Diego Garcia -- did US military/CIA know tsunami was in progress?
by Edward Cranswick Friday December 31, 2004 at 07:34 PM
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  The US military/CIA have many sea-bottom sensors in the Indian Ocean for
detecting submarines, nuclear explosions, earthquakes and tsunamis, and
must have known the tsunami was in progress but did not relay this info to
those at risk because it was "CLASSIFIED".

Did US military/CIA know the tsunami was in progress? Based on my
experience of investigating earthquakes for the US government for almost 22
years and doing research on seismological techniques to monitor underground
nuclear explosions, I believe that the US military/CIA had critically
useful information about the tsunami which was not transmitted to emergency
response organizations.

Using seismological data alone, any tsunami expert would know that a
magnitude 8+ submarine megathrust event like the 2004 Sumatra Earthquake
would have a good possibility of generating a tsunami. The US has a very
large military base on the island of Diego Garcia in the middle of the
Indian Ocean, and they have been aware of tsunami hazard to the island due
to the proximity of the southwestern Pacific archipelago. The US Navy and
CIA have many sea-bottom sensors in the Indian Ocean for detecting
submarines, undersea nuclear explosions, earthquakes and tsunamis. I am
sure that US military/CIA knew the tsunami was in progress but they did not
relay this information to the countries at risk because the info was
"CLASSIFIED".

"One of the few places in the Indian Ocean that got the message of the
quake was Diego Garcia, a speck of an island with a United States Navy
base, because the Pacific warning center's contact list includes the Navy.
Finding the appropriate people in Sri Lanka or India was harder", New York
Times, 28 Dec 2004.

... so what happened to Diego Garcia? What damage did it sustain from the
tsunami? Were emergency measures taken before the waves hit?

The justification for not warning the countries that have been so
devastated by the tsunami is that the US authorities did not know who to
call in these countries -- how do they expect to fight the "War on
Terrorism" or shoot down a nuke ICBM -- are they really that incompetent?
Is this the same kind of lapse that occurred on 9/11 in the two hours
between the time when the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center
and the time when fourth plane "crashed" in Pennsylvania?

A monumental international blame-game and cover-up exercise is developing
with respect to the failure to issue tsunami warnings -- it was even
suggested by the remarks of Australian Foreign Minister Downer who spends
much of his time prevaricating about the situation in Iraq and the reasons
for the Australian participation in that fiasco.

There is a good possibility that the US military/CIA let tens of thousands
drown rather than "compromise" the sources of their "intelligence".

cranswick.net


Angus Eickhoff wrote:

>Thanks to those who have responded. I haven't seen the "Independent" article
>but it seems that there was some warning of the disaster picked up at Diego
>Garcia and not passed on. Also, it seems that the islands are immune to
>damage by Tsunami. Link below gives more details.
>
> http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/diego-garcia.htm 
>
>Happy New Year (for what its worth!)
>
>Angus
>