> From: Carmelo Ruiz <carmelo_ruiz at yahoo.com>
>
> --- Robert Rabin - Nilda Medina <bieke at coqui.net>
> wrote:
> > Press_Release_on_Nuclear_Bomb_in_Vieques_
> > Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000
> >
> > Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques
> > PO Box 1424 Vieques, Puerto Rico 00765
> > Telefax (787) 741-0716 E mail: bieke at 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
> > Iván 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