WHAT IS MT.WEATHER?
Tue, 10 Dec 1996 00:09:48 -0500 (EST)
Source: Francisco Lopez
What is Mt. Weather?
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By Patricia Neill
Matrix Editor
(PSCP Wanda@aol.com)
Few Americans--indeed, few Congressional reps--are aware of the
existence of Mount Weather, a mysterious underground military base
carved deep inside a mountain near the sleepy rural town of Bluemont,
Virginia, just 46 miles from Washington DC. Mount Weather--also known
as the Western Virginia Office of Controlled Conflict Operations--is
buried not just in hard granite, but in secrecy as well.
In March, 1976, The Progressive Magazine published an astonishing
article entitled "The Mysterious Mountain." The author, Richard
Pollock, based his investigative report on Senate subcommittee
hearings and upon "several off-the-record interviews with officials
formerly associated with Mount Weather." His report, and a 1991
article in Time Magazine entitled "Doomsday Hideaway", supply a few
compelling hints about what is going on underground.
Ted Gup, writing for Time, describes the base as follows: "Mount
Weather is a virtually self-contained facility. Aboveground, scattered
across manicured lawns, are about a dozen buildings bristling with
antennas and microwave relay systems. An on-site sewage-treatment
plant, with a 90,000 gal.-a-day capacity, and two tanks holding
250,000 gal. of water could last some 200 people more than a month;
underground ponds hold additional water supplies. Not far from the
installation's entry gate are a control tower and a helicopter pad.
The mountain's real secrets are not visible at ground level."
The mountain's "real secrets" are protected by warning signs, 10
foot-high chain link fences, razor wire, and armed guards. Curious
motorists and hikers on the Appalachian trail are relieved of their
sketching pads and cameras and sent on their way. Security is tight.
The government has owned the site since 1903; it has seen service as
an artillery range, a hobo farm during the Depression, and a National
Weather Bureau Facility. In 1936, the U.S. Bureau of Mines took
control and started digging.
Mount Weather is virtually an underground city, according to former
personnel interviewed by Pollock. Buried deep inside the earth, Mount
Weather was equipped with such amenities as:
--private apartments and dormitories
--streets and sidewalks
--cafeterias and hospitals
--a water purification system, power plant and general office buildings
--a small lake fed by fresh water from underground springs
--its own mass transit system
--a TV communication system
Mount Weather is the self-sustaining underground command center for
the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The facility is the
operational center--the hub--of approximately 100 other Federal
Relocation Centers, most of which are concentrated in Pennsylvania,
West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina. Together this
network of underground facilities constitutes the backbone of
America's "Continuity of Government" program. In the event of nuclear
war, declaration of martial law, or other national emergency, the
President, his cabinet and the rest of the Executive Branch would be
"relocated" to Mount Weather.
What Does Congress Know about Mount Weather?
According to the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights hearings
in 1975, Congress has almost no knowledge and no oversight--budgetary
or otherwise--on Mount Weather. Retired Air Force General Leslie W.
Bray, in his testimony to the subcommittee, said "I am not at liberty
to describe precisely what is the role and the mission and the
capability that we have at Mount Weather, or at any other precise
location."
Apparently, this underground capital of the United States is a secret
only to Congress and the US taxpayers who paid for it. The Russians
know about it, as reported in Time: "Few in the U.S. government will
speak of it, though it is assumed that all along the Soviets have
known both its precise location and its mission (unlike the Congress,
since Bray wouldn't tell); defense experts take it as a given that the
site is on the Kremlin's targeting maps." The Russians attempted to
buy real estate right next door, as a "country estate" for their
embassy folks, but that deal was dead-ended by the State Department.
What they do at Mt. Weather
Date:
Tue, 10 Dec 1996 00:13:57 -0500 (EST)
From:
Francisco Lopez
What Do They Do At Mount Weather?
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1) Collect Data on American Citizens
The Senate Subcommittee in 1975 learned that the "facility held
dossiers on at least 100,000 Americans. [Senator] John Tunney later
alleged that the Mount Weather computers can obtain millions of pieces
of additional information on the personal lives of American citizens
simply by tapping the data stored at any of the other ninety-six
Federal Relocation Centers."
The subcommittee concluded that Mount Weather's databases "operate
with few, if any, safeguards or guidelines."
2) Store Necessary Information
The Progressive article detailed that "General Bray gave Tunney's
subcommittee a list of the categories of files maintained at Mount
Weather: military installations, government facilities,
communications, transportation, energy and power, agriculture,
manufacturing, wholesale and retail services, manpower, financial,
medical and educational institutions, sanitary facilities, population,
housing shelter, and stockpiles." This massive database fits cleanly
into Mount Weather's ultimate purpose as the command center in the
event of a national emergency.
3) Play War Games
This is the main daily activity of the approximately 240 people who
work at Mount Weather. The games are intended to train the Mount
Weather bureaucracy to managing a wide range of problems associated
with both war and domestic political crises.
