FINAL WARNING: Ready to Spring the Trap
sidewalks, office buildings, cafeterias, dormitories, medical facilities, a
television station, law enforcement unit, fire department, and a battery-
powered subway. It is illuminated with fluorescent lighting. It has a
spring-fed artificial lake (large enough for water skiing), its own
waterworks, a power plant, and one of the most sophisticated
computer systems in the world. It even has a chamber for members of
Congress to meet. It can support a population of 200 for up to 30 days,
although it can accommodate up to 2,000 people. Only the President,
his Cabinet, and the Supreme Court would have private sleeping
quarters.The President or the next in line of succession, would take his place in
an area there known as the White House. But until then, a FEMA
official is performing the function as Mount Weather is now performing
the duties of a back-up United States Government. Pollack wrote:“High-level government sources, speaking under the promise of
strict anonymity, told me that each of the federal departments
(Agriculture, Commerce, Health and Human Services, Housing
and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation,
and the Treasury) 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 of the ‘Secretaries’ have held their positions
through several administrations.”There are also parallel versions of the Selective Service, the Veteran’s
Administration, the Federal Communications Commission, the Post
Office, the Civil Service Commission, the Federal Power Commission,
and the Federal Reserve.In 1975, Senator John Tunney (D-CA) made the accusation that Mount
Weather had records on more than 100,000 Americans, and a computer
system that gave them access to detailed information on virtually
every American. He said they were “out of control.”In 1975, Maj. General Leslie Bray, director of the Federal Preparedness
Agency (which became FEMA as a result of Executive Order 12148 on