Foreign Combat Vehicles Spotted Across the U.S.

You haven't been seeing things. There have been a number of strange 
military-related maneuvers around the country lately.

EXCLUSIVE TO Spotlight
BY MIKE BLAIR

The SPOTLIGHT has obtained irrefutable evidence that hundreds--perhaps 
thousands military vehicles and armor are in the United States, including 
vehicles intended for use by the UN.

At the same time, President Bill Clinton has signed new Executive Orders, 
giving wide-ranging new powers to the UN to command U.S. military 
forces and delegating new powers to the National Security Council and the 
office of National Security Adviser to the President, a post currently held 
by Anthony Lake.

Hundreds of railroad flatcars bearing Russian military vehicles and armor 
and some UN vehicles and armor have been spotted in several states, 
including Montana, Colorado and Wyoming in the West and Pennsylvania 
in the East.

In addition, in Mississippi, hundreds of Russian-built vehicles, obtained 
from what was formerly East Germany and apparently being refurbished 
for the UN, are located in a massive depot. Many of the vehicles were 
designed for chemical and biological warfare purposes.

The SPOTLIGHT has obtained photographs of railroad flatcars filled with 
Russian and UN trucks and armor spotted in the Western states, along with 
others taken of the massive depot in Mississippi.

The SPOTLIGHT has also obtained copies of bills of lading for Russian 
vehicles obtained for UN purposes from what was formerly East Germany, 
which have been shipped to the United States, landing at Gulfport dock 
facilities in - Mississippi and driven to the depot, located three miles south 
of Saucier, and 45 miles north of Biloxi, along Mississippi Highway 49.

The depot is surrounded with a chain-link fence, topped with barbed wire, 
and guard dogs are reported to be used to protect the area from intruders.

A videotape taken of the area and obtained by The SPOTLIGHT shows 
dozens of the vehicles, including several chemical and biological warfare 
decontamination trucks that have been painted white, presumably for UN 
use.

The bill of lading, indicating that the vehicles were obtained through a 
West German firm operating under the name of Beesch Merkator, lists 
dozens of Russian-built military trucks intended for UN purposes.

The vehicles include several varieties of Russian ZIL-131 heavy trucks, 
including some listed to be of the ARS-14 type, which are chemical and 
biological warfare decontamination vehicles, and two varieties of ZIL-157 
heavy trucks.

OTHERS AT DEPOT
However, photographs obtained by The SPOTLIGHT of the truck depot 
near Saucier also include other Russian-built trucks, including some of 
what appear to be the MAZ-500 series.

A detailed report has been obtained that confirms a large road, about 35 
feet in width, has been built to connect the truck depot with the Stennis 
NASA Space Center, located about 20 miles southeast of the depot near 
the Mississippi-Louisiana border.

There have also been reports that the vehicles are being shipped by barges 
on the Pearl River, which runs along the border of the two states, north to 
some unknown destination.

Late last March, a train with 100 flatbed cars bearing Russian-type jeeps, 
trucks and U.S. armored personnel carriers, some painted white with UN 
markings on their sides, were seen and photographed at a railroad crossing 
at Rye Gate, Montana, about 10 miles north of interstate 12, south of the 
easternmost section of the Lewis and Clark National Forest, and about 60 
miles e northeast of Bozeman.

RUSSIAN ARMOR	
 On the train were Russian BMP-40 armored cars, loaded four to a flatcar. 
The BMP-40 was designed for urban warfare and as a rapid-assault 
offensive vehicle. Protruding from the vehicles' turrets could be seen 
shortbarreled 75 millimeter cannons. The Soviets also equipped the 
vehicles with Sagger anti-tank missiles. The armored cars are built for  
amphibious use. 

Also on the train were Russian UAZ-469B light, jeep-like vehicles, what 
appear to be more ZIL-131 trucks and KamAZ 5320 Russian trucks.  

Some of the flatcars were loaded with American-built M113 armored  
personnel carriers, some of which were painted white and bore the letters 
"UN" on the sides. 

On May 29 at about 6 pm, a long train of 100 flat cars loaded with tanks 
and armored vehicles,  some of which were believed to be of foreign 
manufacture, was spotted heading from the northeast toward the west 
along Horseshoe Curve at Altoona, Pennsvlvania.

Then, on May 31 at about 2 am, what may have been the same train was 
seen by an Air Force police officer returning to Malstrom Air Force Base at 
Great Falls, Montana, while he was driving through Wheatland, Wyoming, 
about 60 miles north of Cheyenne.

TRAINS GUARDED
At the crossing in Wheatland, according to the airman, three trains were 
stopped, two heading north and one heading south, to allow an 3 
eastbound train to pass.

While the three trains, all of which carried military vehicles, were stopped, 
they were guarded, according to the airman, by soldiers in black field 
uniforms. The three trains were carrying what he said were armored ve-
hicles, some of which attracted his attention because they were painted 
white. Due to the darkness, he could not identify the-vehicles as to type or 
origin.

Two days later, what was thought to have been one of the northbound 
trains was spotted on a siding at Sun Prairie, north of Great Falls, Mon-
tana.

Another reported sighting of a long train loaded with military vehicles was 
reported in Colorado at about the same time. Meanwhile, five train-loads of 
armored vehicles have been reported to have arrived at Fort Chafee, Ar-
kansas, where observers have spotted large stockpiles of barbed wire and 
the recent arrival of some 5,000 mattresses. Sources estimate that there are 
currently from 2,000 to 3,000 armored vehicles at Fort Chafee.

After thousands of supposed Cuban refugees were allowed into the United 
States by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, many who were found to be 
mental patients and criminals were confined at Fort Chafee, which is, along 
with Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, and Fort Drum, New York, 
among locations that have been secretly selected as detention centers for 
dissidents during some future declared national emergency," according to 
persistent rumors.

