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Tue May 27, 2014, 08:17 AM May 2014

There's a top secret CIA weapons facility just north of San Antonio

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/military/article/There-s-a-top-secret-CIA-weapons-facility-just-5454918.php



There's a top secret CIA weapons facility just north of San Antonio
By Kolten Parker : May 5, 2014 : Updated: May 5, 2014 9:41pm

SAN ANTONIO — Camp Stanley, a low-profile military weapons storage facility in northwest Bexar County, is home to one of the CIA's most mysterious weapons and explosives stockpiles, according to documents recently released by a retired CIA official who lives in San Antonio.

Previously referred to as the “Midwest Depot,” the top secret CIA facility has been tied to arming rebel groups from Nicaragua to Afghanistan as well as training Cuban exiles before the invasion of the Bay of Pigs in past declassified documents. The location of the depot was never known.

However, an array of research published in December by retired CIA analyst Allen Thomson suggests that Camp Stanley is the Midwest Depot, which would make it the third known CIA operations location in the country. Multiple requests to tour the facility made by the San Antonio Express-News have been declined over the past decade.

“To be a little dramatic about it, how many of those AK-47s and RPG-7s we see Islamists waving around today passed through the Midwest Depot on their way to freedom fighters in past decades?” Thomson told The New York Times.
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