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Senator Stevens went to the floor of the Senate late in the summer of 1990
and declared, "We have in Alaska what I consider to be one of the most exciting
research projects that I have ever encountered," He went on to say, "It is the
experiments that are going on trying to determine if it is possible to harness the
energy of the electrojet for the use of mankind." He said the project "has the potential
of using a laser beam to be a conductor of this energy back to Earth...It is an
experiment that, when 1 first heard about it, I thought someone had rewritten a new
chapter of Jules Veme."221

"The research facility would be used to understand, stimulate and control
ionospheric processes that might alter the performance of communication and
surveillance systems...Potential applications of the HAARP research include
developing DoD technology for detecting cruise missiles and aircraft and for
communicating with submarines. Although HAARP is being managed by the Air Force
and Navy, it is purely a scientific research facility which represents no threat to
potential adversaries and would therefore have no value as a military target. "222

Again it appears that what is really being said is that this is not an
operational weapon system, only a proof-of-concept system. It is designed to
provide a better understanding for future uses as a weapon system. This is an
outrageous statement, which plays on the ignorance of readers of the HAARP records,
and could be equated to the suggestion that the development centers for the atom
bomb during World War II were not potential military targets.
"As the result of a competitive procurement, the Air Force and Navy have
awarded a contract to ARCO Power Technologies, Inc. (APTI) for the design and
construction of the IRI and associated support facilities."223 APTI, according to
liastlund, was set up to do one thing - develop his ideas into marketable technologies.
APTI was not set up as a construction company or an ionospheric research
organization. It was set up to exploit energy in a way which maximized a return to
one of the world's oil giants, Atlantic Richfield Company. What Eastlund did was put
ARCO into the Star Wars business until a company more suited to the project could be
located to buy out their interests. That company was E-Systems. E-Systems' history
and controversy has been documented by CBS's, 60 Minutes as well as by the
Washington Post, and is discussed in this book.
The original bidders on the HAARP project were Penn State University,
Raytheon and APTI.224 The chain of corporate events has been discussed previously,
In June, 1994, APTI was bought out by E-Systems, which in April, 1995, was bought
out by Raytheon Corporation. So, in the end, one of the project's losing bidders,
Raytheon - one of the largest defense contractors in the world - came to own the
technology and the contract.

221 "Porkpie in the Sky", Anchorage Daily News, We Alaskans , December 15,1991 pages 9-14.
222 HAARP Fact Sheet, Office of Naval Research, Phillips Laboratory, November 4, 1993.

223 Ibid.
224 Interview with John Heckscher, HAARP Program Manager and Jeane Manning, February 21,
1995.