NORTH AMERICAN AIR DEFENSE MOVES CENTER TO MOUNATIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000400390001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 22, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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APR 22 1966
;North AnitriCan Air Defense
:Moves .Center to 'Mountain
?
COLORADO SPRINGS, April.
.20 (AP)?The nerve 'center ot
the North American continent's
air defense system was moved
.Wednesday to a new under-
groun location . deep inside a
mountain. , ? ,
.! American and Canadian flags
'were raised at the main en-
trance to the $142.4-million
Cheyenne . Mountain complex
south of Colorado Springs to
signal the change.
A ceremony planned in con.
,
junction with the flag raising
was canceled. because of snow
and cold. ?
Operations -.Were .1switched
from a two-story block building
:here that has housed the com-:
.mand center of the North Amer-.
lean Air Defense Command.
'since 'August, 1957. , ?
he ?
;'? T mountain complex, under
a 2.000-foot canopy of granitet
Is described as nearly invulnerv
:able to nuclear attack. .
i The center.is operated Jointly'
by, the United States and the
'Canadian (7ntees-..A.ir Defense
Command..- '
im,,,Inecifiari in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved' for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000400390001-1