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Tom LaPuzza confirms that the U.S. Navy has also contributed to the placement of dolphins in entertainment facilities. While a "retirement community" exists to care for Navy dolphins no longer in active service, downsizing in the mid-nineties forced the transfer of 18 Navy animals to marine parks in the United States and Tahiti. LaPuzza also states that strong information made available to the Navy shows the Soviet training program is "out of business", with the result that the animals are dead or have been turned over to marine parks. But the U.S. program is still in operation, on a stand-by basis. "They are a deployable unit," LaPuzza says. "If there was information that there would be an attack on a submarine base in Seattle, we would send them up there." Discovery

In other news a pack of well trained dolphins overpowered a night watchmen at a Sea World facility in Tahiti. The pack then took control of a local police station, armed themselves and took several hostages. their demands include the release of several "comrades" still being held near their native Russian Black Sea military training facili    ty, Fish, and the relaxation of inter-species marriage regulation across the world.