Dark Doings at Sunnydale Zoo?
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sdaleconspiracyHi! I’m new to this board and I was hoping someone here might have some information that can help me.
I’m involved in an effort to shed some light on some of the more shadowy international organizations. You know, the ones that only seem to be referred to by acronyms and that don’t seem to report to any specific government?
Anyway, I’m trying to trying to pin down a rumor on one of them, and the trail led me here.
Apparently, some time in late 1996 or early 1997 one of these organizations became interested in Sunnydale. Interested enough, that they sent in one of their agents.
The only hard info we have is a heavily redacted CIA report we got through a FOIA request that ws originally filed on a completely different matter. While the name of the agent spotted was completely marked out, it does say the he "blended in perfectly and seemed right at home in his interactions with the staff and visitors of the Sunnydale zoo."
This isn’t much to go on, but I’ve done some digging on that zoo. It seems to have been far larger than typical for a town that size. Also, rather than getting animals from captive breeding programs and other wildlife parks in the US, this zoo seems to have imported it’s animals directly from the wild. Veerry unusual (and expensive) for a small town zoo.
Now this method of stocking the zoo naturally meant there was large amounts of shipments to and from obscure overseas locations. Indeed, in the time period I’m interested in, there was a large amount of traffic to and from Africa. Coincidentally(?) these locations were often troubled regions where various covert shenanigans are strongly suspected to have taken place. Interestingly enough, shortly after the reprorted sighting of this agent, the man in charge of these shipments met with a fatal ‘accident’. The only press coverage of this ‘accident’ I can find are maddingly brief, and I would really like more information.
If anyone who can help with more detailed knowledge of the Sunnydale zoo and its activities (particularly its international activities) please post.
I’m involved in an effort to shed some light on some of the more shadowy international organizations. You know, the ones that only seem to be referred to by acronyms and that don’t seem to report to any specific government?
Anyway, I’m trying to trying to pin down a rumor on one of them, and the trail led me here.
Apparently, some time in late 1996 or early 1997 one of these organizations became interested in Sunnydale. Interested enough, that they sent in one of their agents.
The only hard info we have is a heavily redacted CIA report we got through a FOIA request that ws originally filed on a completely different matter. While the name of the agent spotted was completely marked out, it does say the he "blended in perfectly and seemed right at home in his interactions with the staff and visitors of the Sunnydale zoo."
This isn’t much to go on, but I’ve done some digging on that zoo. It seems to have been far larger than typical for a town that size. Also, rather than getting animals from captive breeding programs and other wildlife parks in the US, this zoo seems to have imported it’s animals directly from the wild. Veerry unusual (and expensive) for a small town zoo.
Now this method of stocking the zoo naturally meant there was large amounts of shipments to and from obscure overseas locations. Indeed, in the time period I’m interested in, there was a large amount of traffic to and from Africa. Coincidentally(?) these locations were often troubled regions where various covert shenanigans are strongly suspected to have taken place. Interestingly enough, shortly after the reprorted sighting of this agent, the man in charge of these shipments met with a fatal ‘accident’. The only press coverage of this ‘accident’ I can find are maddingly brief, and I would really like more information.
If anyone who can help with more detailed knowledge of the Sunnydale zoo and its activities (particularly its international activities) please post.
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Sunnydale Zoo a cover-up?
Date: 2008-03-29 04:28 am (UTC)It's telling, because the Wild Animal Park took the lead in the California Condor breeding program, even though Sunnydale is right in the middle of the condors' natural range... you would think that the local zoo would have had something to do with it.
So... what was the Sunnydale Zoo up to that reputable big-city zoos don't seem to even know that it existed?