2000 CPEO Military List Archive

From: bieke@coqui.net
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 11:07:04 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Comunicado ALERTA ROJA bomba nuclear en Vieques?
 
COMITE PRO RESCATE Y DESARROLLO DE VIEQUES
Apartado 1424 Vieques, Puerto Rico 00765
Tel-fax (787) 741-0716 e-mail: bieke@coqui.net

11 de agosto de 2000

COMUNICADO DE PRENSA

El Comite Pro Rescate y Desarrollo de Vieques (CPRDV) exigio a las
autoridades pertinentes una investigacion inmediata y profunda sobre un
artefacto explosivo lanzado por la Marina en aguas viequenses en 1966.
Dicho artefacto, segun informacion revelada en el Reportaje "Alerta Roja"
en 1995, del periodista de Noticentro 4 Pedro Rosa Nales, y segun nueva
evidencia resenada esta semana en el nuevo reportaje "Alerta Roja 2: El
Encubrimiento" del mismo periodista, era una bomba nuclear.

El CPRDV senalo que los documentos recientemente declasificados mencionan
que la bomba en cuestion estaba compuesta de "muchos componentes
clasificados [secretos] identicos a los que se encuentran en armas de las
que solo se usan en tiempo de guerra." El testimonio del Dr. Michael
Greenwood, biologo marino, a los efectos de que el participo en la
recuperacion de una bomba nuclear en las costas de Vieques en 1966; los
reportajes en el periodico Newsday a esos efectos; la intensa busqueda por
cerca de dos meses por mas de una docena de barreminas y vehiculos
submarinos; el envio de la bomba una vez encontrada a la base de Sandia en
Nuevo Mejico que es donde se almacenan las bombas nucleares, el hecho de
que el informe del accidente fue sometido a la Comision Conjunta del
Congreso sobre Energia Atomica; el hecho de que el informe fue archivado en
la oficina del Departamento de Energia federal en Nevada y que ese
departamento catalogo el informe bajo "Nuclear Weapons"; la mentira de la
Marina a los efectos de que el accidente nunca ocurrio cuando sus propios
documentos demuestran lo contrario, y el hecho de que 34 anos despues de
ocurrido el accidente la descripcion mas especifica de la bomba aparece
tachada por ser "informacion sensitiva", todo ello constituye una montana
de evidencia de que la bomba que la Marina arrojo en las costas de Vieques
en el 1966 era una bomba nuclear.

Roberto Rabin, portavoz del CPRDV, dijo que "La Marina ha hecho lo
indecible porque no se revelase el hecho del accidente ni el contenido de
la bomba. Sea cual fuere el contenido especifico de la bomba, los
documentos mismos de la Marina revelan que el contenido debia mantenerse
secreto. Esa bomba nuclear era una bomba de prueba con material explosivo y
seguramente con una carga de uranio 238." Rabin anadio que la Marina no
puede decir ahora que la bomba era inerte ya que "El mismo documento de la
Marina dice que cuando recuperaron la bomba 'no habia explotado.'"

El reportaje "Alerta Roja 2: El Encubrimiento" de Pedro Rosa Nales de
Noticentro 4, describe el proceso de mentiras y enganos que utiliza la
Marina para negar o minimizar los peligros relacionados con sus ejercicios
en Vieques. "De igual forma negaron el uso en Vieques de napalm y de balas
de uranio hasta que la evidencia llego a manos del CPRDV," dijo Rabin.
"Niegan la relacion entre las enfermedades y los toxicos producto de su
bombardeo, mientras los cientificos de la comunidad y el gobierno de Puerto
Rico han recopilado una enorme cantidad de documentacion que senala que los
contaminantes militares son carcinogenos y sumamente peligrosos para
nuestra gente," sostuvo Rabin.

En 1995, el CPRDV escribio al Presidente Clinton, solicitando una
investigacion sobre el incidente de 1966, a raiz del primer reportaje,
"Alerta Roja", de Rosa Nales. La Alcaldesa de Vieques y la Asamblea
Municipal de Vieques, la Camara de Representantes y el Senado de Puerto
Rico tambien exigieron en 1995 la informacion sobre este incidente y jamas
han recibido respuesta. La Marina no solo nego que el incidente hubiese
ocurrido, sino que intento radicar cargos contra Rosa Nales por alegada
violacion de la Ley de Espionaje e intento que la Comision Federal de
Comunicaciones le revocara la licencia a WAPA TV.

