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FINALLY ... SO WHO and WHAT IS CAAB? Iwishthemwellintheir campaign. They We are a small group of people with many regularly campaignonTuesdays outside supporters, grounded in non-violent ways of Menwith Hill to draw attentiontothe working and relying entirely on voluntary unaccountabilityofthis American baseon contributions. CAAB evolved in 1992 out of British soil ... the long campaign of protest at Menwith Hill, aiming to promote public scrutiny and awareness Please come to the weekly demonstration on of the presence, roles and functions of the US Tuesday evening (6.00–7.30pm). We are now Visiting Forces here and world-wide. In the past, into the seventeenth year (and it’s time they CAAB worked in many different ways. More went!). Join this important campaign. detail about what was achieved and how CAAB Also CAAB organizes each year: worked can be found on the website. However, • First week of July - the annual Independence CAAB’s management has changed and we are FROM America demonstration outside the SPECIAL EDITION re-considering how we can best use our resources. main entrance to Menwith Hill

Hon. Treasurers: Judith Rushby & Martin Schweiger • First week in October – KEEP SPACE FOR Monitor of Planning Offices at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill, PEACE – a call for an international week USAF Croughton, Lakenheath, Fylingdales and Barford of protest by the Global Network Against SHORT BRIEFING ON THE AMERICAN BASE AT NSA/NRO St John: Steve Hill Weapons and Power in Space – GN MENWITH HILL AND INFORMATION ON US BASES Mailing List Organiser: Melanie Ndzinga www.space4peace.org Webmaster & Designer of Flyers: Ray Middleton CAAB Graphic Designer: Paul Wood CAAB Merchandise Designer: Sarah McEvoy Amessage from CAAB CAAB Facilitor: Martin Schweiger to theUSVisiting behind closed doors and were never debated in Parliament. Construction started in 1956. Forces and their We thought it might be helpful to produce this WHO SAID WHAT ABOUT CAAB IN THE Local people opposed the development of the PAST – adjournment debate on the US Agencies: Special Edition by CAAB with brief and basic information about Menwith Hill specifically base from first hearing about the proposed Missile Defence system in the House of GO BACK TO and US bases generally. plans and the pending arrival of the US Visiting Lords by Sue Miller [Baroness Miller of Forces (USVF). Chilthorne -10 Jan 2008: Column 969] YOUR BORDERS The information we give (which is just a taste!) is all credibly researched and confirmed. The base published a booklet in 2010 to …Before I close, I also want to pay tribute PLEASE! CAAB is now under different management ‘celebrate’ 50 years since the base first became to the Campaign for the Accountability of but information was gathered by CAAB in More essential reading: ‘operational’ on 15 September 1960 (50 years American Bases. It operates in Yorkshire near the past from a number of sources: regular Surveillance, Secrecy and Sovereignty - how a of the US Visiting Forces and their Agencies in Menwith Hill. It has been the eyes and ears Peace Campaign Challenged the Activities of a Parliamentary Questions, asking questions, monitoring Planning Offices, articles, occupation and control of the base!). of the public for what is happening there; it US Base in Britain, Margaret Nunnerley (2014). research, ‘moles’, academics, media, friends This book is based on the activities of twenty-five years The 421st Air Base Group is located at Menwith first revealed in 1997 that Menwith Hill was of campaigning by CAAB in Britain, with particular of CAAB etc, etc. to be designated as the European ground emphasis on the base at Menwith Hill. Hill and is a component of the 501st Combat relay station. It has continued to raise this For more detailed information and analysis Support Wing which has its headquarters at USAF we recommend Lifting the Lid on Menwith issue ever since. Its members have suffered Hill - the Strategic Roles and Economic Impact Alconbury, near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. an awful lot of personal aggravation, and I ask of the US Spy Base in Yorkshire by Dr Steve the Minister to look into some of the history Schofield (March 2012). WHAT IS IN THIS SPECIAL EDITION: of this. They have been arrested but not http://www.cnduk.org/information/briefings/ charged, and charged but the charges have Meetings for Worship: missile-defence-briefings/item/1379-lifting-the- . Brief history of Menwith Hill been dropped; they would have welcomed Continueoutside variousUSbases–contactCAAB lid-on-menwith-hill-march-2012 . How many people work at Menwith Hill? those charges being pursued so that they for details . What does Menwith Hill do? CONTACT US could have had their day in court. In one BRIEF HISTORY OF MENWITH HILL Who is in charge of Menwith