RESTON FEARS CIA WILL ERECT 7 FOOT WALL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000301920013-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 27, 2012
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: September 16, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/09/27: CIA-RDP90-00965R000301920013-6
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WASHINGTON TIMES
16 September 1986
Reston fears CIA
will erect 7-foot wall
By Charles V Flowers the Reston Community Association,
THE WASHINGTON TIMES said the group is strictly advisory
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Rumored CIA plans to construct a
7-foot wall surrounding two
buildings in Reston has raised con-
cern among citizens of Fairfax
County.
"What would be operating in those
buildings that would require a 7-foot
brick wall?" Martha V Pennino
asked yesterday. She is vice
chairman of the Fairfax County
Board of Supervisors.
She said she attended a meeting
last week with an "unnamed federal
representative" who told her his
agency planned to conduct top-
secret activities in a complex in Res-
ton. He didn't reveal the name of the
agency, she said.
Mrs. Pennino said she has been
told that an architect is designing a
7-foot-high brick wall to go around a
complex that will be used for secret
operations. "I was told that the com-
plex is to be in an area planned for
the town center. Naturally, the CIA is
suspected. The town center isn't the
place for a secret operation with a
high wall around it."
But Joseph R. Stowers, said last
night that the federal official repre-
sented the CIA. "He told me was
speaking for the CIA, but he had no
details about the timing. He said
they want the wall, and alterations
inside the buildings."
Mr. Stowers, co-chairman of the
planning and zoning committee of
e no
ectstons. He was
also present at the meeting, as was
a representative of the complex's
owner, Mulligan-Griffin & Associ-
ates of Rockville.
Hunter Richardson, vice pres-
ident of commercial marketing and
development of the Reston Land
Corp., said yesterday that the two
buildings being mentioned are in a
15-acre tract on the periphery of the
400-acre town center, off the Dulles
Airport Access Road. The land is
zoned industrial, which allows of-
fices.
The 3-story buildings are vacant
now, but have been leased.
He did not identify the tenant,
saying, "We don't know who leased
them" Mr. Richardson said there is
no wall, and there has been no appli-
cation for one.
"Any wall would have to be ap-
proved by Fairfax County and a de-
sign review board of architects," Mr.
Richardson said. The corporation is
promoting the positive growth of
Reston, and this matter doesn't de-
serve attention."
As for any CIA comments about a
wall or offices in Reston, Kathy
Pherson, chief of media relations for
the agency, said:
"We don't discuss the location of
our offices and installations. They
could be the targets of terrorists.
We're not saying whether there will
or won't be CIA offices in Reston."
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/09/27: CIA-RDP90-00965R000301920013-6