The Harvey Point Defense Testing Activity facility, owned by the Department of Defense, is located on a peninsula in Perquimans County, North Carolina, along the Albemarle Sound, near the city of Hertford. The United States Department of Defense ( DOD or DoD) is the federal department charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government Perquimans County is a County located in the US state of North Carolina. Hertford is a town in Perquimans County, North Carolina, United States. Established in World War II as an operating base for sea planes conducting anti-submarine surveillance of the Atlantic coast, it is currently used by the CIA's National Clandestine Service for personnel training in explosives, paramilitary combat, and other clandestine warfare techniques. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including An anti-submarine weapon is any one of a range of devices that are intended to act against a submarine and its crew to destroy (sink the vessel or to destroy or reduce its capability near as long as it used to be several months ago It has been actively summarized and split into sub-articles and there is a dynamic talk page discussion of all The National Clandestine Service ( NCS) is the main United States Intelligence agency for coordinating human intelligence (HUMINT services An explosive material is a material that either is chemically or otherwise Energetically unstable or produces a sudden expansion of the material usually accompanied A paramilitary is a force whose function and organization are similar to those of a professional military force but which are not regarded as having the same status The ClanDestine (also known simply as ClanDestine) is a Comic book series about the Destines a secret family of long-lived Superhuman A close by Naval facility in Weeksville, NC served as a blimp base during and after WWII.
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History
The point was originally occupied during the 1670s by the Harvey Family, including North Carolina's first native-born governor, Thomas Harvey. (Thomas Arnold Harvey (born 17 April 1878 in Dublin, Ireland; died 25 December 1966 in Dublin was Hence the name Harvey Point.
World War II
Courthouse records indicate that in November 1942 the United States Navy purchased the point, roughly 1,200 acres (5 km²), for $41,751. Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Navy then constructed an air station on the property for use during World War II. During WWII Harvey Point was used as a seaplane base.
After the war, the air station was deactivated until 1958 when the Navy announced Harvey Point would serve as the testing grounds for the Martin P6M Seamaster, an experimental long-range bomber. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout The project was thrown out in August 1959 when the Navy determined the aircraft wasn't successful enough for it to continue providing support for the program. The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Then, in 1961, the Navy returned to the property and announced that the property was closed to the public; it has remained that way ever since. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
"The Point"
During the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the CIA code-named the base ISOLATION TROPIC and secretly stored weapons for the operation there. The Bay of Pigs Invasion (aka Playa Girón) was an unsuccessful attempt by a U Following the invasion, the CIA continued to rely on Harvey Point as part of their continuing effort to undermine Fidel Castro. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13 1926 is a Cuban revolutionary leader who was prime minister of Cuba from December 1959 to December 1976 and then president until
Harvey Point later became well-known as "The Point", a training facility for the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), although this has never been formally acknowledged by the U. S. Government. It is a sister facility to its more well-known CIA counterpoint, "The Farm", located at Camp Peary, near Williamsburg, Virginia. Camp Peary is a military reservation in York County near Williamsburg Virginia. Williamsburg is a city located on the Virginia Peninsula in the Hampton Roads region in southeastern Virginia Today, the CIA continues to use "The Point" as a training facility for paramilitary warfare, demolitions, and unconventional weaponry. As of 2007, Harvey Point remains closed to the public and access to the property is still highly restricted.
References
- http://cryptome.org/harvey-eyeball.htm
- http://www.ufomind.com/misc/1998/apr/d01-004.shtml
- Tim Weiner, Is That Base a C.I.A. School For Spies? Base? What Base?, New York Times, Friday, March 20, 1998
- http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A17746
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