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From LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL
June 21, 2003:

ONGOING INVESTIGATION: FBI raids home near Area 51

Man says authorities were searching for photos, data about classified

military

base

By KEITH ROGERS
REVIEW-JOURNAL

FBI agents and other law enforcement officials raided a Rachel man's

rented

trailer home Thursday while he was out of state, searching for what he

said

were photographs and data stored in his computers about the classified

military

installation known as Area 51.

"Area 51. That's what it's for," said the man, Chuck Clark, when asked by
telephone about the search warrant that he found Friday on a table inside

the

trailer in the rural Lincoln County community, 100 miles north of Las

Vegas.

"They timed this very nicely while I was in Denver with a TV crew," said

Clark,

57, author of the "Area 51 & S-4 Handbook."

Clark said he thinks the search warrant was triggered by his research into
motion-detection sensors that are buried on public land along trails miles

away

from the restricted area around the classified installation near the dry

lake

bed of Groom Lake, 90 miles north of Las Vegas.

Clark and other Area 51 buffs think the sensors are linked by radio

signals to

an automatic alarm network that alerts the installation's security

personnel

about possible intruders.

"I dug them up, photographed them, recorded their GPS and put them back,"

he

said, referring to Global Positioning System coordinates.

"I resent the fact they put them on public land. All I did is document

them ...

to make an issue of putting them outside of restricted land," Clark said.

He

described himself as a semi-retired photographer and writer who has spent

10

years researching Area 51.

Clark said the search warrant was issued by U.S. Magistrate Judge Lawrence
Leavitt and that the agents who executed it left a four-page inventory of

items

seized. An FBI spokesman in Las Vegas, Jim Stern, confirmed that a sealed
search warrant had been executed on Clark's residence Thursday.

The FBI agents were accompanied by other law enforcement authorities who

were

part of a task force, but Stern declined to confirm the nature of the task
force.

There were no arrests, Stern said, noting, "This is an ongoing

investigation of

Clark."

He said items were taken from Clark's residence but declined to give

details

about what prompted the investigation. He also would not comment on the

scope

of the search warrant or say what was seized.

"That area is of a concern just by virtue of location," Stern said,

referring

to the general vicinity of Rachel.

An annual presidential directive issued by President Bush and former

President

Clinton keeps government information about the Groom Lake installation
classified.

Clinton, in 1995, became the first president to sign the annual exemption,
which stemmed from lawsuits brought by widows of two men who claimed that

their

husbands died from exposure to hazardous and toxic materials while they

worked

at the installation.

Government officials will not say what activities are conducted there but

the

Groom Lake facility has been widely reported to be where high-tech U.S.
aircraft are tested against foreign radar systems and planes. S-4 is

located

near the southern edge of Area 51.



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