Wall stirs suspicions of tunnel existence at Subic
Residents reported the discovery of a large concrete wall in Sitio Tangos at the Redondo Peninsula within the Subic Bay Freeport during earth moving work there on Sunday.
They believed the wall could lead to a tunnel of an underground military facility formerly used either by the Japanese or the United States military, reports reaching the Inquirer showed.
The South Korean company Hanjin is constructing a shipbuilding center on the peninsula.
One of the residents, Ruben Canlas, told the Inquirer that his brother, a worker at Hanjin, saw the concrete wall on the way to work. It is as tall as a three-story building.
A landslide bared the wall, Canlas said. Out of fear of what may be behind the wall, Canlas said the backhoe operator working in the area left in haste.
“Military men were seen securing the site because they might be thinking that treasures are hidden there or it could be a door to a tunnel,” he said.
Canlas said old residents recalled that Tangos, a part of Agusuhin in Barangay Cawag in Subic town, used to be a hiding place of Japanese soldiers during World War II. Later, American troops based at the then Subic Naval Base across Redondo used Tangos as well as Kinabuksan as a firing and bombing range.
In the 1970s to 1980s, base workers reported seeing jets flying and disappearing over Redondo, fueling speculations of an underground facility there.
US Navy officials did not confirm those reports, though.
Those reports were mentioned in the book, “The Bases of Our Insecurity,” by University of the Philippines professor and anti-nuclear activist Dr. Roland Simbulan.
Jose Calimlim, senior deputy administrator of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, said he sent Col. Jaime Calungsad, chief of the SBMA law enforcement department, to check out the discovery of the wall.
“So far, the initial report was negative. Perhaps, the discovery is being concealed from us. But I asked a team to continue looking,” Calimlim told the Inquirer in a phone interview.
He said the area used to be a firing and bombing range by the US forces. Since 1999 and under exercises held under the Visiting Forces Agreement, US Marines come yearly to Sitio Kinabuksan for war games.
By Tonette Orejas - Inquirer
They believed the wall could lead to a tunnel of an underground military facility formerly used either by the Japanese or the United States military, reports reaching the Inquirer showed.
The South Korean company Hanjin is constructing a shipbuilding center on the peninsula.
One of the residents, Ruben Canlas, told the Inquirer that his brother, a worker at Hanjin, saw the concrete wall on the way to work. It is as tall as a three-story building.
A landslide bared the wall, Canlas said. Out of fear of what may be behind the wall, Canlas said the backhoe operator working in the area left in haste.
“Military men were seen securing the site because they might be thinking that treasures are hidden there or it could be a door to a tunnel,” he said.
Canlas said old residents recalled that Tangos, a part of Agusuhin in Barangay Cawag in Subic town, used to be a hiding place of Japanese soldiers during World War II. Later, American troops based at the then Subic Naval Base across Redondo used Tangos as well as Kinabuksan as a firing and bombing range.
In the 1970s to 1980s, base workers reported seeing jets flying and disappearing over Redondo, fueling speculations of an underground facility there.
US Navy officials did not confirm those reports, though.
Those reports were mentioned in the book, “The Bases of Our Insecurity,” by University of the Philippines professor and anti-nuclear activist Dr. Roland Simbulan.
Jose Calimlim, senior deputy administrator of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, said he sent Col. Jaime Calungsad, chief of the SBMA law enforcement department, to check out the discovery of the wall.
“So far, the initial report was negative. Perhaps, the discovery is being concealed from us. But I asked a team to continue looking,” Calimlim told the Inquirer in a phone interview.
He said the area used to be a firing and bombing range by the US forces. Since 1999 and under exercises held under the Visiting Forces Agreement, US Marines come yearly to Sitio Kinabuksan for war games.
By Tonette Orejas - Inquirer
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