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Have you ever wondered if those rumors about sprawling military complexes deep underground are true? Is there really a secret world humming beneath us, hidden from the majority of humanity? It's a tantalizing idea that has inspired countless books, documentaries, and late-night conversations. Researcher Richard Sauder shares his decades of investigation into the clandestine realm of underground military bases. What he reveals might leave you questioning how much we really know about what lies below.
Hidden Depths: Myths, Whispers, and Startling Realities
Richard Sauder’s fascination with underground military bases started back in the 1980s after moving to the American Southwest—a region known for its strange stories and sweeping deserts. Whispers of secret installations, government conspiracies, and even rumors of cooperation with extraterrestrial entities piqued his curiosity. For most, these tales would remain just that—stories. But an inexplicable experience in 1991 pushed Sauder to dig deeper. One night, he claims he heard a voice tell him, "The underground bases are real," accompanied by a vivid mental image of a cavernous, high-tech facility bustling with beings—human, alien, or possibly both.
Skeptical yet intrigued, Sauder dove into years of dedicated research. He scoured government records, technical archives, and industrial documentation, eventually confirming beyond doubt that underground and underwater bases exist—at least, those that are publicly acknowledged. As he continued, Sauder discovered a perplexing pattern: the more significant and secretive these bases, the harder it became to find reliable information. He encountered what he calls “limited hangouts”—a drip-feed of partial truths, obscured by layers of secrecy and distraction. Why is it so hard for the public to access the full story?
Publicly Known—and Carefully Guarded—Facilities
For those wondering if underground military facilities are just a Cold War relic or a product of overactive imagination, Sauder points to several well-documented examples. America’s Mount Weather in Virginia serves as a continuity-of-government bunker, ready to shelter top officials in a crisis. Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado is home to NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, embedded deep within granite to withstand almost anything. Even the famous Camp David has extensive subterranean levels, though their scale and purpose remain shrouded in mystery.
Sauder explains that while some of these installations were built with national defense in mind—protecting top leadership in the event of catastrophe—the level of secrecy and the sheer scope of their construction suggests more is going on than simple bunker-building. He highlights that underground infrastructure is not unique to the United States. Russia, China, Iran, and other nations have their own secretive subterranean networks. Throughout history, from the ancient underground cities of Turkey and Egypt to massive bunkers of the World Wars, humanity has always recognized the strategic advantage of going underground. Yet in the modern era, particularly post-World War II, this practice has grown far more sophisticated and covert.
From Ancient Tunnels to Modern Marvels
Human beings have been digging and living beneath the earth for thousands of years. But the 20th century saw a technological explosion in underground engineering. Sauder recounts how, after World War II, German experts in subterranean construction were brought to the United States to further America’s underground military ambitions. By the time President Eisenhower took office in the 1950s, dozens of presidential bolt-holes—secret shelters—had been built across the country, many of which likely remain in use today.
The construction and maintenance of these colossal facilities is no small feat. Sauder names major U.S. corporations—think Black & Veatch, Lockheed Martin, Bechtel, and more—who’ve been involved in the secretive world of tunnel boring and underground fortress building. Despite this massive investment, the general public is kept largely in the dark about the true extent of this underground infrastructure, raising questions not just about secrecy, but also about accountability.
Dark Money, Darker Programs
Perhaps most unsettling is what Sauder and other researchers have uncovered about the shadowy funding behind these projects. Financial analyst Catherine Austin Fitts estimates that at least $27 trillion have disappeared into America’s "black budget"—enough to fund a parallel secret economy. According to Sauder, a significant portion of this unaccounted money is channeled into building and operating underground and underwater bases.
The secrecy goes beyond the existence of the bases themselves. Sauder states that programs operating out of these facilities include so-called "special access programs"—operations so compartmentalized that even insiders rarely have the full picture. Some whistleblowers have told stories of mind control experiments, clandestine technology development, and disturbing psychological manipulation—all protected by a near impenetrable wall of confidentiality, enforced by non-disclosure agreements and, as Sauder has said, outright intimidation.
One haunting account Sauder shares involves a woman who, as a child, was allegedly taken to a Virginia underground facility for mind-control training as part of a CIA program. Her story, though impossible to independently verify, echoes testimonies from others who claim to have been involved in similar projects. The suggestion is clear: these bases serve purposes far beyond sheltering officials during emergencies.
