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发帖数: 2136 | 1 Chinese Submarine was not the first on US coast
Sneaking subs into waters off the west coast — its happened before
By Wayne Madsen
The firing of a submarine-launched ballistic missile by a Chinese Jin-class
submarine off the coast of southern California lastMonday at the height of
evening rush hour in Los Angeles was not the first time the U.S. Navy's anti
-submarine warfare sensors in the Pacific have failed.
In 1981, a Soviet Victor-class nuclear submarine successfully evaded the
Navy's Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) network of underwater hydrophones,
Towed Array Sensor System (TASS) ships, and P-3 sonobuoy-equipped aircraft
and popped up off the Oregon coast alongside a Soviet fishing fishing
trawler.
While serving as the Operations Officer at the Navy's SOSUS station at Coos
Head, Oregon, this editor received a phone call from the Coast Guard station
in Brookings, Oregon reporting that some local fishermen sighted a Soviet
submarine alongside a fishing trawler flying the Soviet flag some 30 miles
off Brookings.
The incident resulted in the sending of a "Bravo" visual sighting on a Navy-
Wide Formatted Message Reporting System (RAINFORM) message to the Commander
Oceanographic System Pacific (COMOCEANSYSPAC) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Since
the clear majority of Soviet submarine contact reports were SOSUS RED
messages, meaning they submarine had been detected by the SOSUS acoustic
arrays, the sending of a BRAVO visual sighting message to the Navy's top
commands in Pearl Harbor created a political storm.
The Navy's higher-ups immediately began to question the veracity of the
Oregon fishermen and the Coast Guard in an effort to limit the damage. The
reaction by the Navy was similar to the cover story now being issued by the
Pentagon that the missile plume witnessed some 35 miles off the California
coast was actually from a US Airways flight from Honolulu to Phoenix, a
model rocket, or an optical illusion.
In 1981, a Victor-III Soviet nuclear attack submarine, armed with torpedos
and anti-ship missiles, popped up previously undetected some 30 miles off
the Oregon coast. The submarine had undergone significant noise-reduction
modifications, with its turbine and propeller cavitation being quieted to
avoid detection by U.S. Navy acoustic sensors in the Pacific. The Navy,
embarrassed, covered up the incident.
The Navy, clearly embarrassed over the undetected presence of a Chinese Jin-
class SSBN submarine off the coast of Los Angeles, is, some 40 years after
the Victor-III incident, continuing its age-old tradition of covering up
when it screws up. Aiding and abetting the Pentagon are a group of recently-
minted "experts" from NASA, the Discovery Channel Rupert Murdoch's array of
claptrap publications, Pentagon-funded web sites and think tanks, and other
"usual suspects" in the conspiracy theory proffering business.
The Pentagon, shown to have wasted billions of dollars on a useless
ballistic missile defense system, is working overtime with the media and on
the Internet to cover up the latest debacle. However, even some reporters
who cover the Pentagon full-time are beginning to question the Pentagon's
version of events last Monday night over the skies west of Los Angeles.
Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist, author and
syndicated columnist. He has written
Madsen is a regular contributor on Russia Today. He has been a frequent
political and national security commentator on Fox News and has also
appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, and MS-NBC. Madsen has
taken on Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity on their television shows. He has
been invited to testifty as a witness before the US House of
Representatives, the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and an terrorism
investigation panel of the French government.
As a U.S. Naval Officer, he managed one of the first computer security
programs for the U.S. Navy. He subsequently worked for the National Security
Agency, the Naval Data Automation Command, Department of State, RCA
Corporation, and Computer Sciences Corporation.
Madsen is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ),
Association for Intelligence Officers (AFIO), and the National Press Club.
He is a regular contributor to Opinion Maker. | w*********s
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