Menwith Hill spy base, North Yorkshire
Over 100 Greenpeace volunteers invaded the Menwith Hill spy base, near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, to expose the base's proposed role in George W Bush's 'Star Wars' (National Missile Defence) system.
Three groups of volunteers occupied three areas within the high security site.
Fifty Greenpeace volunteers, many carrying flags with the message "Star Wars Starts Wars" and others dressed as missiles to symbolise the new arms race that Star Wars could create, entered the base via the front gate accompanied by the theme tune from Mission Impossible!
More volunteers were gathered on the top of a water tower just inside the entrance.
The other two teams of volunteers evaded UK military police that were guarding the site and scaled a series of three-metre-high razor-wire fences to enter the heart of the base.
One team occupied the area surrounding the radomes that Bush proposes to use as part of Star Wars, while the other team went to occupy the roof of one of the facility's buildings.
