Documents Show E. Panhandle's Role In Cold War
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Recently released FBI files show two sites in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle were selected as government office relocations centers during the Cold War in case of nuclear attack.
The Sunday Gazette-Mail reported the documents from the 1950s were recently declassified and released in October. A nonprofit clearinghouse posted the files online earlier this month.
The documents show Cabinet and federal agency officials were assigned to find emergency relocation centers within 75 miles of Washington, D.C., and Fort Ritchie, Md., which then was the designated relocation center for the Defense Department.
The old Federal Building in Martinsburg was picked to relocate top officials in the Justice Department, while Shepherd College was chosen as the relocation site for the FBI.
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