(sorry if a repeat; didn't spot this here in my once-over-Hokie)

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=1858

RAYTHEON DISINFORMATION UPDATE

Posted By: RUMOR MILL NEWS

Date: Monday, 28 February 2000, at 10:31 p.m.

WE RECEIVED THIS POST FROM AGENT 003 THIS MORNING -- OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO US WAS THE REFERENCE MADE BY 60 MINUTES LAST NIGHT REGARDING RAYTHEON TIES TO ECHELON.

Morning, Chief Isn't that odd...once again when RuMills scooped the wires with my Raytheon post your phone is out so national reporters may not contact you ... Deja-vous all over again. We will give them high points for consistency.

The Raytheon post on MY part (not the disinformation that we knew would come after) was/is balls-on accurate. My source and I had been sharing the paltry coverage of the event in the local paper, so I knew what their b.s. would be. We just weren't sure how long it would take them to read RuMills. I think this confirms that your page is monitored fairly closely.

BTW, did you watch 60 Minutes last night? On their lead-in story regarding Echelon, whose name do you think came out of the NSA agents mouth regarding contracting? Yup, RAYTHEON. They are certainly getting a lot of strikes against them in public all of a sudden, aren't they? Going back to the old "Coke/Pepsi" thread on the forum -- makes you kinda wonder what Faction owns Raytheon, doesn't it?

You may post this if you'd like -- but as you'll see, I've been advised to drop it as it is obviously a very hot issue for some very powerful people. May I just assure you (replete with shit-eating grin in place) that this is not rabble rousing lies like those put out by John Quinn regarding the Sioux "standoff" a month or two ago. To my knowledge, no peace pipes were smoked and Chief WannaRakeTheMuck didn't pass on any secrets from any elders. ;-) The events reported actually did happen. Unfortunately, We The People, are not supposed to know about it.

From the battlelines, RMNews Agent 003

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fw: [RuMills] UPDATES ON RAYTHEON PLANT IN ELIZABETHTON, TN Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 08:42:48 -0800 From: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Consider the mathematical odds of one person in a town the size of Elizabethton being a fan of Sightings and finding this story on the site. You have a better chance of being hit by a meteorite on the way to work. It did not take very long for the disinformationists to find the R. M. site and go to work. Like the Knoxville paper, a certain amount of truth is worked into it , in order to explain certain inarguable facts. Hence we have the "military equipment " being brought in. Military equipment is a pretty damned broad term and allows for a lot of interpretation and ass covering. Knoxville reports it as The North American Corp. , the Kingsport Times calls it the Rayon plant. The "Kingsport Fire and Rescue folks " is an elite task force specializing in Hazardous Material fires from Eastman Chemical in Kingsport. The film referred to and shown on local tv was a carefully edited segment that used several angles to make a small area of close up look like it was larger and that was still recut and edited again after the first showing. The fish kill is a mockery. The Watauga River is/was a great trout stream and thousands of fish are dead downstream of Raytheon. The pool chemical story does not explain the convoy of heavy machinery under tarps coming out of the Raytheon Plant. There is no mention of the helicopters , unless you want to consider them "military equipment". xxxxxxxx you are taking heat that is undeserved. They are going to cover this up and deny it till dooms day. Raytheon and Eastman Chemical have an incredible amount of power in East Tennessee. Dont argue the point with these people. Whatever they are concealing is too important for them to play nice. The head of Tennessee Eastman Chem. retired without warning a couple of weeks ago and I don't think its a coincidence. Not with the Eastman Haz. Mat. task force going in on this. People disappear over this type of operation and from what I see and hear about this incident, I know there aint a snowball's chance in hell that the truth will go public. Its time for a strategic retreat and save it for a fight we can win.......................XXXXXXX

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RUMOR MILL NEWS -- Monday, 28 February 2000, at 10:31 p.m.

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), February 29, 2000

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(Anyway, the rumor at this site is this company runs HAaRP and manufactures in this Tenn plant the stuff sprayed over my house every day (for the uninitiated conspiricists, I mean chemtrails, heh). Anyway, here is the local paper's write-up, for anyone who has not been following the 700 dead fish etc. on this nasty fire--Hokie).

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=1842

http://www.knoxnews.com/archives/browserecent/02262000/archives/5826.s html

KNOXVILLE NEWS

Fire ravages Elizabethton plant

Several agencies pitch in to battle

day-long blaze

February 26, 2000

By Angela K. Brown, Associated Press

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. -- Firefighters battled a

blaze at the North American Corp. factory Friday,

working to keep flames away from a fire wall that

protects chlorine stored at the plant.

