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“My understanding from my old folks, who were working for the military, was that this was all an operation of the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA,” Ben says, “and I think at that time, back in the 50’s, they were planning to train a lot of the South Koreans and some Chinese for guerilla warfare back in either China or Korea." “Those were the years of the CIA operations out here, from the ‘50s,” Scott confirms. “Nobody here knows much about it, but the islands were being used as training bases for covert operations by Chinese nationals, and they were also operating in Tibet. The NTTU, Naval Technical Training Unit, was the front for the CIA. “The problem was that about half of the village at that time was covered by a military installation and so they lived side by side with this military base--and not very happily. There were major modifications. There was a big fuel tank farm to the south. They dug out big soil revetments and they built oil and gasoline storage tanks. "If you look at the old air photos from the '50s and '60s, you’ll still see them there. There may still be a few out there."

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“There were 75- to 120-foot communication antennae right in the heart of the village. They were transmitter antennae. I don’t know if it was the Voice of America, but that was the NTTU. It was the NTTU who built the four antennae, and of course, like I said, we don’t know what they were doing. They would just come and repair them and do what they needed to do. But the antenna were not fenced in or anything; they were really inside the village. The antennae were outside of the fence, outside the ‘off limits’ area. They were in the heart of the village."

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