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grow, called Rusco Electronics. In the late '70s, Rusco These systems that we worked on were starting to be Electronics was the largest manufacturer and installer of | placed in areas that surprised me. There was one access-control equipment in the world. A friend of mine particular project when I was at EG&G where we were ad asked me to help him because he wanted to leave asked for designing a system for a base. It amused me he company and start his own company, and I said at the time: nobody seemed to be aware of [a base] in "Yeah, I'd love to". It quickly became apparent that evada, called Tonopah base, east-southeast of the little everybody in the security industry was back in the old — old mining town at Tonopah, and that this base was relay days, philosophically and technologically, and that actually where the F-117s were kept when they went he industry did not have very many people with operational. They were never kept at Groom Lake; that computer expertise. What quickly occurred, in just a year — was only for testing purposes. The entire wing was or two, was I went from doing corporate-level work inthe — based there at the time. What concerned me was that Denver area, which at the time was growing like a here was a decision we had to make on what was going mushroom, to doing military work, national work, and — on at Tonopah. There were facilities deep underground getting my security clearance back and activated again. here that were secured. There were elevators that would This led to doing a lot of work for the State Department —_go up and down, very large elevators that could take and eventually, by 1980, realising that the firm 1 was with craft, much like the elevators on an aircraft carrier but in was about ready to be left in the dust technologically. a land-based environment. These went very deep I started my own firm with two other engineers in underground. The equipment that we could see Denver: one from Hughes, who was based at the time at underground, around, was not that which would run a Buckley Air National Guard normal aircraft: generators, air Base, which was actually a conditioners, etc. There was a primary site for reception o eos otally different type o M4 ot "there was a decision vot yp satellite data for nationa equipment. security purposes, and another we had to make on what ow, one of the things tha riend from Lockheed. Well, it is . interested me after | left tha Lockheed Martin today, but i Was going on at Tonopah. project several years later was was Martin Marietta back in There were facilities he shey finally announced the ose days. F-117, and one of the concerns We started the firm and deep underground there would have is: what is being developed within nine months that were secured." done with Tonopah now? They he most powerful electronic the F-117s] were moved in a security system available at the rush, a very big rush, and if ime. In fact, we prided remember the number right i ourselves on having a form of Windows before was 75 million dollars spent in only a nine-month period Macintosh on our systems, without any command _ to prepare Holloman [Air Force Base] for the F-117s. codes—you just punch and click and move windows Now, that's okay, but why the rush to get them out o around. We did a lot of work. We at one time were doing © Tonopah—with some of the facilities that are deep 17, 18 major systems around the country. In fact, we did underground becoming activated on a full-time basis, five alone for Federal Express, and we linked these not just for testing purposes? They needed to remove systems into a war-room-type environment back at their those planes and those crews and support staff to headquarters in Memphis at the time, called The Pony —_ Holloman and to prepare in a rather large rush for a new Farm, through a satellite link. We were one of the first project to be brought in there. But none of the ones to link security systems at separate sites back indications we had, or my staff had that would actually through satellite linkages. This led to a lot of other _ install the security equipment, was that it was like any projects, and eventually, when | finally left my own firm — other plane, even something as broad-ranging as the that we helped start in '84, I started working for "Beltway Aurora that we have all heard about to one degree or bandit"-type consulting firms—this would be SIC, Trade another. Corp, EG&G, etc.—either as a contractor for them or as an employee for a period of time. Intrigue with Implantable Microchips It was at this time, again, that I realised that there was But I need to back up a bit. There is another subject | something amiss, during this period of time while] was _ need to broach, above and beyond the ufology subject developing security systems out of a national security that | got involved with, that relates to this when we talk interest in addition to large corporate systems. | needed _—_ about alternative government control mechanisms. One to find a security system in this marketplace that was as _—_ of my favourite hobbies has always been tracking new complex as any web network today, and the systems __ technologies, and hopefully so it benefits in business. In would run from a half-million to 25 million dollars just ‘79, living and working in Denver, | came across the for the hardware. company—that if necessary I can provide documents type " was going on at Tonopah. _ There were facilities deep underground there that were secured." Intrigue with Implantable Microchips But I need to back up a bit. There is another subject | need to broach, above and beyond the ufology subject that | got involved with, that relates to this when we talk about alternative government control mechanisms. One of my favourite hobbies has always been tracking new technologies, and hopefully so it benefits in business. In ‘79, living and working in Denver, | came across the company—that if necessary I can provide documents 36 * NEXUS JUNE - JULY 2011 ",,.there was a decision we had to make on what www.nexusmagazine.com