CIA Releases New 'Noah's Ark' Documents

Insight Mag ^ | Nov. 13, 2002 | Timothy W. Maier

[Ready2go]

CIA Releases New 'Noah's Ark' Documents Posted Nov. 13, 2002 By Timothy W. Maier

Is it the Ark, or just a piece of rock?

Two years after Insight filed an appeal charging that the CIA withheld documents and imagery concerning the Mount Ararat anomaly in Turkey, the CIA has released two new documents to Insight that indicate the search for "Noah's Ark" reached the level of the White House under former president George H.W. Bush.

The appeal, filed one month after Insight's exclusive story (see "Anomaly or Noah's Ark?"; Nov. 20, 2000), comes on the heels of the CIA's releasing thousands of satellite images, which soon will be available at National Imagery and Mapping Agency Website. It is unclear whether images of Mount Ararat will be included. Insight's exclusive story marked the first time the public was able to see high-resolution photographs of the anomaly, located at 39 degrees 42 minutes north latitude and 44 degrees 16 minutes east longitude. Insight contracted with Space Imaging to maneuver its IKONOS satellite to zoom in on the anomaly. Afterwards, Insight hired a team of scientists and engineers to examine the pictures and to deterimine whether the object in question was man-made or rock. Four of the experts claim it's man-made, two believe it's rock and one says the evidence is inconclusive.

Unfortunately, the release of the additional records does not offer any more proof of what the object might be, but only raises more questions as to why the CIA continues to hold such records as classified.

One of the records released is a 1995 memo from an agent who had a coversation with John Hanford, then a member of Sen. Richard Lugar's (R-Ind.) staff. Hanford apparently recalled a White House meeting under the George H.W. Bush administration in which Robert Gates, then National Security director, showed one of the old images of the Mount Ararat area to various people at the meeting. "Mr. Hanford said that imagery showed something sticking out from the ice and snow — but that it could have been almost anything."

The memo was triggered by a newspaper article that suggested Mount Ararat imagery might be made public under former president Bill Clinton's decision to release historical documents. The CIA agent says in the memo that such imagery "might or might not be included in the declassified materials."

The other record concerned a review the George H.W. Bush administration conducted between 1990 and 1992 concerning Mount Ararat. The record was in response to former CIA director James Woolsey's requesting what it might cost to undertake a more exhaustive review of all the material. At the time, the price was considered too high to do such a search. Woolsey was told it would take an analyst six months to complete such a study. It appears that study never was completed.

Insight still may receive additional records. The CIA has asked other agencies to review specific records for possible release in the near future. In the meantime, Insight is reviewing its options on whether to pursue in federal court images taken by the CIA with its KH-9 remote-sensing satellite in 1973 and its KH-11 satellite in 1976, 1990 and 1992.

Timothy Maier is a writer for Insight. email the author

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[VaBthang4]

"It's a mess and always will be...No doubt about that."

I completely disagree. Soon....it will be straightened out.

"But like I said, if they had fought-it-out a couple of hundred years ago (Or more) and someone had established boundaries"

Boundaries were established....by God himself. The Jews and observant Christians acknowledge it...the unbelieving World doesnt.

"But then again, just the presence of the three major religions (Not to mention all the others who call Jerusalem home) pretty much assures conflict...Forever."

Just off of that alone [3 major religions] would in the natural cause me to think it wouldnt last forever. Christians and Jews believe the same thing where this subject is concerned. Islam is the Johnny Come Lately outcast...it remains in Israel under the grace of the other two.

[Johnny Shear]

Boundaries were established....by God himself.

Islam is the Johnny Come Lately outcast...

And there's the problem...

You bash Islam...Muslims bash you...You all believe you have God on your side, and the rest of the world pays for it.

It's too bad we can't just put you all on an island and let you fight it out, and then let God sort that out. The rest of us sure would be spared a lot of greif.

[VaBthang4]

"You all believe you have God on your side, and the rest of the world pays for it."

It is the story of life....if you havent gotten over it by now then you wont. flight-of-fancy daydreaming about it wastes everyone's time.

Ex: "It's too bad we can't just put you all on an island and let you fight it out..."

"and then let God sort that out."

Implies God isnt already doing that.

"The rest of us sure would be spared a lot of greif."

The rest of the world is the minority when it comes to belief systems versus athiest, excuse makers or the iniquity types [Actually all three are one]. I'd rather choose a side and get in the fight versus critique it from the sidelines.

:o)

[usurper]

I would not waist my time on Whitney again. I did it 10 years ago. We departed from the west side of the Sierras at Mineral King and trekked through the upper Kern River area which featured a welcome hot spring. We hiked up the back side (West) of Whitney spent the night on the summit and then came down east side. It was a nice trip but the mountain and the hordes of people were a disappointment.

I recently said go by to California and moved to the northwest. I have not had time to do any climbing but the skiing and golf is magnificent. I was recently in Oroville, WA during the salmon run and could not believe the size of the fish. They looked like baby dolphins. Next year I am going to mercilessly pursue them.

Take care and pray for snow.

[RetiredArmy]

Send Dr.Jones to look for it in Part 4 of Indiana Jones, Search for the missing PT 109. Oh, that is a different vessel isn't it.

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

Wow. Religious fundamentalists seem determined to make themselves look foolish. Dinosaurs on the Ark; the entire globe covered in water. Yawn.

