CIA IS COMING TO RESTON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000403640039-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: July 9, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/02/09: CIA-RDP90-00965R000403640039-6
ARTICLE APPEARED RESTON CONNECTION (VA)
9 July 1986
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CIA Is Coming to Reston
M CONNECTION
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is
moving some of its operations to Reston in
a major relocation that will bring hundreds
of jobs to the community, The Connection
has learned. The move would underscore
Reston's already developing reputation as
a center for top-secret defense-related
business.
The CIA will lase the entire 266,000
square feet of office space at Reston Cor-
porate Center on Sunset Hills Road and
reportedly has an option on two buildings
that would be'added to the office park.
There is enough mom on the 5%-acre site
for an additional 450,000 square feet of
space, according to a source close to the
negotiations.
The CIA would not comment on its move
'to Reston, and no one would detail which
of the super-secret agency's operations were
involved. But the move was confirmed by
three sources familiar with lease
negotiations.
If.the CIA occupies all four buildings
planned for the three-year-old
development-which could amount to over
700,000 square feet-it would probably
become the second largest employer. in
Reston, behind only the U.S. Geological
Survey. The Survey occupies about 1.4
million square fat of office space and
employs about 3,000 people, ac ordina to
GE Space Systems Division, which was One of the buildings at lesion Corporate Center to be occupied by the M.
the main tenant at Reston Corporase Center;
moved out of its 170,000 square feet of of-
fice space lace week and relocated to 60,000
square feet at Parkridge Center at the
eastern end of Sunrise Valley Drive.
The CIA could start moving to Raton.
within six to nine months, according to
'ibm Jones, manager of facility and services
management at GE.
Mulligan-Griffin & Associates Inc. of
Reston, which is developing Reston Cor-
poem Center, would not comment on the
CIA move.
The CIA said it don not reveal the loca-
tion of any of its offices other than its head-
quarters in Langley.
GE spokesman Jones said his company
moved into smaller offices at the Parkridge
Center June 30. Jones said GE needed leas
space because of a "lull in business.- He
said the number of employees in Revlon has
been cut back from about 330 to about 250.
Raton is already a major jobs center for
several high-clearance defense-related com-
panies. More than 2,000 Reston jobs are
provided by such companies as Sperry,
which makes guidance systems for rockets
carried by jet fighter bombers, C-3, which
Iac~ computer systems for Army
missile operations and Scope Inc., which
develops electronic intelligence systems for
use in sir defense and antisubmarine
warfare.
Reston is also headquarters for two
government agencies serving the Defense
Department. The Defense Communica-
tions Engineering Center, which has 250
employees, writes specifications for defense
communications systems. The joint Data
Systems Support Center, which has over
150 employees at Isaac Newton Square,
provides computer-related assistance to the
Rbrldwide Military Command and Control
System.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/02/09: CIA-RDP90-00965R000403640039-6