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Noah's Ark [and the CIA] « Thread Started on Apr 12, 2009, 3:22pm »
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Noah's Ark
By Bret Burquest
For 79 years, Pravda was the official newspaper of the USSR, published by the Communist Party. In 1991, the Communist stranglehold was broken and the newspaper was shut down on orders from Boris Yeltsin. The beleaguered Communists registered their new newspaper, under new ownership, with the same title, Pravda.
New management, as it often does, caused a serious split in the editorial office, whereupon 90% of the original journalists quit their jobs. These journalists quickly established their own version of Pravda, which was subsequently closed due to government pressure.
Thus, in January of 1999, they took their cause to cyberspace, creating Pravda On-Line. While the Pravda newspaper takes the Communist point of view, the on-line version boasts that it prefers a pro-Russia approach forming its policy.
On January 30, 2003, Pravda On-Line published an article titled CIA CONCEALED NOAH'S ARK.
According to the article, the CIA has been collecting evidence of an object hidden in an ice grave on the slope of Mt. Ararat, in eastern Turkey, near the Iranian border. This would obviously coincide with the Biblical account of Noah's Ark running aground on Mt. Ararat following the Great Flood.
The article went on to state that the CIA recently declassified documents concerning "probable remains of Noah's Ark on Mt. Ararat in Turkey." The CIA archives supposedly contain numerous classified photographic and filmed documents. Former CIA officer Dino Brugioni claims he saw photos in which "three huge curved beams" could be perfectly seen.
In 1992, a declassified letter from Charles P. Aaron, leader of an operation to search for the Ark carried out by the Tsirah Corporation, requested technical assistance from the CIA which he believed had a mechanism capable of seeing through several inches of ice mass. This operation was supported by several US Senators, Congressmen, and the late astronaut James Irvin.
The CIA then studied images of Mt. Ararat and responded, "no ark could be distinctly identified."
On January 21, 1993, Tsirah Corporation requested the CIA to declassify photographs of Noah's Ark for usage in a TV program but the Agency flatly refused.
I may have fallen off a turnip truck once or twice in my life, but when the CIA won't declassify a photograph of an object that doesn't exist, I smell a rat.
We have a chapter in there on the CIA's file on Noah's Ark. There have been stories quietly told for many years that in the late 1940s and 1950s the CIA carried out a covert search for the remains of the legendary Ark of Noah that, according to the Bible, came to rest on Mount Ararat, Turkey. There are references to satellite and aircraft imagery of the Ark and even tales of remnants of the Ark having been recovered by US Intelligence. The files that the CIA has released via the Freedom of Information Act add valuable and intriguing data to this story. Within the CIA, the Ark - or what some suspected to be the Ark - became known as The Ararat Anomaly. Nick Redfern http://www.steamshovelpress.com/latestword14.html