Decisions are made in the "Situation Room," the base's nerve center,
located in the core of Mount Weather. The Situation Room is the
archetypal war room, with "charts, maps and whatever visuals may be
needed" and "batteries of communications equipment connecting Mount
Weather with the White House and 'Raven Rock'--the underground
Pentagon sixty miles north of Washington--as well as with almost every
US military unit stationed around the globe," according to the
Progressive article. "All internal communications are conducted by
closed-circuit color television ... senior officers and 'Cabinet
members' have two consoles recessed in the walls of their office."
Descriptions of the war games read a bit like a Ian Fleming novel.
Every year there is a system-wide alert that "includes all military
and civilian-run underground installations." The real, aboveground
President and his Cabinet members are "relocated" to Mount Weather to
observe the simulation. Post-mortems are conducted and the margins for
error are calculated after the games. All the data is studied and
documented.
4) Civil Crisis Management
Mount Weather personnel study more than war scenarios. Domestic
"crises" are also tracked and watched, and there have been times when
Mount Weather almost swung into action, as Pollock reported:
"Officials who were at Mount Weather during the 1960s say the complex
was actually prepared to assume certain governmental powers at the
time of the 1961 Cuban missile crisis and the assassination of
President Kennedy in 1963. The installation used the tools of its
'Civil Crisis Management' program on a standby basis during the 1967
and 1968 urban riots and during a number of national antiwar
demonstrations, the sources said."
In its 1974 Annual Report, the Federal Preparedness Agency stated that
"Studies conducted at Mount Weather involve the control and management
of domestic political unrest where there are material shortages (such
as food riots) or in strike situations where the FPA determines that
there are industrial disruptions and other domestic resource crises."
The Mount Weather facility uses a vast array of resources to
continually monitor the American people. According to Daniel J.
Cronin, former assistant director for the FPA, Reconnaissance
satellites, local and state police intelligence reports, and Federal
law enforcement agencies are just a few of the resources available to
the FPA [now FEMA] for information gathering. "We try to monitor
situations and get to them before they become emergencies," Cronin
said. "No expense is spared in the monitoring program."
5) Maintain and Update the "Survivors List"
Using all the data generated by the war games and domestic crisis
scenarios, the facility continually maintains and updates a list of
names and addresses of people deemed to be "vital" to the survival of
the nation, or who can "assist essential and non-interruptible
services." In the 1976 article, the "survivors list" contained 6,500
names, but even that was deemed to be low.
Who pays for all this happening in Mt. Weather?
Date:
Tue, 10 Dec 1996 00:16:00 -0500 (EST)
From:
Francisco Lopez
Who Pays for All This, and How Much?
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At the same time tens of millions of dollars were being spent on
maintaining and upgrading the complex to protect several hundred
designated officials in the event of nuclear attack, the US government
drastically reduced its emphasis on war preparedness for US citizens.
A 1989 FEMA brochure entitled "Are You Prepared?" suggests that
citizens construct makeshift fallout shelters using use furniture,
books, and other common household items.
Officially, Mount Weather (and its budget) does not exist. FEMA
refuses to answer inquiries about the facility; as FEMA spokesman Bob
Blair told Time magazine, "I'll be glad to tell you all about it, but
I'd have to kill you afterward."
We don't know how much Mount Weather has cost over the years, but of
course, American taxpayers bear this burden as well. A Christian
Science Monitor article entitled "Study Reveals US Has Spent $4
Trillion on Nukes Since '45" reports that "The government devoted at
least $12 billion to civil defense projects to protect the population
from nuclear attack. But billions of dollars more were secretly spent
on vast underground complexes from which civilian and military
officials would run the government during a nuclear war."
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Mt. Weather Activity -
4. Mt. Weather's Budget - 5. Ultimate Purpose? - 6. Russia's Mt.
Weather? - 7. Sources
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Mt. Weather's Russian Twin
Date:
Tue, 10 Dec 1996 00:20:20 -0500 (EST)
From:
Francisco Lopez
Mount Weather's Russian Twin
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By Patricia Neill
Matrix Editor
(PSCP Wanda@aol.com)
On April 16, 1996, the New York Times reported on a mysterious
military base being constructed in Russia: "In a secret project
reminiscent of the chilliest days of the Cold War, Russia is building
a mammoth underground military complex in the Ural Mountains, Western
officials and Russian witnesses say. Hidden inside Yamantau mountain
in the Beloretsk area of the southern Urals, the project involved the
creation of a huge complex, served by a railroad, a highway, and
thousands of workers."
The New York Times article quotes Russian officials describing the
underground compound variously as a mining site, a repository for
Russian treasures, a food storage area, and a bunker for Russia's
leaders in case of nuclear war.
It would seem that the Russian Parliament knows as little about
Russian underground bases as the Congress knows about Mount Weather in
the United States. "The (Russian) Defense Ministry declined to say
whether Parliament has been informed about the details of the project,
like its purpose and cost, saying only that it receives necessary
military information," according to the New York Times.
"We can't say with confidence what the purpose is, and the Russians
are not very interested in having us go in there," a senior American
official said in Washington. "It is being built on a huge scale and
involves a major investment of resources. The investments are being
made at a time when the Russians are complaining they do not have the
resources to do things pertaining to arms control."
