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Architectural Feature: Exterior
Date: 1957
This concrete block building is in good condition (Photo Nos. 142 and 143). During oral history interviews persons have told us the building housed equipment which detected and measured Soviet atomic tests using ground sound wave analysis. Special detection equipment was located in Camp Evans, South Korea, Turkey and other friendly countries around the Soviet Union which were connected via teletype to Camp Evans. Daily reports were sent to the Pentagon. The first Communist Chinese atomic test was detected here. It was this Top Secret Project and building that Senator Joe McCarthy insisted his team of investigators, lead by attorney Roy Cohen, be given access to during a surprise visit in 1952. The refusal infuriated the Senator and a heated argument began. The Senator later testified there was communist subversion in "our secret radar research laboratory" during the famous 1954 hearings. It was used as a Plasma Physics facility in the 1960s.
Photos: 142 and 143.
Proposed work
Paint exterior. Reuse as utility or office space without changing
interior character of building. Consider for a future exhibit on
McCarthyism.
Photo 142
Photo 143
Updated January 27, 2004
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