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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 63
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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DID SUB-LAUNCHED MISSILE DOWN CIVILIAN JETLINER OFF LONG ISLAND?
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By Mike Blair
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(The Spotlight, Nov. 18, 1996)
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Investigative reporters have focused on the possibility that TWA
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Flight 800 was shot down by a missile-bearing submarine on July
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17. A CBS News reporter contacted The Spotlight to exchange
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information regarding the downing of the airliner, which cost the
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lives of all 230 people on board.
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The CBS reporter said she was particularly interested in The
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Spotlight's reports that U.S. spy satellites had photographed the
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downing of the aircraft (Spotlight, Aug. 12 and subsequently).
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This is one of the few times that the mainstream media has joined
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The Spotlight in a probe of a news story in the populist
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newspaper's 21-year history.
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The Spotlight reported that a U.S. infrared spy satellite was in
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orbit over Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island and had
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actually photographed the airliner being downed by a missile.
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Similar reports have appeared in New York newspapers.
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Most mainstream reports are moving to the conclusion that neither
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a missile nor a bomb downed the jet, rather that it was some sort
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of accidental internal explosion bringing the plane down.
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-+- Photos Studied -+-
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According to Spotlight sources, the National Reconnaisance Office
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(NRO) was studying "frame-by-frame" photographs taken of the
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downing of Flight 800 to determine the type and origin of the
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missile responsible for the tragedy.
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The NRO is the nation's most secret spy agency, which operates
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and collects the data obtained from the highly-sophisticated spy
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platforms in space orbit.
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According to internal CBS memoranda provided to The Spotlight,
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the network news department has determined that Assistant FBI
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Director James K. Kallstrom, who is heading the bureau's probe of
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the crash out of New York, is "convinced it's a missile [that
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destroyed the airliner] and that he thinks the Pentagon is
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withholding information."
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The Spotlight has researched details regarding an American
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guided-missile cruiser that was operating in the vicinity of the
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plane crash, some 10 miles off Long Island's southern coast.
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It has been determined that the *Ticonderoga*-class guided
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missile cruiser, USS Normandy (CG-60), a 567-foot, 9,466-ton
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vessel commissioned by the Navy in 1990, was about 180 miles from
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the TWA jetliner when it was blown from the sky.
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The Navy claims that the Normandy's air search radar was not
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working at the time the TWA plane was downed. According to the
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*Jane's Fighting Ships*, published in Britain, guided-missile
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cruisers of the Normandy's class are equipped with at least three
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air-search radar systems, each apparently capable of providing
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the others back-up.
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The original area of ocean off Long Island determined to be part
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of the "crime scene" of the crash by the FBI and other federal
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agencies measured an area of 2,400 square miles. That would
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place the missile cruiser well within the area.
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CBS says that a Navy Lockheed P-3 Orion was airborne at 10,000
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feet, about 60 miles from the TWA airliner, when the missile
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struck the jumbo jet.
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The P-3 Orion is one of the nation's key sub-hunting aircraft.
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According to a CBS memorandum, Paul Ragganes, a CBS expert in the
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field of military weaponry, "says that the fact that the Normandy
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(a cruise missile carrier) was nearby, and that the P-3 Orion was
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even closer makes him think that the Navy was at least responding
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to a threat. If that's the case, the threat turned into a really
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ugly and embarrassing reality."
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It has been reported in the media that a Navy H-60 helicopter was
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in the area where the TWA plane went down.
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According to *Jane's*, the Normandy carries two SH-60B Seahawk
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helicopters, the Navy's version of the Army's UH-60 Blackhawk.
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The Seahawk is equipped with a LAMPS III (Light Airborne
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Multi-Purpose System III). The purpose of the LAMPS electronics
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is anti-submarine warfare.
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The Seahawk is also capable of releasing submarine-detecting
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sonobuoys into the sea where submarine activity is suspected.
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The Orion is also capable of releasing sonobuoys.
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The CBS reporter has queried the TWA Task Force, which consists
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of the federal agencies involved in the TWA probe, about the
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presence of the P-3 Orion sub-hunter being in the area of the
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crash and notes "this kind of aircraft is usually around when
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they're looking for a submarine, or they know one is in the
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water."
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Since the downing of TWA Flight 800, the FBI and other federal
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investigative agencies have received more than 100 reports from
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individuals who witnessed a missile streak up toward the
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aircraft, just before it burst into flames.
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At first, it was speculated that the airplane was downed by
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terrorists using a small shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile
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(SAM), such as an American-made Stinger.
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However, some military experts, including explosive weapons
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specialist retired Air Force Gen. Ben Partin, believe that a
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larger, far more powerful missile was used.
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The retired general said he believes that a far more
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sophisticated and larger radar-guided SAM was used, one that is
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fired from a fixed launcher, either from a ship, the ground or
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some type of mobile launching system.
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It was, some experts contend, the type of missile that would
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instantly destroy its target, just as Flight 800 was destroyed,
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and not a shoulder-fired weapon that could just cripple its
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target but still leave it airborne.
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"The type of missile that hit Flight 800," the retired general
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said, "was of a type intended to destroy a large strategic
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bomber, not just damage it and leave it to limp along to its
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target to deliver nuclear weapons."
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