Has Anyone Seen Cheney? (CIA-DRUGS)
By Dennis B. Roddy
Site R, with its six-stories of underground offices, a subterranean water reservoir, and banks of mysterious antennas, dishes and massive, steel doors, has been a designated backup command center since it was hewn out of the mountain in 1951.
For decades, Site R's presence was a village secret, barely acknowledged to outsiders and attracting little outside interest in turn.
''There are four entrances, but I've only ever been able to find three of them,'' said Neill, as he stood in his back yard, looking over at the guard station next to two oversize metal doors in the hillside. Six military men in sweatsuits jogged their way down the driveway and back up again.
''They weren't doing that before the attacks,'' Neill said. ''Now they're working out.''
The tidy equilibrium of rural life has been upended. ''Day and night, you hear the airplanes,'' said Bonnie Wolfe, whose model railroad shop sits below the flight path of the military jets and helicopters that intermittently pass by, usually unseen, inevitably heard.
Scripps Howard News Service
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