Camp Peary ("The Farm")

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Camp Peary ("The Farm"), also known as the Camp Peary Naval Reservation, located near Williamsburg and bordered by the York River in York County, Virginia, is widely alleged to be a CIA training facility.^[1][2]

As of July 2005, Camp Peary was "a sister site to the CIA's facility at Harvey Point, NC." [3]

Landings by civil-registered aircraft

Flight records accessed in June 2006 show that Tepper Aviation's N2189M is a regular visitor to the facility.^[4] That aircraft has been previously alleged to have been involved in extraordinary rendition.^[5]

Aviation Worldwide Services' N964BW also visited Camp Peary on at least two occasions in the first half of 2006.^[6] And N962BW, registered to Presidential Airways, Inc., flew there in May of that year.^[7] Both companies operate the aviation contracting arm of Blackwater USA, a well-known private military corporation.

N208DG and N22889 are two less well-known civil-registered aircraft that have also visited the site.^[8][9]

N46F, which belongs to Hunt Consolidated, Inc., visited Camp Peary in late November 2006.^[10] Hunt Consolidated, Inc. is the parent company of Hunt Oil Company.

Background

Camp Peary was "originally established on the banks of the York River in 1942 as a training camp for Navy SeaBees, and later included a Prisoner of War camp." "At some point following WW2, the property was transferred from the Navy to the Central Intelligence Agency, which made Camp Peary its field operations training site." [11]

The facility, which occupies "about 9,275 acres of land" in a "wooded area enclosed with chain-link fences, barbed wire, guards and 'No Trespassing' signs, has been an enigma along Interstate 64" since it opened January 22, 1952. [12]

In 1994, it was believed to be a Department of Defense "training facility for covert operations." [13]

Location Directions

Camp Peary is located just east of Route 143, the Camp Peary/Colonial Williamsburg exit (Exit 238) of Interstate 64.

Related SourceWatch Resources

• Aviation Worldwide Services, LLC
• Blackwater USA
• Central Intelligence Agency
• Civil aircraft that have visited Camp Peary
• Extraordinary rendition
• Hunt Oil Company
• N2189M
• N46F
• N962BW
• N964BW
• Presidential Airways, Inc.
• Tepper Aviation, Inc.

External links

Data & Maps

• Google Satellite Map: Camp Peary (CIA's Farm); also home of DOD's Armed Forces Experimental Training Activity.
• VAHS Photographs: Camp Peary, VAHS Online.
• "Eyeballing the CIA Special Training Center," Eyeball-Series.org, 2002. Includes numerous aerial views.
• "Eyeballing the CIA Camp Peary Special Training Center 'The Farm'," Cryptome, June 1, 2005. Includes large 1994 aerial view.
• "Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Virginia: Hampton Area, airfields-freeman.com, revised July 1, 2005. Click on/scroll down to "Camp Peary Airfield (W94), Williamsburg, VA."
• W94 Camp Peary Landing Strip, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA , FAA information effective June 8, 2006.
• W94 / KW94 Airport & FBO Info: Camp Peary Landing Strip (PVT) Williamsburg VA, FltPlan.com. Current data. FBO Info: U.S. Army (PVT): "This field is DOD Restricted." Owner's Address: US ARMY ATCA-ASO, Cameron Station, Alexandria, VA 22314. Manager's Name: David J. Cromley, Colonel, Infantry, Address: AFETA-Camp Peary, Williamsburg, VA 23185.

Reports

• ^ "Below the radar: Secret flights to torture and ‘disappearance’", Amnesty International report, April 5, 2006; 562KB PDF.

Flight logs

• ^ Tracking data for N2189M, flightaware.com. Registration req'd to view historical data. (screengrab). Undated, accessed June 5, 2006.
• ^ Tracking data for N962BW, flightaware.com. Registration req'd to view historical data. Accessed June 13, 2006. (Saved 163KB PDF)
• ^ Tracking data for N964BW, flightaware.com. Registration req'd to view historical data. Accessed June 9, 2006. (Saved 161KB PDF)
• ^ Tracking data for N208DG, flightaware.com. Registration req'd to view historical data. Accessed June 20, 2006. (Saved PDF)
• ^ Tracking data for N22889, flightaware.com. Registration req'd to view historical data. Accessed June 20, 2006. (Saved PDF)
• ^ Flight log for N46F between September 25, 2006 and January 24, 2007.

Articles & Commentary

• Camp Peary in the Wikipedia.
• "Expansion Plans Permit Small Peek into Secretive Camp Peary. New Dormitories Indicate the Top Security Facility Isn't on the Closure List," The Virginian-Pilot, September 5, 1994.
• Charles W. Hall and R. Jeffrey Smith, "Alleged Spying by a Top CIA Officer Demoralizes Agency," Washington Post, November 22, 1996.
• Douglas Waller, "The CIA's Secret Army," TIME Magazine, January 26, 2003/February 3, 2003; updated February 14, 2003; Global Policy.
• Scott Shane, Stephen Gray and Margot Williams, "C.I.A. Expanding Terror Battle Under Guise of Charter Flights" (excerpts), New York Times (cryptome), May 31, 2005.
• John Crewdson, "Internet blows CIA cover. It's easy to track America's covert operatives. All you need to know is how to navigate the Internet," Chicago Tribune (Hard To Do Any Worse Blog), March 12, 2006.
• ^ "Spooks' secrets easily accessed", Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, March 26, 2006.
• "RoadTrip: To Catch a Spy," Washington Post, March 26, 2006 (pdf): "Espionage-related sites from Washington [DC] to Williamsburg [VA]."
• ^ Chris Flores, "Near a base cloaked in secrecy, a mysterious death", Virginia Daily Press, May 26, 2006.