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officially called the “Continuity of Government Program.”Mount Weather has been owned by the federal government since 1902,
when the 94 acre site was purchased by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. President Coolidge even talked about building a summer
White House there. During World War I it was used as an artillery
range, and then during the Depression it was used as a work farm for
homeless people. The Bureau of Mines began using the site for
experiments in 1936. Initiated by the Federal Civil Defense
Administration (later known as the Federal Preparedness Agency),
construction began in 1954, and was completed on 1959. Eisenhower
told the director of Mt. Weather (code-named “High Point”): “I expect
your people to save our government.”It was reported that Millard F. Caldwell, former governor of Florida,
suggested that it be used as an alternate capital, because it was
believed that the fallout shelter beneath the East Wing of the White
House (known as the President’s Emergency Operation Center) did not
offer sufficient protection from a nuclear attack against Washington.The plan is for the President, and key administration officials to be
flown out of Washington on Air Force One, which, at an altitude of
45,000 feet, is said to be safer that any area on the ground, can be
refueled in the air, and stay airborne for up to three days when the
engine will fail because of lack of oil. They will be taken to Mount
Weather.It is named for the weather station that was formerly maintained on the
mountain by the Department of Agriculture. The facility was
constructed inside a mountain made of greenstone and striated
granite, the 4th^ hardest rock known to man; the entrance is sealed
with a door, similar to that of a bank vault, only much larger; and it is
guarded around the clock. There are also about 65 primary buildings
on the surface that is part of this complex. There are 403 people there
to take care of the needs of the 1,000 to 2,500 that work there everyday,
around the clock.Richard Pollack, a reporter for Progressive Magazine, in the mid-
1970’s, interviewed a number of people who had been inside the man-
made cavern, and revealed that it is an underground city with roads,