Anyway, who says this is Noah's Ark? I say it's Utnapishtim's Ark, as testified by the epic of Gilgamesh, which predates the Bible by a few thousand years. The "Old Testament" Bible is just a collection of old Babylonian and Sumerian myths collected by Jewish scholars during the period of Persian rule, reinterpreted by them under the then newfangled "monotheism" (or dualism) of the then new and dominant "revealed" religion of Zoroaster. Judaism as we know it is old Israelite polytheism reinterpreted with ideas copied from the Zoroastrians, and later from Greek philosophy. Nothing original here. Time to move on.

[Lady Heron]

?Approximately 99 percent of scientists accept the theory of evolution. They don't "believe" in it or have "faith" in it, they support it because of all the evidence in its favor.

Sorry, I have studied the so-called evidence in favor of evolution. Not much there. Mostly made up or later proven wrong. Much more evidence against evolution.

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

This article reads like a fund raising pamphlet aimed at gullible fundamentalist Christians (but I repeat myself). Someone is going to make a mint huckstering expeditions to find "Noah's Ark" which will somehow never produce anything except more appeals for more funding.

G.K. Chesterton got it completely backwards: those who believe in some things will believe in almost anything, provided it reinforces their belief. Tertullian's "I believe it because it is absurd" hits closer to the mark.

[DoctorMichael]

..........hordes of people were a disappointment...........

I had heard one of the worst parts about the Whitney hike was the numbers of people...............also this was why all my trips were from the East. Its kind of ironically ridiculous to be standing in line with 50 other people at a Ranger Station trying to get a permit for a trailhead so that you can get-away-from-it-all and get some peace and quiet. >>>>LOL<<<<

Thats why for the last couple of years I have spent my precious vacation time in Montana. Lo population, hard to get to and out of the way, and lots of mountains. Hey, if 'ol Ted "The Unabomber" Kazinski can disappear there, you can too!

Try the Beartooths, you'll thank me later ;-) I wish I could get my buddy who lives in Helena to do Granite Peak (down the East end of the Beartooth Wilderness), but he's got a wife and kids to worry about and is definitely NOT young and stupid anymore.

[RipSawyer]

I decided long ago that it is an endless thought maze. People will say that God suspended all sorts of natural laws to allow the story of the Ark to be true but if that is the case why an Ark at all? Why a flood at all? Why didn’t God just destroy all the evil ones with a wave of his finger and leave the ones he wanted to save? Why drown millions of innocent animals that were not on the Ark to get rid of evil humans? There are no real answers. Children are taught that God created man in his own image but much of the old testament attributes very human emotions, anger, jealousy etc. to the creator who is supposed to be the only perfect being. How can a perfect creator be a jealous god?

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 11/21/2002. Thanks Ready2go.

[xzins]

However, what in the world could possibly cause those records still to be classified? Cause them ever to have been classified?

[Little Ray]

All you need to know is the novel “Declare” by Tim Powers!

http://smile.amazon.com/Declare-Novel-Tim-Powers/dp/0062221388/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1433116008&sr=8-1&keywords=Declare

[Nowhere Man]

There also is a story related by some spanish explorers. They landed at a previously uncharted island and discovered a tribe of people living there that had a markedly "Norse" look to them. Blonde Hair, fair skin, blue eyes. (Not sure of the exact details). This group of people spoke a dialect that the spanish had never heard before. These tribesmen made it clear to the Spanish that they were quite surprised to see other men, as their legends and history spoke of a great deluge that wiped out the entire population of the earth except for them. Unfortunately the Spanish ended up wiping this tribe from the face of the earth. Not sure where the island is but it's one of the more commonly known islands in the Caribbean today.

I think it was the Canary Islands IIRC. My paternal grandmother was interested in a lot of paranormal stories, UFO's, "forbidden history," and so on. I do remember reading about it in one of her magazines or books when I was a kid. She was a member of the Edgar Cayce Society. My other grandmother was interested in things like this too, she was big into the ancient Egyptians, astronomy and so forth.

I know when I was little, I was slow in developing social skills but very interested in science where Mom and both grandmothers fostered my interests in space, astronomy, paranormal, shortwave listening and police scanning which today I have an amateur radio license. I was tested as a kid and was on the autism spectrum, most likely if tested today, I would have Aspergers.

Getting back to the subject at hand, I always thought the Great Food might have been responsible for things like the North Sea covering Doggerland off of The UK and Netherlands along with the strait connecting Florida to Cuba perhaps. Had history stayed the same (most likely not but for sake of argument) WWII would have proven interesting with Doggerland, doubly so if it remained connected to Europe and the Cuban Missile Crisis if Cuba was still hooked to Florida.

[Nowhere Man]

You have failed to properly recognize that PUGS make up an entire species of their own,

Only because the other dogs refuse to breed with them...

Well, one of my friends had a dog who was half pug and half terrier mutt although from the looks, he looked all pug to me. Genetics is fascinating.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I just want to know what’s there. The Turks are making it very hard to find out. Eh?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“If God wanted to fit the planet Jupiter in the watch pocket of my blue jeans, He could do it.”

You’d walk with a serious list!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“he dogs evolved from cats doncha know? “

I think you mean “devolved” from cats.