US: A terrorist training base
Posted on 04. Mar, 2011 by Wayne Madsen in US
That specializes in car bombings
By Wayne Madsen
For some three decades, local residents near a top secret terrorist training base have reported on hearing explosions, seeing sudden flashes of light and night time flares, and noticing small planes and "black helicopters" arriving at and departing from a small airfield on the base. The airspace over the base is off-limits to unauthorized aircraft.
The base is not in Pakistan's restive Waziristan region or in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley but in northeastern North Carolina on Albemarle Sound, near the town of Hertford. Officially known as the Harvey Point Defense Testing Activity the base, which was once a Navy Supply Center, it actually serves as a paramilitary training course for the CIA and allied intelligence and paramilitary services, including Israel's Mossad and Britain's Special Air Services (SAS). On March 20, 1998, The New York Times reported that during its existence, Harvey Point trained 18,000 foreign intelligence operatives from 50 different countries.
Among those terrorists trained at Harvey Point were those who worked for the Chilean military junta of General Augusto Pinochet, El Salvador's death squad chief Roberto D'Aubisson, Egypt's General Intelligence Directorate, Katangan secessionist leader Moise Tshombe, Angola's UNITA guerrilla force, Colombian counter-insurgency personnel, Laotian anti-communist paramilitary forces, and Arab cadres who would later join Osama bin Laden's forces fighting against the Soviets in Afghanistan. One can only contemplate how such regulars and irregulars from the far-flung corners of the world reacted to eastern North Carolina cuisine, including the barbecued pork, hush puppies, and steamed crabs.
First used to train anti-Castro Cubans for the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1960, the base has seen Lebanese Phalangist militia train for the failed March 8, 1985, west Beirut car bombing assassination attempt against Lebanese Shi'a spiritual leader Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, who was also known to be a leading figure in Hezbollah. Although Fadlallah escaped assassination, the car packed with 440 pounds of dynamite leveled an apartment building and a movie theater, killing 80 innocent people, including women and children, and injuring some 300 others.
As the United Nations Special Tribunal for Lebanon stands ready to indict key members of Lebanese Hezbollah for the February 15, 2005, massive car bombing that took the life of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, it is noteworthy that it has been the CIA, along with its Lebanese allies and Mossad agents trained at Harvey Point who have specialized in the urban car bombing tactic used so often over the past several decades in Lebanon. And as WMR previously reported, it was these same elements — CIA, Mossad, and their Lebanese assets – that jointly carried out the Hariri car bombing assassination.
An article titled "CIA Missions Have Mysterious N.C. Roots" in the June 28, 1978; Virginia-Pilot and Ledger-Star reported that the Harvey Point base, described as an annex of the CIA training base at Camp Peary, Virginia, was being used to train CIA operatives in car bombings. The paper noted that every few days, Navy trucks hauled batches of new passenger vehicles into the base and every few days cars that were totally demolished were trucked out of the base. Some local residents described the vehicles: some had their hoods blown off while others were smashed flat.
In December 1999, a rumbling from the base, which lasted for up to five seconds, was so strong that thousands of people in the region believed it to be an earthquake. The US Geological Survey said it did not register any quakes in the region.
In 2009, the CIA conducted a security survey of the Elizabeth City water plant and found that security controls were lacking. The CIA pressed local officials to beef up security for the plant.
Former CIA operative Robert Baer wrote in his book, "See No Evil," that his two weeks of training at Point Harvey was, for all purposes, an "advanced terrorism course." Baer was trained in the use of plastic and other types of explosive materials. It is believed that former CIA and Chilean DINA intelligence agent Michael Townley, convicted in 1978 for the 1976 car bombing assassination in Washington, DC of former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier and his American assistant, Roni Moffitt. Townley became part of the federal witness protection program in 1978 after his conviction in the murder of Letelier. However, Townley was spotted in Stockholm in 1986 a week before the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.
After 9/11, CIA paramilitary operatives who were assigned to the agency's Special Activities Division (SAD) and deployed against the Taliban in Afghanistan were first trained at Harvey Point.
Northeast North Carolina: Center of global terrorist training activity and home to CIA's Harvey Point car bombing training facility and Xe (former Blackwater) false flag terror camp.