Los viequenses aplaudieron a Pedro Rosa Nales y Noticentro 4 por la
transmision del reportaje, aun ante las amenazas de la Marina. Altos
oficiales de la Marina presionaron a la estacion televisiva para que no se
transmitiera el reportaje especial sobre la bomba perdida y la evidencia
recientemente obtenida que confirma lo revelado en el reportaje del 1995.
Los viequenses felicitaron a los abogados puertorriquenos Flavio Cumpiano,
representante del CPRDV en Washington, DC, e Ivan Ramos Soler de
Connecticut, quienes descubrieron y obtuvieron los documentos que contienen
el informe de la Marina sobre el incidente con la bomba en cuestion.

Contactos: Robert Rabin, CPRDV Vieques 787 741-0716 cel. 375-0525
Lcdo. Flavio Cumpiano CPRDV Washington,DC 202 721-4688

Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques
PO Box 1424 Vieques, Puerto Rico 00765
Telefax (787) 741-0716 E mail: bieke@coqui.net

12 August, 2000

PRESS RELEASE

The Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques (CRDV) demanded
that pertinent authorities carry out an immediate and profound
investigation about an explosive artifact dropped by the Navy in Vieques
waters in 1966. According to information revealed in the news report, "Red
Alert" aired in 1995 by the Channel 4 news reporter, Pedro Rosa Nales, and
according to new evidence described this week in the report, "Red Alert 2:
The Coverup" by the same reporter, the artifact was a nuclear bomb.

The CRDV said that recently declassified documents mention that the bomb
was composed of "many classified (secret) components identical to those
found in war reserve weapons." The testimony of Dr. Michael Greenwood,
marine biologist, about his participation in the recovery of a nuclear bomb
off the coast of Vieques in 1966; the reports in the newspaper Newsday
about this information; the intense search for two months with a dozen mine
sweepers and submarine vehicles; the fact that the bomb, once found, was
sent to the Sandia(New Mexico) warehouse for nuclear bombs; the fact that
the report on this accident was submitted to the Joint Commission of
Congress on Atomic Energy; that the report was filed in the office of the
Federal Department of Energy in Nevada and that this office catalogued the
report under "Nuclear Weapons"; Navy lies that the incident never occurred
when their own documents show the contrary and the fact that 34 years later
the most detailed description of the bomb is censored because it is
"sensitive information"; all of this constitutes a mountain of evidence
that that bomb the Navy dropped in Vieques waters in 1966 was a nuclear bomb.

Robert Rabin, spokesman for the CRDV, said that "The Navy has done the
unspeakeable, since it will not admit the accident happened nor will it
provide information about the bomb. Whatever specific content the bomb had,
the Navy's own documents insist they must be kept secret. The nuclear bomb
was a test bomb with explosive material and probably with a uranium 238
charge." Rabin added that the Navy cannot say the bomb was inert since "the
Navy documents state that when the bomb was found it 'had not exploded'."

The report, "Red Alert 2: The Cover up", by Pedro Rosa Nales of Channel 4
News, descibres the process of lies and deceit used by the Navy to deny or
minimize the dangers related with their exercises in Vieques. "In the same
way they denied the use of Napalm and depleted uranium weapons until the
evidence got into the hands of the CRDV," Rabin said. "They deny the
relationship between Vieques' severe health crisis and the toxics produced
by the bombing, while community and government scientists have compiled an
enormous amount of documentation that indicates the military contaminants
are carcinogenic and very dangerous for our people," sustained Rabin.

In 1995, the CRDV wrote to President Clinton to ask for an investigation
about the 1966 incident as a result of the first Red Alert program by Rosa
Nales. The Mayor of Vieques and the Municipal Assembly, the House of
Representatives and the Senate of Puerto Rico also demanded in 1995,
information about this incident and have never received an answer. The Navy
not only denied the incident happened, but also attempted to submit charges
against Rosa Nales under the Espionage Law and tried to get the Federal
Communications Commission to revoke the license of WAPA-TV for transmitting
the program.

The Viequenses applauded Pedro Rosa Nales and WAPA-TV News for the
transmission of the special report, despite Navy threats. High officials of
the Deparment of the Navy pressured the television station not to show the
Rosa Nales report about the lost bomb and the recently obtained information
that confirms what was revealed in the 1995 report. The Viequenses also
lauded Puerto Rican lawyers Flavio Cumpiano, CRDV representative in
Washington, DC, and Ivan Ramos Soler of Connecticut, who discovered and
obtained the Navy documents with the Navy report about the nuclear bomb
incident.

Contacts: Robert Rabin,CRDV Vieques 787 741-0716 Cel. 375-0525
Lcdo. Flavio Cumpiano,CRDV Washington, DC 202 721-4688


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