spy Chr i s topher Boyce ( see the book 'The Falconand th e Snowman') who was working in TRW's 'B lack Room' a t ElSegundo, Los Ang ele s, c la im ed he only dec ided to s e l l h is coun t r i e ss e c r e t s to th e Russ ians , because he read the top s e c r e t coded t r a f f i cgoing to and coming from Pine Gap. These communica t ions c l e a r l yi nd i ca t ed to Boyce t h a t America was a t t ack ing a f r i end ly governmentwith th e f u l l i n t en t i on of des t roy ing it. He watched dai ly asi n s t r u c t i o n s were s en t to C .I .A . f i e l d o f f i c e r s , Aus t ra l i an unionl e ade r s , po l i t i c i a n s , sen io r pub l i c o f f i c i a l s and many o the r s on thepayro le . The C.I .A . was co l l e c t i ng it's deb t s and Pine Gap made iteasy . Boyce sa id he d id no t do it fo r the money but due to th er evu l s i on he f e l t abou t th e American government ' s ac t i ons . Boycement ioned t h a t S ir John Kerr , th e Governor General o f Aus t r a l i a whoused the con s t i t u t i on to sack Whitlam was one of the t h e i r men. Boyce ' ssupe rv i so r con stan tly re fe rre d to him as ' ou r man Ker r ' and r egu la r lyto ld Boyce and o the r s in the Black Room t h a t he was th e key to r i dd ingAus t r a l i a of Whitlam and a l l the commies and pinkos surrounding him.S i r John no t only had a code name but an en t i r e i nd i v i dua l codesystem was c r ea t ed j u s t fo r him. It seemed t h a t th e bases were soprec ious t h a t America would s top a t noth ing to p ro t e c t t h e i r con t inuedopera t i ons and th e s e c r e t s they con ta ined .

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a c t i v i t i e s in Aus t r a l i a prov id ing he was not i d en t i f i ed by subsequen tuse o f th e in fo rma t ion . The man has an amazing background i nvo lv ingan a s soc i a t i on with some of the g rea t e s t s c i e n t i f i c d i scove r i e s o fth e tw e n tie th c en tu ry , In h is o ld age he f ee l s t h a t p eo ple sho uld bemade a little more aware of what i s going on around them.

There a re a t l e a s t ten top s e c r e t American f a c i l i t i e s in Aus t r a l i awith the so ca l l ed ' J o i n t defence Space Research Fac i l i t y ' a t PineGap ou t s i de A lic e S prin gs being c l a s s i f i e d 8 S th e most impor t an t . Atthe t ime the agreement to e s t ab l i sh Pine Gap was signed by theAus t ra l i an government it's purpose was to con t ro l and ac t as adownlink fo r geosynchronous s a t e l l i t e s s t a t ioned over the Pac i f i c andAsia . The American agenc ies invo lved with t h i s i n t e l l i gence ga the r i nga re th e C. I .A . , NSA and the HRO. However t he re were o the r reasonsfo r es t ab l i s h i ng the base which have never been fu l ly revea led tothe Aus t ra l i an government . The agreement c l ea r l y s t a t ed t h a t it was nota requ i remen t fo r the U.S.A. to sha re a l l in forma t ion with Aus t r a l i a .In f a c t when the Whitlam government came to power in 1972 what littlein forma t ion t h a t was being shared with th e Aus t ra l i an Defence Signa l sDi r e c t o r a t e (OSO) was reduced to a t r i c k l e and a t one t ime , p r i o r to1975, s topped a l t o g e t h e r .

The main reasons fo r Pine Gap being s i t u a t ed where it i s a reprox imi ty to the Pac i f i c and Ind ian Oceans and Asia , it's Southernhemispher i c window to ou t e r space , it's ' po s i t i on on the e a r t h ' ssu r f a ce in r e l a t i on to o the r impor t an t a reas s i t u a t ed on the p l an e t ,it's i s o l a t i on and th e f a c t it i s s i t u a t ed in an a rea of lowe l ec t romagne t i c r ad i a t i o n .

Cons t ruc t ion o f the base was under taken by American con t r ac to r swho flew in t h e i r own workforce from the U.S.A. on a s h i f t ba s i s . NoAus t r a l i ans were invo lved in the cons t ruc t i on work which took aroundtwo years be fo re the base became ope r a t i ona l .Cons t ruc t ion work con t inued fo r seve ra l year s on l a rgeunderground f a c i l i t i e s which a re rumoured to extend some twelvel ev e l s below the base . Long t unne l s a re l a id ou t in a pa t t e rn s im i l a r

to the spokes o f a wheel and extend s eve r a l miles from th e cen te r o fthe base .In a deep sh i e lded underground chamber a nuc lea r r e a c t o r

s im i l a r in s i ze to those used to power submar ines was i n s t a l l e d todr ive l a rge AC and DC gene r a t o r s . This f ac t has been kep t s e c r e t a sit was qu i t e i l l e g a l fo r su ch eq uipmen t to be o pe ra te d w ith ou t an ac tof pa r l i amen t changing the ex i s t i ng laws r e l a t i ng to the i n s t a l l a t i on

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own d ed ic ate d c ab le to the U.S.A. Also they are d i r ec t l y connec ted toNurru ng a. North West Cape, Gerald ton . Aus t ra l ian Defence Signa l sDirec tora te in Melbourne. Canber ra , Sydney, a l l CIA and NSA s t a t i on s ,ASIO, SIS and perhaps one of the most in te re s t in g s ec re t depar tmen tso f all, the Aus t r a l i an Defence Science and Technology Organ i sa t ionwhich deals with U.F.O. ' s and crash r e t r i eva l s .

The number of s t a f f a t Pine Gap va r i e s between four hundred tof ive hundred a t anyone t ime and a l l except 8 1ie500 o f f i c e r and h issmal l s t a f f a re Americ an s. A lth ough Alice Spr ings i s only four teenmiles from the f ron t gate few of the Pine Gap 's occupan t s ever v i s i tt he r e . They s tay in t he i r s e l f contained theme park enjoying a l l theluxur ies of home. So s t r i ngen t i s the se cu ri ty th at even personalshopping i s under taken in the U.S.A. and everything ordered on aweekly bas i s , inc lud ing the grocer ies , i s del ivered on the ThursdayC5 f l i gh t from Cal i fo rn ia ( the re a re usua l ly th ree or four per week).

