KREMLIN ASTROLOGY


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The Truth

J. Adams
December 15th, 1995
Updated: June 15th, 1998


                     ***KREMLIN ASTROLOGY*** 

                  'Zodiac and the Cross of Nero; 
             How Astrology Guides Gorbachev's Russia' 

                "History is a capricious creature.
                  It depends on who writes it."

                        -Mikhail Gorbachev

    Astrology  was  originally  developed  in   ancient   Persia, 
especially by the Babylonians. King Zargon, for instance, had his 
scholars  compile  a  seventy-two  volume  astronomical  treatise 
called the "Illumination Of Bel (their god)", in which the end of 
the world is prophesized.  Astrology was important to  Babylonian 
Kings like Zargon because it was used for making important policy 
decisions like when and where to wage wars.  

    The  use  of  astrology  by  powerful  dictators  to make key 
decisions and time important moves did not stop  with  Babylonian 
Kings,  however.  It  is now widely recognized that Adolph Hitler 
used astrology to guide his important moves.  Hitler  shaped  his 
political moves and foreign policy decisions,  like the timing of 
military campaigns in waging the second world war,  according  to 
the  stars.  (See,  for instance,  Wilhwelm T.  Wulff's 'Zodiac & 
Swastika; How Astrology Guided Hitler's Germany', 1973).  

    Today the evil dictators and  conquerors  of  the  world  are 
again  relying  on astrology to guide their moves.  Specifically, 
*Gorbachev's* Russia (I believe Gorbachev is  still  the  leading 
figure behind the scenes in Moscow today),  Saddam Hussein's Iraq 
and the other authoritarian powers of the East are  likely  using 
the  stars  to  guide a multi-year plan to militarily destroy the 
West and thereby conquer the world. Thus, upon close examination, 
one finds that almost all of the key events in Russia, Iraq,  the 
former-Yugoslavia,  Chechnya,  so on and so forth,  over the past 
decade  have  coincided   with   significant,   relatively   rare 
astrological  configurations.  (Note  that  the leadership of the 
"opposing" factions in  places  like  the  former-Yugoslavia  and 
Chechnya  are  former Communist elite.  Thus,  no matter how much 
the opposite may appear to be the case,  they  are  still  likely 
receiving  their  orders  from the Kremlin.  That the Kremlin may 
control all sides  of  "staged"  conflicts  in  places  like  the 
Chechnya  was  revealed  by KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn in his 
books 'New Lies For Old' and 'The Perestroika Deception'.) 

    So that the use of astrology by the Kremlin and authoritarian 
powers of the  East  is  clear,  please  consider  the  following 
examples  of  where  key events coincided with significant,  rare 
astrological configurations: 


(Note  that  many  of  the  historical  developments in this list 
coincide with astrological configurations involving  Mars  and/or 
Pluto.  The  reason  this  is  likely  so  is because Mars is the 
planet of war and Pluto is the planet of  nuclear  energy.  Since 
what's  unfolding  appears to be a multi-year plan being executed 
by Russia in order to eventually wage a successful nuclear  third 
world war, it makes sense that the Kremlin, in using astrology to 
shape   history,   would   focus  in  on  significant  Mars-Pluto 
astrological configurations.) 


1. *April 24th, 1986: Total eclipse of the Moon conjunct Pluto. 

The following evening the Chernobyl disaster, which was likely no 
accident but rather a sick experiment  to  garner  knowledge  for 
fighting a nuclear war, occurred in the Ukraine.  

Notably  this  configuration  involved  the planet Pluto which is 
supposed to represent explosive  events  and  nuclear  technology 
("Pluto" is the root of the world "pluto"nium).  


2. *July 22nd, 1990: Total solar eclipse. 

Marked  when Iraq began massing forces on the Kuwaiti border just 
prior to the 1990 invasion.  


3.  *August 2nd thru 7th,  1990:  Lunar eclipse squares Mars  and 
Pluto.  

In  the  Market  Watch  section  of the July 16th,  1990 issue of 
'Barron's',  there is an excerpt from the newsletter of financial 
astrologer Arch Crawford. It reads in part: 

"...Aug.  6  (Lunar  Eclipse  squares Mars + Pluto).  Expect some 
major catastrophe on  that  last  one,  Aug.  2-7,  as  something 
explodes in a big way...  Astronomically similar to the Chernobyl 
disaster..." 

On August 2nd, Iraq invaded Kuwait precipitating the Persian Gulf 
crisis.  


