Richard C. Hoagland and Art Bell examine two U.S. Navy personnel in critical condition at Christchurch Hospital after April flights to McMurdo Station, contradicting Raytheon’s claim of salt deficiency. Hoagland cites 1972 patent 3,693,731 for a "nuclear tunneling machine," possibly used to breach Lake Vostok’s ice, and notes bizarre microbes there, alongside 11 recent evacuations hinting at radiation exposure. A South Pole doctor’s refusal to leave raises cover-up suspicions, while NSF-funded secrecy and Raytheon’s ties to a 1975 nuclear tunneling study deepen concerns—suggesting classified Antarctic experiments may have gone catastrophically wrong. [Automatically generated summary]
It just squares exactly what we were saying last night.
This is so abnormal, so anomalous.
And when he thinks that they got the disease by somebody flying in, obviously any other contact other than the people at the base would give you, quote, a disease if we're talking about some kind of medical disease, an infectious pathogen which is being spread from person to person to person.
And I think this person is very much onto something, and I found something else tonight which kind of coincides with it in a very surprising but confirmatory way.
But before we get to that, let me give you a report kind of live from New Zealand.
Anyway, so we have sources, and they're very good sources.
In fact, one of them, if we get what we think we're going to get, I'm going to strongly recommend that you actually interview him on the air because he is a journalist, a professional.
And he is digging, and he deserves to be heard in and of himself.
But until he gets something good, we're going to keep him under wrap so we don't blow his cover.
But he just sent me an email in the last 10 minutes.
I, Richard, following phone call made to Raytheon's John Shreve, that's the general manager of Raytheon's Polar Service that oversaw the extraction flights.
With the update on these patients, then we'll get to the good stuff.
Christ Church Hospital, my source continues in this email, is currently maintaining a neither confirm nor deny stance on the conditions of the American personnel because of New Zealand's privacy laws.
But I am pressuring them, he says, for an answer on whether radiation poisoning is a factor.
And the Canterbury Health Board's lawyer has been asked to give an opinion on whether providing such information would be a breach of the privacy laws.
Because the phrase, you know, fill your pockets with salt, she claims, is a code word in the nuclear industry for a nuclear accident where you have to take iodine tablets to basically, you know, zap the thyroid as a protection against radiation overdose.
And that in the absence of iodine tablets, they substitute, get this art, iodized salt.
So if there had been an exposure, as she thinks might have happened down there, although she doesn't have the mechanism, to unusual radiation and the workers needed to do something in an emergency to protect themselves until they could get flown out, that could possibly account for the abnormal usage of salt because they really were trying to get the iodine into them to get it to their thyroid.
Well, our emailer thought that maybe if they drilled through the ice in Rostock, that there was some kind of radioactive heat source that was keeping the lake warm.
And I can pretty much discount that.
That is, even if there was, it would be so low level that you would never notice it.
It would not give you radiation damage or exposure.
In the 1960s, going up through the 70s, our good old U.S. Atomic Energy Commission began several studies and actually in 1972 was issued a patent.
And everybody copy this number down.
I'm going to give a number out now.
Pencil's ready.
U.S. patent number 3,693,731 issued on the 26th of September 1972 for something called a nuclear tunneling machine,
which is basically a big nuclear reactor encased in something like tungsten carbide or cadmium or some impervious metal through which you circulate the cooling fluids from the core reactor.
And you basically put this in rock or on ice, and like a hot knife through butter, it will melt its way down until you turn it off.
Well, in other words, when you circulate fluids through the core and duct them to the exterior surface, some kind of...
The shuttle has tiles to protect it from the exterior heat of reentry, right?
If you reverse the process and you had something really hot inside the shuttle and you had pipes, cooling pipes with fluid running to the tiles, you could heat the tiles up and cool the interior.
If you wanted to quickly get through that ice or two miles of ice, this would be the perfect way to do it because one of the things that we're going to do is Okay, well, this is then one possibility of what could have happened.
We're kind of out on a little bit of a limb here, but something obviously has happened down there.
Remember, you talked about bacteria thriving in the lake, Richard?
Okay, I've got posted up on my site under your name tonight an Associated Press article from 98 saying bacteria discovered thriving inside frozen Antarctica Lake.
Yep.
And they're saying the finding fuels hope that life may exist on the frozen moon of Jupiter or the polar ice caps of Mars and on and on and on.
So what you said yesterday is verified by a story back in 98 that we've got up there right now.
Now, the best place to treat radiation sickness is in civilization because they don't have the drugs.
They don't have the preparations at McMurdo, even though they have a good hospital, since there's no radiation on the continent.
Now, all the environmentalists listening to us tonight and the people who follow the treaties and people from other countries should be thinking carefully.
If somebody has gone in with a clandestine black project and used nuclear technology to, by the brute force mechanism, get through that ice to get something, then there's a lot of laws and treaties which have been broken, and of course they're going to try to keep this secret.
The other weird thing, Art, is that the doctor at the South Pole, the other medical emergency, he doesn't want to come out.
We were asked, by the way, last night after we posted our story on the web, just go to Enterprise Mission and go to the first new article called What's Happening at the South Pole.
They have put up our story with a link on their site as one of their stories, and they formally asked us today to exchange links so that we will put 70 South on Enterprise, which we have done, and they will put Enterprise on 70 South, which they have done.
The point is that we're in the conversation now, and somebody knows.
Somebody has a brother or a sister or an uncle or an aunt or a father or a cousin who they love and care for, and they are under threat tonight because somebody is doing weird things and not leveling with the rest of us who are paying for those.
Well, I certainly don't want to unnecessarily worry the relatives of people who are down there, but there is something really, really out of line going on, and there's no reason in the world why the officials at Antarctic before these men left wouldn't tell us what was wrong with them.
They talked about issues of privacy, and now we've got them in New Zealand.
We can't find them.
They're critical condition, and they still won't tell us what's wrong.
The same people who are funding the polar program with your tax dollars with the U.S. Congress did a study in 1975 on the feasibility of nuclear tunneling technology.
And they're the people who are paying the Raytheon folks.