Pine Gap i s a mul t i bi l l i on do l l a r opera t ion of g r ea t impor tanceto the American government . I t i s sa id t ha t to be se l ec t ed fo r a t ou r ofduty there i s l ike being e leva ted to the pr ie s thood , a comment which maynot be as s i l l y as it sounds .

The vas t empty t e r r i t o ry of cen t r a l and South Aus t ra l i a hasalways been an area of high U.F.O. ac t iv i t y . The Woomers rocke t and the nuc lea r t e s t s i t e a t Haral inga seemed to be t h e i r foca lpo in ts dur ing the 1950 's and ear ly 1960 ' s . However t h i s changedsomewhat when cons t ruc t ion s t a r t ed a t Pine Gap and l a t e r a t Nurrunga.From the t ime the ear th moving equipment moved in t he re was a rapidr i s e in U.F.O. s igh t ings in A lic e S prin gs and the surrounding a r e a .The r egu la r s igh t ings have continued to t h i s day and some of themcould only be descr ibed as biza r re .Pine Gap can be observed from the d i s t a n t surrounding h i l l s whichover look the en t i r e secure base a rea . All t ha t can be seen a re e igh twhite radomes placed in c lose proximity to groups of long low bu i ld ings .A few miles from the base a double secur i ty fence winds i t s way aroundthrough the grass and l i g h t scrub and cu ts it's way through the lowerl eve l s of the nearby h i l l s . The fence i s pa t ro l led cont inuous ly by

American guards and members of the Aus t ra l ian Federa l Pol ice Force .The American guards l iv e a t the base and the Federal Pol ice a t AliceSpr ings .

One case which rece ived some l imi ted publ ic i ty in 1989 involvedt h ree hunter s who were on an a l l n igh t shoot ing t r i p in the h i l l s nearPine Gap. At around 4.30a .m. they observed a l a rge camou fla ge d d oo ropen on the s ide of a low h i l l ins ide the secu r i t y compound and a

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A camouflaged door case occurred in 1980 when two urembers of th eNorthern Te r r i t o ry Pol i c e , who were tak ing pa r t in a sea rch fo r amiss ing Alice Spr ings ch i l d , watched as th re e 'b a th t ub ' shaped ob j ec t sflew s lowly over the base and then one by one disappeared in to anoblong black hole in a h i l l s ide . This a l so occurred dur ing the ea r lyhours of the morning and as the two pol ice o f f i ce r s had ar ranged to meeto the r members of the search par ty they l e f t withou t see ing the doorc lose .

Another type o f s igh t ing involves , blue . red and gold penc i l l i k ebeams.In 1973 a government ca r tog rapher ....as camped in an area near Pine

Gap. Some t ime a f t e r midnight he saw a ve r t i c a l sha f t of very b r i gh tblue l i gh t emana t ing from the area of the base . He decided to take ac l o s e r look . He drove h is four wheel drive to the top of a low h i l lfrom which th e Pine Gap base could be seen some e igh t miles to the e a s t .There was a f u l l moon so the white radomes could be seen qu i t e c lea r lywith the naked eye . Taking a c l o s e r look throug h h is twelve powerb inocu la r s he could see most of the base as wel l as a s t r ange lookingob jec t apparen t ly hover ing above it a t a he igh t he es t ima ted to bearound one thousand f e e t. F ir s t ly he thought it was a c iga r shapedba lloon or blimp but t h i s idea quickly evapora ted when th e ob jec t s lowlyt ipped to a 45 0 ang le ezpos ing what appeared to be it's top su r f a ce tothe now somewhat su rp r i s ed obse rve r . I t was c l e a r t h a t th e ob jec t waspe r fec t ly c i r cu l a r with a cen t ra l dome. As th e bottom edge was stillahout"one thousand f ee t above the base th e ca r t og raphe r es t im ated thed iamete r o f the d isc to be a little more than ha l f th e dis tancebetween th e Pine Gap base and the diSC's bottom edge , making it betweenf i ve to s i z hundred f e e t in d iamete r , In th e moonl ight the d i s c appearedto be a du l l grey co lour wi th a s l i g h t yellow fuzz around it's edge .

As he watched a th in br igh t blue beam, l i ke a rod , slowly ex te nd edfrom th e disc to the base . The s t r ange th ing abou t it was t h a t un l ikea f l a sh l i gh t it did not j u s t tu rn on, it s lowly moved in a t e l e s cop i cfash ion from the d i sc and gradua l ly extended behind the radomes. A fewminutes l a t e r the l i g h t beam r e t r ac t ed only to be fo l lowed by a s im i l a rblue beam s lowly extending from th e base to the d i s c . This was fo l lowedby a gold co loured beam which appeared very c lose to the blue one . Afte rabout t h i r t y seconds both r e t r ac t ed back in to th e base . This proces scon t inued fo r about fo r ty minutes and ended when the disc made somerap id os c i l l a t i on s 'lit up l i ke a neon s i gn ' and ascended v er t i c a l l y a tvery high sp ee d, d is ap p ea rin g in a few seconds .

The ca r tographer r epor ted the i nc iden t to h is su pe r io r o f f i c e r inAlice Sp r ing s . This re su l ted in what he l a t e r desc r ibed as a ' g r i l l i n g '

