Thank you Baker

Mr. WELDON. And your cover when you were here was you were?

Colonel LUNEV. I was undercover these professional years as TASS News Agency correspondent.

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Mr. WELDON. In your book I think you mentioned that a percentage of correspondents at that time, and perhaps even today, were agents. What is that approximate percentage?

Colonel LUNEV. In general, this percentage was established by special top secret Communist spy politburo decision in 1958, and was confirmed by President Yeltsin in the beginning of 1992. According to this very special orders and decrees, 33 percent from all Soviet and just now Russian official representatives in foreign countries—I mean in the United States, first of all—belong to the former KGB; 33 percent to the GRU; and 33 percent we name them clean people.

Mr. WELDON. So approximately 66 to 67 percent——

Colonel LUNEV. Intelligence personnel.

Mr. WELDON [continuing]. Were correspondents, were actually working for one of the security agencies, either the KGB or GRU?

Colonel LUNEV. Yes, sir.

Mr. WELDON. Do you think that has changed in the current times in terms of today?

Colonel LUNEV. If President Yeltsin confirmed this percentage by his special decree in the beginning of 1992, I think it is the same way, because I never heard that he changed his position.

The following is an excerpt from an interview between Chris Ruddy and Col. Stanislav Lunev, a Russian military intelligence officer who defected in 1992. Col. Stanislav Lunev is the highest-ranking military intelligence officer ever to have defected from Russia.

"You ask about Yamantau Mountain. Well, this is a huge underground city, which could be used in time when many Russian cities are destroyed, but the military and political elite will survive and live until our planet will try to restore itself."

"Until our planet will try to restore itself." Think about those words and don't let them leave your thoughts! And finally, no discussion of underground bases would be complete without mentioning Iraq. The reason is because after the United States and Russia, Iraq has the largest known, and suspected, underground base structure in the world.

Not only this, but the countries of Iraq, Iran, and Turkey hold the largest amount of known ancient underground cities in the world. According to military sources, the Pentagon picked northern Iraq as its first ground target for good reason. Intelligence information showed that Saddam and his immediate circle of Baath party leaders had already moved their offices and families to an underground city near the northern oil city of Kirkuk.

It is located between the three cities of Tepe Zardic north of Kirkuk, Taq south of Koi Sanjaq, and Chwarta north of Sulmeniyeh. Several intelligence reports place the secret city on the banks of the Lesser Zab River, protected from the east – the border with Iran – by the Dukan Dam and Iraq's largest artificial lake. Though many have heard about the vast number of underground bases and bunkers located throughout Iraq, less has bee publicized about Iraq's huge investment in underground cities.

For over 20 years and at a cost estimated to be in the billions of dollars, Saddam scoured Iraq for ancient underground cities for the purpose of expanding and provisioning them. From this past year we heard news out of Turkey about another discovery of an ancient underground city:

Anadolu Agency:

4/19/2003 KONYA

• An underground city was found near Yesilyur hamlet in Karapinar town of central Konya province.

Sources told A.A correspondent on Saturday that excavations had not been launched in the underground city yet. The sources said that the underground city was found by the villagers. A big underground city was found near Oymali and Akoren villager in Karapinar town three years ago and archeological work had been launched. Experts had seen that those underground cities were similar to those in Cappadocia. It is thought that this second underground city found in Yesilyurt is linked with the Oymali-Akoren underground city.

Also from Iran we hear: The underground cities of Cappadocia are worthy of a visit.