@lantisTV Denies Antarctica Dig, CIA Links
@lantisTV is denying reports that one of its news crews has captured footage of spectacular ancient ruins in Antarctica and that the company itself is backed by the CIA.
Appearing on national radio's "Coast-to-Coast AM" program recently, @lantisTV CEO Thomas Greanias tried to put to rest rumors that a secret U.S. military expedition has discovered an ancient pyramid-temple complex two miles beneath the ice in Antarctica.
"That's certainly the premise of my novel RAISING ATLANTIS," Greanias told millions of listeners. "But my novel is a work of fiction. Any resemblance 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 2005. A major motion picture of the same name is in the works.
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