The Fall of TWA 800

[James Cobb]

An important article that bears on Clinton's possible
use of his Special Forces to blow up TWA 800:


Elaine Scarry

"The Fall of TWA 800: The Possibility of Electro-
magnetic Interference"

The New York Review of Books

April 9, 1998

Pages 59-76



Scarry's article is "A Special Supplement" in the
April 9th issue of the Review.

[Vlntryst]

Can you say,

The following is a polemic service announcement of
dubious import. But, if you enjoy Sci Fi... look-n-see.

From : Hugh's HAARP Info Page
A Lesson in Post-Modern Warfare

http://www.primenet.com/~rfwatts/haarp/haarp.html

It's fun to find unclassified papers on this subject.
They're better SF than anything any writer could dream up.
Like the various weirdnesses of particle physics, they're
cutting-edge stuff, which can get very, very wiggy in a hurry.

The Project

HAARP stands for High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program.

It's being assembled on a military base in Alaska, by the Air Force and the
Navy. It has several parts, most interesting being the IRI, for Ionospheric
Research Instrument. IRI is the largest HF radio transmitter ever built. It is
designed to concentrate several megawatts into an intense beam of almost
unimaginable strength, through miles of planar antenna arrays on the "short
wave" band.

The Birth of a Science

It started with SDI, the "Star Wars" era, when nothing was too
far-fetched to investigate. Of course, it might go all the way back to the
little-understood theories of Nikola Tesla, or the controversial work of
Bernard Eastlund. Eastlund is the old-fashioned kind of physicist. He never saw
a force of nature he didn't like, or want to control. While working for ARCO,
he apparently sold the SDI crowd on the military uses of ultra-power radio
beams, which could literally rearrange the earth's ionosphere.

The original Eastlund plan defies credibility. I don't know whether to believe
my sources, so I'll offer it off-the-record. ARCO, as the story goes, needed a
customer for North Slope natural gas, which is a byproduct of oil drilling.
Eastlund described how this gas could be burned, creating electricity for an
almost apocalyptic mega-HAARP that could alter the entire planet, and/or knock
out missiles at extreme distances. Whew.

Other research, especially in Alaska, seemed to demonstrate that the ionosphere
has a greater connection to thunderstorms than once believed. This gave
increased credibility to claims that the Eastlund supermachine could modify the
weather, anywhere in the hemisphere, at will, for better or worse. ...

In any event, ionospheric research almost immediately shifted from the
prediction of disturbances to their creation. These guys appeared to be in some
kind of hurry. There was almost a desperation here, as in those old SF movies
where the magnetosphere turns to lime jello or something, and the handsome,
male lead has to save Mankind with some kind of experimental death-ray.

Smaller "heaters,", proto-HAARPs, all pretty awesome radio transmitters in
their own right, popped up at universities and bases worldwide. Something must
have worked. A few years back, construction began on The Big One. By then, ARCO
had sold off its interests, and Eastlund had left the project. Air Force
sources call him, "Nuts," but his Strangelovian shadow haunts HAARP to this
day.

The Real Problem

The real problem with HAARP is the news blackout. If we are to believe that
HAARP is harmless science, why isn't it being reported like it? Why isn't it
being reported at all? Think about it. If the military was spending billions of
your dollars to create hurricanes, there'd be the biggest fuss since OJ, right?
But have you seen a word about HAARP, a different sort of storm that happens to
be 50 miles up, in your papers?

Of course not, unless you're one of the terrified citizens living nearby, in
which case you've read the Government P.R.. Notice that these are not exactly
probing, investigative pieces. In the real world, HAARP makes the Ten Most
Censored Stories list again and again. What's up?

I'm not anti-HAARP. I'm pro-knowledge. If we're gonna screw with the only
atmosphere we're ever gonna have, why has the whole public debate been
marginalized into the conspiracy, UFO, apocalypse and millennium press? Could
it be that these are not considered dangerous, and so their loopy rhetoric
gives the masses an illusion of free speech?

Until HAARP leaves the closet, prudent Americans will once again assume the
worst. As word spreads, through alternative channels, millions will once again
decide that their Government intends to hurt them, in secret,
WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS TRUE.