Hill? Via our website: www.caab.org.uk . case, violence was used against a member, Menwith Hill in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire Or by email: [email protected] . The role and presence of the Ministry of Defence and no satisfactory explanation has ever been (HG3 2RF) is a US base on 545 acres of land in an Police given for that. However, it has been incredibly About the weekly demonstration: [email protected] Website: http://www.caab.org.uk area of outstanding natural beauty - but officially . US Bases important that people on the ground have left out in the early 1990s despite attempts to . Some useful websites been there to see what is happening with This newsletteris printedon100%recycled paper by: Enid Taylor Ltd, ThePrinting House, include it. The land was compulsorily purchased Who and what is CAAB? planning permissions and some of the issues . 8ColdBathRoad, ,HG2 0NA. by the MOD in 1954; access and right to use Who said what about CAAB in the past? raised by the noble Lord, Lord Judd. Tel: 01423 567764 . Fax: 01423 567765 . the land were given in 1955. Contact details for CAAB E-mail: [email protected] . These decisions were made by a few people SPECIAL EDITION SPECIAL EDITION

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The National Security ‘I am withholding the number of GCHQ employees reveal that Menwith Hill (and later RAF Fylingdales trained to carry guns. In spite of funding cuts, the Agency of America (NSA) in accordance with Government practice not to in North Yorkshire) was to be crucially connected to MDP has recently been recruiting. Mark Foulger is runs the base. The US reveal numbers of personnel working in intelligence the US Missile Defense system. Two radomes were the senior officer (Superintendent MDP) at present. National Reconnaissance at specific locations. I am also withholding the eventually built as part of the Space Based Infra Red Office (NRO) is also numbers for both the Ministry of Defence Police, System. Missile Defense is an offensive weapons US BASES present at Menwith Hill and the Ministry of Defence Guard Agency for the system in space. It is about US domination of space There are approximately 6,000 bases in the US and (Google what they do). purpose of the proper enforcement of law, and in the – for US military and economic interests only. Read nearly 1,000 worldwide – and growing. The US interests of national defence’. [9 Mar 2009: Column the story of the legal action brought by CAAB: government/military perceive threats to come from Menwith Hill is part 177W] www.caab.org.uk the Middle East and the South Pacific area of the of a global network of world (China, North Korea, Iran) and from Russia. Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) bases. Menwith Hill is The US European Command said that 500 US WHO IS IN CHARGE OF MENWITH HILL? Apparently not even the Pentagon knows how many a key regional center for the NSA monitoring and military and civilians would leave Menwith Hill by • Although all US bases are referred to as ‘RAF’ US bases there are! intercepting the world’s communications. Gleaned October 2016, as part of defence cutbacks. The this is far from the truth. US bases are occupied and encrypted information is relayed to NSA HQ at Burger King Bar closed first; the US Elementary and and controlled by the US authorities. There are about 12 US bases in where the Fort Meade in USA. High School closed at the end of the summer term US authorities are in control and occupation (eg. 2015. The chapel has closed, 66 houses have been • The US Chief of Station has, until recently, been USAF Lakenheath, Mildenhall, JAIC Molesworth, The land is in possession of the UK Secretary of demolished, along with other buildings. However, a military appointment. The present US Chief NSA/NRO Menwith Hill, USAF Croughton and State for Defence. The majority of the buildings and another radome was constructed in 2015 - Harrogate of Station, Miriam Garrant, is a civilian. (The Barford St John). facilities at Menwith Hill (as with all US bases) are US Chiefs of Station change approximately Borough Council having given planning permission. owned, and the construction paid for by the US. To every two years.) date there are 33 radomes (white covered WHAT DOES MENWITH HILL DO? • Menwith Hill became an ‘RAF’ base in 1995 – dishes - looking like giant ‘golf balls’). Menwith Hill is the largest intelligence-gathering, ostensibly in line with other ‘RAF’ bases and to SOME USEFUL WEBSITES: The base has grown and grown over the years. A interception and surveillance base outside the US. It coincide with the repealed Military Land byelaws. Campaign for the Accountability of American significant development and major expansion of has many roles which are generally for US interests CAAB was involved in successfully overturning Bases - CAAB: Contains information (articles, sophisticated operational facilities, known as Project only (diplomatic, military and economic) – being the first set of byelaws. The second set of MLBs videos, news items, opinions, etc.) around Phoenix (costing £52 million), was completed in the hub of the ECHELON system. However, in May are also invalid however some notices continue issues of US bases and the presence of to be displayed. 