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d i f f i c u l t y i n g a i n i n g a good view o f most o f t h e base a r e a .For t h e first two days and n i g h t s very little ha pp en ed . A partfrom t h e o c c a s i o n a l movement o f s m a l l v e h i c l e s and a few people e v e r y t h i n gwas q u i e t . The group was becoming a little i m p a t i e n t but d e c i d e d t o

sit it o u t f o r a t l e a s t a week i n the hope they would s e e somethingi n t e r e s t i n g .During t h e evening o f t h e f o u r t h day they n o t i c e d some u n u s u a la c t i v i t y d e v e l o p i n g i n t h e main base a r e a . A number o f v e h i c l e s weremoving around t h e base and what appeared t o be groups o f people d r e s s e d

i n c o v e r a l l s were g a t h e r i n g a t v a r i o u s p o i n t s n e a r t h e radomes. Suddenlya b r i g h t beam o f gold c o l o u r e d l i g h t s p r a n g up from t h e c e n t r e o f t h eradome a r e s . T h i s was not a p e n c i l l i k e beam b u t seemed t o be s e v e r a lm e t e r s i n width and e x t r e m e l y i n t e n s e . The width o f t h e beam a p p e a r e dt o remain t h e same a s f a r as it could be s e e n e x t e n d i n g v e r t i c a l l y i n t ot h e s k y . When o b s e r v e d th rough t h e t e l e s c o p e it looked a l m o s t s o l i d .As t h e y watched long uneven c l o u d s developed i n t h e c l e a r a i r s u r r o u n d i n gt h e beam which d e s p i t e a b r e e z e blowing a t t h e tim e rem ained s t a t i o n a r y .The beam s u d d e n l y c u t o f f and t h e t u b u l a r c l o u d s t a r t e d t o d r i f t t o t h ee a s t l i k e a v e r t i c a l vapour trail. The beam p u l s e d s e v e r a l t i m e s andeach time it did so t h e cloud e f f e c t r e t u r n e d even forming what lookedl i k e a s e r i e s o f smoke r i n g s .

No one i n t h e group could e x p l a i n why but they all f e l t e x t r e m e l yd i s t u r b e d by what they had j u s t s e e n even t o t h e p o i n t o f n a u s e a . Butt h e show had only j u s t s t a r t e d .

The g o l d l i g h t beam s h o t down and once a g a i n t h e d i r t y l o o k i n gc l o u d s s t a r t e d d r i f t i n g away. I t was a t t h a t p o i n t t h a t t h e groupn o t i c e d f i v e s t a r l i k e o b j e c t s a p p r o a c h i n g from t h e S o u t h . As theydrew c l o s e r f o u r o f the o b j e c t s were s e e n t o be i n a t i g h t diamondshaped f o r m a t i o n and t h e f i f t h v h i c h looked l i k e a c y l i n d e r wasf o l l o w i n g a t a d i s t a n c e o f about two m i l e s . The o b j e c t s slowed as theyr e a c h e d t h e base a r e a t h e four s m a l l e r o b j e c t s took up p o s i t i o n s n o r t h ,s o u t h , e a s t and west o f t h e base each moving i n s m a l l c i r c l e s . Thec y l i n d r i c a l shaped o b j e c t which appeared w h i t e i n c o l o u r w i t h a b r i g h tw h i t e h a l o around it's c e n t e r moved towards t h e base r e d u c i n g a l t i t u d et o a b o u t f i v e hundred f e e t i n t h e p r o c e s s . I t then s t o p p e d , r o c k i n g upand down l i k e a b o a t a t it's moorings . Once i n p o s i t i o n b l u e l i g h tbeams s t a r t e d f l a s h i n g between a l l f i v e o b j e c t s and t h e ground. Thewhole s c e n e was more than b i z a r r e as it appeared t h a t e x t r a t e r r e s t r i a lc r a f t were i n d i r e c t communicat ion with t h e human o c c u p a n t s o f t h e basebelow them.

I t s h o u l d be mentioned t h a t t h e whole e p i s o d e was r e c o r d e d on

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s t a r t ed to gain a l t i t ude s topp ing in proximi ty to th e sma l l e r ob j e c t swhich had re formed t h e i r diamond shaped fo rmat ion . The group then movedo ff in a sou the r ly d i r ec t i on and d isappeared in a few seconds .

The wi tnesse s were shocked by what they had seen 8 S it seemedobvious t h e r e was human co-ope ra t i on with e I t r a t e r e s t r i a l s . I t a l soseemed s t r a nge to them t h a t de sp i t e th e strict s ecu r i t y app l i ed a t th ePine Gap base they were ab l e to g et re as on ab ly c lose to it wi thou ti n t e r f e r e n c e , Perhaps no one would be l i eve them anyway and dec la ret h e i r pho tograph ic ev idence a hoax, however t h a t did not seem l og i ca las good secu r i t y i s mainta ined when t he r e i s no evidence a t a l l andwhen no exp l ana t i on s o r a programme of r i d i cu l e i s neces sa ry . Yet a l lt h i s was happening in f r on t of them and only abou t f i f t e en miles fromth e l a r ge town of Al ice Spr ings . Perhaps what they had seen was a v i t a lexpe r iment and such open exposure was unavoidable from t ime to t im e.

The group spen t the nex t few days obse rv ing th e base day and n i gh tand ap a r t from he l i cop t e r s and o the r sma l l a i r c r a f t th ey o bserv ed a tl e a s t seven o the r V.F.O.'s in th e a r e a . One o f the wi tnes ses l a t e rdesc r i bed th e e xp er ie nc e as making h is sk in c rawl every t ime he t hough tabou t it.

A fte r le av in g the a rea they took a c i r c u i t o u s rou te around th e baseand then drove down th e main highway to Alice Spr ings . As it looked l i k ethey had t r a v e l l e d from Darwin no-one took any no t i ce o f them. Aftera r r ang ing th e rail t r an spo r t o f th e two four wheel dr ives back toPer th they left by plane the nex t day. They all agreed t h a t the i n c i den thad changed t h e i r view o f all th ing s in gene ra l but had in some wayd i sgus ted them as they now knew t h e i r government had l i ed to them fromthe s t a r t and had done so in c o-o p er at io n with a f r i end and a l l y .

Does a l l t h i s mean t h a t t he r e has been a working co-ope ra t i onbetween ex t r a t e r e s t r i a l s and ea r th bound governments fo r a long per iodo f t ime? The answer i s a s imple yes .