Where's the Money Coming From?
The construction of the vast underground complex in Russia may very
well become a cause of concern to the Clinton Administration. The
issue of ultimate purpose for the complex, whether defensive (as with
Mount Weather) or offensive (such as an underground weapons factory)
is not the only issue Mr. Clinton has to worry about.
The real cause for concern is that the US is currently sending
hundreds of millions of dollars to Russia, supposedly to help that
country dismantle old nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, the Russian
parliament has been complaining to Yeltsin that it cannot pay $250
million in back wages owed to its workers at the same time that it is
spending money to comply with new strategic arms reduction treaties.
Aviation Week and Space Technology reported that "It seems the nearly
$30 billion a year spent on intelligence hasn't answered the question
of what the Russians are up to at Yamantau Mountain in the Urals. The
huge underground complex being built there has been the object of U.S.
interest since 1992. 'We don't know exactly what it is,' says Ashton
Carter, the Pentagon's international security mogul. The facility is
not operational, and the Russians have offered 'nonspecific
reassurances' that it poses no threat to the U.S."
U.S. law states that the Administration must certify to Congress that
any money sent to Russia is used to disarm its nuclear weapons.
However, is that the case? If the Russian parliament is complaining of
a shortage of funds for nuclear disarmament, then how can Russia
afford to build the Yamantau complex?
Are the Russians building an underground city akin to Mount Weather
with American taxpayer's money? Could American funds be subsidizing a
Russian weapons factory? Hopefully Congress will get a firm answer to
these questions before authorizing further funding to Russian military
projects.
What is Mt. Weather's Ultimate Purpose?
Date:
Tue, 10 Dec 1996 00:17:56 -0500 (EST)
From:
Francisco Lopez
What is Mount Weather's Ultimate Purpose?
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We have seen that Mount Weather contains an unelected, parallel
"government-in-waiting" ready to take control of the United States
upon word from the President or his successor. The facility contains a
massive database of information on U.S. citizens which is operated
with no safeguards or accountability. Ostensibly, this expensive hub
of America's network of sub-terran bases was designed to preserve our
form of government during a nuclear holocaust.
But Mount Weather is not simply a Cold War holdover. Information on
command and control strategies during national emergencies have
largely been withheld from the American public. Executive Order 11051,
signed by President Kennedy on October 2, 1962, states that "national
preparedness must be achieved... as may be required to deal with
increases in international tension with limited war, or with general
war including attack upon the United States."
However, Executive Order 11490, drafted by Gen. George A Lincoln
(former director for the Office of Emergency Preparedness, the FPA's
predecessor) and signed by President Nixon in October 1969, tells a
different story. EO 11490, which superceded Kennedy's EO 11051,
begins, "Whereas our national security is dependent upon our ability
to assure continuity of government, at every level, in any national
emergency type situation that might conceivably confront the
nation..."
As researcher William Cooper points out, Nixon's order makes no
reference to "war," "imminent attack," or "general war." These
quantifiers are replaced by an extremely vague "national emergency
type situation" that "might conceivably" interfere with the workings
of the national power structure. Furthermore, there is no publicly
known Executive Order outlining the restoration of the Constitution
after a national emergency has ended. Unless the parallel government
at Mount Weather does not decide out of the goodness of its heart to
return power to Constitutional authority, the United States could
experience an honest-to-God coup d'etat posing as a national
emergency.
Like the enigmatic Area 51 in Nevada, the Federal government wants to
keep the Mount Weather facility buried in secrecy. Public awareness of
this place and its purpose would raise serious questions about who
holds the reins of power in this country. The Constitution states that
those reins lie in the hands of the people, but the very existence of
Mount Weather indicates an entirely different reality. As long as
Mount Weather exists, these questions will remain.
Mt. Weather Article's Bibliography and Sources
Date:
Tue, 10 Dec 1996 00:22:34 -0500 (EST)
From:
Francisco Lopez
Sources
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Books
* "Underground Bases and Tunnels: What is the Government Trying to
Hide?" by Richard Sauder, Ph.D (Available from Adventure Press, PO
Box 74, Kempton Illinois 60946, tel 815-253-6390, $15.95, plus $2
s/h).
* "Behold a Pale Horse", by William Milton Cooper, 1991. (Available
from Light Technology Publishing, P.O. Box 1495, Sedona, Arizona
86336. ISBN 0-929385-22-5.)
Magazines
* The Progressive, "The Mysterious Mountain," by Richard Pollock,
March 1976, pages 12-16.
* Time, "Doomsday Hideaway," by Ted Gup, December 9, 1991, pp.
26-29.
* Aviation Week and Space Technology, "Deep Subject" April 29, 1996.
Newspapers
* The New York Times, "Russia Builds Mammoth Underground Complex in
Urals" by Michael R. Gordon, 16 April 1996.
* Christian Science Monitor, "Study Reveals US Has Spent $4 Trillion
on Nukes Since '45," July 12, 1995.
* Glasgow Herald, "Bashful Bunker Reveals its Secrets," May 22,
1995.
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