2012. 2013 , a previously unknown the US Visiting Forces here and worldwide: whistle blower, disclosed thousands of top secret • Geoffrey Dickson, who arrived in 2013, is www.caab.org.uk HOW MANY PEOPLE WORK AT documents which revealed the extent of the the RAF Commander and RAF Liaison Officer The Acronym Institute for Disarmament MENWITH HILL? intelligence gathering and surveillance on us all by (RAFLO) and a reservist who commands the Diplomacy: Independent, not-for-profit the NSA/CIA (with the help of GCHQ). Menwith Hill RAF/MOD employees but not the Ministry of research and advocacy organisation In response to a Parliamentary Question asked by is mentioned several times in the documents. For Defence Police. The person in full control of working on disarmament, arms control: Colin Challen for CAAB, Bob Ainsworth answered as example, the article ‘Inside Menwith Hill: The NSA’s Menwith Hill is the US Chief of Station. www.acronym.org.uk follows on 3 March 2009 (see Lifting the Lid, p. 42 British Base at the Heart of U.S. Targeted Killing’ • There are no leases on US bases. However there Global Security: Reliable news and security for further information and updates): (Ryan Gallagher, The Intercept, 6 September 2016) was a ‘security of tenure agreement’ at Menwith i n f o r m a t i o n – d i r e c t e d b y J o h n P i k e : ‘The following personnel were employed at RAF has links to and analysis of documents proving NSA/ Hill – renewed every 21 years. CAAB has www.globalsecurity.org Menwith Hill in 2009: NRO Menwith Hill’s role in illegal targeted killing. some interesting historical ‘secret’ letters and Secret Bases: https://theintercept.com/2016/09/06/nsa-menwith- documents which give the history of the renewal hill-targeted-killing-surveillance/ each year (sometimes given by a secretary). www.secret-bases.co.uk/secret4.htm Employer Number These were disclosed in a High Court case (contains comprehensive information on US The base is unaccountable, secretive and out of bases and UK bases – not always referenced) US Service Personnel 540 involving CAAB in 1993. control of the UK government. Global Network Against Weapons and US Civilians and Contractors 892 Ostensibly the Intelligence and Security Committee THE ROLE AND PRESENCE OF THE Power in Space: Comprehensive website RAF Personnel 4 (ISC) keep an eye on Menwith Hill. However the MINISTRY OF DEFENCE POLICE (MDP) containing, among other things, information about space technology/Missile Defence: UK Army Personnel 0 ISC are not told everything and they have restricted The MDP are a British police force working on UK access to the Operations Area. The Home Affairs bases and some US bases. The force is very different www.space4peace.org UK Naval Personnel 8 Select Committee said of the oversight by the ISC to the Home Office police force. One difference is Union of Concerned Scientists: Based in UK Contractors 761 in their report on the security services in the UK that, unlike the Home Officer police force, the MDP the US – leading science-based non-profit (2014): “We believe that the current oversight is not UK Civilians (Excl MDPGA) 325 are not accountable to an elected body. CAAB has organisation working for a healthy environment fit for purpose for several reasons”. The US authorities serious concerns about the accountability of the and a safer world: www.ucsusa.org US Military Chaplains 2 decide how much to reveal. MPs can visit but this MDP. On US bases security is overseen by the US YCND: Useful information on a range of issues UK Military Chaplains 0 is usually on a social basis. They were not party to personnel. The MDP are paid for and are under to do with nuclear disarmament/ power, etc: the inner workings of Menwith Hill. Access has been 1 The number of UK contractors’ personnel the operational control of the US authorities when http://www.yorkshirecnd.org.uk denied to some MPs. We hope there will be some working on US bases, according to a Memorandum Drone Wars UK: Comprehensive information working at RAF Menwith Hill may vary on a meaningful changes as to who has oversight now the day-to-day basis. of Agreement between the UK Ministry of Defence and analysis by Chris Cole (founder) and general election has been decided. and the USAF (2008). On some US bases (known others on US/UK Drones: In 1997 CAAB was the first campaign to discover and as ‘RAF’) there are no MDP present. All officers are www.dronewarsuk.wordpress.com SPECIAL EDITION SPECIAL EDITION

