For years, the CIA has categorically denied the existence of secret prisons—or black sites—on U.S. soil.
However, a now-deleted list of government-owned properties suggests the agency may have indeed owned a facility used for secretive operations.
This from headlineusa.com.
The list included government properties the General Services Administration—at the direction of the Trump administration’s DOGE—planned to sell. Among the properties on the list was a highly sensitive complex in Northern Virginia long tied to CIA operations.
According to Wired and Bloomberg:
The GSA published the list on Thursday but quickly took it down the next day.
Jeff McKay, chair of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, said:
Obviously, someone did no research about the long and well-documented history of this property.
Normally a site like this wouldn’t be outed, so to speak, but everyone knows it’s here except, apparently, the people who put this list together.
A GSA source told Wired that DOGE’s inclusion of the building was surprising.
Further:
There have been rumors swirling that some of the buildings identified house classified CIA space.
[T]he release of ‘non-core properties’ was especially surprising, as this nebulous language has not been historically used.
According to Wired:
The government complex is located at 6810 Loisdale Road in Springfield, Virginia, and includes a U-shaped building tied to the CIA—its specific address is 6801 Springfield Center Drive. The 6810 building was proposed to be put up for sale.
The 6801 building was first exposed in 2012 by the Washington Business Journal, which described the CIA’s presence in the area as “perhaps the worst-kept secret in Springfield.”
According to Catherine Collins and Duglas Frantz, authors of the nonfiction book Fallout: The True Story of the CIA’s Secret War on Nuclear Trafficking:
The building has allegedly been used for clandestine training operations.
According to Wired, Collins and Frantz wrote:
There were two pick-and-lock specialists from the agency’s secret facility in Springfield, Virginia. In a warehouse-like building there, the CIA trains a cadre of technical officers to bug offices, break into houses, and penetrate computer systems.
While some critics have characterized the release of this information as a failure of the Trump administration, others have praised it as part of an effort to expose secret government operations that could be used against Americans.
Neither the CIA nor GSA responded to Wired’s questions about the facility.
