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Article: CIA Report Says Satellite Spies Wasted Space
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 6, 1994
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The controversial $300 million headquarters complex of the
nation's spy satellite agency is almost 30 percent larger than it
needs to be and was built to space requirements that were never
approved by either the director of central intelligence or the
secretary of defense, a top-level review team from the CIA and
Pentagon has determined.
Among the "excessive" spaces found by the team in the National
Reconnaissance Office's facility in Northern Virginia were 117
conference rooms and "large office bays," including sizable
reception areas. That space was in addition to a 44,112-square-foot
conference center that sits at the heart of the four-tower complex,
which contains a 400-seat theater ...