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The National Security ‘I am withholding the number of GCHQ employees reveal that Menwith Hill (and later RAF Fylingdales trained to carry guns. In spite of funding cuts, the Agency of America (NSA) in accordance with Government practice not to in North Yorkshire) was to be crucially connected to MDP has recently been recruiting. Mark Foulger is runs the base. The US reveal numbers of personnel working in intelligence the US Missile Defense system. Two radomes were the senior officer (Superintendent MDP) at present. National Reconnaissance at specific locations. I am also withholding the eventually built as part of the Space Based Infra Red Office (NRO) is also numbers for both the Ministry of Defence Police, System. Missile Defense is an offensive weapons US BASES present at Menwith Hill and the Ministry of Defence Guard Agency for the system in space. It is about US domination of space There are approximately 6,000 bases in the US and (Google what they do). purpose of the proper enforcement of law, and in the – for US military and economic interests only. Read nearly 1,000 worldwide – and growing. The US interests of national defence’. [9 Mar 2009: Column the story of the legal action brought by CAAB: government/military perceive threats to come from Menwith Hill is part 177W] www.caab.org.uk the Middle East and the South Pacific area of the of a global network of world (China, North Korea, Iran) and from Russia. Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) bases. Menwith Hill is The US European Command said that 500 US WHO IS IN CHARGE OF MENWITH HILL? Apparently not even the Pentagon knows how many a key regional center for the NSA monitoring and military and civilians would leave Menwith Hill by • Although all US bases are referred to as ‘RAF’ US bases there are! intercepting the world’s communications. Gleaned October 2016, as part of defence cutbacks. The this is far from the truth. US bases are occupied and encrypted information is relayed to NSA HQ at Burger King Bar closed first; the US Elementary and and controlled by the US authorities. There are about 12 US bases in England where the Fort Meade in Maryland USA. High School closed at the end of the summer term US authorities are in control and occupation (eg. 2015. The chapel has closed, 66 houses have been • The US Chief of Station has, until recently, been USAF Lakenheath, Mildenhall, JAIC Molesworth, The land is in possession of the UK Secretary of demolished, along with other buildings. However, a military appointment. The present US Chief NSA/NRO Menwith Hill, USAF Croughton and State for Defence. The majority of the buildings and another radome was constructed in 2015 - Harrogate of Station, Miriam Garrant, is a civilian. (The Barford St John). facilities at Menwith Hill (as with all US bases) are US Chiefs of Station change approximately Borough Council having given planning permission. owned, and the construction paid for by the US. To every two years.) date there are 33 radomes (white covered satellite WHAT DOES MENWITH HILL DO? • Menwith Hill became an ‘RAF’ base in 1995 – dishes - looking like giant ‘golf balls’). Menwith Hill is the largest intelligence-gathering, ostensibly in line with other ‘RAF’ bases and to SOME USEFUL WEBSITES: The base has grown and grown over the years. A interception and surveillance base outside the US. It coincide with the repealed Military Land byelaws. Campaign for the Accountability of American significant development and major expansion of has many roles which are generally for US interests CAAB was involved in successfully overturning Bases - CAAB: Contains information (articles, sophisticated operational facilities, known as Project only (diplomatic, military and economic) – being the first set of byelaws. The second set of MLBs videos, news items, opinions, etc.) around Phoenix (costing £52 million), was completed in the hub of the ECHELON system. However, in May are also invalid however some notices continue issues of US bases and the presence of to be displayed. 2012. 2013 Edward Snowden, a previously unknown the US Visiting Forces here and worldwide: whistle blower, disclosed thousands of top secret • Geoffrey Dickson, who arrived in 2013, is www.caab.org.uk HOW MANY PEOPLE WORK AT documents which revealed the extent of the the RAF Commander and RAF Liaison Officer The Acronym Institute for Disarmament MENWITH HILL? intelligence gathering and surveillance on us all by (RAFLO) and a reservist who commands the Diplomacy: Independent, not-for-profit the NSA/CIA (with the help of GCHQ). Menwith Hill RAF/MOD employees but not the Ministry of research and advocacy organisation In response to a Parliamentary Question asked by is mentioned several times in the documents. For Defence Police. The person in full control of working on disarmament, arms control: Colin Challen