4.   *January  15th,  1991:  Solar  eclipse  with  rare  6-planet 
alignment  in Capricorn (note:  in astrology the Sun and Moon are 
considered planets).  

January 15th, 1991 was the U.N.  deadline for Iraq to pull-out of 
Kuwait before the allied attack a day later- the beginning of the 
Gulf War.  

According  to  an  ancient  Babylonian  prophecy,  "when  all the 
planets meet in Capricorn the world will be destroyed  by  fire". 
In  January  of  1991,   there  was  a  six-planet  alignment  in 
Capricorn, and Venus,  Jupiter and Pluto were heavily aspected in 
Capricorn  and  in  tension  with  each  other.  Thus,  from  the 
perspective  of  someone in Iraq and the site of ancient Babylon, 
their  "world  was  destroyed  by  fire"  as  forecast  in   this 
astrological  prophecy  (see  Moira Timms' 'Beyond Prophecies and 
Predictions', pp.206 & 209).  


5.  *June 26th, 1991:  Lunar eclipse of lunar/solar eclipse pair. 
Also,  Pluto was squared (90-degree angle)  by  an  alignment  of 
Venus, Mars and Jupiter.  

Marked the beginning of the civil war in Yugoslavia.  


6. *August 19th, 1991: Alignment of Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and 
Jupiter in the zodiac sign of Leo.  

A failed coup attempt by communist hardliners is staged in Moscow 
which  supposedly brings an end to the Communist Party and Soviet 
Union.  


7. *December 21st, 1991: Lunar eclipse on the winter solstice. 

The Soviet flag comes down and the Russian flag  is  raised  over 
the Kremlin as the Soviet Union is officially disbanded.  

A  few  days  after  this,  on Christmas day (?!),  Soviet leader 
Mikhail Gorbachev resigned.  


8.  *June 30th, 1992:  Solar eclipse of lunar/solar eclipse pair. 
This  eclipse  was  aligned  with  Venus,  Uranus and Neptune and 
sextiled (60-degree angle) Mars and Jupiter.  

First  U.N.   forces  arrive  in  Sarajevo  as  Western  military 
intervention in the former-Yugoslavia begins.  


9.  *October  4th,  1993:  Pluto conjunct Moon squares (90-degree 
angle) Saturn and trines (120-degree  angle)  Venus,  Uranus  and 
Neptune.  

Political  chaos  erupts  in  Moscow  following Russian President 
Boris Yeltsin's disbanding of the former-Soviet parliament.  


10.  *December 13th, 1993: Alignment of Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus 
and Mars in Sagitarrius.  

Communists  and  Nationalists win the elections for a new Russian 
parliament. Of particular surprise is the success of the "Liberal 
Democratic Party" (?!) led by  Hitler-like  nationalist  Vladimir 
Zhirinovsky.  


11. *January 12th, 1994: Rare seven-planet alignment in Capricorn 
(five planets and the sun and moon).  Tightest alignment of seven 
planets in 300 years.  

U.S./Russia summit at which the superpowers sign an agreement  to 
no longer target each other with nuclear weapons.  

Alignment also coincides with increased Serb shelling of Sarajevo 
and  a  NATO  summit meeting at which the Western allies agree to 
use force in the former-Yugoslavia. Within a month the first NATO 
ultimatum was issued for the withdrawal of  Serb  heavy  weaponry 
from around a Sarajevan "safe-zone".  


12.  *November 18th,  1994:  Lunar eclipse of solar/lunar eclipse 
pair.  Eclipse is aligned with Pluto and  Jupiter,  squares  (90-
degree  angle)  Mars  and  trines  (120-degree  angle) Uranus and 
Neptune.  

Croatian Serb warplanes bomb the U.N.-protected Bihac enclave  in 
violation  of  a  NATO-enforced  "no-fly zone".  NATO responds by 
bombing Serb positions.  This is the first major use of  military 
force  against  the  Serbs by NATO in the Balkan conflict and the 
first offensive military action ever taken by NATO in the 45-year 
history of the Alliance.  


13.  *December 11th,  1994:  Mars squares conjunction of Pluto  & 
Jupiter.  

Russia invades the breakaway republic of Chechnya.  


14. *April 29th, 1995: Solar eclipse of lunar/solar eclipse pair. 
Eclipse squares Neptune and Uranus.  