With the current controversy raging about the roles that acting CIA station chief in Pakistan Raymond Davis and suspected CIA agent Aaron DeHaven, both jailed in Pakistan — Davis for murder of two Pakistani nationals and DeHaven for visa violations — may have played in false flag terrorist attacks in Pakistan, there is an interesting footnote to Harvey Point. Just north of the CIA terrorist training facility, past Elizabeth City, lies the sprawling Moyock, North Carolina training facility of the company formerly called Blackwater and now known as Xe Services. Now known as the United States Training Center, the Moyock facility is on a former U.S. Navy installation that once hosted a U.S. Naval Security Group Activity listening station that was part of the National Security Agency's global signals intelligence eavesdropping network.
Harvey Point is used by Navy SEALS/Underwater Demolition Teams for training. Blackwater founder Erik Prince had served as a Navy SEAL and many of his early Blackwater employees were ex-SEALS. Their numbers were later supplemented by retired CIA officers. Navy SEALS/UDT and CIA teams trained at Harvey Point in the 1980s for the illegal planting of mines in Nicaraguan waters. In 1990, personnel trained at the base unsuccessfully attempted to capture Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar in the secret "POKEWEED" operation.
In 2008, the U.S. government used an eminent domain acquisition to procure the Moorman Pine tract adjacent to Harvey Point for use by the CIA base. The owners of the tract acquired the property in 2002 for a golf and residential project. The owners settled with the government for $5.8 million.
The operations of Harvey Point and Moyock appear to complement one another and jointly place a huge secretive CIA footprint in northeast North Carolina.
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Morbious
04. Mar, 2011
wheres the share button i used the follow button already
Lisa Brooks
04. Mar, 2011
On this website, you can see a photograph from the local paper of a big rig pulling the fuselage of a 727 to Harvey Point as recently as November 2010. I guess they teach them how to blow up civilian airliners too.
http://www.dailyadvance.com/news/big-rig-pulls-jet-fuselage-harvey-point-181734
Tommy Boy
06. Mar, 2011
OR, maybe they are used in counter plane hijacking exercises.
Lisa Brooks
12. Mar, 2011
Perhaps…but I doubt it. They weren't teaching counter plane hijacking exercises to the Mujahideen when they trained them at Harvey Point, and they weren't teaching counter plane hijacking to those right-wing Cuban terrorist exiles either when they trained at Harvey Point….so while it is a possibility, it is highly unlikely. Robert Baer himself said it is like an advanced terrorism course, so if anything, they teach them HOW to hijack a plane.
jeff
05. Mar, 2011
THE UNITED STATES IS STILL A BRITISH COLONY
EXTORTING TAXES FOR THE CROWN!
http://www.stopthepirates.blogspot.com
Brian Concannon
05. Mar, 2011
Type your comment here…the war on terror is bogus
its all manufactured terrorism
all the car bombings in Iraq, Afghanistan… that are used in areas like markets, shopping areas, mosques etc are Mossad, CIA… methods of dividing and conquering different sects or peoples against one another
zionism is a cancer upon humanity
MadsensBalls
05. Mar, 2011
This is not news, Mr. Madsen, and clearly not secret.
Lisa Brooks
12. Mar, 2011
Oh, how cute! One of the air force's sock puppets is on opinion-maker.
Debbie
05. Mar, 2011
The question which this article raises, assuming its implications that this is a "terrorist" training camp where car-bombers are trained, is; "If America does not participate in "terrorist' activities such as car and building bombings, then what need do they have for a training camp in those activities? Who do they train? And for what purposes?
It is interesting that if you look up Harvey Point on Google World you will find two rows of what appear to be earthen ordinance bunkers about two kilometers to the NW of the airstrip, notable by an oval shaped roadway surrounding them, and enclosed by a high fence.
That, in itself, is not an auspicious, suspicious or an informative feature… .
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Donald Scott
19. Mar, 2011
All of Wayne Madsen's articles are completly fake. I really hope he gets sued for slander so he can will be exposed for what he is.
Lisa Brooks
26. Mar, 2011
Donald Scott is either writing from the Occupied West Bank or he works at Harvey point and is angry that Wayne (like other journalists from that area) have written about it.
dick
21. Mar, 2011
As I suspect this was probably closer to being a bailout of connected developers during the early crumbling of the real estate market than property theft under the guise of eminent domain.
“In 2008, the U.S. government used an eminent domain acquisition to procure the Moorman Pine tract adjacent to Harvey Point for use by the CIA base. The owners of the tract acquired the property in 2002 for a golf and residential project. The owners settled with the government for $5.8 million.”
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Muhammad Qudrat Ullah Farooqi
04. May, 2011
Ameican are bloody, idiot and foolish people who have hijacked by Zionist. I hate USA because they cause world instability. F__k you idiot people. God will destroy you as Russia in near future. Inshaallah