投稿者 佐藤雅彦 日時 2001 年 11 月 30 日 10:44:39:
●アラスカで稼働中の、知る人ぞ知る米軍の秘密電波兵器HAARP
は、原発２基相当の電力を投入して超強力な電波をを電離層に発射
し、地球上空の電磁場環境を激変させてさまざまな軍事利用を行なう
実験的な装置ですが、その用途の一つには「全世界の地下の断層図
を作成する」という事も宣言されています。
●ホンマかいな、と思うのですが、現在、HAARPの稼働出力を上げて、
アフガニスタンの地下断層図を作成し、米国の“敵”の隠れ家を見付け
出そうという試みが行なわれているとか……。
●そのあたりのことを報じた記事を以下に紹介しますが、ちなみに
この記事に言及されているジェフ・リチェルソン著『ラングレーの
魔法使いたち』はCIAのテクノロジー開発史が詳説した比類なき
ルポなので、この方面に興味のある方には強くお勧めします。
最近出た本で、数日前に入手したばかりですが、きわめて興味
ぶかい事実が次から次へと暴露されていて、調査報道の手腕に
感心するばかりです。
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HAARP in the high-tech hunt for terrorist lairs
http://www.msnbc.com/news/663580.asp
By Robert Windrem, MSNBC News, 11/27/01
The United States is using its growing expertise in virtual spelunking to
search Afghanistan's maze of caves for Osama bin Laden. Satellite imagery
and an experimental underground mapping program hidden away in rural Alaska
are just some of the tools at Washington's disposal.
JEFF RICHELSON, an intelligence historian who works with the National
Security Archive, says the United States has long been interested in
looking underground and has put several systems to use over the years:
Spy satellites and spy planes that look for construction equipment and
slight variations in ground temperatures, which can indicate the presence
of structural elements like shafts, entrances and even communication links.
Seismic stations that listen for explosions associated with construction.
Ground sensors planted covertly by special operations forces and spies near
suspected sites to monitor heat and sound from underground.
There have been a number of successes for example, massive Soviet
underground hideouts were discovered in 1971 by enhancing spy satellite
pictures. But locating an underground structure and imaging it are two
different things.
Richelson, author of "The Wizards of Langley," a new book on spy
technology, believes that two experimental spy satellites launched several
years ago code-named Cobra Brass and Misty were used to further enhance
U.S. detection capabilities. Moreover, newer versions of the CIA s
workhorse KH-11 spy satellites may have upgraded capabilities. Richelson
said the advanced KH-11 is almost certainly involved in the effort to
locate caves used by bin Laden and the Taliban.
Richelson noted that two key multispectral technologies would be
particularly useful for tracking caves: infrared and thermal imaging.
"Infrared looks for reflected heat. Thermal looks for heat generated by the
object," he said. "The advanced KH-11 has had some capabilities in these
areas since 1992. Whether that capability has been significantly upgraded
is classified."
Another tool the United States could find helpful in pinpointing caves is
the Predator unmanned aerial vehicle, which has already been used to track
Taliban and al-Qaida movements.
The Predator, say imaging experts, is ideal for tracking heat sources
because it has both infrared and thermal imaging capabilities, plus the
ability to hover for hours above a suspect site.
A senior U.S. official would neither confirm nor deny the aerial vehicle s
usefulness, saying only that the Predator "has a variety of imaging
capabilities."
Meanwhile, the United States has been spending millions of dollars on two
above-ground stations that use experimental technology to find underground
complexes. The stations are both in Alaska one near Gokana, 180 miles
east-northeast of Anchorage, and the other west of Fairbanks. Over the past
five years, the government has spent $70 million on the technology.
Of the two sites, the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Project near
Gulkana, known by the acronym HAARP,
http://server5550.itd.nrl.navy.mil/projects/haarp/ is the most advanced.
Run by the Office of Naval Research and the Air Force's Phillips Laboratory
with help from the University of Alaska, HAARP has been operating for seven
years, first under secrecy then more recently in the open. And it has not
been without controversy.
Using 72 180-foot antennae set on a 33-acre gravel pad, HAARP heats some
would say it boils the ionosphere to create a "mirror" so that Extremely
Long Frequency/Very Long Frequency radio waves can bounce off and penetrate
the Earth. By measuring anomalies in the return signal, the military has
had some success in creating "images" of underground facilities, including
human-made tunnels and natural cavities. Once identified, tunnel entrances
can be more easily spotted by satellites or spy planes, communications from
the complexes can be more easily intercepted by antennae in space or on the
ground, and underground facilities can be more easily targeted.
Such signals, according to the HAARP Web site, "can penetrate deeply
beneath the surface and interact with the geological structure of the
Earth. ... The research called for in this effort is to assess the
viability of exploiting the concept of electromagnetic induction to detect
and image subterranean features such as tunnels, bunkers and other
potential military targets."
Officials have said the detection of underground facilities was a byproduct
of the main research mission of the project "simulating the aurora borealis
to determine how we can compensate for its effects on our satellites," as
one official put it. HAARP has also become a favorite of conspiracy
theorists who see it as a "death ray," a means of "mind control" on a
massive scale and a phenomenon responsible for widespread buzzing sounds
heard in Germany and during Turkish earthquakes.
Just a week before the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon, the Office of Naval Research announced that it was negotiating
with a Washington contractor, Advanced Power Technologies Inc., to enhance
the system and bring it to full power. HAARP has been running at about
one-quarter of its planned power.
It is not known if HAARP has been used in the hunt for bin Laden's caves,
and attempts to reach Advanced Power Technologies were fruitless.
However, its Web site describes HAARP's capabilities this way: "The
(VLF/ELF) signals are useful for communications with land forces and
submarines and, because they have great penetration range, for the
investigation of subterranean formations or structures."
Advanced Power Technologies also advertises that it has a full range of
hyperspectral cameras and data-processing technology along with global
ground tomography technology, which it describes as "characterization of
underground structures."
That means the company could easily combine HAARP's ability to find
underground structures with its own ability to find minute gradations in
ground temperatures.
Although U.S. officials declined to say whether HAARP or other similar
technologies were being used, they noted that looking for bin Laden was an
"all-source intelligence effort."
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