Sauder's work on Undersea & underground bases is really interesting, fact baed journey into a part of our reality we rarely see, hear about or discuss. His work is rivetted with facts, quotes from government documents, corporate websites, and different agencies. He also throws in quotes from anonymous insiders, but this isn't the force behind his work, and they exist solely in illustrate the facts he lays down.
He opens with some common government underground installations. He shows us what's on the record and gives us glimpses of CIA, FEMA, US Military, NSA and many other installations that exist, underground and can be proven so by the available data. He then goes onto discuss the two sides of the US government, the everday apparent one we read about in Newspapers and see on TV and the completely invisible one that works with classified data, technology and black budgets. He quotes an excerpt from Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget by Tim Weiner as follows:
There are two governments in the United States today. One is visible. The other is invisible.
The first is the government that citizens read about in their newspapers and children study about in their civics books. The second is the interlocking, hidden machinery that carries out the policies of the United States in the Cold War.
He then goes on:
These words were written by David Wise and Thomas Ross in the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War. More than 30 years have passed, the Cold War is now over (at any rate that is what the newspapers tell us), but the invisible government remains. And the secret underground bases fall within its clandestine domain. Out of sight, out of mind. Funded from the black budget, steathily constructed, operated by known and unknown, highly secretive agencies that carry out hidden agendas, without our knowledge, deep underground.
In 1973, L Fletcher Prouty, a retired US Air Force Colonel, published an eye-opening book entitled, The Secret Team. Prouty held a unique position in the United States government. From 1955 to 1963 he was the liaison between the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Defense for military support of what he calls Special Operations. In this position he had access to a wide range of political, intelligence and military operatives - all the way from Washington, DC and the Pentagon to the far corners of the globe. He saw the full gamut of secret operations and policy making.
The Secret Team which gives Prouty the title for his book, is a powerful, brutally violent and treacherous international octopus. It has operatives in the academic world (scholars), in intelligence agencies (spies), in the military (both officers and enlisted personnel), in private industry (businessmen & women), in the world of corporate and public sector high finance (bankers, financiers and stock brokers), in the news media (electronic & print journalists), in the publishing industry in the United States and abroad (book publishers). It has powerful connections in dozens of countries all over the world. According to Prouty, the Secret Team overthrows and influences governments almost at will, all over the globe. At the core of the Secret Team are members of the CIA, the National Security Council, and various and sundry other military and civilian officials, intelligence operatives, business people and academics.
Prouty characterizes this Secret Team as "the real power structure". Far from being a tight, coherently focused group it is in actuality more like a hugely violent, murderously out of control, sprawling octopus that has the world and the United States in its deadly grasp.
He continue, discussing the Black Budget, and how it's easily in the Tens of Billions of Dollars a year - enough to build multiple underground installations in the last fifty years.
He gives some evidence for a secret tunnel system in the US, a little exposition on MagLev technology, and a few briefs from companies that were submitting contracts for extensive, nation-wide systems to be built by the year 2000. Interesting that we never heard of any such system in the works, and if it was underground only to be used by 'The Secret Team' of course we wouldn't have. I must admit, the technical briefs he presents as well as illustrations of bases and pictures of machinery is all very eye-opening. It's just amazing to think this stuff actually exists and that it NEVER is discussed anywhere.
He goes on to discuss how to hide an underground base, how you'd cloak it's construction and quotes from some government documents for weapons inspectors that detail what to look for when you're searching for covert facilities. It's all really interesting, and makes the Big Dig in Boston and the NYC Water pipe project look like they may be cover for some clandestine operations undernearth those major cities. Perhaps ports for the secret mag lev system? (my guess not his)
The next two chapters go onto the topic of undersea operations and boy these are incredible! He gives plans, documents and details that show from experts in the field how such things could be constructed for a few million dollars. He gives us a look at the navy's special underwater construction teams and offices, showing that the members of this group must have top secret clearance. I mean, connecting the dots yourself it's obvious that the navy is engaged in lots of underwater construction... I wonder what they're building down there?
He even shows that its possible to build bases under the ocean floor, from a submarine completely concealed from surface observation. It's technically feasible, and totally affordable for the Secret Team and their black budget.
Overall the book was eye-opening. It yields an awareness of the technical capabilities of these secret entities that seem to run about in the shadows. Likelihood that hundreds of these bases exist around the world is high, yet we don't know about them, have no idea what they're used for, and since they're kept secret my only guess is that the stuff their doing down there isn't for the benefit of humanity at large. I highly recommend this book, if only for it's ability to offer facts, documentation, and images that one will get no where else.