City schools were closed, and the 13,000 residents

of this Carter County town were advised to stay

indoors, although dozens watched from nearby

parking lots as smoke poured from the plant. No

injuries were reported, and no evacuations were

ordered.

Authorities said the fire was confined Friday evening

to an area away from the roughly 5 million pounds

of chlorine stored at the plant, although workers

from the company and nearby businesses were

moving the chlorine to another storage area as a

precaution.

"The fire is much smaller. It was going in all

directions," said Jerry Fleenor, director of the

Sullivan County Emergency Management Agency.

He said officials were hoping to put the fire out

overnight.

Fleenor said firefighters' efforts were hampered by

inadequate local water supplies attributable to low

rainfall. The Tennessee Emergency Management

Agency rounded up seven tankers from Hamblen

and Hawkins counties Friday afternoon to draw river

water to fill portable tanks. Otherwise, he said, the

local water supply would have been exhausted by

evening.

The chlorine, in granular and tablet form, was a

concern, but it created no immediate danger, said

James Burrough, director of the Elizabethton-Carter

County Emergency Management Agency.

Officials initially worried the chlorine would release

poisonous vapors if it got wet. But Fleenor said they

learned Friday afternoon that is not a danger with

the type of chlorine involved.

"Arch Chemical, out of Charleston, Tenn., is the

manufacturer. They say it is not reactive to water,"

Fleenor said.

He said the manufacturer advised emergency

officials that if the fire got near the chlorine, it could

be doused with water to keep it cool.

The blaze started about 4:30 a.m., apparently in

some packaging material, North American Corp.

President Charles Green said. The cause was not

immediately known. "It looks pretty bad in certain

sections of the plant, but I can't really tell" how

much damage there is, Green said.

About six workers on the night shift tried to put out

the blaze with fire extinguishers but fled when the

fire spread too quickly for them to control, Green

said.

The blaze was contained after about four hours, but

smoke, visible in Johnson City some 10 miles

away, continued to fill the sky. The city's five

schools, with an enrollment of about 2,500

students, were closed to prevent traffic accidents

between school buses and fire trucks.

Sycamore Shoals Hospital, within sight of the plant,

prepared for evacuation, but none of the 47 patients

had to be moved, spokesman Ed Herbert said.

"Some doctors are looking to see if they can

discharge some patients early," he said. "We're

postponing elective surgery and moving other

surgeries to other hospitals."

North American Corp. contracts with General

Motors and Ford Motor Co. to make fibers for car

hoses, Green said. The 1.3 million-square-foot plant

once manufactured rayon for NASA and rayon and

latex-treated yarns. Layoffs and production changes

in 1997 reduced the workforce from about 1,300 to

about 100 people, Green said.

The company allowed Dow Chemical to use the

plant for storing chlorine intended for swimming-pool

use. The chemical is toxic and can be fatal if

inhaled or absorbed through the skin.

The brick building is located in the heart of

Elizabethton. Authorities closed a portion of U.S.

Highway 321, the main roadway through town, while

firefighters battled the blaze. As a precaution, the

Tennessee Valley Authority reduced the water flow

from Watauga and Wilbur dams, and emergency

officials placed booms on to the Watauga River to

absorb any chemicals that might escape.

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), February 29, 2000.

Thanks, Hokie. Sounds like this could be the smoking gun.

-- Lurkess (Lurkess@Lurking.XNet), March 01, 2000.

Hokie: Any thread directed at insomniacs gets my full attention.

-- Daisy Jane (deeekstrand@access1.com), March 01, 2000.

i live east of elizabethton. i thought the plant was north american rayon, not raytheon. raytheon was in bristol - did i miss something? or is this how rumors get started?

-- loreli (wonder@ing.com), March 01, 2000.

You are right, Lorelei. I live nearby also. It is NORTH AMERICAN RAYON Corporation. A shell of its former self. As you may remember, if you have lived in this area long, the employees bought it a number of years ago, I believe to keep it from being closed. There was a strike, I can't remember if it was before or after being sold to the employees. After, I think. It used to be THE employer in E'ton, contributed greatly to its economy.

I was concerned about the chlorine, don't know if I buy the manufacturer's assurances about its stability.

-- Virlie (MstMtnRain@aol.com), March 01, 2000.

The history of the sight name and corporate owners is covered at the link, but I didn't bother verifying. Feel free to blood hound yourself. Let me know if anything of interest shows up, heh.

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), March 01, 2000.