- RUSSIA - U.S. intelligence
personnel and some lawmakers are growing increasingly concerned over a
massive underground complex some suspect is either a nuclear research facility
or a nuclear survival complex for Russian military and government officials.
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- According to a report on Tuesday in link
, the huge underground facility is located underneath Yamantau Mountain
in the Urals. U.S. intelligence officials estimate that it is at least
the size of Washington, DC (inside the Beltway; or about 400 square miles)
and able to house about 60,000 people.
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- "U.S. intelligence sources [say] that the Yamantau
complex is but one of some 200 secret deep underground nuclear war-fighting
sites in Russia, many of which have been significantly upgraded over the
past six years at a cost of billions of dollars," said the online
newspaper's report.
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- Since 1990, the symbolic end of the Cold War, military
and CIA intelligence officials believe Moscow has spent some $6 billion
on the construction of the Yamantau Mountain bunker.
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- Worse, American officials say they have no idea what
is actually going on within the confines of the massive bunker. Russian
officials have kept very tight-lipped about the project, and WorldNetDaily.com
said that it is directly controlled Russian President Vladimir Putin --
who inherited the project from former President Boris Yeltsin.
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- Some see it as a doomsday survival bunker. "The
only potential use for this site is post-nuclear war," said Rep. Roscoe
Bartlett, Maryland Republican, and widely viewed as at least a limited
expert on the Yamantau Mountain project.
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- The complex "is located close to one of Russia's
remaining nuclear weapons labs, Chelyabinsk-70, giving rise to speculation
it could house either a nuclear warhead storage site, a missile base, a
secret nuclear weapons production center, a directed energy laboratory
or a buried command post. Whatever it is, Yamantau was designed to survive
a nuclear war," said the newspaper on Tuesday.
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- U.S. officials have tried in vain for years to get Russian
officials to talk about it, but have only received conflicting and incomplete
information -- if not outright denials over what is suspected of taking
place there, officials told the newspaper.
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