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The following was taken from the United States Air Force "Record of Decision, High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), Final Environmental Impact Statement", dated October 18, 1993: only: to learn how to manipulate the ionosphere in a manner simi- lar to and exceeding the capabilities of the facilities operating in the Soviet Union. This facility will be the largest of its type in the world and will be located in a latitude most conducive to the prac- tice of the invention developed by Eastlund. In researching this project I searched a database for local arti- cles about HAARP, and located a multi-page piece which was run in a news supplement to the Anchorage Daily News, "We | Alaskans" (December 15, 1991, pp. 9-14). It was actually a reprint from an earlier article in The Washington Post. Alaska's United States Senator, Ted Stevens, is quoted in the article defend- ing the funding of HAARP. It appears from the article that the Senator may have been left with incomplete information by the - project's promoters. Nonetheless, his comments on the project were interesting. The article is quoted as follows: "The data obtained from the proposed research would be used to analyze basic ionospheric properties and to assess the poten- tial for developing ionospheric enhancement technology for communications and surveillance purposes... The research facility would be used to understand, simulate and control ionospheric processes that might alter the performance of com- munications and surveillance systems... Furthermore, and pos- sibly more significant, is the potential for new technology that could be developed from a better understanding of ionospheric processes. A potential DoD application of the research is to provide communications to submerged submarines. These and many other research applications are expected to greatly enhance present DoD technology. "The Air Force and Navy proposes to build and operate the most versatile and capable ionospheric research facility in the world. The government intends to utilize the unused Over-the- Horizon Backscatter site near Gakona, Alaska for this program... Research requirements stipulated that the selected site must fall in the range of latitudes between 61 and 65 degrees, either north or south. This latitude provides the proper mix of active and inactive auroral states. Siting constraints included that the site must be: on US soil, on DoD land to the maximum extent practical..." "At the hearing of the Senate Committee on Rules-and Administration in June 1990, Stevens defended earmarking and attacked the process of scientific peer review: 'I could tell you about the time when the University of Alaska came to me and said it might be possible to bring the aurora to Earth. We might be able to harness the energy in the aurora...,' the Senator declared according to the hearing. 'No one in the Department of Defense, no one in the Department of Energy, no one in the executive branch was interested in pursuing it at all. Why? Because it did not come from the good old boy network. So | did just what you say | should do. | got Congress to earmark the money, and the experiment is going on now. It will cost $10 million to $20 million. If it is successful, it will change the his- tory of the world.' "In August 1990, Stevens went to the Senate floor to once This project is more particularly described in the "Joint Services Program Plans and Activities" (February 1990), issued by the Navy and Air Force. It becomes clear that the Military has no intention of looking at the northem lights, as the aurora is called in Alaska. This project is intended for one purpose and one purpose Stan Ross Graydon Rixon 1/4pg ad 1/4pg ad NEXUS © 55 OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1994