投稿者 佐藤雅彦 日時 2001 年 4 月 07 日 04:43:47:
●太田「ユウーツーっつても、憂鬱じゃありませんよ。」
田中「キューバで撃墜されたアメリカのスパイ機だろ。
この〜40年遅れっ!」
――と、思わず爆笑問題のネタにしたくなるようなオマヌケな事件を
やらかした、アメリカ海軍であった。 U2型スパイ機がキューバ上空で
撃墜されたのは1960年の5月だから、ちょうど40年目なんですな。
ついでにいうと、第五福竜丸が米国の水爆実験で被災したのは1954
年の3月。当時は、この被曝事件がきっかけで反核運動の機運が起
きたのですが、47年後に日本の高校の実習船がハワイ沖で――米軍
側が意図したものでないとしても――“体当たり攻撃”を受けて沈没
させられ死者多数を出しても、目立った動きが出てこない……。日本
国民の“白痴化”もそこまで進行したということでしょうな。(“一億総
白痴化”と喝破したのは大宅荘一氏でしたが、読売グループが切り
拓いた戦後の大衆向けメディアによる“ブロックバスター攻撃”で、
米国諜報コミュニティの思惑どおりのマインドコントロールが展開
できたということでしょうな。) 米国では5月の復員軍人記念日に
ディズニー映画の『パールハーバー』が全国一斉に封切られ、日本
でも7月にロードショーが始まるけれど、せめてボイコット運動くらい
おきなきゃ“えひめ丸”の犠牲者が浮かばれないと思うのですが……。
●さてさて、今月はじめに米国では、中国近海でスパイ活動をして
いて中国軍機に“体当たり”して1機を“撃墜”し――それにしても
“えひめ丸”もそうだけど米軍はいつから体当たり特攻精神を身に
つけたんでしょうね【苦笑】――海南島に“不時着”した米海軍のス
パイ機の素性について「エシェロン・システムの一部」だという聞き
捨てならない報道が行なわれていたんですけど、日本のマスコミが
報じるかと思って待っていたけど報じる気配がない。 欧州議会で
エシェロンが大問題になった99年9月にもそうだったけど、たった1紙
を除いて完全に無視だったもんね。日本のマスコミもたいがいは米国
諜報コミュニティと通じ合ってんじゃないかって勘ぐりたくもなるよね。
●どうもこのスパイ機は――エシェロン体制の一部だとすれば当然
だろうけど――大変に貴重なものらしくて、同型機は米国にも12機
しかないんだって。 対日戦略家のチャルマーズ・ジョンソンなんて、
「沖縄の嘉手納から発進した軍用機なんで、ことはとりわけ重大」
なんて発言している。 (どうして嘉手納基地発進だと、とりわけ重大
なのか、その辺の意味は私にゃわかりませんけどね。嘉手納にエ
シェロンの重要機能があったとしても、いまさら驚きゃしないさ。)
●そのジョンソン氏、小ブッシュが“挑発”のつもりで偵察機を飛ば
して結果的に“自爆”したドジぶりを怒って、「中国沿岸わずか62マ
イルのところで海軍にスパイ飛行をさせるなんて狂っているとしか
いえないね(The U.S. Navy flying spy missions 62 miles from the
Chinese coast is simply insane)」と言い放っている。 大ブッシュが
CIAの長官だった頃は、「CIAは地道な情報収集・分析作業を嫌って
派手なカウボーイ的冒険ばっかりやってるから身上つぶすんだ」と
クソ散々に叩かれたものだけど、性格が弱く、自己評価が低く、家族
や親父への劣等感で人格が歪んできた小ブッシュちゃんは、権力を
得てカウボーイふうのマッチョを見せびらかしたくてしょーがないので
しょうな。【苦笑】 こういう性格破綻者が、戦争中に大統領職を引き
継がなかったのが、せめてもの幸い。 だって、きっと核兵器使ってい
たろうからね。弱虫坊主は。 おっと、これから戦争やらかすかも。
くわばら、くわばら……。
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CAPTURED US NAVY JET REPORTED TO BE PART OF ECHELON
●中国に捕獲された米海軍のジェット機はエシェロンの一部だという
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/4/1/234033.shtml
Major Intelligence Coup for China
Charles R. Smith
Monday, April 2, 2001
【スパイ機の図のキャプション】
The U.S. Navy EP-3 collided with a Chinese J-8 twin engine interceptor
(pictured). According to the Chinese press, the pilot of the J-8 has not
been recovered. (Illustration by Charles Smith)
U.S. forces are on heightened alert after a game of aerial chicken
turned deadly over the South China Sea.
