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week stints before being replaced by a new contingent.
Were those young men the construction crews that built the underground shelter that honeycombs the mountain?
Mt. Weather is one of several underground complexes in the mountains west of Washington intended to house key government officials if there is a threat of an attack on the capital. There have also been reports that Mt. Weather may serve as a major communications facility for the CIA.
The eyes of the nation focused on the Loudoun County mountain in December 1974 when a TWA jetliner, flying to Washington from Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio, in fierce winds and heavy rain, crashed and burned there, killing all 92 people aboard. The aircraft, which had been diverted from National Airport because of the weather, sheared off treetops, struck a rocky outcrop, broke up and caught fire, scattering charred bodies and parts of bodies over an area about the size of two football fields.
The crash was the worst in the U.S. that year and the worst ever in the D.C. area.
Mt. Weather was again in the news in 1975 when Sen. John Tunney told a congressional hearing that the secret underground facility may also be the storage place for duplicate government computer files on private citizens. Tunner said he had information that underground caves at Mt. Weather are used to store duplicate computer files ranging from highly secret Defense Department systems to the International Revenue Service and FBI data banks on individuals.
Since Tunney’s remarks at a joint hearing by two Senate subcommittees on military computer system, mention of Mt. Weather in the national press has been almost non-existent.
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