Although V.F.O. ' s had been observed on a r e gu l a r bas i s dur ing anda f t e r th e second World War they did no t become a problem with th epo t en t i a l of se rio us so cia l consequences un t i l 1947. The bu r s t o fpub l i c i sed s igh t i ng s which fol lowed Keneth Arno ld ' s o r i g i n a l encoun terin th e no r th weste rn United S t a t e s caused g re a t o f f i c i a l conce rn . Itwas obvious from th e ou t s e t t h a t what was being obse rved was vas t lysupe r i o r to any th ing manufac tured on ea r th and it was only l og i ca l toassume t h a t th e ope r a to r s of such machinery were l i k e l y to be o f a veryhigh o rde r o f i n t e l l i g ence and a lmos t ce r t a i n l y from ou te r space . Somuch ev idence , i nc lud ing recovered equ ipment , was accumula ted t h a t t h e r ewas no way o f denying th e impor tance of these even t s and th e dangersthey r e p r e s en t ed , The e a r t h was b ein g openly v i s i t ed and c lose ly observedand what was of f i c i a l dom going to do about i t ?

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Af te r some unders tanding was reached the i n i t i a l methods ofcommunicat ion were cen t r a l i s ed in the U.S.A. w ith the Russ iansco-opera t ing by the mid 1950 ' s .

The im po rtan ce o f the s i t ua t i on led to the s e c r e t es t ab l i shmen tof the N ationa l Secur i t y Agency by th e Truman admin i s t r a t i on inNovember, 1954. The i n i t i a l t ask of the NSA was to e s t ab l i sh anddevelop r e l i ab l e and secure communicat ions with ex t r a t e r e s t r i a l s whowere vi s i t i ng ear th and f ind out as much as poss ib le about them. Therea re s trong i nd ica t ions t h a t to t h i s day the NSA i s deeply involvedwith the U.F.O. ' s and t he i r primary ac t i v i t y i s to i den t i fy and moni tora l i en communica t ions and to suppress any in format ion t h a t may conf i rmt he i r r e a l i t y to the pub l i c . This pol icy has been r i g id ly mainta inedand i s perhaps more use fu l to the a l i ens th em se lv es th an it i s to th ehuman r ace . The a l i ens a re pursuing t he i r own agendas and they do no twant unnecessary i n t e r f e r ence from e a r t h ' s of f ic ia ldom or th e broadmasses they con t ro l .

Alien involvement in Aust ra l i a 1s s imi l a r to t ha t of the U.S.A. ,Europe and Russia . For some t e chn i log ica l rewards and minor co-opera t ionin o the r a re as th e E.T. ' s conduct t he i r own gene t i c exper imen ta t ionand the exp lo i t a t i on of the count ry i s gene ra l l y t o t a l l y unhindered byhumans. They have a f ree hand to do what they want as there i s no wayof s topp ing them.

U.F.O. involvement in A us tra lia n a f f a i r s s t a r t ed in the l a t e 1940 ' sj u s t as it did in the U.S.A. I t became a major concern during the 1950 ' sand ear ly 1960 ' s when the Bri t i sh were conduct ing nuc lea r t e s t i ng inSouth Aus t ra l i a and t e s t f i r ing a va r i e ty of miss i l e s a t the WoomeraRocket Range s i tua ted in the same s t a t e . So i n tense was the U.F.O.ac t iv i t y in these t e s t a r eas t ha t nuc lea r exp los ions and rocke t l auncheshad to be suspended , o f ten fo r seve ra l days , due to e l ec t romagne t i ce f f e c t s caus ing to ta l e le c t r ic a l f a i l u r e a t the t e s t s i gh t s . Thetownship of Woomera i t s e l f was of ten blacked out fo r hour s by the c loseapproach of th e U.F.O. ' s which a so urc e a dv ise d were f i lmed by r ocke tt rack ing cameras a t grea t l eng th . In f ac t dur ing one U.F.O. f l ap in thearea more than s i x teen thousand f ee t of film was t aken of a va r i e ty ofvehic les c r i s s cross ing the a rea . The fi lm was promptly sen t toWashington D.C. fo r ana lys i s .

Almost ce r t a in ly due to the t e chn i ca l a ch iev em en ts o f th e U.S.A.t he re seems little doubt t h a t the E.T. ' s focused t he i r main a t t en t i onon t h a t count ry . However, they d id no t ignore the a c t i v i t i e s of o the rcoun t r i e s and to t h i s day cont inue to moni tor human a c t i v i t i e s bothmil i t a ry and c i v i l t h roughout the wor ld .

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There a re i nd i c a t i on s tha t the t e chn i ca l h elp p ro vid ed by th e twoinitial con t ac t groups b ro ug ht abou t a t remendous l eap forward int echnology and made the development of snr a r e a l pos s i b i l i t y . Inre turn fo r our governments giving the groups a f ree hand to explo i tthe p lane t and human race , and as fa r as poss ib le keep t he i r presencea s e c r e t , they would prov ide the t e chn i ca l know how to preven t f u r t h e rmajor wars and s top any o the r i n t e re s t ed ex t ra t e r e s t r i a l s frominvading th e p l ane t . It has been sa id with some au tho r i t y t h a t they a rethe bra ins behind SDI th e e xten sio n of which i s the HAARP (HighFrequency Active Aura l R ese arc h Programme) system which i s aimed a tc r ea t i ng an e l ec t r omagne t i c sh i e ld around the world to p reven t ana t t ack from ou te r space . This development never had any th ing to dowith the t h r e a t from Sov ie t Russ ia , in f a c t the R ussians have ac t i ve lyco -ope ra ted in the development programme s ince it's i n c ep t i on .

Such advanced defence systems r equ i r ed world wide coverageinvo lv ing o p er at io n al c en te rs in secu re a reas in s e v e r a l coun t r i e s .Aus t r a l i a was, and still i s , an i d e a l piece o f r ea l e s t a t e fo r t h i spurpose and i s being u t i l i s ed to th e f u l l .

From th e beginning Pine Gap has been a s soc i a t ed with s e c r e ts c i e n t i f i c expe r imen t s i n to an t i g r av i t y , magnet ic propu ls ion and whatth e r ad i c a l p r e s s o f the 1960 's de sc r ib ed as Sc i -F i r e s ea r ch . Cer t a i n l yit 1 s communica t ion func t ions were impor t an t and still a re but it'sr esea rch and developments sec t i on s s i tua ted below th e su r f a ce a recons ide red v i t a l to the fu tu re of th e p l ane t . Here ex t r a t e r e s t r i a l sconduc t t h e i r work in pa r t i a l co-opera t ion with human s c i e n t i s t s .They l i ve in spec i a l c on di t io ns in v i r t u a l i s o l a t i on and come and goa s they p l ea se .

