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Lanis Geluso testified in April
2019 that Johnson told officers
that he and Gamboa argued, so he
then pushed her down a flight of
stairs as she held one of their
children, then strangled her.
Jurors resumed deliberations
Friday afternoon to determine the
sentence for Johnson. The
murder charge carries a
maximum penalty of 40 years in
prison, while the child
delinquency charges are
punishable by up to a year.
— Associated Pressdeliberated for about 90 minutes.
The jury also convicted
Johnson of two counts of
contributing to the delinquency
of a minor for leaving the couple’s
20-month-old toddlers home
alone while he disposed of
Gamboa’s body.
Johnson admitted to killing
Gamboa during a lengthy
videotaped interview with
Virginia Beach police about a
month after the woman
disappeared.
Virginia Beach police Sgt.Two h ospitalized after
exposure to toxic gasA woman and 6-year-old girl
were taken to a hospital after they
were exposed to a toxic gas while
swimming at an indoor pool in
West Ocean City on Thursday,
officials said.
The Worcester County Fire
Marshal’s Office said firefighter
paramedics went to the Francis
Scott Key Family Resort and
found the girl and a 41-year-old
woman who c omplained of severe
difficulty breathing and w ere
flown to Johns Hopkins Hospital
in Baltimore.
The investigation revealed that
during routine maintenance,
muriatic acid and chlorine were
both accidentally released,
forming a toxic gas that wasphotos of a shipyard there. After
the U-2 landed back at its base
near Wiesbaden, Germany, the
film was removed and flown to
Eastman Kodak in Rochester,
N.Y., for processing. Its ultimate
destination was the Steuart
Building, where interpreters
pored over the images, using
tools to discern the size and
orientation of various
structures. In September 1957,
they received a new tool: the
first electronic computer used
by the CIA. The ALWAC III-E
filled a corner room on the sixth
floor.
In the first two months of its
existence, HTAutomat generated
1,300 prints from the
reconnaissance photos and
33,000 pages of text. Lundahl,
according to an HTAutomat
history, rapidly gained “a
reputation as one of the most
dynamic briefers in the
Intelligence Community” who
“regularly left his audience
virtually spellbound.”
It could also leave them
unsettled. On Oct. 16, 1962,
Lundahl went to see John F.
Kennedy at the White House, 11
blocks from the Steuart
Building. With him were
enlargements of photos taken
two days earlier. While flying
over Cuba, a U-2’s camera had
captured what looked like Soviet
missiles. They were.Project Aquatone — was a
technological marvel. But it
created a challenge for those on
the ground: How to interpret
the literal miles of film that
would soon start spooling
through its cameras?
And that’s where the Steuart
Building came in. As a
declassified CIA history of the
project put it: “Here, on the
upper floors of a shabby edifice
situated just three blocks from
the Gospel Mission, the
operation was far removed from
knowledgeable intellectuals who
might, without benefit of proper
clearance, come uncomfortably
close to divining what was
keeping so many people busy
around-the-clock.”
(Of course, it didn’t help that,
before the department moved
in, a sign outside the office
indicated it was “Rented to
CIA.”)
Lundahl organized and
oversaw the operation: selecting
and training photo interpreters,
sourcing equipment, developing
a workflow, distributing the
findings. He also picked the
endeavor’s code name: Project
Automat, later amended to
HTAutomat or HTA.
Why Project Automat?
Lundahl envisaged a 24/7
endeavor, like the automated
restaurants pioneered by a
company called Horn & Hardart.
It was to be the Automat of the
intelligence community, “with
its doors never tightly closed
and with customers going in
and out, day and night,”
according to a CIA history.
The first U-2 mission over
unfriendly territory took place
on July 4, 1956, the spindly
plane flying over Leningrad —
St. Petersburg — and takingexciting was on the horizon, and
on Sept. 26, 1955, Arthur C.
Lundahl got his first glimpse of
it. Lundahl, a trained geologist
who had served with the Navy in
World War II as a photo
interpreter, was the head of the
CIA’s newly created
Photographic Intelligence
Division. What Lundahl saw on
a trip to a secret Lockheed base
in the desert was an airplane
capable of flying 3,400 miles
while snapping photos from an
altitude of 70,000 feet. It was
the U-2.
The plane — code-namedsomething called Project
Genetrix. It involved balloons
launched from bases in Europe
and Turkey, and designed to
float over Russia and China
while snapping photos. The
project was not a success. Close
to 500 high-altitude balloons
were launched. Fewer than 50
were recovered, and only a
fraction of those provided
usable photos. (They did
provide something else:
paranoia. The ghostly balloons
may have inspired reports of
UFOs.)
But something new andDivision, or PID. “The entrance
to the PID facility was at 1014
Fifth St., around the corner from
the toy store,” he wrote.
When the Iron Curtain
slammed shut, it became very
risky for American operatives to
put their eyes directly upon
such things as enemy airfields,
shipyards, armaments factories,
missile bases and nuclear power
plants.
But what if you could put
those eyes in the skies in the
form of cameras?
By the summer of 1956, the
U.S. Air Force had already triedIn August of 1956,
any number of
things might have
drawn you to the
northeast corner
of Fifth and K
streets NW. Here
you would have
found Children’s
Supermart, a
40,000-square-
foot discount store and a
precursor of Toys R Us.