Croatian  Serb warplanes bomb the U.N.-protected Bihac enclave in 
Bosnia in violation of a NATO enforced "no-fly zone" once  again. 
The  Balkan  war  heats-up as a five-month cease-fire comes to an 
end.  

(Notably,  this  was the first eclipse pair subsquent to the pair 
in November of 1994 which marked the  only  other  time  Croatian 
Serb  warplanes  bombed  Bihac-  both  before and since;  blatant 
evidence that Serb military action  is  timed  according  to  the 
stars.) 


15.  *June 14th, 1995:  Mars squares alignment of Mercury,  Venus 
and Jupiter.  

Similar  to  configuration  on  December  11th,  1994 when Russia 
invaded Chechnya.  This time,  a large group  of  Chechen  rebels 
attack  a  town  in  southern  Russia  and  take  several hundred 
patients hostage at a hospital.  The incident ends violently with 
hundreds of Russians killed.  


16.  *July 12th, 1995: Alignment of Sun, Moon, Neptune and Uranus 
trines (120-degree angle) Mars  and  sextiles  (60-degree  angle) 
Saturn and Pluto.  

Russian President Boris Yeltsin reportedly suffers a heart attack 
while  Bosnian  Serb forces overrun the U.N.-protected enclave of 
Srebrenica.  


17.  *October 24th,  1995:  Mars and Pluto conjunct  total  solar 
eclipse.  

Russian  President Boris Yetsin reportedly suffers a second heart 
attack.  


18.  *November 22nd,  1995:  7-planet  alignment  of  Sun,  Moon, 
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Pluto in Sagitarrius.  

Serbs  do  a  total  about-face  and reach a peace agreement with 
Bosnian and Croatian representatives at peace  talks  in  Dayton, 
Ohio.  Some  60,000  NATO  troops  start heading into the former-
Yugoslavia to take over the peace-keeping mission from the United 
Nations.  


19.  *December 21st/22nd,  1995:  Clustering of all planets in or 
near Capricorn around the time of the winter solstice.  

Communists and nationalist win Russian parliamentary elections.  


20.  *January 15th,  1996:  Moon squares alignment of Earth, Sun, 
Mercury, Mars and Uranus.  

Russian forces storm Chechen rebels holding hostages in  southern 
Russia.  


21.  *February 26th, 1996:  Sun conjunct Mars T-squares Pluto and 
the moon, which are in opposition (180 degrees apart).  

Configuration is similar to the one that marked when Iraq invaded 
Kuwait in August of 1990.  Notably,  February 26th  is  also  the 
fifth  anniversary  of  Kuwait's liberation from Iraqi occupation 
and the end of the Gulf War.  

Wave of terrorist bombings against Israel occur starting February 
25th leading to large-scale "Grapes of  Wrath"  Israeli  military 
action  in Lebanon- the largest such Israeli operation in Lebanon 
since Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon.  


22.  *April  3rd,  1996:  Total  lunar  eclipse conjunct Mars and 
squared by Jupiter.  

North Korea pulls out  of  the  Korean  War  Armistice  and  then 
carries  out  a  series  of  provocative  armed incursions in the 
Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas.  


23.  *June 16th, 1996:  6-planet alignment of Sun, Moon, Mercury, 
Venus, Mars and Pluto near summer solstice.  

Russian  presidential  elections  take  place  with a virtual tie 
between the Communist candidate  and  Boris  Yeltsin.  To  insure 
victory in the run-off election, Yeltsin appoints the third place 
candidate- the hardline, former Russian general, Alexander Lebed- 
to be his new Security Chief.  


24.  *June 30th,  1996:  A full "bluemoon" is opposed by Jupiter, 
the planet of leaders, and squared by Saturn, the planet of fate.  

The "fate" of the Russian  "leader",  Boris  Yeltsin,  becomes  a 
concern  as  the  Russian  president disappears from public view, 
supposedly due to failing health,  going into the run-off Russian 
presidential election he reportedly wins on July 3rd. Later it is 
revealed  that  Yeltsin  supposedly suffered a major heart attack 
around this time.  


25.  *September 26th,  1996:  Total lunar  eclipse  of  the  moon 
conjunct Saturn,  the planet of fate as well as the planet of the 
Jewish people, and squared by Jupiter, the planet of leaders.  

The fate of Russian leader Boris Yeltsin is placed in jeapordy as 
he undergoes heart bypass surgery.  

Meanwhile, the fate of the Jewish people is placed in jeapordy as 
the worst bloodshed in  the  Occupied  Territories  since  Israel 
overran them in 1967 erupts.  


