Greenbrier's bunker reopens -- to tourists

The Roanoke Times ^ | July 14 | Megan Watzin

[PghBaldy]

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. -- Fourteen years after a newspaper article exposed the government secret he'd kept since 1980, Ted Kleisner can still recall in detail the moment he realized they were busted.

Washington Post reporter Ted Gup checked into The Greenbrier resort, requested a room on the fourth floor in the West Virginia Wing, walked into Kleisner's office and pulled from his briefcase detailed drawings of the top-secret nuclear fallout shelter built underneath a wing of the hotel.

[PghBaldy]

The workers there are not happy that the Wash Post leaked this to the world.

[angkor]

It's implied but not stated in the article that almost all the townies knew about the facility, but never spilled the beans.

It took the ComPost to do that.

[mtbopfuyn]

"It hurt us down here, it hurt us in so many ways,"

It hurt the taxpayers, too.

[Skip Ripley]

I toured that facility back in 2000 during at corporate meeting/retreat at the Greenbrier. Revealing its location served no one's interest (other than the Post) and cost the taxpayers hundreds of millions in construction costs.

I think the Post should have been handed the bill. This was far more damaging to the security of the nation than any stupid conversations abiout Valerie Plame

[Bigh4u2]

This bunker was built for the members of Congress, to protect them in case of an attack on our country.

Were was the inherent "Peoples' right to know" in this case?

If this doesn't prove that the WAPO and NYT, as well as most of the MSM isn't anti-american, nothing else they do will.

[backhoe]

Secret Holes in the Ground***
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b642cf8476f.htm

[Fire_on_High]

Hubby just confirmed that, and he's from that area, grew up in Maxwelton.

[angkor]

"Hubby just confirmed that, and he's from that area, grew up in Maxwelton."

Yes, I read an article years ago which wasn't so much about the faciity itself, as it was about the locals and how they kept the entire project secret for decades.

IIRC, many worked on the original construction, others worked at Greenbriar, and even though they had no special security clearance they had the common sense and the patriotic responsibility to keep things quiet from "outsiders". It was a matter of local pride that the facility was there and that they (the locals) had some role in maintaining its secrecy.

[mtntop3]

A classical example of the left's pathological and ultimately suicidal thought process: By making it hopefully impossible for this nation to defend itself - "there will be no wars..."

The enemy, the Soviet Union in this instance, would now have even more incentive to initiate war, particularly through a sneak attack to decapitate the leadership of the nation.