The Parallel Universe

Trickfox wrote:The Sub Committee Report Magazine. September 2002 Edition.

(quoted in http://mikekemble.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/k129.html )

I added the google map showing Isthmus Cove, -Right next to "fourth of july" cove

There is a third cove in there but I haven't found the name just yet.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=k&om= ... 00692&z=17

Can anyone identify this facility just south east of Isthmus cove?
The road to it is not indicated in google, so I'll try to find it otherwise.

it looks like the perfect place to build something. less boats around.

Trickfox

Philip K. Wrigley, seamlessly followed in his father's footsteps and his contributions can still be seen and felt today. Perhaps the most evident is the re-design of downtown Avalon. In 1934, he directed designers Otis and Dorothy Shepard to give Avalon a cohesive, Early California feel. This re-design included planting palm trees, building a serpentine wall, installing fountains, redoing signage all throughout Avalon and developing a bright and distictive color palette used in many building projects. 'Pier Green' is still delightfully evident today. Perhaps Philip K. Wrigley's most lasting contribution was the creation of the Catalina Island Conservancy, which was given 88% of the Island in the mid-1970s to protect from overdevelopment and conserve native species.

The onset of World War II brought significant change to the Island. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, the Island was closed to tourism. Soon after the Island's steamships were requisitioned by the United States military to be used as troop transports and visitation to the Island ceased. The Santa Catalina Island Company offered use of the Island to the United States government. Several branches of the military answered the call and by 1943 the United States Maritime Service, United States Coast Guard, Army Signal Corp, and the Office of Strategic Services had operations on the Island. The United States Maritime Service took over Avalon and set up a training station for its many recruits. The United States Coast Guard also had a training station at the Isthmus. The Army Signal Corps had a sophisticated radar station in the interior of the Island and the Office of Strategic Services (now known as the CIA) had a small training facility at Toyon Bay. Government use of the Island continued until the end of the war. At that time, the steamships were returned and the Island was once again open to tourism.

Located two and a half miles by water from the city of Avalon, Toyon Bay is an ideal site for outdoor education!

Originally built as a private boarding school in 1929, Toyon boasts an ideal combination of attributes for the educational camp experience. The campus incorporates comfortable dormitory accommodations; fantastic indoor and outdoor dining facilities; modern, state-of-the-art laboratories, aquariums, classrooms and display areas with the untouched natural beauty of Catalina Island's land and sea environments.

Project Jennifer - Public disclosure

Project Jennifer - The New York Times suppresses its story
In early 1974, investigative reporter and former Timesman Seymour Hersh had planned to publish a story on Project Jennifer. Bill Kovach, the New York Times Washington bureau chief at the time, said in 2005 that the government offered a convincing argument to delay publication in early 1974 -- exposure at that time, while the project was ongoing, "would have caused an international incident." The Times eventually published its account in 1975, after a story appeared in the Los Angeles Times, and included a five-paragraph explanation of the many twists and turns in the path to publication. [1]


Project Jennifer - Burglary and press reports
On June 5, 1974, Howard Hughes' headquarters in Los Angeles was burglarized, and secret documents about the operation were taken. These papers would become the foundation of the story on Project Jennifer in the Los Angeles Times on February 7, 1975. After it appeared, the CIA attempted to convince news media to not publish further stories on the project. But by March 1975, numerous news stories had linked the Hughes Glomar Explorer, a ship publicly listed as a research vessel owned and operated by Summa Corporation, to the secret US government operation.


Project Jennifer - FOIA and the Glomar response
After stories had been published about the CIA's attempts to stop publication of information about Project Jennifer, Harriet Ann Phillippi, a journalist, filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the CIA for any records about the CIA’s attempts. The CIA refused to either confirm or deny the existence of such documents. This type of evasive reply has since come to be known as the "Glomar response" or "Glomarization."


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Elizabeth Helen Drake wrote:Paul is going to come back to this forum tomorrow morning and wonder what the heck we were all drinking! Nothing like a whole winebarrel of enthusiasm for his subject! Elizabeth

flowperson wrote:Wondering out loud here if the original name for the recovery of the
k-129 ."azorian" was a recognition that its location in the Pacific was an antipode of the Azores Islands in the Atlantic ? Don't have a globe here so I can't check that. Anyone else ? Anybody got an idea about the name, "jennifer"? Just my thingy about names you understand.

flow....