SHADO and its fake cover

SHADO HQ under Harlington-Straker offices isn't very large and
perhaps could have been built under the guise of perhaps storing
their film negative reels. Afterwards they could have declared it
not large enough or suitable and pretend to have it mothballed only
to kit it out for its real purpose when the general construction
workers had left.

The A12 CIA operated (later to be SR71 Blackbird) in the early 60's
was totally secret from the American public.





--- In [hidden email], "Dave_Copley" <dave_copley@...> wrote:
>
> I would have thought it within the bounds of reason that SHADO HQ
> could have been built without revealing its true nature. Just a
> couple of years ago it was revealed in the UK that a small
> underground 'town' had been constructed in Wiltshire during the
Cold
> War, which would have been used in the event of nuclear attack.
This
> only came out many years after it was constructed, and was a
secret
> not known to the public at large. It was though, likely known to
the
> Soviets. (Possible analogy with UFO here?)
>
> Admittedly this was built under an existing forces base, so
secrecy
> was easier to assure. However I could imagine SHADO HQ being built
by
> the military under guise of filming a war epic, to explain all the
> military personnel that may have been around!
>
> Regarding the secret construction of the SHADO military assets,
again
> I find some analogy with the construction of the F-117 stealth
> fighter, whose secret existence was only made public some years
after
> it was in service.

All this stuff was very simply and briefly explained in the "Confetti Check AOK" episode, where Straker explains to Alec Freeman, I believe it was, that all the construction was just designated as governmental buildings and film studio. There is an awful lot of foundationary bulldozing and deep hole cutting in the construction of such type highrises.

Thus the underground facilities could be constructed right under everybody's noses w/out attracting too much attention.

Goto your next large scale construction site and see if you can positively identify everything that is going on. It's easier to build stuff like that than you'd think.

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave_Copley
To: [hidden email]
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 12:53 PM
Subject: [SHADO] Re: SHADO and its fake cover


I would have thought it within the bounds of reason that SHADO HQ
could have been built without revealing its true nature. Just a
couple of years ago it was revealed in the UK that a small
underground 'town' had been constructed in Wiltshire during the Cold
War, which would have been used in the event of nuclear attack. This
only came out many years after it was constructed, and was a secret
not known to the public at large. It was though, likely known to the
Soviets. (Possible analogy with UFO here?)

Admittedly this was built under an existing forces base, so secrecy
was easier to assure. However I could imagine SHADO HQ being built by
the military under guise of filming a war epic, to explain all the
military personnel that may have been around!

Regarding the secret construction of the SHADO military assets, again
I find some analogy with the construction of the F-117 stealth
fighter, whose secret existence was only made public some years after
it was in service.

--- In [hidden email], James Gibbon <jg@...> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:59:51 -0700
> Paul Bowers <pbowers@...> wrote:
>
> > James Gibbon wrote:
> >
> > > But what about the people who built SHADO HQ
> >
> > You build separate, shop-fabricated modules in various parts of
the
> > world with different contractors under cover of being a prototype
> > process plant (or other ruse). We already do this routinely with
> > large-scale construction, except not for SHADO.
> >
>
> Right, but it can be seen fairly clearly that SHADO HQ is not made
of
> prefab modules, and in any case - burrowing out the space
underground
> can't be done remotely.
>
> Perhaps SHADO HQ should have been built in an underground location
> that already existed, but was closed to the public - perhaps for
safety
> reasons. Say a tube station, or part of an old underground line.
>





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davrecon wrote:

> Goto your next large scale construction site and see if you can positively identify everything that is going on. It's easier to build stuff like that than you'd think.

No kidding. Very large scale facilities such as refineries usually
involve multiple contractors, suppliers, dozens (if not hundreds) of
subcontractors, consultants, regulatory bodies, etc.

It's all very confusing if you don't know what's going on, and even when
you *think* you know what's going on changes happen on multi-billion
dollar, multi-year projects all the time due to changes in
material/equipment cost, labour availability, projected economies of
scale, scope creep, etc.

Paul