The f i n a l s t age s of SDI inc lud ing th e HAARP system should befunc t ion ing prov id ing it a l l works , by 1998/99 and if necessa ry it'sen t i r e world wide opera t ion wi l l be con t ro l ab l e from the network ofs e c r e t bases in Aus t r a l i a . Who o r what would be a t th e con t r o l s . humanso r something from ou te r space? One can only guess a t the answer bu t itseems ce r t a i n t h a t th e i s o l a t i on and s e cu r i t y o f these base s s i t u a t edin a d i s t a n t pa r t of the southern hemisphere i s of as much impor tanceto th e a l i en s as it i s to t h e i r human coun te rpa r t s .NURRUNGAR - "JOINT DEFENCE SPACE COHHUNICATION STATION"

In many ways Nurrungar i s s im i l a r to the base a t Pine Gap. On th esu r f a ce it's mi l i t a ry r o l e i s to draw i n fo rma t ion from a s e r i e s ofgeos t a t i ona ry s a t e l l i t e s which watch fo r mis s i l e l aunches and nuc l ea rde tona t i on s t h roughou t Asia and th e Middle Eas t . However t h i sr ep r es en t s a sma l l pe rcen tage of it's a c t i v i t i e s . Bas ica l ly it ac t s asa back up f a c i l i t y to Pine Gap c omple te w ith ex tens ive underground

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Apar t from it's more obvious f unc t i ons . th e main purpose ofNurrungar s ec r e t . I t i s known t ha t it has s im i l a rcommunicat ion l i nk s as Pine Gap as wel l as a sepe ra t e undersea cablel i nk to th e U.S.A. Also it i s rumoured t ha t d i r e c t r i nks a re mainta inedwith a s im i l a r i n s t a l l a t i on s i t ua t ed in North West China and theu l t r a s e c r e t American base a t the South Pole .GERALDTON WESTERN AUSTRALIA

The pr inc ipa l pa r tne r s in t h i s new venture a re the United S ta t e sand Aus t r a l i a . Under the UKUSA agreement the Br i t i sh and o the r c lubmembers a re given access to the i nf orma tio n g ath er ed when it i sc on sid ere d n e ce ss ar y. The con t ro l l i ng bodies o f th e u l t r a moderni n s t a l l a t i on a re the American NSA and th e Aust ra l i an DSD. It's purposei s to moni tor th e en t i r e Aus t ra l ian te lecommunica t ion system withpa r t i c u l a r emphasis placed on a l l incoming and outgoing i n t e r n a t i ona lt e lephone c a l l , f acs imi le messages , t e l ex and r ad io t r ansmi ss i ons .It ope ra te s in c on ju nc tio n with Pine Gap and to a l e s s e r ex ten tNurrungar giv ing it a lmost unl imi ted i n t r u s ive powers i n to a l l l e v e l sof e l ec t ron i c communicat ions in Aus t r a l i a . No one i s sa f e from it'sprying ab i l i t i e s which take place a t every l e v e l .

As th e Gera ld ton i n s t a l l a t i on i s one of the most of it'stype in the world it was a l so one of th e most e xp en siv e ev er bu i l t .The Aust ra l i an government announced t ha t it had fourhundred mi l l i on do l l a r s to th e pro j ec t but in r e a l i t y t h e i r inves tmentwas much more. A source quoted the ac tua l f i gu re a t one b i l l i on andfour hundred mil l ion do l l a r s with the American government con t r ibu t ingequipment and t e chn i ca l knowhow. In t h i s way the U.S.A. normallymakes a p r o f i t on the dea l pa r t i cu l a r l y a f t e r the host coun try coversth e es t ab l i shmen t cos t s in f u l l .

Gerald ton r ep re sen t s an importan t pa r t of th e cons tan t l yinc reas ing su rve i l l a n ce network based in Aus t r a l i a . The system as its t ands now i s capable o f c on du ctin g world wide c l andes t i nesu rve i l l ance and j u s t l i ke its coun te rpa r t s in th e United K ingdon, oneo f it's major purposes i s to gather i n t e l l i gence i n fo rmat ion fromth roughout th e United S t a t e s . In t h i s way the var ious agency headof f i c e s in th e U.S.A. cannot be accused of i l l e g a l l y opera t i ng ou t s idet h e i r cha r t e r s . One has to ponder who i s behind th es e e xten din gt e n t a c l e s and what i s t he i r unt imate ob jec t ive .WOOMERA ROCKET RANGE

Fol lowing th e high l eve l s of Br i t i sh miss i l e t e s t i ng of the1950 ' s and 60 ' s th e Woomera f a c i l i t i e s f e l l dormant fo r almos t twenty

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has a lvays been th e con t i n en t a l United Sta te s and t h e r e appea rslittle rea son fo r them to move a la rg e p a r t of it to a d i s t a n tfo re ig n c ou ntry . Perhaps the fu tu re secu r i ty of the American ' sc apab i l i t i e s in space a re a t s t ake in view o f a poss ib le worldd i s a s t e r occur r ing towards the end of the cen tu ry . I f NASA hadadvance knowledge of t h i s it would be a top na t iona l p r i o r i t y tor epos i t i on such v i t a l r esources in a s a f e a r e a .NORTH WEST CAPE WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Although still im portan t fo r Very Low Frequency submarinecommunica t ions in the Indian Ocean the rap id advancement of t echnologyhas tended to push the Exmouth Bay f a c i l i t y i n to a back up r o l e . Thes t a t i on i s now mainly opera ted by Aust ra l i an personnel i nd i ca t i ngth a t it no longer r e t a in s the high l e v e l s o f sec recy placed on it byit 's American bUi lde r s . Never - the - l e ss it remains pa r t of th e g loba lne tvork and i s sa id to be involved in a vide range o f lov f requencyand resonance exper imen ta t ion in con junc t ion v i th Pine Gap and theAlaskan based HAARP p ro j e c t . North West Cape could be a key po in t incon t r o l l i ng th e HAARP magnet ic f i e l d over a la rg e p a r t of theSouthern hemisphere .EAST SALE RAAF BASE, VICTORIA

Probably bes t desc r ibed as th e Wr igh t -Pa t t e r son A.F.B. ofAus t r a l i a . Eas t Sale has been invo lved in top s e c r e t ope ra t i on s s inceth e second World War. NASA makes ex tens ive use of the f a c i l i t i e s on ar egu l a r bas i s and it appea rs to be t h e i r main Sou th ern h em is ph erebase fo r high a l t i t ude U2 opera t ions over th e Southern Ocean andAnt a r c t i c a . In add i t i on to th ese reconna isance opera t ions NASAr egu l a r l y opera ted itls f ly ing a st ro n om i c al o b se rv a to ry from Eas tSale as the a rea south o f Aus t r a l i a prov ide s exce l l en t viewing ofth e Milky Way ga laxy and so l a r sys tem.

