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Kent Island Research Facility

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in 1983, the location consists of the NSA Propagation Research Laboratory, a single-story, white, windowless building that houses automatically operating, unattended equipment, as well as a small, white
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The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization
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fence. Near the control building are a number of unusual antennas.
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diplomat vacation facilities, including one that, according to
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The facility was established in 1961 to conduct research on
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antenna systems—specifically, on problems associated with
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Buildings and structures in Queen Anne's County, Maryland
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Index

National Security Agency
Kent Island
Maryland
Chester
very high frequency
microwave
anomalous propagation
communications interception
James Bamford
cinder-block
barbed-wire
United States
Russian
Australian
Des Ball


Bamford, James
ISBN
978-0140067484
"U.S. State Department Training Site Draws Concerns"
The Star Democrat
Arkin, William M.
"The Spy Next Door: What Went On in Russia's Shuttered U.S. Compounds?"
NBC News
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National Security Agency
Alaska Mission Operations Center

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