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parthenogenic viruses co-engineered with Stormont Labs in data with the Australians. Opposition to the base grew as it Woodland, California. Stormont Labs later even acknowledged —_ became clearer that it had a more prosaic purpose: espionage. that it had had discussions with Wackenhut concerning biological In his 1987 book, The Crimes of Patriots, author Jonathan weapons.’ Kwitny demonstrates that CIA manipulation led to the early end Again according to rumour, Yellow Lodge ran operations on __in Australia of the administration of Labor Party Prime Minister Jicarilla Apache lands and other Indian reservations, including a | Gough Whitlam, in part because of his opposition to Pine Gap. centre called "D6", located in Dulce, New Mexico. UFO enthusi- ‘Indeed, Whitlam was rousted after his public complaints about asts identify this location as the site of a huge underground joint _ intelligence agency deceptions over the tragic US policy in East human/alien base. Others believe the alien base story to be gov- Timor, and the CIA's funding of Australia's right-wing Country emment disinformation intended to confuse the real nature of the — Party [now the National Party of Australia]. By a quirk of Dulce operation." Australia’s Constitution, Whitlam was not driven from office by In his notes Casolaro mentions "MJ-12—Extraterrestrial", | an election but was removed by a governor-general he had alleged by many in the UFO research spectrum to be a super- — appointed—one who had strong ties to the CIA.“ secret US military group charged with signing a non-aggression No doubt the paranoia about this destabilisation of the US ally pact with space aliens." He also down-under fuelled other rumours mentions "Area #51" and "Pine among locals about the underground Gap". In his notes Casolaro ee innd'| Pine Gap base involving alien/govern- Area #51 (Area 51), of course, isa }. 1 (hee ment collaboration'*—rumours to military test site in Nevada for Mj-1 2—Extraterrestrial’, alleged which Danny Casolaro was privy. advanced aerial weaponry. by many in the UFO research One early page of Casolaro's notes Although only through a recent job- seemingly tied together Area 51, Pine hazards lawsuit has the Air Force spectrum to be a super-secret US" Gap, a small Pennsylvania town begun to admit to the existence of } ed with called Tonoma, and possibly one of the base, Area 51 has long been its citizens—someone named Fred known as the staging ground for the signing a non-aggres: Dick. The authors of the new book on U2 spy plane and the SR71 space aliens. He also mentions. Casolaro (The Octopus) despatched an Blackbird, and is much-rumoured as "Area #51" an d "Pine Gap’ investigator to "Tonoma, PA", in the the home of the post-Stealth marvel, notes, but failed to find Dick even the Aurora. In 1989, someone after placing a classified in the local named Bob Lazar went public with newspaper nor any indication of what claims that he had worked at Area 51, taking apart and reverse- = may have linked him to the two mysterious military bases." engineering alien spacecraft. Although even UFO sceptics Buried in notes written much later, however, weré references to acknowledge consistencies in his stories, Lazar's efforts at docu- “Tonomopah, Nevada, near Area 51". Fred Dick, however, menting his credentials and work history have met with some _ remains a mystery. doubt.” Casolaro's interest in the UFO world may have begun with Pine Gap is the top-secret underground American base located = Michael Riconosciuto. Riconosciuto had a proclivity for flights near Alice Springs in Australia, officially known as the Joint —_ of flying-saucer fancy going back at least a generation. After Defence Space Research Facility.’ Pine Gap allegedly serves as Casolaro’s death, he told one computer magazine that Casolaro the central American base for the monitoring of spy satellites and had learned nothing more than what one of two intelligence interception and decoding of various forms of broadcast commu- agency factions wanted him to know in order to embarrass the nications between foreign powers unfriendly to the US. Pine Gap _ other faction. One faction was called “Aquarius” and had a lead- was built in 1968, ostensibly as a means of sharing space program _ ership sub-group called "MJ-12".7 Riconosciuto even told one writer that he had witnessed the autopsy of an alien body. The writer concluded that Riconosciuto “would have told anyone any- thing to get out of prison". Rumours also had it that Riconosciuto had worked for Lear Aircraft in Reno, Nevada. This connected him to both Bill Lear, creator of the Lear jet and often claimed by UFO buffs as having done research on anti-gravity for the government, as well as John Lear, a former CIA pilot who also hit the UFO circuit with tales of saucers and aliens in cahoots with the US Government. John Lear and Bob Lazar comprise a fac- tion within the ufological sub-culture that still maintains a regular presence at its gath- erings. Other members of this nexus have included the redoubtable William Cooper, Close-up of radomes at the Joint Defence Space Research Facility, Pine Gap, near Alice | whose 1991 book, Behold A Pale Horse, Springs, central Australia. (Source: Department of Defence, Canberra, ACT, Australia) shared the title of the first draft of 28 « NEXUS OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1996