Apar t from th e NASA a c t i v i t i e s many o the r American and fo re ignna t i ona l i t y a i r c r a f t have been seen f ly ing i n to th e base or parkedou t s ide the ground f a c i l i t i e s . In th e main these appear to be l a rget r an spo r t a i r c r a f t such as the C5 and C130. Some Sale r e s i d en t s haveto ld conv inc ing s t o r i e s abou t o th er s tra ng e a i r c r a f t opera t ingmain ly a t n igh t t ime which appear to be American Stea l th f i gh t e rp lanes or very s im i l a r in des ign .

Since the l a t e 1940 l s East Sale has been deeply i nvo lved in th eU.F.O. problem. As the main mi l i t a ry and pho tograph ic i n t e r p r e t a t i oncen t e r in Aus t r a l i a it was given the initial t ask of examining thesudden s t ream of U.F.O. movie f i lms and still p i c t u r e s which began

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As the cen t r a l po in t of o f f i c i a l U.F.O. research Eas t Saleconduc t s j o i n t in v es tig a tio n s in to a l l aspec t s of th e U.F.O.phenomenon i nc lud ine c rash re tr i_evals.. As ment ioned e a r l i e r in t h i sr epo r t th e Nat ional Safe ty Counci l which vas s i t ua t ed in West Salewas the main in s t rumen t of the r e t r i e v a l opera t ions un t i l it'ssudden c losu r e in 1989. Obviously opera t i ona l methods were changed8 5 it would be most unl ike ly t ha t i n t e r e s t would ever be l o s t ine x t r s t e r r e s t i a l a r t i f a c t s .

An organ i s a t i on the s i ze of the Eas t Sale D.S.T.O. r equ i r e s al a rge s t a f f of t r a ined personnel which, over a period of tim e,r equ i r e s a cont inuous flow of t r a ined rep lacements who a re ab le toco ntin ue th e research programmes as the o lde r s t a f f r e t i r e s orl eaves th e group fo r o the r r easons . T a le nt s co u ts a re always on thelook ou t fo r young r e c r u i t s who would bes t s u i t the fu ture needs ofthe se rv i ce . One such r e c r u i t was the en thus i a s t i c Air Tra in ing Corpp i l o t F re de ri ch V a le nt ic h.

Most people a re f ami l i a r with the disappearance of Freder i chValen t ich on the 21s t October . 1978. There i s s t rong evidence t h a tV a le nt ic h, to ge th er with h is Cessna 182, was abducted by 8 l a rgeU.F.O. while f ly ing over Bass S t r a i t south west of Melbourne. Whatthey a re not f ami l i a r with was h is i n t e r e s t in U.F .O. s and th es pe cia l t r ain in g he had in the sub j ec t dur ing a f i f t e en day coursea t Eas t Sale j u s t pr io r to h is f a t e f u l miss ion . I t seems he hadbeen r ec ru i t ed by th e Aust ra l i an Chapte r of the most sec re ti n t e l l i g ence s e rv i ce in the world and was overawed by the t r u s t t ha thad been p laced in him. The f ac t he disappeared so sho r t l y af te rwardand in such unusual c ir cu m sta nc es g iv es much food fo r though t . Couldit be t ha t th e f i na l encounter was ezpec ted or even ar ranged?Anything i s poss ib le in the sec re t world. even the s ac r i f i c e of ayoung p i lo t to se rve a supposed h ig he r ca use .

Other evidence po in t s to the f ac t t ha t the Eas t Sale base hasbeen deeply involved in the V.F.O. business fo r a long per iod of t ime .An i n t r i gu ing s tory was to ld to the au thor by a r e t i r edt e l ev i s ion execu t ive who had previous ly managed the news depar tment

of a major T.V. s t a t i on in Melbourne. He was convinced t ha t thes to ry was t rue and the word of h is then re spons ib le s t a f f memberscould not be doubted .During the mid 1980 ' s the T.V. s t a t ion news depar tment rece ived

a s tan dard p ub lic r e l a t i on s reques t from the RAAF Eas t Sale a i r basefo r a film crew and r epo r t e r to a t tend the opening of a newadmin i s t r a t i on bu i ld ing by the Minis t e r of Defence.

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o f the l a rge h an ge rs s pre ad acros s the base. One such hanger was abou tone hundred yards to the r i gh t of them and two s ide doors were pa r t l yopen. Like good i nqu i s i t i ve news men they decided to walk over andtake a look i n s i d e . As they walked towards the hanger they not iced howqu i e t every th ing was, apa r t from the a i r c r a f t s tanding around, thebase seemed devoid of human l i f e . They picked up t h e i r pace and weresoon a t th e hanger doors . Yhat they saw i n s ide caused them to s top int h e i r t r a ck s and r e a l ly wonder what they were looking a t . Towards ther e a r of th e hanger was a l a rge meta l ic grey d isc l i ke ob j ec t s tand ingon th ree s ho r t l e g s . It was about s ix ty f ee t in diamete r with acen t r a l he igh t of about e igh teen to twenty f e e t . Scaf fo ld ing wasarranged around it's r i gh t hand s ide with a pla t form ex ten din g to whatlooked l i ke a curved top doorway s i t ua t ed near th e top of the ob j e c t .They a l so no t iced what appeared to be smal l square windows on eachs ide of the doorw ay and evenly spaced around the top of the ob j e c t .