Why Should We Care?
For many, tales of secret bases—especially with overtones of conspiracy and dark government activity—trigger skepticism or even dismissal. But Sauder argues that apathy is exactly what enables unchecked power. If trillions of taxpayer dollars are siphoned off for secret projects, with no transparency or public oversight, it raises serious ethical, financial, and democratic concerns. What are these facilities really for? Who benefits? And what are the potential risks, both to civil liberties and to the fabric of open society?
The evidence presented may not definitively confirm every theory, but it paints a compelling picture: Underground military and intelligence bases are not just the stuff of fiction or fringe media—they are a real, evolving element of global security infrastructure. And as long as secrecy and shadow finances rule the day, the public may never know what truly lies beneath their feet.
Takeaway: Digging Deeper for Truth
Exploring the reality of underground military bases is like peeling back layers of an onion—each new discovery leads to more questions. While covert operations and secret facilities may be justified by governments as necessary for security, history shows that unchecked secrecy often drifts into abuse or, at the very least, waste. The challenge is clear: Demand transparency, ask tough questions, and stay curious about the invisible systems shaping our world.
If this journey into the hidden side of military infrastructure has intrigued you, consider following Richard Sauder's work on Substack or delving into his books for more. Supporting investigative media, sharing stories, and advocating for government accountability are the first steps in making the unseen seen. Because sometimes, the most important truths aren't found in the daylight—they’re buried deep below the surface.
It is now common knowledge that the US government has built a number of underground facilities for the CIA, FEMA, the US Military and NSA. The facilities in the US and around the world are viewable on Google Earth and include:
Garrison Yongsan in South Korea
Camp Minden in Louisiana
Volkel Air Base in Holland
Station Holt in Australia
Camp Simba in Kenya
Djibouti Base in Djibouti Africa
Yukka Dry Lake in Nevada
Abu Ghraib in Iraq
Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada
Bucholz Army Airfield in the Marshall Islands
Buchel Air Base in Germany
Fort Huachuca in Arizona
Greenlief Training Site in Nebraska
Camp Ripley in Minnesota
Nabel Air Station Meridian in Mississippi
Marine Corpse Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina
Otis Air National Guard Based in Massachusetts
IndustryTap reported on a potential underground facility that was built under and adjacent to the Denver Airport. Much of the best evidence comes from land surveying and civil engineering companies that have contracts with the Department of Defense (DOD).
The US has a history, dating back to the Cold War, of top secret projects that never see the light of day in the world’s newspapers and TV news reports. Naturally, like all clandestine projects, there isn’t a lot of information available and researchers must piece together details like solving a huge jigsaw puzzle.
Underwater Military Bases & Industrial Plants
Dr. Richard Sauder, author of Underwater & Underground Bases, has spent his career piecing together, facts, quotes from declassified government documents, information from corporate websites, reports from US agencies and information from anonymous insiders. For example, US submarine personnel have reported docking at under water stations and noting personnel changes once a submarine gets on its way.
Companies are now beginning to ramp up undersea factory operations. For example, Statoil, and many other oil companies are planning on moving oil platforms and processing factories to the ocean floor where the threat of oil spills is expected to be significantly reduced.
A Long History Of Subsea Experiments
The US Navy created “Sealab II” in 1965, nearly 50 years ago, in an experiment to run an underwater ocean laboratory. The following is an interview with one of the first humans to live underwater for an extended period of time. Clearly with technology having advanced significantly since then one would expect that such bases and laboratories already exist.
The federal government has secretly spent trillions building an elaborate network of subterranean “cities” where the rich and powerful can shelter during a “near-extinction event,” a former Bush White House official sensationally claimed.
About 170 such bunkers have been built across the country since 1998 – including some resting beneath the oceans off the US coast, 74-year-old Catherine Austin Fitts told Tucker Carlson during a recent appearance on his podcast.
“It’s preparation for catastrophe,” Fitts said, according to Realtor.com.
Fitts, who served as assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1990, claimed $21 trillion in taxpayer dollars were funneled into the project between 1998 and 2015.
She said a 2017 report from Michigan State University economist Mark Skidmore indicated that much “unauthorized spending” had been uncovered across the Departments of Defense and Housing and Urban Development during that time.
After two years of combing through records related to already documented underground military bases, Fitts says she also looked into “allegations” of a wider bunker network.