A U.S. Navy EP-3E Aries II spy plane was forced to land inside China on
Sunday after colliding with a People's Liberation Army Air Force jet
fighter 62 miles southeast of Hainan Island.
According to Chinese sources, a PLAAF J-8 fighter was lost in the
bumping incident and its pilot has not been recovered. The incident set
off a firestorm of criticism aimed at both Beijing and the Bush
administration.
One source was more than critical of the lack of military cover given to
the slow-flying EP-3 four-engine spy plane.
"This aircraft is referred to as a 'high-value asset,' " stated a
current U.S. milita
ry fighter pilot. "I escorted them in the gulf during
operation Desert Shield."
"That there wasn't enough advance warning that there were Chinese
fighters airborne and in a position to intercept this aircraft sounds a
lot like the recent USS Kitty Hawk incident where the aircraft carrier
was overflown by Russian fighter-bombers," stated the U.S. military
pilot.
"The pilot should have put this airplane in the drink," he concluded in
disgust.
■ Major Intelligence Coup for the PLA ■
The capture of the EP-3 Aries spy plane is considered a major victory
for the Chinese Army "2nd Branch" of the PLA signals division. In
addition, several of the 24 crew members in Chinese custody are
described as electronics specialists serving with the elite National
Security Agency, or NSA.
"This is a serious incident," stated Chalmers Johnson, president of the
Japanese Policy Research Institute. "The thing that struck me the most
was that this flight originated from Kadena in Okinawa."
"I doubt we will ever get the plane back, and if we do it will be after
the Chinese have taken it apart piece by piece," said Johnson.
"This is very serious," agreed Larry Wortzel, director of the Heritage
Foundation's Asian Studies Institute, in an interview from Seoul, South
Korea.
"The U.S. has conducted such routine reconnaissance flights for years.
This is nothing like [Francis Gary] Powers. He was over Soviet airspace.
This was in international airspace. The PRC has objected to these
flights for years and flown close."
"The [Navy] aircraft has a great deal of very sensitive intelligence
gear," noted Wortzel.
■ Airplane Part of NSA Echelon System ■
The U.S. Navy EP-3 Aries aircraft captured by China is reported to be
part of the National Security Agency "Echelon" system. Each Aries
aircraft is so expensive that only 12 such planes are in the entire U.S.
Navy inventory.
Aries aircraft are equipped with giant onboard computers to sort and
retransmit the data directly via secure link to NSA headquarters located
at Ft. Meade, Md. The highly modified EP-3 Aries aircraft are also
equipped with high-powered infrared video cameras to photograph various
targets.
Each Aries is designed to provide fleet and theater commanders worldwide
with near-real-time tactical-signals intelligence. The Aries is packed
with sensitive receivers and high-gain dish antennas. The captured EP-3
reportedly was on a mission to obtain a wide range of electronic
emissions from deep inside Chinese territory.
The normal crew complement is 24: seven officers and 17 enlisted aircrew
consists of three pilots, one navigator, three tactical evaluators, and
one flight engineer. The remainder of the crew is composed of equipment
operators, technicians and mechanics.
The Navy Aries aircraft are also frequently repainted with other
squadron insignia, including tail numbers and cartoonlike
characters, in
an effort to disguise them as the more typical P-3 Orion anti-submarine
aircraft. The covert paint jobs are performed at an NSA contract
facility located outside Dallas-Fort Worth.
■ Bush Policy Called Insane ■
According to one Asia expert, the electronic intelligence flights off
the Chinese coast are part of a deliberate effort by the Bush
administration to draw a sharp Chinese response.
"The U.S. Navy flying spy missions 62 miles from the Chinese coast is
simply insane," stated Japan Policy Research Institute president
Chalmers Johnson.
"We bait the Chinese with these spy flights, we needle the North Koreans
over military movements inside their own borders and antagonize the
Russians over an American turned spy while tunneling under their embassy
in D.C. This kind of cowboy diplomacy is a form of Clint Eastwood
machismo."
"It all adds up to that we are just now starting to pay for the election
of George W. Bush," concluded Johnson. "The Chinese were completely
justified in taking this action. The Bush administration is deliberately
going out of its way to antagonize Beijing."