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Of most concern to these local activists were HAARP documents that
clearly stated the project was intended to find out how the ionosphere could be
exploited for military purposes. It was not pure auroral research. They were also
suspicious of the HAARP environmental impact statement that said there would be no
impact on climate, the ozone layer or weather.

As Wally talked about his reluctance to get involved in the NO HAARP
campaign. Jeane Manning remembered a 1994 letter from a Northern homesteader
who ran a mail order business she carried the letter in her pocket with the intention of
phoning the writer while in the North. "...Most Alaskans are anti-
environmentalist,"
Howard wrote. "It has something to do with the frontier mentality and the fact that
almost all of our money comes from the oil industry and other mineral extraction." He
then zeroed in on HAARP. "The E1S and various Department of the Air Force press
releases have disingenuously pictured the project as a swell international research
project where - in a really sappy detail - even local high school students would be
free to use the facility to conduct science project research on the aurora borealis! Of
course, the project is pure Star Wars, aimed at enhancing the ability to disrupt enemy
communications by disturbing the ionosphere."

Two main groups opposed HAARP, he said - trappers, miners and others in
the bush who rely on ham radio communications because they have no telephone
service, and pilots. "I'm sure the military planners, as do most Americans, considered
Alaska to be empty enough that a trapper here or there or an unlucky bird would be of
minor consequence, and were perhaps surprised by the volume of local opposi-
tion."67

Wally and Nick were chatting as the vehicle bucked along into a white
landscape with occasional glimpses of black asphalt ahead. The discussion
returned to HAARP. Because his background included computers and government
contracts, Wally had looked into getting work with APTI, which held the contract
to build HAARP at that time. The effort to get the jobs went nowhere, but Wally had
a look at the HAARP contract.

"I saw the site had to be 'open for inspection according to Intermediate
Nuclear Defense Force Treaty or something. Saw a number of things in provisions of
the contract... The way information was handled didn't add up. Everything had to go
through (John) Heckscher (HAARP project manager) in Massachusetts; people here
locally didn't know anything."

"The further we dug, after we had a look at the contract, we knew it was a
secret project; there was hokey pokey going on that the government didn't want to
disclose. There were provisions in the contract that tripped my bells. 'Contractors
can't disclose if there's something injurious'...clauses like that."

Wally said he had then telephoned two men who publicly opposed HAARP.
Clare Zickuhr, who was at the time still an accountant with ARCO in Anchorage, told
67 The "guys in the bush" have been given pseudonyms in this book, at the suggestion of three of
them who are concerned about keeping low profiles in their communities.