for CAAB, Bob Ainsworth answered as example, the article ‘Inside Menwith Hill: The NSA’s Menwith Hill is the US Chief of Station. www.acronym.org.uk follows on 3 March 2009 (see Lifting the Lid, p. 42 British Base at the Heart of U.S. Targeted Killing’ • There are no leases on US bases. However there Global Security: Reliable news and security for further information and updates): (Ryan Gallagher, The Intercept, 6 September 2016) was a ‘security of tenure agreement’ at Menwith i n f o r m a t i o n – d i r e c t e d b y J o h n P i k e : ‘The following personnel were employed at RAF has links to and analysis of documents proving NSA/ Hill – renewed every 21 years. CAAB has www.globalsecurity.org Menwith Hill in 2009: NRO Menwith Hill’s role in illegal targeted killing. some interesting historical ‘secret’ letters and Secret Bases: https://theintercept.com/2016/09/06/nsa-menwith- documents which give the history of the renewal hill-targeted-killing-surveillance/ each year (sometimes given by a secretary). www.secret-bases.co.uk/secret4.htm Employer Number These were disclosed in a High Court case (contains comprehensive information on US The base is unaccountable, secretive and out of bases and UK bases – not always referenced) US Service Personnel 540 involving CAAB in 1993. control of the UK government. Global Network Against Weapons and US Civilians and Contractors 892 Ostensibly the Intelligence and Security Committee THE ROLE AND PRESENCE OF THE Power in Space: Comprehensive website RAF Personnel 4 (ISC) keep an eye on Menwith Hill. However the MINISTRY OF DEFENCE POLICE (MDP) containing, among other things, information about space technology/Missile Defence: UK Army Personnel 0 ISC are not told everything and they have restricted The MDP are a British police force working on UK access to the Operations Area. The Home Affairs bases and some US bases. The force is very different www.space4peace.org UK Naval Personnel 8 Select Committee said of the oversight by the ISC to the Home Office police force. One difference is Union of Concerned Scientists: Based in UK Contractors 761 in their report on the security services in the UK that, unlike the Home Officer police force, the MDP the US – leading science-based non-profit (2014): “We believe that the current oversight is not UK Civilians (Excl MDPGA) 325 are not accountable to an elected body. CAAB has organisation working for a healthy environment fit for purpose for several reasons”. The US authorities serious concerns about the accountability of the and a safer world: www.ucsusa.org US Military Chaplains 2 decide how much to reveal. MPs can visit but this MDP. On US bases security is overseen by the US YCND: Useful information on a range of issues UK Military Chaplains 0 is usually on a social basis. They were not party to personnel. The MDP are paid for and are under to do with nuclear disarmament/ power, etc: the inner workings of Menwith Hill. Access has been 1 The number of UK contractors’ personnel the operational control of the US authorities when http://www.yorkshirecnd.org.uk denied to some MPs. We hope there will be some working on US bases, according to a Memorandum Drone Wars UK: Comprehensive information working at RAF Menwith Hill may vary on a meaningful changes as to who has oversight now the day-to-day basis. of Agreement between the UK Ministry of Defence and analysis by Chris Cole (founder) and general election has been decided. and the USAF (2008). On some US bases (known others on US/UK Drones: In 1997 CAAB was the first campaign to discover and as ‘RAF’) there are no MDP present. All officers are www.dronewarsuk.wordpress.com SPECIAL EDITION SPECIAL EDITION SPECIAL EDITION SPECIAL EDITION

FINALLY ... SO WHO and WHAT IS CAAB? Iwishthemwellintheir campaign. They We are a small group of people with many regularly campaignonTuesdays outside supporters, grounded in non-violent ways of Menwith Hill to draw attentiontothe working and relying entirely on voluntary unaccountabilityofthis American baseon contributions. CAAB evolved in 1992 out of British soil ... the long campaign of protest at Menwith Hill, aiming to promote public scrutiny and awareness Please come to the weekly demonstration on of the presence, roles and functions of the US Tuesday evening (6.00–7.30pm). We are now Visiting Forces here and world-wide. In the past, into the seventeenth year (and it’s time they CAAB worked in many different ways. More went!). Join this important campaign. detail about what was achieved and how CAAB Also CAAB organizes each year: worked can be found on the website. However, • First week of July - the annual Independence CAAB’s management has changed and we are FROM America demonstration outside the SPECIAL EDITION re-considering how we can best use our resources. main entrance to Menwith Hill

