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“It’s (Mount Weather) kind of mind-boggling. Dr. Strangelove is one of my favorite movies, and you can fantasize about that site in similar ways. It’s otherworldly—just the size and weight and massiveness of the doors. It’s a mini-city—like a space station.” –Buford Macklin, former emergency coordinator of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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“They’re doing some pretty scary things up on the Mountain.” –Quote from a source of a 2001 Washington Post article on the government relocation site, Mount Weather.
An hour’s drive from Washington D.C. is Mount Weather, a massive underground complex in the state of Virginia. It’s basically a military base within a hollowed-out mountain.
As UK newspaper The Guardian reports in an article dated August 28, 2006, the underground emergency operations facility was “originally built to house governmental officials in the event of a full-scale nuclear exchange”.
However, with the Cold War over, the article goes on to speculate that “as the Bush administration wages its war on terror, Mount Weather is believed to house a ‘shadow government’ made up of senior Washington officials on temporary assignment”.
Officially at least, the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center is a civilian command facility used as the center of operations for FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which, in itself, has attracted more than its share of controversy.
“I’ll be glad to tell you all about it, but I’d have to kill you afterward.” –Bob Blair, FEMA spokesman, in response to questions about Mount Weather by investigative reporter, Ted Gup, in 1991.
Although a major relocation site for high level officials, no outsiders have ever been allowed inside Mount Weather.
However, Richard Pollock, an author and a regular contributor for Progressive Magazine, interviewed several individuals who claimed to have previously been employed on site within the mountain.
The interviewees said the base had its own lake with fresh spring water, independent power generation, cafeterias, hydroponic gardens, hospitals and transportation system as well as residential apartments. They also said Mount Weather has its own fire and police departments and, as you can no doubt imagine, its own laws too.
Taking the speculation about a shadow government in The Guardian article one step further, Pollock reported the underground facility has its own replica government, which apparently is every bit as comprehensive as the official government above ground.
According to Wikipedia, “Both Mount Weather and The Greenbrier, a hotel resort and site of a massive underground bunker in Greenbriar County, West Virginia, were featured in the A&E documentary Bunkers.
“The documentary, first broadcast on October 23, 2001, features extensive interviews with engineers and political and intelligence analysts, providing rare insights into the secret installations…(It) compared The Greenbrier and Mount Weather to Saddam Hussein’s control bunker buried beneath Bagdhad.”
The Greenbriar, incidentally, was code-named Project Greek Island and was intended as an emergency shelter for members of the US Congress during the Cold War although it appears it was never used for its intended purpose.