@lantisTV Denies Dig in Antarctica, CIA Links
"That's certainly the premise of my novel RAISING ATLANTIS," Greanias told millions of listeners. "But my novel is a work of fiction. Any resemblence to events now underway in Antarctica is purely fictional."
The accusations against @lantisTV first surfaced two years ago when the Antarctic Sun and other government publications acknowledged that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has been using American military personnel to construct a new base at Lake Vostok, where a huge magnetic "anomaly" has been discovered.
The thermal satellite imaging, drill teams, archeologists and environmentalists -- all these real-life events mirror key plot points in RAISING ATLANTIS, which has been a bestselling eBook on Amazon for almost two years.
Recent events in Antarctica also play like reruns of @lantisTV's popular webcasts, which for the past three years have been among the most-forwarded emails in America, according to national rankings.
"It's just one of those cases of life imitating art," Greanias said. "As far as news coming out of @lantisTV is concerned, we take our cues from the New York Times: we make it up."
In spite of those denials, or because of them, "Coast to Coast" talk show host George Noory asked Greanias if Beverly Hills-based @lantisTV is in fact financed by In-Q-Tel. That's the CIA's $100M Silicon Valley venture capital fund. The fund bankrolls hi-tech companies with technologies that look promising to the intelligence community.
Greanias denied it. "@lantisTV is not a government-funded disinformation agency designed to cover up the real Atlantis Mapping Project," he said. "It really is just an entertainment network. And RAISING ATLANTIS really is just a novel."
RAISING ATLANTIS, to be published by Simon & Schuster's Pocket Books imprint, will hit bookstores everywhere in 2004. A major motion picture of the same name is in the works.
Meanwhile, for a limited time only, the original eBook version of the novel can be downloaded at Amazon.
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