*I dunno: maybe this sailor just made all that stuff up. Why? Because
he was eager to go to jail, I guess.
*Via RISKS.
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Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 05:18:07 -0700
From: Henry Baker
Subject: The atrocious security of Trident nuclear subs
While the TSA fondly fondles all of us prior to getting on a commercial
airplane flight, the security of a British Trident nuclear submarine is less
than that of a posh nightclub!
"It's harder to get into most nightclubs than it is to get into the Green
Area. There's still the pin code system to get through the gate! Oh wait,
No there's not, it's broke, and anyone standing there that has thrown their
security pass in or *not*, will get buzzed through. If you have a Green
area pass or any old green card you can just show it to them from about 3
metres away (if the boat's on the first berths; if not 1 metre) then get
Buzzed Through!!"
"Missile Compartment 4 deck turns into a gym. There are people sweating
their asses of [sic] between the missiles, people rowing between a blanket
of s**t because the sewage system is defective, sometimes the s**t sprays
onto the fwd starboard missile tubes and there's also a lot of rubbish
stored near the missile tubes."
"There were a few incidents of people in the gym dropping weights near the
nuclear weapon's firing units. I heard one person joke about how he
accidentally throw a weight and it nearly hit a missiles firing unit."
"I sent this report on the 05/05/15 to every major newspaper, freelance
journalists, and whistle-blower I could find. It is now the 12/05/15. I've
had one email reply;"
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/18/navy-whistleblower-on-run-alleged-trident-safety-failings
ALSO:
Navy whistleblower on the run after exposing alleged Trident safety failings
MoD launches investigation into claims of Able Seaman William McNeilly, who
says he will hand himself into police.
Josh Halliday
Monday 18 May 2015 09.18 BST Last modified on Monday 18 May 2015 12.15 BST
A Royal Navy submariner who blew the whistle on a catalogue of alleged
security failings around the Trident nuclear programme has said he will hand
himself in to police.
http://cryptome.org/2015/05/william-mcneilly.pdf
Able Seaman William McNeilly, 25, a newly qualified engineer, claimed that
Britain's nuclear deterrent was a disaster waiting to happen'' in a report detailing 30 alleged safety and security breaches, including a collision between HMS Vanguard and a French submarine during which a senior officer thought: We're all going to die.''
McNeilly wrote that a chronic manpower shortage meant that it was ``a matter
of time before we're infiltrated by a psychopath or a terrorist; with this
amount of people getting pushed through.''
The police and Royal Navy launched a hunt for the whistleblower after he failed to report back for work last week at the Faslane submarine base on the Clyde. But on Monday morning McNeilly said he would hand himself over to the authorities despite facing a possible prosecution under the Official Secrets Act 1989.
Speaking to the BBC, he said: ``I'm not hiding from arrest; I will be back
in the UK in the next few days and I will hand myself in to the police.
Prison – such a nice reward for sacrificing everything to warn the public
and government. Unfortunately that's the world we live in. I know it's a
lot to sacrifice and it is a hard road to walk down, but other people need
to start coming forward.''
In the 19-page report, titled The Secret Nuclear Threat, published online
alongside a picture of his UK passport and Royal Navy identity card,
McNeilly said he wanted ``to break down the false images of a perfect
system that most people envisage exists.''
He described bags going unchecked and said it was harder getting into most nightclubs'' than into control rooms, with broken pin code systems and guards failing to check passes. All it takes is someone to bring a
bomb on board to commit the worst terrorist attack the UK and the world has
ever seen,'' he wrote.
McNeilly, who said he was on patrol with HMS Victorious from January to
April, accused Royal Navy bosses of covering up a collision between HMS
Vanguard and a French submarine in the Atlantic Ocean in February 2009.
At the time Ministry of Defence officials played down the incident and said
the Vanguard had suffered only `scrapes'. But McNeilly said a Royal
Navy chief who was on board at the time told him afterwards: ``We thought,
this is it – we're all going to die.''
The more senior submariner allegedly told McNeilly that the French vessel
``took a massive chunk out of the front of HMS Vanguard'' and grazed the
side of the boat. Bottles of high-pressured air came loose in the
collision, he claimed, meaning the Royal Navy submarine had to return slowly
to Faslane to prevent them from exploding.
He also raised concerns about a number of his fellow seamen, including one
whose hobbies he claimed were killing small animals and watching extreme
pornography. Another submariner, whom he named only as Pole, had threatened
to kill two fellow navy personnel and was routinely aggressive, McNeilly
claimed.
He described how HMS Vanguard's missile compartment doubled up as a gym,
leading to potentially disastrous mishaps when seamen dropped weights near
the boat's missile firing system.
McNeilly said he raised these and other concerns through the chain of
command on multiple occasions, but that ``not once did someone even
attempt to make a change.'' [Long item truncated for RISKS. PGN]
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