Hon. Treasurers: Judith Rushby & Martin Schweiger • First week in October – KEEP SPACE FOR Monitor of Planning Offices at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill, PEACE – a call for an international week USAF Croughton, Lakenheath, Fylingdales and Barford of protest by the Global Network Against SHORT BRIEFING ON THE AMERICAN BASE AT NSA/NRO St John: Steve Hill Weapons and Power in Space – GN MENWITH HILL AND INFORMATION ON US BASES Mailing List Organiser: Melanie Ndzinga www.space4peace.org Webmaster & Designer of Flyers: Ray Middleton CAAB Graphic Designer: Paul Wood CAAB Merchandise Designer: Sarah McEvoy Amessage from CAAB CAAB Facilitor: Martin Schweiger to theUSVisiting behind closed doors and were never debated in Parliament. Construction started in 1956. Forces and their We thought it might be helpful to produce this WHO SAID WHAT ABOUT CAAB IN THE Local people opposed the development of the PAST – adjournment debate on the US Agencies: Special Edition by CAAB with brief and basic information about Menwith Hill specifically base from first hearing about the proposed Missile Defence system in the House of GO BACK TO and US bases generally. plans and the pending arrival of the US Visiting Lords by Sue Miller [Baroness Miller of Forces (USVF). Chilthorne -10 Jan 2008: Column 969] YOUR BORDERS The information we give (which is just a taste!) is all credibly researched and confirmed. The base published a booklet in 2010 to …Before I close, I also want to pay tribute PLEASE! CAAB is now under different management ‘celebrate’ 50 years since the base first became to the Campaign for the Accountability of but information was gathered by CAAB in More essential reading: ‘operational’ on 15 September 1960 (50 years American Bases. It operates in Yorkshire near the past from a number of sources: regular Surveillance, Secrecy and Sovereignty - how a of the US Visiting Forces and their Agencies in Menwith Hill. It has been the eyes and ears Peace Campaign Challenged the Activities of a Parliamentary Questions, asking questions, monitoring Planning Offices, articles, occupation and control of the base!). of the public for what is happening there; it US Base in Britain, Margaret Nunnerley (2014). research, ‘moles’, academics, media, friends This book is based on the activities of twenty-five years The 421st Air Base Group is located at Menwith first revealed in 1997 that Menwith Hill was of campaigning by CAAB in Britain, with particular of CAAB etc, etc. to be designated as the European ground emphasis on the base at Menwith Hill. Hill and is a component of the 501st Combat relay station. It has continued to raise this For more detailed information and analysis Support Wing which has its headquarters at USAF we recommend Lifting the Lid on Menwith issue ever since. Its members have suffered Hill - the Strategic Roles and Economic Impact Alconbury, near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. an awful lot of personal aggravation, and I ask of the US Spy Base in Yorkshire by Dr Steve the Minister to look into some of the history Schofield (March 2012). WHAT IS IN THIS SPECIAL EDITION: of this. They have been arrested but not http://www.cnduk.org/information/briefings/ charged, and charged but the charges have Meetings for Worship: missile-defence-briefings/item/1379-lifting-the- . Brief history of Menwith Hill been dropped; they would have welcomed Continueoutside variousUSbases–contactCAAB lid-on-menwith-hill-march-2012 . How many people work at Menwith Hill? those charges being pursued so that they for details . What does Menwith Hill do? CONTACT US could have had their day in court. In one BRIEF HISTORY OF MENWITH HILL Who is in charge of Menwith Hill? Via our website: www.caab.org.uk . case, violence was used against a member, Menwith Hill in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire Or by email: [email protected] . The role and presence of the Ministry of Defence and no satisfactory explanation has ever been (HG3 2RF) is a US base on 545 acres of land in an Police given for that. However, it has been incredibly About the weekly demonstration: [email protected] Website: http://www.caab.org.uk area of outstanding natural beauty - but officially . US Bases important that people on the ground have left out in the early 1990s despite attempts to . Some useful websites been there to see what is happening with This newsletteris printedon100%recycled paper by: Enid Taylor Ltd, ThePrinting House, include it. The land was compulsorily purchased Who and what is CAAB? planning permissions and some of the issues . 8ColdBathRoad, Harrogate,HG2 0NA. by the MOD in 1954; access and right to use Who said what about CAAB in the past? raised by the noble Lord, Lord Judd. Tel: 01423 567764 . Fax: 01423 567765 . the land were given in 1955. Contact details for CAAB E-mail: [email protected] . These decisions were made by a few people SPECIAL EDITION SPECIAL EDITION