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Sunday, March 19, 2006

Vatutinki



This is coolbert:

Here is another experiment regarding the GRU [Russian Military Intelligence.

Taken from FAS web site.

"Vatutinki
55°29'42"N 37°19'43"E
The GRU Space Intelligence Directorate manages the Russian space reconnaissance program in coordination with the Fleet Intelligence Direction of the Fifth Directorate. The Fleet Intelligence Direction is responsible for space systems that provide intelligence supporting naval forces. The Space Intelligence Directorate is responsible for the development, manufacture, launch, and operation of Russian space-based reconnaissance systems. The directorate is located at Vatutinki, 50 kilometers southwest of Moscow. It operates its own cosmodromes, several research institutes, supporting mission ground centers, and a centralized computer processing facility."

Here is what Suvorov has to say about Vatutinki:

"Vatutinki is a top-secret little town near Moscow, where the GRU's main radio-receiving center is situated. Everything is secret there. Even the cemetery. Vatutinki is paradise. But like a real paradise, it has one inconvenience. There is no way out. Anyone who lands up in Vatutinki can rest assured that he will be buried in that same cemetery and nowhere else."

Vatutinki really does exist.

Try Google Earth for instance. I have recommended this before. Enables you to see the world as a satellite would. Has all sorts of features that allows the everyday average Joe to see things that once again, were once restricted to a handful of persons in the highest echelons of government.

Once you get Google Earth up and running, type in the coordinates for Vatutinki, which are: 55°29'42"N 37°19'43"E.

Let Google Earth run and lo and behold, up comes Vatutinki, Russian Federation, from an altitude of about 3000 feet. A small town.

Pan around the area until you come to these coordinates:

55°30'08.01"N 37°21'29.42"E.

At those coordinates appears a building with clear cut areas extending outward as spokes on a wheel would. Maybe two dozen or so clear cut areas. It is hard to count exactly the number with certainty. This whole structure is best viewed from say an altitude of about 4000 feet.

If you examine closely one of the clear cut areas in the southeast quadrant, at about four o'clock, you can see, and you must zoom in closely to see this, the shadows of what appear to be masts. Masts as you would find in an antenna field!! Other clear cut areas show similar shadows at about the right angle for the position of the sun at that time of the day. These very well might be masts for an antenna farm. Antennas of a rhombic, Beverage, or log-periodic-dipole-array design. Designed for good reception of high frequencies [short-wave] over long distances.

THIS MAY VERY WELL BE THE TOP-SECRET, OR NOT SO TOP-SECRET NOW, LOCATION, OF THE MAIN GRU RECEIVING STATION FOR AGENT TRAFFIC AS DESCRIBED BY SUVOROV!!

Again, remarkable that in this day and age, the average Joe has access to such material at his finger tips, and free too!!!

coolbert.

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