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Sunday, 29th May 2005 by

The Mount Weather Special Facility is an unacknowledged US Continuity of Government (COG) facility located in a huge underground bunker 45 miles west of Washington D.C., near Bluemont, Virginia. OK, there isn’t high res coverage of the exact area but I love these secret bunkers . The facility was built in the ’50s as a relocation point for senior government officials in the event of nuclear attack or other national…

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