🌊 Inside America’s Secret Bunker System

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By Max Frost

Last week, a former H.W. Bush Administration official claimed to have discovered a constellation of top-secret underground US bunkers around the world. 

“It’s preparation for a catastrophe,” 74-year-old Catherine Austin Fitts told Tucker Carlson. “The purpose is if you thought you were going to get a near-extinction event.”

Fitts served as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing, as a partner at an investment bank, and on the board of Sallie Mae, the US government-backed student loan company. Yet she’s now better known for making seemingly outlandish claims about secret government projects, for example, by alleging that the government overpays for public housing and then funnels the difference into secret bases. 

Fitts claims that she has documented at least 170 secret bases around the US, both above and underground. She alleges that trillions of dollars have gone into constructing and maintaining these, and that they are powered by secret high-tech energy sources. 

In her extended conversation with Tucker Carlson, Fitts did not provide evidence to prove her allegations and linked them to several other unverifiable claims. We have not had time to verify any of what she said ourselves, and therefore do not assume they are true. 

Yet the conversation did send us down a rabbit hole, in which we learned that secret underground bases have repeatedly been shown to exist in the US. 

In today’s deep-dive, we look at those instances, beginning with one particularly infamous story.

In 1992, a construction worker named Randy Wickline came forward with an unusual story. 

The man told the Washington Post that 32 years prior, in 1960, he had worked on a strange project in West Virginia that involved pouring massive amounts of concrete into an excavated pit, reinforcing the structure with concrete, and then concealing it. 

There was speculation about what they were building but people were discouraged from asking questions. “Cost was never an issue,” per Wickline.

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