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The bunker is located underneath the West Virginia Wing inside this hill. In the late 1950s, the United States government approached The Greenbrier resort and sought its assistance in creating a secret emergency relocation center to house the United States Congress due to the Cuban revolution and soon after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Greenbrier is a luxury resort located in the Allegheny Mountains near White Sulphur Springs in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, in the United States. Since 1778, visitors have traveled to this part of the state to "take the waters" of the area.
In 2010, the Greenbrier hosted the inaugural PGA Greenbrier Classic. [6] In 1992 The Washington Post reported that, during the Cold War, the resort had been the site of a "bunker", the Emergency Relocation Center known as Project Greek Island, which was intended to house and protect the U.S. Congress in the event of a nuclear attack. [7]
A once-secret 112,000-square-foot (10,080-square-meter) underground bunker built for Congress at the Greenbrier in case of nuclear attack during the Cold War now hosts tours. Show comments ...
The trips to the Kentucky Derby and The Greenbrier golf resort in West Virginia were hosted by the Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative for board members, top staff, family, business ...
One of a cluster of luxury homes at Greenbrier Resort, Congrats to @GBRSportingClub for submitting this week's #housepornthurs winner! And a shout-out to runner-up @cbrci (Coldwell Banker RCI) for ...
Both Mount Weather and the now deactivated bunker at The Greenbrier were featured in the A&E documentary Bunkers. The documentary, first broadcast on October 23, 2001, features interviews with engineers and political and intelligence analysts, and compared The Greenbrier and Mount Weather to Saddam Hussein's control bunker buried beneath Baghdad.
Weaknesses in continuity of government planning, and priorities other than ensuring the function of government, are exposed during the September 11 attacks; the nuclear bunker for the United States Congress beneath The Greenbrier resort in West Virginia, also known as Project Greek Island