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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can find archived listserve messages on the CPEO website at http://www.cpeo.org/lists/index.html. 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