26.  *February 26, 1998: Total solar eclipse conjunct Jupiter and 
Mercury and squared by Pluto.  

Serb forces began violent crackdown against  Albanian  rebels  in 
Kosovo,  called the Kosovo Liberation Army,  seeking independence 
for the 90% Albanian population in the Yugoslavian province.  The 
Serb crackdown is internationally condemned since a civil war  in 
Kosovo  could  spill-over  into Albania and Macedonia and thereby 
draw in other major powers like Greece and Turkey and  set-off  a 
major regional war.  


27.  *May 25th, 1998:  New Moon Conjunct Mars opposed to Pluto.

After Serbian military reinforcements build-up in Kosovo, another 
violent crackdown against Albanian rebels gets underway.  


28.  *June 4th, 1998:  Conjunction of Mercury and Mars opposed by 
Pluto.  

Months  prior  to this astrological configuration,  the AstroEcon 
web  site  (http://www.astroecon.com)  presented  the   following 
forecast for this astrological configuration: 

           June 4, 1998:  Mercury  Mars  conjunct  and 
           opposed  to  Pluto.   Nasty,   panic  prone 
           energy. War News. 

Around  this  date,  Serb forces escalate their offensive against 
the   Kosovo   Liberation   Army   including   air-attacks    and 
indiscriminate shelling of Albanian villages.  Dozens of innocent 
Albanians  are  killed  and  entire  villages  are  razed causing 
thousands of Albanian refugees to flee  Kosovo  for  Albania  and 
Macedonia.  Serbia  is  internationally  condemned and accused of 
engaging in ethnic cleansing like occurred in Bosnia during prior 
years.  

In  response  to  the  new Serbian military aggression in Kosovo, 
NATO ministers  meet  and  order  initmidating  air-exercises  in 
Albania  and Macedonia as well as accelerated contigency planning 
for NATO military intervention in Kosovo in order to contain  the 
escalating violence.  


                           -Conclusion- 

    The twenty-eight developments above might be key steps  in  a 
multi-year  plan  (at  the  least) the Kremlin is carrying-out to 
shape history toward a surprise third world war against the West.  

       See the "Global War Articles" (in need of updating)-

         http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~jpa94001/content.html

    Chernobyl was likely some sort of sick experiment  to  garner 
knowledge and do applied tests of skills and technology necessary 
to fight a nuclear war.  

           http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~jpa94001/j46.html

    Iraq's  invasion  of  Kuwait  and the Gulf War were part of a 
Persian Gulf deception meant to  give  the  West  an  exagerrated 
sense  of military superiority over the East and probably also to 
give Saddam a martyr role in  the  Arab  world  so  that  he  may 
eventually start a "jihad",  or holy war,  against Israel and the 
West.

                See "The Persian Gulf Deception"-

           http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~jpa94001/j06.html
           http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~jpa94001/j07.html
           http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~jpa94001/j08.html

    The civil war in the former-Yugoslavia and,  in particularly, 
the  new  bloodshed  in  Kosovo  is  to draw NATO and the Western 
powers into a war against the Serbs,  Russia's orthodox christian 
ally-of-old,  to create a pretext for a right-wing coup in Moscow 
and a Russian "jihad" against America and the West.  

                      See "The Balkan Trap"-

           http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~jpa94001/j09.html
  
    Russia's seemingly bungled military intervention in  Chechnya 
and   the   victory   of   nationalists   in  the  December  1993 
parliamentary elections have helped to set the stage for a  bogus 
right-wing coup in Moscow.  

                See "The Zhirinovsky Connection"-

           http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~jpa94001/j05.html

    Lastly,  all of the above developments and the emergence of a 
*false* global peace have opened the way for a successful Russian 
surprise attack against the West.  

                       See "The Truth" at-

           http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~jpa94001/j03.html 

    Unfortunately, as long as people don't accept the truth,  the 
ruling   elite   in   Moscow   will   continue  to  pursue  their 
premeditated,  ultimate crime against  humanity.  Even  with  the 
incriminating evidence from astrology to see the crime unfolding, 
as long as there is no collective effort to expose this literally 
satanic  manipulation of world history,  the lie will succeed and 
the antichrist shall prevail.  

