This site seeks to identify the hundreds of hidden places and ongoing secretive activities paid for by taxpayers but which governments and agencies of government want to conceal from the public. These include

• Secret underground cities and areas to which the public are not given access
• Activities of various kinds which are deliberately shrouded in secrecy

Red Cross: 'U.S. May be Hiding Detainees'
The Red Cross has said that the U.S. may be hiding detainees in secret places and not granting access to them. "We have access to people detained by the United States in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq, but in our understanding there are people that are detained outside these places for which we haven't received notification or access," said Antonella Notari, a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross. She told Associated Press that some suspects reported as arrested by the FBI are unaccounted for. "Some of these people who have been reported to be arrested never showed up in any of the places of detention run by the U.S. where we visit," Notari said.
     One of the places the Red Cross suspects the U.S. is secretly holding prisoners is the British island of Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean. The Geneva Conventions on the conduct of warfare require the United States to give the Red Cross access to prisoners of war and other detainees.
     Red Cross allegations that the U.S. was treating its detainees badly has always proved to be correct. The Red Cross is an international, impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance.
     The United States is holding terrorism suspects in more than two dozen detention centres worldwide, about half of which operate in total secrecy, according to a new human rights report.
     Human Rights First said that secrecy surrounding the facilities made "inappropriate detention and abuse not only likely but inevitable". The report coincided with news that Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had ordered military officials to hold a suspect in a prison near Baghdad without telling the Red Cross.

The New World Order
Those with political or economic power share the same two goals, namely:-
1. Embracing the idea that the making of money is the only thing that counts in this world and that money shall be the only measure of any activity's worth, regardless of other factors such as sustainability, morality, honesty and fairness.
2. Ensuring that those in power never lose sight of this, that the only way to gain political power is through massive campaign spending and co-operation with the super-rich.
     Put these two together and you have a world like we do today - where the lives of poor people and the adherence of governments to agreed legal and moral frameworks come a distant second when balanced against the divine right of those with the money to make a few extra millions to add to their obscenely huge piles of cash.

The Pentagon
Located in Hell's Bottom in Arlington, Va., just over 3 miles from the White House, the Pentagon is the largest government building in the world. It's the headquarters of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, and it's so shrouded in secrecy that its very name has become associated with sinister plots and dark designs.
     Its secretive nature has meant that over the years the Pentagon has been associated with a number of extraordinary events, from allowing the CIA to test LSD on volunteer GIs in the 1950s to spraying germs on unwitting citizens in a U.S. subway during a military experiment. But the Pentagon insists its operations in this huge fortress are benign.

The Greenbrier
Deep in the forests of West Virginia lies one the most heavily guarded U.S. military secrets of the Cold War. Sprawling across 6,500 acres, the Greenbrier is one of the most exclusive resorts in the world. But underneath it is the secret Greenbrier. Behind 25-ton nuclear blast doors is a network of tunnels containing everything needed to support hundreds of members of the U.S. Congress during a nuclear war.

'Area 51'
For decades the U.S. government denied the existence of Area 51. It didn't even appear on maps. Only a Soviet satellite photograph proved that Area 51 was a secret air base in the Nevada desert used to test advanced aircraft.
     This top-secret military base was set up in the 1950s to develop secret projects. But it wasn't until 1987 that the U.S. government admitted that there was an Area 51 in Nevada. Since then the complex has generated extraordinary conspiracy theories. Some theorists believe the U.S. military has acquired alien flight technology and is using Area 51 to build the next generation of military aircraft.