DON'T LOOK NOW, BUT ROSSLYN'S BECOMING 2ND FEDERAL CITY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Publication Date: July 25, 1966
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WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JULY 25, 1966
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Action Line---Obituaries?Weather?Comics
Society-Home--Amusements--Features
Don't Look Now, but Rosslyn's Becoming 2nd Federal City
By BRIAN KELLY
Star Staff Writer
Almost while no one was look-
ing, a new "Federal City" has
taken shape among the gleam-
ing new office towers just
across the river in the Rosslyn
section of Arlington County.
The White House, Treasury,
State, the Joint Chiefs of Staff
and various "hush-hush" agen-
cies,?even the little known Bu-
reau of Commercial Fisheries?
have taken rooms, entire floors
or whole buildings.
Of the 10,000 employes al-
ready occupying the new build-
ings, fully one-half are federal
workers, county officials esti-
mate.
The remaining space in Ros-
slyn's 12 new office structures
Louses an assortment of local
and national businesses, profes-
sional men, trade associations,
fresearch firms, government
contractors and others.
But the biggest - customer for
Rosslyn developers?even big-
ger than anticipated?has been
the federal government. As a
result the partially completed
office complex at the Virginia
and of Key Bridge boasts a
greater density of federal of-
fices than , any area outside of
Washington itself.
"I can't think of another one
that has a greater concentra-
tion," said a spokesman for the
General Services Administration
(GSA), the housekeeping agency
that leases space for govern-
ment use.
Except for commercial places
on ground floors, the federal
workers have taken over four
complete buildings. Art least two
of them, both with dark-tinted
windows and door guards, are
occupied by security agencies.
5 Buildings Going Up
Federal offices account for
more than 800,000 square feet in
Half the approximately 10,000 workers in these new office buildings at Rosslyn, Va., are with federal agencies.
Rosslyn's 2 million square feet
of office space. Eventually
planners expect almost 40 new
buildings to up there, most of
them office structures provid-
ings 4 million square feet.
In addition to the dozen exist-
ing office structures, five more
now are under construction. The
same building boom has created
two apartment towers, a huge
motel, and a new restaurant.
Among the federal agencies
listed officially at Rosslyn ad-
dresses are sections of the Ex-
ecutive Office of the President,
the Defense Department, Army
and Air Force, National Park
Service, General Accounting Of-
fice and Geological Survey.
A reporter who entered one
new office buildings found that
found that sections of the Bu-
reau of Commercial Fisheries
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occupied two whole floors. On
another floor was the Washing-
ton field office for the State De-
partment's security investiga-
tions staff.
The building directory at 1815
North Ft. Myer Drive also dis-
closed mixture of federal and
private offices that included the
French National Railroads, an
Army translation research of-
fice, the Washington Metropoli-
tan Area Transit Commission,
the American Concrete Pipe As-
sociation and Icelandic Airlines.
Another door plate, marked
Sherlock Homes Ltd., added a
cryptic note.
In the nearby Pomponio
Building was the Armed Forces
News Branch. Next door, in the
Donata Building, a uniformed
man barred the way to the In-
ter-American Defense Board
and joint U.S. defense offices
with Canada, Mexico and Brazil
sub-sub sections of the joint
chiefs.
The GSA spokesman, mean-
while, said the government is
pleased with the new Rosslyn
location. Some agencies there
are closer to their downtown
headquarters than they would
be in parts of Washington itself,
he said.
While Rosslyn offices still are
under construction, workers
must contend with little availa-
ble parking, few eating places,
and jumbled traffic.
Arlington's futuristic plans for
Rosslyn are expected to elimi-
nate such shortcoming, Plazas
and connecting ramps will car-
ry pedestrians one level above
one-way traffic. A terminal for
the Washington area's new
rapid rail system is expected to
serve many of Rosslyn's pres-
ent motorists.
Shops, restaurants and other
commercial facilities are ex-
pected to line the pedestrian
plazas. And a local Methodist
church plans an urban temple
designed to offer a refuge for
any passerby, 24 hours a day.
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? only the Kremlin, it also concerns ? Allegation 1: Two Syrians testi-
a number of critics in the United fled an American embassy official
States. To them the CIA has gone offered them- $2 million if they
too far into areas of foreign policy, could deliver e Soviet naval patrol
bas gone too far into the woodwork boat and its rockets to Cyprus. He
to be properly monitored by the was asked to leave the country.
. government it serves,- . has dealt. They were hanged.
low blows to our we-light.fair-why- Allegation t: The CIA has rigged
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nation's capital, is the most secret completely closed to public scrutiny, to tap Soviet telephone lines. They
.organUation in our government, the !' the only one whose finances cannot : directed the U-2. spy plane flight
Central Intelligence Agency. - be inspected even by Congress., :How... over Russia that broke up the Paris
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intelligence activities under one secret. But Its agents are known Eisenhower. They planned the 1081
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permitted monthly peeks into its.: ? Perhaps the only man who' Vnnws aster for the exiled 'rebel forces
cloak-and;.dagger operations. They ithe complete extent of CIA opera, trying to oust dictator Castro.. ?
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