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       "War to the hilt between communism and capitalism is
    inevitable. Today, of course, we are not strong enough to
   attack. Our time will come in thirty or forty years. To win,
  we shall need the element of surprise. The Western world will
   need to be put to sleep. So we shall begin by launching the
    most spectacular peace movement on record. There shall be
      electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The
    capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to
  cooperate to their own destruction. They will leap at another
  chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we shall
               smash them with our clenched fist."

                     (Dmitrii Z. Manuilskii)
        (Lenin School of Political Warfare, Moscow, 1931)

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                  SOME INTRIGUING GORBY QUOTES:
  
           (Note that Gorbachev supposedly "resigned"
                   on Christmas Day of 1991.)

   On Friday,  October  25,  1996  ABC  television  commentator
   Charles   Gibson   asked  Mikhail  Gorbachev  the  following
   question during an interview:

      "It is an interesting paradox to  so  many  Americans-
      you   are   so   honored   throughout  the  world  for
      fundamental changes,  but,  I don't have to recite the
      election results to you,  in the last election you got
      a very  small,  tiny  percent  of  the  vote.  Why  is
      Gorbachev  seen  so  differently  outside  Russia  and
      inside Russia?"

   This was Gorbachev's response:

      "Well, let's recall another example.  Jesus Christ was
      pelted with stones.  He was blamed and condemned,  and
      then he was put with a bandit and they were taken  for
      execution. And when it was said that one of them could
      be spared, the people said the bandit should be spared
      and Christ was crucified."


   Here are some more recent quotes from Mr. Gorbachev:

    "Communist  ideology  in  its  pure  form  is  akin   to
    Christianity.  Its main ideas are the brotherhood of all
    peoples  irrespective of their nationality,  justice and
    equality,  peace,  and an end to all  hostility  between
    peoples."

              (from Gorbachev's new book- 'Memoirs')

    "The  socialist  tradition....goes back to Jesus Christ,
    not (Karl) Marx."

                 (USA Today, October 28th, 1996)

    "Jesus Christ,  he was also a reformer.  He  was  pelted
    with stones and insulted."

               (New York Times, October 25th, 1996)

   The  excerpt below is from Reuters World Service,  December 8,
   1996, Sunday, BC cycle:

   HEADLINE:  FEATURE - "Vital Gorbachev refuses  to  let  go  of
   politics"

    (Gorbachev) is frank,  though hardly contrite,  about the
    failures  of  judgement that led him to promote to senior
    positions the very men who would plot to overthrow him in
    1991.

    "How  do  you  explain Judas -- right there next to Jesus
    Christ?" he asks.  "How do you explain that?  And  Christ
    did  not  recognise  him  for what he was.  You could say
    that's a metaphor."

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          "Moscow Builds Bunkers Against Nuclear Attack"

                          By Bill Gertz
                         April 1st, 1997
                       THE WASHINGTON TIMES 

    Russia is continuing a Cold War-era  program  to  build  deep 
underground  bunkers,  subways and command posts to help Moscow's 
leaders flee the  capital  and  survive  a  nuclear  attack,  The 
Washington Times has learned.  

    Among  the  ambitious  projects:  a secret subway being built 
directly to the residence  of  Russian  President  Boris  Yeltsin 
outside Moscow.  

    "The  underground construction appears larger than previously 
assessed," a CIA report labeled "top secret" reported  two  weeks 
ago.  

    "Three  decrees  last year on an emergency planning authority 
under Yeltsin with oversight of underground facility construction 
suggest that the  purpose  of  the  Moscow-area  projects  is  to 
maintain continuity of leadership during nuclear war." 

    A  copy  of  the  report was obtained by The Washington Times 
from defense sources. A CIA spokesman declined to comment.  

    Disclosure of  the  secret  multibillion-dollar  construction 
program comes less than two weeks after President Clinton and Mr.  
Yeltsin  agreed  in  Helsinki  to extend the deadline for nuclear 
arms cuts under the START II treaty because of  Russian  concerns 
over "dismantlement costs." 

    U.S.   officials  said  the  Russian  spending  on  strategic 
defenses,  coupled with  ongoing  procurement  of  new  strategic 
missiles  and submarines,  raises questions about Moscow's claims 
not to have funds needed to carry out START II reductions.  

    The outlays also raise new worries among some U.S.  officials 
about whether U.S.  aid to Russia is allowing Moscow to spend its 
money on building new strategic forces and facilities.  

    "How can the United States be so gullible to  accept  Russian 
claims  that  it  doesn't  have the money to comply with START II 
when it's made the decision to modernize  its  forces  and  build 
these underground facilities?" asked one U.S.  government defense 
official.  