It d id not t ake them long to r e a l i s e they were in th e presence o fsomething r ea l ly unusua l and t h e i r immediate reac t ion was to tu rn ont h e i r v id io cameras and t ape as much of it as they cou ld . They walkedaround the ob j ec t no t i c ing var ious de t a i l s inc lud ing su r face markingsin va r ious p laces which looked s imi l a r to Korean s c r i p t . As they walkedbehind the sca f f o ld ing they approached a b r i gh t l y lit mobi le of f i ce andto t h e i r s u r p r i s e saw t h a t it was occupied by t h r ee peop le . There wasa tall e lde r ly ba ld ing man in a whi te dus t coa t t a lk ing to two sma l l e rmen in th e cen t e r of th e of f i c e a rea . It appeared they were looking a tdrawings on a sma l l t ab l e and were so involved in what they were doingthey d id not no t i ce the cameramen t ak ing v id ios of them th rough th edoorw ay and s i d e windows. A minute or so passed and then the tall manlooked up and ap pea red p uz zled by the two camerameR. He walked to th edoor and asked them them if HQ needed more p ic tu r e s and why hadn ' t theyca l led him abou t it. The T.V. men rep l i ed t h a t they were only l ook ingand had no th ing to do with HQ. This r ea l l y did it and the man's expres s ionchanged from puzzlement to what could only be desc r ibed as abso lu teho r ro r . He shouted a t them to s t ay where they were and grabbed a t at e lephone . At t h i s po in t the two T.V. men dec ided it was t ime to l eaveand they qu ick ly walked around the ob jec t and out th e hanger doors . Theywere a lmost back to the he l i cop t e r area when a car sc reeched to a ha l tin f ron t of them. Out jumped four guards inc lud ing one of th e o f f i c e r swho had met them abou t ha l f an hour befo re . He smi led and asked themwhat they had been doing. They smi led back and sa id they had been l ook ingaround and were pa r t i cu l a r l y i n t e r e s t ed in the new plane they had seenin th e hange r . The o f f i c e r looked though t fu l fo r a few seconds then sa idas th e area was r e s t r i c t ed and photography was no t p erm it te d w ith ou tpr io r pe rmiss ion , he unfo r tuna te ly would have to i n s i s t on t ak ing t h e i rca se t t e s from th e cameras adv i s ing they would be r e tu rned a f t e r s ecu r i t yhad a look a t them. He then sa id it was t ime to go to th e new Headquar te rsand s e t up as th e Defence Minis t e r would be a r r iv ing in abou t

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THE U.S.A. ANTARCTIC BASEAlthough not s i t ua t ed on the Au stra lia n c o nt in en t the AmericanAnta rc t i c Bas-e s i t u a t e d a t the South Pole i s an i n t eg r a l pa r t of

America ' s network of s ec r e t bases in the S outhern Hemisphere . I t i sl inked v ia s a t t e l i t e to Pine Gap and o the r bases in Aus t r a l i a ,Chr is tchurch in New Zealand (it's main supply base ) , Punta Arenas inSouthern Chi le and the long s tanding C.I.A./NSA base in Cape Town,South Afr ica .

The base i s bu i l t mainly under the i c e . This was done by miningout l a rge t renches in which bu i ld ings were placed in nea t rows. Thet r enches were then covered with ic e and snow. Due to the na tu r a l ic ebui ld up over the years the base i s now deeply below the su r face o f theic e cap.

Due to the l a rge a i r s pace s in the t renches (now t unne l s ) theambien t t empera ture of the a i r was ra i sed to above f r eez ing l eve lwithout e f f e c t ing th e s urro un din g i ce . This combined with the i nd iv idua l l )heated bu i ld ings make it a c om f or ta ble p la ce to l i v e .

The main purpose of the base appears to be top s e c r e t expe r imen ta t io r1n the area of e l ec t ro magnetism and the ea r t h ' s magnet ic f i e l d . In f ac tso s e c r e t a re the se ac t i v i t i e s t ha t personne l a re openly hos t i l e to anyun inv i ted v i s i t o r s even though such v i s i t s a re few and fa r between. Onesuch c ase in vo lv ed the Austra l ian mi l l i ona i r e adven tu re r Dick Smith inthe l a t e 1980 ' s . Mr. Smith was on a t r ans po la r f l i gh t in h is pr iva t eplane when he encounte red bad weather and s t rong head winds . To play itsa fe he dec ided to land a t the American Base and r eques t add i t i ona l fue l .He l a t e r desc r ibed h is a r r i v a l t he re as an unp lea san t i n c i d en t . Althoughth e base admin i s t ra t ion knew who he was, he was gree ted by an armedangry group of men who to ld him he had no r i gh t to be t he re and to l eaveimmedia te ly . He to ld them t ha t he needed f ue l and would pay fo r it. Thiswas met wi th a r e f u s a l and an order to take o ff wi thou t de lay . In f a c tthe Base Commander put th e order in th e c rudes t of t e rms . So much so infa c t th at Mr. Smith s t a r t ed to fear fo r h is l i f e . On l eav ing the base hedec ided to tu rn back to the Russian Base where he was warmly welcomed,accomodated fo r tw enty hours in very comfor table cond i t i on s and givena l l the f ue l he needed f ree of cha rge . On h is re tu rn to Aust ra l i a hemade very b i t t e r comments about h is r ecep t ion a t the South Pole .

Another r a t he r amusing i nc iden t occur red in December, 1995. Thisinvolved a lone Englishman who was walking and s ledge s a i l i ng ac rossAnta rc t i ca to c rea te a record fo r the Guiness Book of Records. Hesa i l ed in to th e base on Chris tmas Day and wondered i f it would be poss ib leto te lep hon e h is mother in England to wish her a merry Chris tmas . Onceaga in th e r ecep t ion was hos t i l e and, be l i eve it or no t , was to ld to leave

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He agreed t h a t it was probably r e l a t ed to th e HAARP exper imen ts inAlaska as he had heard the e f f ec t s on the Northern Lights s im i l a r .TIDBINBILLA TRACKING STATION - AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

The T id bin b il1 a tr ac k in g s ta tio n s itu a te d c lo se to Canber ra inth e A.C.T. i s th e most impor t an t in Aus t r a l i a . Es tab l i shed under aj o i n t agreement between the United Kingdom, Aus t r a l i a and the U.S.A.it i s an e s s e n t i a l pa r t of the U.S. space programme. It i s a l so av i t a l con t r o l c en t e r fo r the Hubble o rb i t a l t e l e s cope . In f ac t th e f i r s timages t r ansmi t t ed by th e t e l e scope were r ece ived by Tidb i nb i l l a andthey caused Qui te some concern .

