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15 September 2006 From: Russ Kick <russ[at]mindpollen.com> Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 To: -- Subject: Scientology's mountain vault in NM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trementina_Base The Wikipedia article on the Scientology mountain vault in New Mexico has some fascinating info. Apparently the tract of land that contains the vault is now back in the hands of the government. The CoS now owns a nearby parcel of land (with the big symbol viewable from the air). It's a strange story - nothing is ever straightforward with the CoS. But the main point is that if the parcel with the vault is once again federal property, *a lot* more info should be available than if it were in private hands. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/26/AR2005112601065.html A Place in the Desert for New Mexico's Most Exclusive Circles By Richard Leiby Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 27, 2005 [Excerpt] From the state that gave us Roswell, the epicenter of UFO lore since 1947, comes a report from an Albuquerque TV station about its discovery of strange landscape markings in the remote desert. They're etched in New Mexico's barren northern reaches, resemble crop circles and are recognizable only from a high altitude. Also, they are directly connected to the Church of Scientology. The church tried to persuade station KRQE not to air its report last week about the aerial signposts marking a Scientology compound that includes a huge vault "built into a mountainside," the station said on its Web site. The tunnel was constructed to protect the works of L. Ron Hubbard, the late science-fiction writer who founded the church in the 1950s. The archiving project, which the church has acknowledged, includes engraving Hubbard's writings on stainless steel tablets and encasing them in titanium capsules. It is overseen by a Scientology corporation called the Church of Spiritual Technology. Based in Los Angeles, the corporation dispatched an official named Jane McNairn and an attorney to visit the TV station in an effort to squelch the story, KRQE news director Michelle Donaldson said. The church offered a tour of the underground facility if KRQE would kill the piece, the station said in its newscast. Scientology also called KRQE's owner, Emmis Communications, and "sought the help of a powerful New Mexican lawmaker" to lobby against airing the piece, the station reported on its Web site. Ground level photos: http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/1087803 The large (3MB) 2005 digital orthographic photo below is from the State of New Mexico: http://rgis.unm.edu/loader_div.cfm?new=true&theme=2005%20Digital%20Orthophotos For aerial photo of the CST site, located in Canon Olquin County, select under "Extents Search" the quarter-quad named: Canon Olguin, NM, SW Quarter http://rgisedac.unm.edu/cgi-bin/delivery.py?file=05_35104e58&collection=doqq05_ecw This generates a file for download as a Zipped file in ECW format of 16MB. A viewer  for ECW files, "Irfan View 3.98:" http://www.irfanview.com/ Get the program and the plug-in. Once opened in Irfan View the file can be saved in a variety of graphic formats.

Eyeballing the Scientology Bunker in New Mexico Reduced version of the large photo below.

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