The Pentagon and the White House

[James, Group Founder]

Excerpt from UNDERGROUND BASES: Subterranean Military Facilities and the Cities Beneath Our Feet:

In the 21st Century, it’s basically common knowledge and certainly widely accepted that the Pentagon has multiple levels of enormous bunkers and an immense network of tunnels beneath its visible exterior.

It makes complete sense, too. You’d expect the Department of Defense’s headquarters of the world’s greatest superpower would have multiple access routes and escape tunnels to accommodate sudden evacuations and other emergency actions.

For an overview of the Pentagon’s official history and specifications, History.com is hard to beat. Excerpts follow from a January 15, 2013 article by author Barbara Maranzani published on the site:

“On January 15, 1943, work was completed on the new headquarters for the U.S. War Department…in Arlington, Virginia. The massive complex, commonly known as the Pentagon, was built to house the nearly 30,000 defense workers tasked with helping America win World War II. With more than 17 miles of corridors, it remains one of the largest office buildings in the world, and has become a symbol—for better and for worse—of military might.”

Ms Maranzani then lists a series of little known facts about the Pentagon. The following are some of the more interesting:

“One of (Brigadier General Brehorn) Somervell’s first dictates was that the massive building be no taller than five stories (plus two stories below ground). This was due, in part, to…a more practical reason–the steel shortage already underway in a nation girding for war. Instead of steel, the building was built primarily of reinforced concrete, 435,000 cubic yards of it…

“It’s pretty difficult to understand just how big the Pentagon is. In fact, the U.S. Capitol could fit into just one of the building’s five sides, and with 5,100,000 square feet, it has twice the office space of the Empire State Building.”

The author concludes that in the wake of 9/11, “when American Airlines Flight 77 smashed into the building’s east side… plans were soon underway for an extensive reconstruction program, dubbed the Phoenix Project, which was completed in February 2003 at a cost of $5 billion—five times the cost of the original building.”

As an interesting aside, Ms Maranzani reveals that the same person oversaw both the Pentagon’s construction and the Manhattan Project, the initiative that resulted in the development of the world’s first atomic bomb. She writes, “While Somervell was officially in charge of the Pentagon project, it fell to…Major Leslie Groves, to make it a reality…While still working on the Pentagon, Groves was also put in charge of the Manhattan Project” and “was involved in nearly every aspect of the top-secret project, selecting and constructing clandestine sites for the research facilities and its workers across the country.”

That’s the official account of the Pentagon and its construction specifications and history.

However, it’s the unofficial story we are interested in.

In an article dated June 23, 2008, commentator/blogger Steve Warran states: “There always was something fishy about the Pentagon ground-floor deck slab following the attack of 9-11; where evidently, a 757-jetliner was flown absolutely level into the first floor of the building without so much as nicking the poured concrete foundation. Even after journeying 300 feet in, with enough explosive energy to punch holes through thick masonry walls (while also deflecting the second-floor slab upward along the way,) the deck was left immaculate enough to roller skate on.”

More to the point, Warran thanks military historian, Barbara Honegger, for “clearing up the space-planning mystery at least”. He refers to the article Ms Honegger published in September 2006 titled, The Pentagon Attack Papers: Seven Hours in September: The Clocks that Broke the Lie, in which “she informs us of a previously undisclosed underground facility”.

It’s a similar situation in Washington D.C. where it has been widely reported by mainstream media that there’s a vast tunnel system below the capital. And it’s our understanding that at any given time there are hundreds of security personnel patrolling the tunnels, on foot or with the aid of motorized vehicles.

Very likely many of D.C.’s tunnels lead to and from the White House. The often-told stories of Marilyn Monroe being sneaked in and out of the White House via underground tunnels to meet with JFK would seem to confirm this. Such tales reveal the capital’s extensive tunnel system enabled Marilyn to be the President’s mistress without much scandal – for a period, at least.

In an article dated April 4, 2011, the UK’s Daily Mail asks if “a secret lair was being built under the White House”.

The Daily Mail article continues: “The West Wing of the White House is all-but disappearing behind an $86 million building project that is going to last for years. And a mysterious tunnel is being built, fuelling speculation that a secret underground lair is what's really under construction.

“In recent weeks, an expanding and sometimes ear-splitting zone of excavation has enveloped the mansion's famous office wing…

“The White House already has a number of tunnels —the exact number is, of course, classified.

“The most well known is the underground corridor that leads to the President's Emergency Operations Center (PEOC), a supposedly nuclear-proof bunker located six stories under the East Wing. It was to this bunker and its adjacent Executive Briefing Room that Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice, among others, directed Government operations on September 11, 2001.

“While Hollywood and many conspiracy theorists suggest a rabbit warren of subterranean passageways— including mythical tunnels to Capitol Hill and even Camp David —there is at least one hidden passageway that has been revealed in the famous residence.”

The Daily Mail confirms “a 50-yard tunnel leads from a concealed doorway in the Oval Office to the basement of the First Family's residence” in the East Wing.

“The clandestine passage was built during Ronald Reagan's presidency as a way to guard the President in a terrorist attack…Pressing a panel on a wall adjacent to the President's rest room next to the Oval Office causes a secret door to slide open, leading to a staircase down to the passageway.”

The Daily Mail also asserts there is talk of a tunnel linking the White House to Blair House across Pennsylvania Avenue.
Before It’s News columnist Monica Davis, in an article dated February 20, 2013, says “the massive 4 year White House construction project has finally been completed.” She’s referring to the same “secret lair” the Daily Mail reported on earlier.

Excerpts from Ms Davis’ article follow:

“The deep, underground project continues to be shrouded in secrecy and has reportedly been planned for 40 years…

“Given that the president has so many fortified hidey holes, why was this one built? What does its construction really mean for the security of the most powerful man in the world?

“…And deep underground, whatever has been built there remains shrouded in mystery.”

[James, Group Founder]

“Underground DUMBs connected by supersonic train systems are a tender topic for the elite. So their mainstream corporate media (MSM) buries DUMBs and the supporting black-operations (Black-Ops) budget. Never a peep.” –Veterans Today, February 10, 2013 article Elite Underground.

[Feliks]

I admire the persistent interest you guys have in this topic. Regardess what I think of the speculation, I just gotta appreciate that you're so devoted to this interesting research of yours. We need more of this --people who stick with subject matter, follow it through---and less of what we have (aka, the mass attention-deficit syndrome going on everywhere)

[Lance, Group Founder]

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