Site R - Raven Rock Command Center
USA /
Pennsylvania /
Carroll Valley /
Harbaugh Valley Road
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/ USA
/ Pennsylvania
/ Carroll Valley
World / United States / Pennsylvania
military, headquarters, Cold War 1947-1991, bunker
Site R - Raven Rock Command Center
An underground complex , built by the Department of Defense, as an emergency shelter and electronic control center. Located underneath 650 acres in the hills near the Pennsylvania/Maryland border, Raven Rock, AKA "Site R", reportedly had a full-time staff of 350 for much of the Cold War. Officially now called the Alternate Joint Communications Center, the bunker went on-line in 1954. Representatives of all the military departments and the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the federal government were reportedly located here as a contingency against a wipeout of the command structure in the event of a nuclear war.
The site has 700,000 square feet of interior space, and enough room for 3,000 people. A new tenant is the Defense Information Systems Agency, Western Hemisphere, which operates the communication and command center located in the bunker. It is still used as a Continuity of Government location, and Dick Cheney is said to have stayed here after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. Site R was supported by nearby Fort Ritchie, MD, a 638 acre Army post, with over 2,000 employees. It is now administered out of Fort Detrick, MD.
www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/facility/raven-rock.htm
cryptome.org/eyeball/site-r/site-r.htm
An underground complex , built by the Department of Defense, as an emergency shelter and electronic control center. Located underneath 650 acres in the hills near the Pennsylvania/Maryland border, Raven Rock, AKA "Site R", reportedly had a full-time staff of 350 for much of the Cold War. Officially now called the Alternate Joint Communications Center, the bunker went on-line in 1954. Representatives of all the military departments and the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the federal government were reportedly located here as a contingency against a wipeout of the command structure in the event of a nuclear war.
The site has 700,000 square feet of interior space, and enough room for 3,000 people. A new tenant is the Defense Information Systems Agency, Western Hemisphere, which operates the communication and command center located in the bunker. It is still used as a Continuity of Government location, and Dick Cheney is said to have stayed here after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. Site R was supported by nearby Fort Ritchie, MD, a 638 acre Army post, with over 2,000 employees. It is now administered out of Fort Detrick, MD.
www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/facility/raven-rock.htm
cryptome.org/eyeball/site-r/site-r.htm
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_R
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Coordinates: 39°43'58"N 77°25'16"W
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- Adams County, Pennsylvania 25 km
- Frederick County, Maryland 29 km
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- Washington County, Maryland 49 km
- Mason Dixon Line 97 km
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