Ah, thank you for linking to the details. That would be similar to the treatment the Dutch used on English spice traders at Amboyna in 1623 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amboyna_massacre/
"This was the usual torture in the Dutch Indies at the time" (Wikipedia).

Torture or, uh, coercive interrogation, it was unpleasant enough to induce the victims to confess to false capital charges, for which they were all executed. Must have been pretty nasty.

It should be common knowledge. The San Jose Mercury News ran a series in 1996 documenting the CIA's involvement in cocaine trafficking in the 1980s, when they did it to finance the Contras. The journalist, Gary Webb, pretty soon found that writing about such things was a career-limiting move, so subsequent investigations of this kind have mostly been left to motivated freelancers, or as the MSM prefers to call them, "conspiracy theorists". Thanks to people meticulously logging flights and correlating local news items there's now a considerable body of evidence connecting planes known to be operated by the CIA with planes making the Columbia run.

As for Mad Cow Morning News, Daniel Hopsicker may not be the world's best writer but you can't fault his investigative skills.

It's probably something to do with acquiring suspicious materials and the book after returning from a trip to Pakistan. Pakistan is in the Commonwealth and it's a reasonable assumption that the Brits have ways to know what their citizens get up to when they visit, so I'll reserve judgment until after the trial.

If this is at Larsen, then this silo has shown up for sale several times in the past few years. The price has come down a bit. Here's a link to a local news item from 2004, or 2006, it isn't clear which: http://www.komotv.com/news/archive/4120821.html

Last year there were photos of the interior all over the web - enormous hemispherical rooms full of trash and flooded pits 100 feet deep. Very impressive, but not realtor-friendly. I also recall from last year that some of the 57 surface acres were occupied by third parties and they were basically selling the underground only. Caveat emptor.

Relocate to Nevada!

BB READER, you're right, that's not an H-bomb. It's a Nevada test of a small fission bomb, a few kT. The opening shot is from a suicidal distance, less than 2 miles away. The wider shot it shows the mushroom cloud rising off to the right of the fireball, which is a bit unusual, and six telemetry rockets. DoE has an online photo archive - http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/photos/default.htm - but I couldn't find one quite like it. My guess is it's probably Tumbler-Snapper series F or H, because those were open to the press - most others would have been still classified in the 1960s.