HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: Beyond the X-Files
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Richard Sauder, Ph.D.
Richard Sauder has been researching the mysterious topic of secret underground and underwater bases and tunnels since 1992. He is the author of four previous books on these and other topics. Dr. Sauder holds degrees in sociology, political science, Latin American studies, and forestry. He is a native Virginian who has lived in many American States within the Mid-Atlantic region, the South, and the Southwest. He lives in Quito, Ecuador.
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HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT - Richard Sauder, Ph.D.
2020
Chapter 1:
How Far Down
Nazi Engineers, Secret U.S. Military Bases, and Elevators To The Subterranean and Submarine Depths
In the preliminary stages of my research in the early 1990s, I had no informed idea of how deep below the surface underground bases could reach. By chance I had gone to hear a public talk by a man I did not know, on a topic that had nothing whatsoever to do with underground bases. However, during the talk he unexpectedly made an offhand comment that caused me to think that he knew something about secret underground facilities. A few days later, I telephoned him and asked if I could come by his office to speak with him. He consented to give me a little of his time, so I went by and asked him some questions, including about a specific location where I believed there was a secret underground base. He verified that there was a base there and told me that it was one mile deep.
At the time, that seemed improbably deep to me. I now understand, however, that it is well within the state of the art of the underground excavation and construction industries to build facilities one mile deep. In fact, facilities can be even deeper than that. Other information that has since been given to me has raised the question of facilities possibly as deep as 12 to 14 miles. Frankly, I do not know what the technological limits are in the super-secret, black budget realm of compartmentalized programs.
But I can make some fairly well educated deductions based on what I have been told and information gleaned from the open engineering and industrial literature. At a minimum, my investigation suggests that depths up to three miles are feasible, and that conclusion is based on a careful reading of the open scientific, mining and civil engineering literature. At one time I considered greater depths than that as unattainable, but no longer. While I don’t know the limitations of the technology in the clandestine realm, based on everything I have heard over the years, it must surpass the limits found in the open technical literature. It could be that with classified improvements in materials science and mining engineering that bases can be sited many miles beneath the surface of the land or the seafloor. Frankly, I now surmise that we are dealing with a science-fiction-like reality that has been held back from public knowledge.
In that regard, it is clear to me that there are power structures on this planet that closely interface with, and yet remain separate from, the official power establishment of any nation as publicly presented in the mainstream news media. The sum total of all the many years of reading and research I have done, coupled with the myriad conversations I have had with an extremely eclectic selection of individuals, even raises the question as to whether some control structures and agencies for this planet may possibly extend off-planet. But even if that is not the case, we are certainly dealing at the least with trillions of dollars of off-the-books money, very advanced technology, an incredible infrastructure of secrecy, thousands and thousands of people who are in the know but say little or nothing about what they know, all of which revolves around projects of tremendous scope and complexity, carried out over a long period of time, and about which there is almost zero public knowledge.
It is unknown how many secret underground bases there are, but they surely do exist, there is no question of that. In 1987, Lloyd A. Duscha, the then-Deputy Director of Engineering and Construction for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, gave a talk at an engineering conference entitled Underground Facilities for Defense – Experience and Lessons.
In the first paragraph of his talk he stated that:
After World War II, political and economic factors changed the underground construction picture and caused a renewed interest to think underground.
As a result of this interest, the Corps of Engineers became involved in the design and construction of some very complex and interesting military projects.¹
A little further on he said:
Although the conference program indicates the topic to be Underground Facilities for Defense – Experience and Lessons,
I must deviate a little because several of the most interesting facilities that have been designed and constructed by the Corps are classified.²
Subsequently Mr. Duscha went into a discussion of the Corps’ involvement in the 1960s in the construction of the large and elaborate NORAD base buried deep beneath Cheyenne Mountain, in Colorado. And then he said:
As stated earlier, there are other projects of similar scope, which I cannot identify, but which included multiple chambers up to 50 feet wide and 100 feet high using the same excavation procedures mentioned for the NORAD facility.³
You will not find a franker public admission of the existence of secret, underground bases than that. It carries all the more weight coming from Lloyd Duscha, given his high position in the military- industrial complex.
