EXPANDED HEADQUARTERS
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CIA-RDP88-01070R000200760005-0
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Document Creation Date:
December 21, 2016
Document Release Date:
June 27, 2008
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5
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Publication Date:
June 28, 1983
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OPEN SOURCE
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RADIO TV REPORTS, INC.
PROGRAM Eyewitness News
STATION WDVM TV
COS- 9
DATE June 28, 1983 11:30 PM CITY Washington, DC
SUBJECT Expanded Headquarters
J.C. HAYWARD: The CIA invited its neighbors for a rare
public meeting tonight. The subject was the agency's plan to
expand its headquarters. A proposal that is raising warning
flags in the surrounding community.
Bob Althage has the story.
BOB ALTHAGE: One CIA official said the agency's security
people are still in a state of shock. It was the first time in
memory that so many ordinary citizens were invited inside the
supersecret compound.
gates.
Cameras and other recording devices were barred at the
The agency wants to spend $190 million expanding its head-
quarters.
The extraordinary public meeting was called to brief the
people who live nearby.
Most residents of
the
affluent
area
are concerned about
traffic. They contend
that
bringing
3,000
more exployees to
Langley will over-burden already congested streets and highways.
WOMAN: If the CIA feels it needs to consolidate on-site
then I support that. But I do not feel that my own concerns
about safety, congestion, and ease of getting in and out of
this neighborhood are necessarily incompatible with the goals
of the CIA.
ALTHAGE: Agency officials concede the problems inherent
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in expanding the CIA's headquarters. But as it is now employees
are scattered in more than 30 locations around Washington. Bring-
ing them together at Langley will save taxpayers an estimated $20
million a year in security and logistics expenses.
MAN: Knowing that the most valuable commodity that I own
is my house, I can understand and sympathize with the people who
live around here who have their homes -- what the impact would
be. But the CIA has expressed willingness -- and I think we
can work this thing out and solve the problems.
ALTHAGE: Most of the people who live nearby concede that
the expansion of the CIA will take place but they want more
say in how it's planned.
Officials assured them that when design work begins they
will have a part in it.
Bob Althage, Eyewitness News Nightcast.
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