GEORGE WASHINGTON MEMORIAL PARKWAY, CONSTRUCTION OF VIRGINIA PORTION BETWEEN SPOUT RUN AND BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS RESEARCH CENTER AT LEITER ESTATE ABOVE CHAIN BRIDGE, VIRGINIA

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 145
• Publication Date: January 21, 1955
• Content Type: MEMO

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UNITED STATES
Department of the Interior
National Park Service
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Portion between Spout Run and Bureau of Public Roads Research
Center at Leiter Estate above Chain Bridge, Virginia
This is to advise you briefly of a meeting which was held to-
day in response to a request for a conference from the Central Intelli-
gence Agency. That Agency was represented by Messrs. James D. Garrison 25X1A
and 6yt These gentlemen
were ,Mowing up the preliminary meeting which was held in Mr. Beasley'-s
office on January 17 in which the C.I.A. was represented by Colo 25X1A
Lawrence K. White and
The C.I.A. is making preliminary investigations as to when the
construction of the George Washington Memorial Parkway could be com-
pleted to the vicinity of the Leiter property which is shown on the at-
tached small scale map of the George Washington Memorial Parkways They
have selected this site and have received clearance from the Defense
Council for construction of the building thereon to house the entire
Agency which is now scattered among some 30 odd buildings in this area.
As you will note from the attached map the site is about 3.5
miles above Chain Bridge,,, Virginia., and the present access is from
Virginia secondary route No. 123. The Leiter Estate has been in Gov-
ernment hands for several years and a portion of the property is now
occupied by the Bureau of Public Roads Research Laboratory. The por-
tion to be traversed by the parkway has been reserved for that use and
there is at present a narrow access road running in from Virginia Noe
123 to the old Leiter House ruins, the house having burned several years
ago. The site being considered by the C.I.A. for their office building
is close to the existing narrow access road to the old Leiter house,
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The interest of the C.I.A. in expediting construction of the
parkway. of course., is to facilitate access to and from the area for
employees and for more expeditious access from the site to the various
Government buildings in Washington.
I advised these gentlemen that the estimated cost of complet-
ing the Virginia portion of the parkway from where existing construction
has been completed near Spout Run, to the Leiter property., would be about
$8,000,000, and that construction, if authorized. would require about
three years which would include the time necessary for the National Cap-
ital Planning Commission to acquire the balance of the land needed be-
tween the Fairfax County line and the Leiter property. I explained
that the construction funds included in the 1956 Interior budget were
for construction on the Maryland side of the river from the District of
Columbia line north to the vicinity of Cabin John, Maryland, and from
the District of Columbia line south to Chain Bridge where a connection
will be made to the existing Canal Road. The amounts in the 1956 budget
for this work are listed below as follows
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Maryland - Grading - D. C. line to Cabin John, Md., 3 mi
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$633,500
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12 000
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Maryland - Grading - D. C. line to Chain Bridge, 0.5 mi.
$318.,800
The ete eluding the 8,000000 mentioned abovelis $18,510,0,000. in Virginia in..
In Maryland the amount necessary to complete the parkway from
the vicinity of Cabin John to Great Falls and from the District line
south to Fort Washington is estimated at $20,000,000, including the
bridge across the river which is authorized in the vicinity of Great
Falls.
I advised Mr. Garrison and the others that the best approach
to securing the necessary funds to complete the parkway between Spout
Run and the Leiter property would be by a supplemental item earmarked
for this purpose in the C.I.A. budget for approach roads in connection
with the building funds. I told them that any item should be in addi-
tion to the amount already carried in the 1956 budget for parkways as
an amount of this size would necessarily be considerably out of propor-
tion for one parkway compared to the $11,000,000 in the total 1956 park-
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The right-of-way situation is as follows. The land between
Spout Run and Chain Bridge has been acquired or is in condemnation un-
der funds appropriated to the Planning Commission and shared in by the
State of Virginia and Arlington County. Funds for the balance of the
land required between Chain Bridge and the Leiter property are included
in the $228,000 budget item which the Planning Commission has requested
in 1956. This includes $190,000 to acquire the balance of the land ne-
cessary in Maryland from the District line to Great Falls, and $38,000
for the balance of the land required in Virginia from Chain Bridge vi-
cinity to the Leiter property. A considerable portion of the land be-
tween Chain Bridge and Virginia Route 123 has been acquired under funds
previously made available.
It is my understanding that perhaps Mr. Allen Dulles or other
representatives of the C.I.A. intends to discuss this matter further
with you at an early date.
Director
Enclosures
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