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THE EVIDENCE FOR SECRET UNDERWATER BASES SECRET THE EVIDENCE FOR UNDERWATER BASES There is compelling circumstantial evidence that the US military has been constructing secret underwater and underground tunnels and bases for many decades. tories of underground tunnelling by the United States Navy are very persistent. When I first started my research, people began telling me that the US Navy was involved in clandestine tunnelling and secret underground base construction. Over the years, I have encountered bits and pieces of information suggesting that there may well be undersea naval facilities. A former associate of mine, who had been in the Navy, told me that there are tunnels on both coasts of the United States that submarines enter when they are at sea, and then travel through to secret, underground submarine bases that are inland from the coast. I have been told, time and again, about purported submarine tunnels in the Long Beach, California, area that allegedly bore inland from the ocean. Soviet-style Submarine Tunnels In fact, there is precedent in the open literature for such tunnels—albeit in Russia. In their excellent book, Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage, Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew relate that in the 1980s:' The Soviets also were building four large underwater 'tunnels' at a new subma- rine base at Gremikha near the tip of the Kola Peninsula, about 150 miles from Murmansk. Blasted out of the adjacent hillside, the granite tunnels were large enough to accommodate the Typhoons... Have similar underwater tunnels been built by the United States Navy to secretly accommodate its submarines, perhaps in the Long Beach, California, area and elsewhere? I consider it possible. Tunnelling into the Continental Shelf I have been given hints that there may be lengthy, secret tunnel systems beneath the continental shelf, off both coasts of the United States. I have spoken to a few insiders in recent years, and I plainly asked one of them: "What about the stories of highly secret naval installations beneath the ocean floor, to which submarines secretly come and go? And what about the stories of secret, undersea bases and hundreds of miles of secret tun- nels deep beneath the sea floor along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States?" The answer was intriguing: "I would carefully consider those stories." And so I am paying attention to the stories. I will tell you candidly that I do not know whether the stories are true or not. They are interesting. If they are true, then there are sophisticated, clandestine undersea bases and tunnels that the United States government operates—and has kept secret from the American people. by Richard Sauder, PhD © 2001 5804 Babcock Road, #292 San Antonio, Texas 78240, USA Email: dr_samizdat@hotmail.com Website: www.sauderzone.com Bases beneath the Oceans and Seas It is important to understand that the technology exists for constructing manned, under- sea bases hundreds, even thousands, of feet below the sea floor. The experience, the expertise, the machinery, the trained personnel and the financial means for constructing manned bases beneath the ocean floor have been in place for at least 35 years. Bear in mind that the petroleum industry routinely and frequently carries out major industrial operations in deep water, well out to sea. It also routinely bores down into the deep rock beneath the ocean floor. A recent news item on CNN's website profiled one of the deep-sea divers involved in 5804 Babcock Road, #292 San Antonio, Texas 78240, USA Email: dr_samizdat@hotmail.com Website: www.sauderzone.com NEXUS = 27 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2001 www.nexusmagazine.com