A s c i e n t i f i c adv i so r to the Aus t r a l i an Government to ld the au tho rt h a t he was p re sen t when the first photographs a r r i v ed . They c l e a r l yshowed s o l a r sys tems around the c l o s e r s t a r s a t which the t e l e scope wasaimed. According to t h i s adv iso r it was poss ib le to d i sce rn more thanf i f t y new so l a r sys tems in the f i r s t few hundred p i c t u r e s . It seemedappa r en t t h a t v i r t u a l l y every s t a r has a s o l a r system of one type orano the r and the evidence a r r i v ing a t Tidb inb i l l a was unden iab l e .

The r eve l a t i ons caused cons t e rna t ion among the con t r o l room s t a f f ,pa r t i c u l a r l y th e Americans who were angered t h a t Aus t r a l i an s andBr i t i s h were pa r t i e s - t o these r eve l a t i on s . A meeting was ha s t i l ya r ranged and a l though a l l p re s en t had secu r i t y c l e a rance s they were to ldt h a t it was o f u tmost importa nc e t h a t nothing l eaked ou t and they mustno t t a lk abou t what they had seen . One American s c i e n t i s t sa id t h a t th epub l ic must no t know abou t any new p lane t s as it would " s t a r t themt h ink ing and who knows where t h a t would end." It had to be kep t s e c r e t .But how can the r e s u l t s of such a h igh ly pub l i c i s ed even t be keptsec re t ? The answer was qu i t e s imple , tell the pub l ic t h a t due to somemisca l cu l a t i ons th e t e l e scope was f au l ty and was no t ab le to producec le ar p ic tu re s. It would have to be modif ied be fo re it could be usedproper ly and such mod i f i c a t i on s could only be ca r r i ed ou t by a spec i a lspace shu t t l e f l i g h t to be arranged in about two yea rs t ime .

The s to ry was a cc ep te d w ith ou t ques t ion and NASA was only toohappy to take the blame. They had made such a l a rge in ves tm en t in th eHubble t e l e scope t h a t it was not d i f f i c u l t to ob ta in ex t r a governmentfunds to conduc t the so ca l l ed r epa i r s .NASA was now in an i dea l pos i t i on . I t could ca r ry ou t ex t en s ivet e s t i ng of the t e l e scope in abso lu te sec recy as it was assumed it d id

no t work. The door was open to make improvements to th e system and ge ta c l o s e r look a t t hose p lane t s . A new camera co s t i ng U.S.$lOO,OOO,OOOwas cons t ruc ted and a modif ica t ion to the secondary mir ro r sys tem,

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Parks has been invo lved in the U.S. space programme and manymajor r esea rch p ro j e c t s over the pas t t h i r t y yea r s . According to agovernment source it detectecl i n L e ll ig e n t s i g n a ls from ou te r spacemOTe than twenty f ive years ago and has done so ever s i nce . Perhapsthe most publ ic i sed pro j ec t in which Parks has been involved was theSearch for Ext r a t e r e s t r i a l In t e l l i gence (SETI) programme which wasab rup t l y c losed down in 1995. I t was meant to be a c'over or pub l icr e l a t i o n s ope r a t i on to keep the pub l i c reminded t h a t no th ing was ou tthere and i f it was, it was so fa r away it could not be found.Unfor tuna te ly fo r th e s e c r e t governments it did no t tu rn out t h a t way.Parks h i t r a t e (a h i t being a pos i t i v e i d en t i f i c a t i on o f i n t e l l i g e n ts i gna l s ) was a la rm in gly h ig h. The plug had to be p ulled be fo re toomuch l e aked ou t . The pub l i c was t o ld t h a t as no th ing could be foundth e p ro j e c t would be t e rmina ted immediately to s top any f u r t h e runecessa ry dep le t i on o f funds .

The r e su l t s o f Pa rk s i n t en s i ve i nve s t iga t ion produced someb i z a r r e r e s u l t s . I n t e l l i g e n t r ad io and what proved to be t e l e v i s i ons i g n a l s were i d en t i f i ed in se ve ra l p ar t s of th e galaxy and emana t ingfrom a rea s up to t h r ee thousand l i g h t yea r s away from th e e a r t h . Thecon t en t s of t he se emanat ions a re c l a s s i f i ed above top s e c r e t as theyin d ic a te th at t e chn i ca l c i v i l i s a t i o n s equa l or supe r io r to our ownwere very ac t ive more than th ree thousand yea r s ago . Without doubt th e mosti n t e r e s t i ng ma t e r i a l of a l l would be th e enhanced t e l e v i s i on p i c t u r e swhich appa r en t ly showed the da i ly life o f a number of a l i e nc i v i l i s a t i o n s of ages pas t and still do .

The American NSA has c lo se c o- op er at i on w ith Parks and has l i a i s ons t a f f posted t h e r e on a f u l l t ime ba s i s . Under t he se arra ng em en ts th ePa rks facilities a re a de f ac to ou tpos t o f th e NSA's v i t a l i n t e l l i g encega the r ing ne twork .LIFEBOAT AUSTRALIA

The l a t e S ir Ph i l l i p Baxter who was th e head o f th e Aus t r a l i an AtomicEnergy Commission du ring the n ine teen fifties and ea r ly s i x t i e s wasconv inced a t t h a t t ime t h a t th e world was .c:ar.ee,r,ing. head long i n toi n ev i t ab l e nuc l e a r de s t r u c t i o n . He s t rong ly advocated th e produc t ionof nuc l ea r weapons in Aus t r a l i a , th e s t r eng then ing of all it'sde fences and c lo s e mi l i t a ry in vo lv em e nt w ith th e U.S.A. He sa idAus t r a l

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