You could have shopped for a
new car at Steuart Motors, a
large Ford dealership with a
showroom on that lot. You
might have had business
elsewhere in the Steuart
Building, a commercial space
owned by the family, which, in
addition to operating the
dealership, was active in
petroleum, insurance and real
estate.
Or maybe you were an armed
courier, tasked with driving a
Chevrolet Suburban on a twice-
daily run from the Steuart
Building to various government
offices around the city,
delivering information vital to
our nation’s security.
Something very interesting
was going on in the Steuart
Building.
“There is a backstory about
what happened above that toy
store and the car dealership that
occupied the rest of the first
floor,” Jack O’Connor of
Kingstowne in Fairfax County
wrote after Answer Man’s recent
column on the birth of Toys R
Us.
O’Connor said that from mid-
1956 through December 1962,
the upper floors of the Steuart
Building were the clandestine
location of the CIA’s
Photographic Intelligence
In 1956, the CIA’s photography spies moved into a shabby D.C. o∞ce building
John
Kelly's
Wa shington
CIA/NASA
In this undated photo, ground crewmen prepare a CIA U-2 aircraft for a training flight in Nevada. The
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Man fatally shot near
border with D.C.
A man was fatally shot Friday
night in Prince George’s County
near the border with D.C., police
said.
Around midnight, police said,
officers responded to a shooting
in the 3200 block of Naylor Road,
near Suitland Parkway.
Police said they found the man
with gunshot wounds, and he was
pronounced dead at the scene.
They are investigating the
shooting as a homicide.
As of Saturday morning,
investigators had not identified
the man.
— Karina Elwood
LOCAL DIGESTday seemed benign, pleasurable,
beguiling and inviting.
Bring us more such days, many
might have asked, silently or
aloud, of the rulers of summer.
Saturday had many periods of
bright sunshine, with plenty of
blue sky above us.
Clouds did appear in profu-
sion. Very often they were spank-
ing white, the sort that serve as
perfect complements to the blue
heavens.
S ome clouds did also seem
gray. Occasionally they covered
the sun and a sudden coolness,
and shadow seemed to steal over
the city. But it did not seem too
cool, nor did Saturday’s shadows
seem too deep or dark.BY MARTIN WEILSaturday carried a weighty
weather burden, as the first day of
the weekend considered to be the
unofficial start of summer. And in
its role as the opening day of
Memorial Day weekend, Saturday
seemed to give a splendid per-
formance.
If this be summer, we might
have told ourselves, make the
most of it. Saturday, in its abun-
dant brightness and comfortable
warmth, seemed the sort of day to
be exploited and enjoyed without
shame or guilt or desire for some-
thing more.
It suggested that summer did
not have to be all stickiness and
90-degree temperatures.
Confining ourselves t o the pa-
rameters measured by the ther-
mometer, Saturday certainly
seemed to hit its marks.
In Washington, as of 5 p.m., the
mercury reached a high of 80
degrees. That is the average hightemperature in Washington on
May 28.
True, the morning’s low tem-
perature did not match the aver-
age low for the date.
But it was close.
At 5:12 a.m. S aturday, the mer-
cury showed a morning low of 63
degrees. The average low for the
date was one degree lower, at 62.
It is possible, of course, that on
some future May 28 in Washing-
ton, both high and low will dupli-
cate the averages perfectly. Untilsuch a day, Saturday seemed al-
most beyond challenge as infor-
mal gatekeeper to summertime.
In addition, Saturday seemed
to score well when judged against
standards other than the purely
numerical and statistical.
It appeared to represent what
in both meteorology and dispute
resolution is called a clearing of
the air.
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— Associated PressVIRGINIA
Man found guilty in
death of ex-girlfriendA jury found a Virginia man
guilty on Friday of murdering his
ex-girlfriend almost four years
ago in front of the couple’s young
toddlers.
Lamont Johnson, 45, was
found guilty of second-degree
murder in the death of Bellamy
Gamboa, 39, in July 2018, the
Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk
reported.
The 10-man, two-woman juryClosed everywhere
B anks
F ederal government offices
P ost offices: No mail delivery, except for Express Mail
C ourts: Closed, except for adult arraignments, juvenile referrals in the DistrictVaried restrictions
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Traffic,
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Rush hour restrictions lifted.Meters not enforced in
Montgomery or Prince
George’s, except at National
Harbor and the Prince
George’s Dept. of Corrections.HOV restrictions lifted on I-66
and I-395. Meters not
enforced in Arlington or
Alexandria.Trash,
recyclingNo collections; pick-ups slide
one day to the end of the
week. Ft. Totten Transfer
Station closed.No collections. In Howard and
Montgomery, pick-ups slide to
the end of the week. In Prince
George’s, pick-ups are on the
next regularly scheduled day.
In Anne Arundel, Monday pick-
ups are on Tuesday, and
Tuesday on Wednesday.
Landfills and Montgomery
Transfer Station are closed.Regular county collections in
Arlington and Fairfax. In the
cities of Alexandria and
Fairfax, collections are
delayed by one day. Landfills
closed Monday.Liquor
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Libraries Closed Monday. Closed Sunday and Monday,
except in Lexington Park,
which is o pen till 5 p.m.
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