    According to the CIA report,  construction work is continuing 
on  a  "nuclear-survivable,  strategic  command post at Kosvinsky 
Mountain," located deep in the Ural  Mountains  about  850  miles 
west of Moscow.  Satellite photographs of Yamantau Mountain, also 
located about 850 miles west of Moscow in the Urals near the town 
of Beloretsk,  show continued digging at  the  "deep  underground 
complex"  and new construction at each of the site's above-ground 
support areas,  the CIA stated.  Yamantau  Mountain  means  "Evil 
Mountain" in the local Bashkir langauge.  

    "The  command  post  at  Kosvinsky  appears  to  provide  the 
Russians with the means to retaliate against a  nuclear  attack," 
the  CIA report said.  "The rationale for the Yamantau complex is 
unclear." 

    According to the CIA report,  the Russians  are  building  or 
renovating  four  complexes  within  Moscow that would be used to 
house senior Russian government leaders during a nuclear strike.  

    A map published in the report showed new subway  construction 
under  way  from Victory Park Station in Moscow to Mr.  Yeltsin's 
dacha,  some 13 miles west of the Kremlin and  about  four  miles 
from the Moscow Ring Road.  

    Additionally, the CIA report stated that a bunker for Russian 
leaders  at Voronovo,  about 46 miles south of Moscow,  is nearly 
complete.  A second bunker located at Sharapovo,  some  34  miles 
from Moscow, has a special underground subway running directly to 
it.  

    The  subway  system  for  Russian  leaders  allows for "rapid 
evacuation of leaders during wartime from Moscow," the CIA  said. 
Presumably, the leadership would then be flown to the Yamantau or 
Kosvinsky  complexes.  According to the report,  Mr.  Yeltsin and 
Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin endorsed the  construction  of 
the  bunkers,  subways  and  command  posts,  and funding for the 
Yamantau facility was listed for the first time this year in  the 
Russian federal budget.  

    Peter  Pry,  a former CIA analyst and author of a new book on 
Russian nuclear operations,  said the continued  construction  of 
the  Russian  strategic  defense  sites  is ominous and cannot be 
dismissed by  U.S.  officials  as  "inertia"  from  Cold  War-era 
strategic policies.  

    "It  shows  they  take the threat of nuclear war so seriously 
that they're willing to spend scarce resources on  it,"  Mr.  Pry 
said, adding that he was not familiar with the CIA report. "These 
things are tying down billions of dollars in rubles that could go 
into   other  enterprises  the  Russians  need  --  for  example, 
providing housing for Russian military officers." 

    Mr.  Pry said  Russian  press  reports  say  the  underground 
facility  at  Yamantau  Mountain  covers  an area as large as the 
Capital Beltway.  The Clinton administration has  been  providing 
hundreds  of  millions  of dollars in U.S.  aid to Russia to help 
Moscow dismantle its nuclear arsenal.  

    Despite the aid,  the CIA report shows that the Russians  are 
building  both  defensive  and offensive strategic facilities and 
weapons, including a new type of long-range strategic missile and 
a new strategic missile submarine.  

    Russian Defense Minister Igor Rodionov said in February  that 
both  the reliability and control of Russian nuclear weapons were 
in question because of the deterioration of the armed forces, but 
Pentagon officials have dismissed the statements as posturing  by 
Mr. Rodionov in a bid to boost his budget.  

    Mr. Pry said the Russian construction program also shows that 
Russian  leaders  do  not  see  a  diminished  threat  of nuclear 
conflict.  "This is a manifestation of  the  Russians'  continued 
war-fighting attitudes," Mr.  Pry said. "They believe in the idea 
that you can survive and prevail in  a  nuclear  conflict.  These 
kinds  of  facilities  are  designed  to  survive  for  weeks and 
months." 

    By contrast,  U.S.  nuclear protective facilities  have  been 
largely  shut down.  The complex underneath the Greenbriar resort 
in  Virginia  was  abandoned,  along  with  another  facility  in 
Virginia known as Mount Weather, U.S. officials have said.  

    The main nuclear command facility now in existence is located 
inside  Cheyenne  Mountain,  Colo.,  but  it was only designed to 
withstand small nuclear blasts and would easily be knocked out in 
a large Russian missile attack.  

    By contrast,  there are no nuclear weapons currently  in  the 
U.S.  arsenal  capable  of  damaging  the  new  Russian strategic 
defense facilities.  

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