Comparing her research against the missing cash, Fitts said she was able to make a “guess” about how many facilities there really are.
She claimed the 170 only applied to bases on US soil and around its coastline – alleging that more exist across the world.
And the bases are connected by an elaborate transportation system, she added, while claiming they are powered by a secret energy system known only to the military.
“I’m convinced that this energy exists. If you look at a lot of the really fast ships, flying around the planet, they’re not using classical electricity,” she said, in an apparent reference to a spate of bizarre unidentified aerial phenomena supposedly flying around the skies in recent years.
Those alleged bases are used not just as doomsday bunkers for the elites, she stated, but also as places for the government to operate “secret” operations like a “secret space program.”
The existence of elaborate underground government bases and bunkers is no secret.
During the Cold War, the Cheyenne Mountain Complex was built inside a Colorado mountain to serve as a hardened base of operations for various military operations. It is currently used by the US Space Force.
And from the 1950s through the 1990s, a bunker intended to house all of Congress in the event of a calamity was built and operated in total secrecy beneath the bustling Greenbrier resort in West Virginia.
Fitts, who worked as an investment banker before joining the Bush administration, also floated a number of other ideas while speaking to Carlson – including that the COVID-19 vaccine had DNA-modifying ingredients, and that a shadowy global cabal is trying to use mind control to enslave the world, according to the Daily Mail.
Researcher Richard Sauder discussed the black budget world of super-secret & underground projects, as well as his involvement in the peace movement. He was recently arrested and incarcerated for three months, after he staged a peaceful demonstration at a U.S. Air Force nuclear missile silo in North Dakota, as an act of civil disobedience. "If we want to have a future free of nuclear weapons, and free of the threat of nuclear warfare then we individually need to do something...and I strongly suggest...that that something be creatively non-violent, because it is violence that is dragging us down to mutual ruination," he stated. Sauder cited three religions--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as a kind of "mind control" which historically have been the source of much violence.
There is a widespread construction program of underground and undersea bases with secret facilities, along with extensive tunneling, he reported. These projects are built with sophisticated technology, and "shadow government" and numerous agencies including the military, and corporations are involved, Sauder detailed. The technology that enables the bases may also be associated with dimensional portals and non-human intelligences, and this is one explanation as to why these projects are kept so secret, he noted.
According to the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, a covert operation (also as CoveOps or covert ops) is "an operation that is so planned and executed as to conceal the identity of or permit plausible denial by the sponsor. Covert operations aim to fulfill their mission objectives without any parties knowing who sponsored or carried out the operation. It is normally financed by government revenues but in this age of super-empowered individuals and corporations they could become a common tool of power beyond traditional war and diplomacy.
Under United States law, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) must lead covert operations unless the president finds that another agency should do so and properly informs the congress. Normally, the CIA is the US Government agency legally allowed to carry out covert action.[1] The CIA's authority to conduct covert action comes from the National Security Act of 1947.[2] President Ronald Reagan issued Executive Order 12333 titled in 1984. This order defined covert action as "special activities", both political and military, that the US Government could legally deny. The CIA was also designated as the sole authority under the 1991 Intelligence Authorization Act and in Title 50 of the United States Code Section 413(e).[2][3] The CIA must have a "Presidential Finding" issued by the President of the United States in order to conduct these activities under the Hughes-Ryan amendment to the 1991 Intelligence Authorization Act.[1] These findings are then monitored by the oversight committees in both the US Senate and the House of Representatives.[4] As a result of this framework, the CIA "receives more oversight from the Congress than any other agency in the federal government".[5] The Special Activities Division (SAD) is a division of the CIA's National Clandestine Service, responsible for Covert Action and "Special Activities". These special activities include covert political influence and paramilitary operations. The division is overseen by the United States Secretary of State
Covert operations and clandestine operations are distinct. The Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, defines "covert operation" as "an operation that is so planned and executed as to conceal the identity of or permit plausible denial by the sponsor. The United States Department of Defense definition has been used by the United States and NATO since World War II.
In a covert operation, the identity of the sponsor is concealed, while in a clandestine operation the operation itself is concealed. Put differently, clandestine means "hidden," while covert means "deniable." The term stealth refers both to a broad set of tactics aimed at providing and preserving the element of surprise and reducing enemy resistance and to a set of technologies (stealth technology) to aid in those tactics.
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