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The U.S. Shadow Government
The U.S. Shadow Government
FEMA - THE U.S. "SHADOW GOVERNMENT"
More on our old friends at FEMA, those menacing Executive Orders,
and the coming "National Emergency."
Aren't you glad that the power to declare "National Emergencies"
or to declare that individuals or groups are "terrorists" rests solely in
President Clinton's wise and selfless hands?
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 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.
Mount Weather's "Government-in-Waiting"
Pollock's report, based on his interviews with former officials at
Mount Weather, contains astounding information on the base's personnel. The
underground city contains a parallel government-in-waiting:
"High-level Governmental sources, speaking in the promise of
strictest anonymity, told me [Pollock] that each of the Federal departments
represented at Mount Weather is headed by a single person on whom is conferred
the rank of a Cabinet-level official. Protocol even demands that subordinates
address them as "Mr. Secretary." Each of the Mount Weather "Cabinet members" is
apparently appointed by the White House and serves an indefinite term... many
through several Administrations....The facility attempts to duplicate the vital
functions of the Executive branch of the Administration."
Nine Federal departments are replicated within Mount Weather
(Agriculture; Commerce; Health, Education & Welfare; Housing & Urban
Development; Interior; Labor; State; Transportation; and Treasurey) as well as
at least five Federal agencies (Federal Communications Commission, Selective
Service, Federal Power Commission, Civil Service Commission, and the Veterans
Administration). The Federal Reserve and the U.S. Post Office, both private
corporations, also have offices in Mount Weather.
Pollock writes that the "cabinet members" are "apparently"
appointed by the White House and serve an indefinite term, but that information
cannot be confirmed, raising the further question of who holds the reins on this
"back-up government." Furthermore, appointed Mount Weather officials hold their
positions through several elected administrations, transcending the time their
appointers spend in office. Unlike other presidential nominees, these
apppointments are made without the public advice or consent of the Senate.
Is there an alternative President and Vice President as well? If
so, who appoints them? Pollock says only this:
"As might be expected, there is also an Office of the Presidency
at Mount Weather. The Federal Preparedness Agency (precursor to FEMA) apparently
appoints a special staff to the Presidential section, which regularly receives
top secret national security estimates and raw data from each of the Federal
departments and agencies. What Do They Do At Mount Weather?
•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."
•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.
•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.
•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."
•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, and How Much?
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 used 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." What is Mount
Weather's Ultimate Purpose?
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.
Mount Weather's Russian Twin
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.
From the New World Order Intelligence Update Web Page
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