The Project Paperclip, Nazi Connection
It is not accidental that Lloyd Duscha mentioned the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ increased interest in underground bases and construction in the post-World War II period. In the closing stages of WW II, the U.S. military overran the Third Reich and confiscated a treasure trove of Nazi technology, engineering facilities and research laboratories. The American military also apprehended and detained large numbers of Nazi scientists, engineers and technicians, many of whom were brought to the United States under the auspices of the infamous Project Paperclip
and integrated into American industry, research institutes and into the military and other official agencies.
The cases of such Project Paperclip notables as Wernher von Braun, and other ex
-Nazis who were put to work building rockets and missiles for the military and NASA, are well known. The American political and military establishments were very impressed with Nazi V-2 and buzz bomb missile technology, and brought von Braun and his team to the USA at war’s end to continue and advance the research and design they had done under Hitler’s Third Reich. The development of the manned space program, satellite technology, deep space probes, intercontinental nuclear missiles and cruise missiles are all fruits of their work.
But Project Paperclip had another aspect which has received almost no publicity. And that aspect had to do with the underground facilities that the American military discovered when they entered the remnants of the Third Reich in the concluding stages of open military hostilities between the Allied and Axis powers in the European theater. I have two declassified Project Paperclip memoranda in my files that specifically request four men with expertise in underground construction, one of whom is Xaver Dorsch. The other men are not known to me, but Xaver Dorsch is. He was the director of the so-called Todt Organization in the closing phase of WW II. The Todt Organization was originally headed by Fritz Todt, whence the name. Fritz Todt was the designer and creator of the well-known German autobahn system of highways. The Todt organization served a somewhat analogous function in the Third Reich to that of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers or the U.S. Navy Seabees in the present American military system. In other words, it was a civil engineering agency that supported the operations of the German military, though, unlike the case of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers or the U.S. Navy Seabees in the American system, the Todt Organization was not a formal part of the German military structure. However, it did play a crucial role in the Nazi war effort and constructed many facilities for use by the German military and industry. Some of the underground structures that it built were impressively large and sophisticated.
In 1942 Fritz Todt was killed in an airplane crash and by war’s end control of the agency had effectively passed to Xaver Dorsch. In the closing stages of the war, Hitler specifically tasked Dorsch with developing a series of huge, underground, industrial manufacturing facilities. Allied bombing raids were shredding German manufacturing and the Nazi command wanted to shift production underground, out of reach of American and British bombs. The collapse of the Third Reich ultimately put an end to those plans. I remain persuaded, however, that a great deal of what the Allies found when they went into Germany remains classified to the present day, and that includes the full extent of the underground facilities built by the Todt Organization.
Xaver Dorsch was taken prisoner by the American military on 7 May 1945. I have two moderately lengthy documents that he wrote for the Americans, evidently as part of his debriefing by them.⁴ One was produced in 1946, the other in 1949-1950. The documents deal with the administrative structure and operational activities of the Todt Organization during the war. I strongly suspect that Dorsch supplied a great deal more information to his American captors during that period that has yet publicly to see the light of day. Xaver Dorsch may even have worked directly for the American military on the construction of secret, underground bases in the USA, just as he had done for the Nazis during the Third Reich. It is a fact that he was in American military captivity and was requested specifically by Project Paperclip.
Illustration 1-1a: Page one of a three-page declassified Project Paperclip memorandum, dated 16 June 1947. The memo was issued by Army Air Force Headquarters and explicitly asks for a list of German scientists and engineers, by name, in some cases along with their areas and fields of expertise and their addresses. Source: Project Paperclip file, NASA Historical Archives, Washington, D.C.
Illustration 1-1b: Page two of a three page declassified Project Paperclip memorandum, dated 16 June 1947. One of the names listed here is Dr. Eugen Saenger, the father of so-called boost-g lide rocketry, the forerunner of the space plane technology that we today know as the space shuttle. Note as well, the name of Walter Dornberger, the SS general who was in charge of the Nazi missile program at Peenemünde, and who was Wernher von Braun’s commanding officer. Dornberger did come to the USA and worked for Bell Helicopter in New York. Source: Project Paperclip file, NASA Historical Archives, Washington,