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Under the NCS (dissolved and functions transferred to the [[United States Department of Homeland Security]] in 2012<ref>In 2012, President [[Barack Obama]] dissolved the NCS and transferred oversight of NCS programs to the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Cybersecurity and Communications. See {{cite web |title=Background and History of the NCS |publisher=[[National Communications System]] |url=http://www.ncs.gov/about.html |access-date=March 22, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130305161342/http://ncs.gov/about.html |archive-date=March 5, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>), the center is mandated to provide communication for the federal government under any circumstances, including a nuclear attack. Its underground bunkers house communications infrastructure that provides service for most major federal departments.<ref name=clui>{{cite news|title=Bunkers Beyond the Beltway: The Federal Government Backup System |magazine=The Lay of the Land |publisher=[[Center for Land Use Interpretation]] |date=Spring 2002 |url=http://www.clui.org/newsletter/spring-2002/bunkers-beyond-beltway |access-date=March 19, 2013}}</ref> In 2002, the [[Brookings Institution]] listed an unspecified WTC "relocation bunker" as a facility with an active nuclear weapons, weapons-related or naval nuclear propulsion mission.<ref name=bombs>{{cite web |last=Schwartz |first=Stephen I. |title=Bombs in the Backyard |publisher=[[Brookings Institution]] |date=August 2002 |url=http://www.brookings.edu/about/projects/archive/nucweapons/basesize |access-date=March 18, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901204947/http://www.brookings.edu/about/projects/archive/nucweapons/basesize |archive-date=September 1, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> | Under the NCS (dissolved and functions transferred to the [[United States Department of Homeland Security]] in 2012<ref>In 2012, President [[Barack Obama]] dissolved the NCS and transferred oversight of NCS programs to the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Cybersecurity and Communications. See {{cite web |title=Background and History of the NCS |publisher=[[National Communications System]] |url=http://www.ncs.gov/about.html |access-date=March 22, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130305161342/http://ncs.gov/about.html |archive-date=March 5, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>), the center is mandated to provide communication for the federal government under any circumstances, including a nuclear attack. Its underground bunkers house communications infrastructure that provides service for most major federal departments.<ref name=clui>{{cite news|title=Bunkers Beyond the Beltway: The Federal Government Backup System |magazine=The Lay of the Land |publisher=[[Center for Land Use Interpretation]] |date=Spring 2002 |url=http://www.clui.org/newsletter/spring-2002/bunkers-beyond-beltway |access-date=March 19, 2013}}</ref> In 2002, the [[Brookings Institution]] listed an unspecified WTC "relocation bunker" as a facility with an active nuclear weapons, weapons-related or naval nuclear propulsion mission.<ref name=bombs>{{cite web |last=Schwartz |first=Stephen I. |title=Bombs in the Backyard |publisher=[[Brookings Institution]] |date=August 2002 |url=http://www.brookings.edu/about/projects/archive/nucweapons/basesize |access-date=March 18, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901204947/http://www.brookings.edu/about/projects/archive/nucweapons/basesize |archive-date=September 1, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> | ||
The CIA has used Warrenton Training Center as a communications facility since the 1950s.<ref name=cia /> Short-wave radio enthusiasts have identified WTC antennas broadcasting suspected intelligence transmissions.<ref name=usa>{{cite news |last=Berman |first=A.S. |title=Random Numbers on Shortwave Add Up to One Thing: Spies! |newspaper= | The CIA has used Warrenton Training Center as a communications facility since the 1950s.<ref name=cia /> Short-wave radio enthusiasts have identified WTC antennas broadcasting suspected intelligence transmissions.<ref name=usa>{{cite news |last=Berman |first=A.S. |title=Random Numbers on Shortwave Add Up to One Thing: Spies! |newspaper=USA Today |date=July 6, 2000 |page=3D}}</ref><ref name=n&o>{{cite news |last=Smolinski |first=Chris |title=The Counting Station [E5/V5] |magazine=Numbers & Oddities |year=1998 |page=8 |url=http://www.numbersoddities.nl/1998.zip |access-date=March 27, 2012}}</ref> In 1989, a WTC spokesperson acknowledged that the stations "are operated ... to communicate with embassies, and for espionage transmissions" to American intelligence agents in [[Cuba]] and [[Central America]].<ref name=ap>{{cite news |last=Baskervill |first=Bill |title=Shhh—Secret Agents are Quietly at Work in Virginia |newspaper=[[The Free Lance–Star]] |agency=Associated Press |date=August 21, 1989 |pages=1, 20}}</ref> In 1998, laboratories at WTC were reported to produce concealed radio equipment used to send and receive communications, typically in the form of furniture items.<ref name=fasB2>{{cite web |last=Pike |first=John |url=https://fas.org/irp/facility/warrenton_b.htm |title=Warrenton Station B |publisher=[[Federation of American Scientists]] |date=April 6, 1998 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010610061653/https://fas.org/irp/facility/warrenton_b.htm |archive-date=June 10, 2001 |access-date=April 8, 2013}}</ref> | ||
In 1986, the [[KGB]] threw U.S. investigators off the trail of CIA officer and [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] mole [[Aldrich Ames]] by constructing an elaborate diversion whereby a Soviet case officer told a CIA contact that the mole was stationed at Warrenton Training Center. Ames was stationed in [[Rome]] at the time. U.S. mole hunters investigated 90 employees at WTC for almost a year and came up with ten suspects, although the lead investigator noted that "there are so many problem personalities that no one stands out."<ref name=wapo>{{cite news |last=Pincus |first=Walter |author-link=Walter Pincus |title=CIA: Ames Betrayed 55 Operations; Inspector General's Draft Report Blames Supervisors for Failure to Plug Leak |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=September 24, 1994 |page=A1}}</ref><ref name=nyt>{{cite news |last=Weiner |first=Tim |author-link=Tim Weiner |title=Senate Report Faults C.I.A. for Ineptitude in Spy Case |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 2, 1994 |page=A1}}</ref> | In 1986, the [[KGB]] threw U.S. investigators off the trail of CIA officer and [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] mole [[Aldrich Ames]] by constructing an elaborate diversion whereby a Soviet case officer told a CIA contact that the mole was stationed at Warrenton Training Center. Ames was stationed in [[Rome]] at the time. U.S. mole hunters investigated 90 employees at WTC for almost a year and came up with ten suspects, although the lead investigator noted that "there are so many problem personalities that no one stands out."<ref name=wapo>{{cite news |last=Pincus |first=Walter |author-link=Walter Pincus |title=CIA: Ames Betrayed 55 Operations; Inspector General's Draft Report Blames Supervisors for Failure to Plug Leak |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=September 24, 1994 |page=A1}}</ref><ref name=nyt>{{cite news |last=Weiner |first=Tim |author-link=Tim Weiner |title=Senate Report Faults C.I.A. for Ineptitude in Spy Case |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 2, 1994 |page=A1}}</ref> | ||